Social Commentaries
To Sir Hugh Portman, in supping alone in too much company
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
WHen you bade forty guests, to me vnknowne,
I came not, though you twice for me did send,
For which you blame me as a sullen friend.
Sir, pardon me, I list not suppe alone.
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Book 1, Epigram 31
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