History & Politics

Of the Earle of Essex

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3

History & Politics

GReat Essex, now of late incurred hath
His Mistris indignation and her wrath:
And that in him she chiefly dissalouth,
he sent him North, he bent him to the South:
Then what shall Essex do? Let him henceforth,
Bend all his wits, his power and courage North.

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Book 3, Epigram 31

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