Social Commentaries
Appendix Epigram: In Superbiam
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
I tooke the wall, one thrust me rudely by,
And tould me the King's way did open lye.
I thankt him yt he did me so much grace,
to take the worse, leave me the better place;
For if by th' owners wee esteeme of things,
the wall's the subjects, but the way's the King's.
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