Social Commentaries
Of Don Pedroe's threats
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
DOn Pedro thinkes I scorne him in my Rime,
And vowes, if he can proue I vse detraction,
Of the great scandall he will haue his action:
I that desir'd to cleere me of the crime,
When I was askt, said, No, my Lord, I haue not.
Then sweare, said he, Not so, my Lord, I cannot.
Since that I neuer heard newes of this action:
Wherefore, I thinke, he hath his satisfaction.
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Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 59
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