Social Commentaries
In Asinium
From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)
Social Commentaries
Thou still wert wont, in earnest or in jest,
To praise an ass as a most worthy beast.
Now like an ass thyself thou still commendest,
Whats'e'er thou speak'st, with thine own praise thou endest.
Oh! I perceive thou praisest learnedly,
An ass in Thesi and Hippothesi,
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