Social Commentaries

To Doctor Sherwood, of Bathe

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

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

Social Commentaries

BEcause among some other idle glances,
I, of the Bathes say sometimes as it chances,
That this an onely place is in this age,
To which faire Ladies come in pilgrimage,
You feare such wanton gleekes, and ill report,
May stop great States that thither would resort.
No, neuer feare it, pray but for faire weather:
Such speech as this, will bring them faster thither.

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Book 3, Epigram 30

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Harington, John. “To Doctor Sherwood, of Bathe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/167/.

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Harington, John. “To Doctor Sherwood, of Bathe.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/167/.

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