Social Commentaries
Of Peleus ill-fortune in burying his friends
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
OLd Peleus plaines his fortune and ill chaunce,
That still he brings his friends vnto the graue.
God Peleus, I would thou hadst led the daunce,
And I had pointed thee what friends to haue.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 26
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