Social Commentaries
To Sextus, an ill Reader
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
Social Commentaries
THat Epigram that last you did rehearse,
Was sharpe, and in the making, near and tearse,
But thou doost read so harsh, point so peruerse,
It seemed now neither witty nor verse.
For shame poynt better, and pronounce it cleerer,
Or be no Reader, Sextus, be a Hearer.
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Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 6
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