Social Commentaries
The old mans choice
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
LEt soueraigne Reason, sitting at the sterne,
And farre remouing all eye-blinding passion,
Censure the due desert with iudgement cleere,
And say, The cruell merit no compassion.
Liue then, kind Nimph, and ioy we two together:
Farewell th'vnkind, and all vnkind goe with her.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 87
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