Social Commentaries
The Conclusion of All
From Virgidemiarum: Toothless Satires (1602), Book III: Moral
Social Commentaries
THus haue I writ in smoother Cedar tree,
So gentle Satyrs, pend so easily.
Henceforth I write in crabbed oake-tree rindes
Search they that meane the secret meaning finde.
Holde out ye guiltie, and ye galled hides,
And meete my far-fetch't stripes with waiting sides.
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