Social Commentaries
Of Claudia
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
CLaudia, to saue a noble Romans blood,
Was offred by some friends that wisht his good,
A iewell of inestimable price;
But she would not be won by this deuice:
For she did take his head, and leaue the iewell.
Was Claudia now more couetous, or cruell?
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 32
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