Social Commentaries
To Sir Morris Barkly
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
Social Commentaries
YOur father gaue me once a Dormant warrant:
But sending at Saint Iames tide to the keeper,
My men came backe as from a sleeuelesse Arrant,
And in a boxe, I laid my warrant sleeper.
You Noble Sir, that are his heyre apparant,
Will giue henceforth, I hope, a waking Warrant.
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Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 9
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