Social Commentaries
Of little pitie
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
WHen noble Essex, Blount and Danuers died,
One saw them suffer, that had heard them tried:
And sighing, said; When such braue souldiers dye,
Ist not great pitie, thinke you? No, said I:
There is no man of sense in all the citie,
Will say, 'Tis great, but rather little pitie.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 10
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