Social Commentaries
To His Friends
From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)
Social Commentaries
My just demands soon grant or soon deny;
Th' one friendship shows, and th' other courtesy.
But who, nor soon doth grant, nor soon say no,
Doth not true friendship, and good manners know.
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Codex Note
Translated from Martial.
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