Social Commentaries

Of Madam Dondrages with her faire brest

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1

Social Commentaries

A Fauorite of Charles late King of France,
Disporting with the King one day by chance,
Madam Dondrages came among the rest,
All bare, as still she vsed her brest.
The King would needs haue notice of his Minion;
Of this free Dame what was his franke opinion?
I say, and dare affirme, my liege, quoth he,
That if the crupper like the pertrell be,
A King a Loue I worthy can account,
Vpon so braue a trapped beast to mount.

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Book 1, Epigram 24

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Harington, John. “Of Madam Dondrages with her faire brest.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/18/.

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Harington, John. “Of Madam Dondrages with her faire brest.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/18/.

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