Social Commentaries
A comfort for poore Poets
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
POets, hereafter, for pensions need not care,
Who call you beggers, you may call them lyers,
Verses are growne such merchantable ware,
That now for Sonnets, sellers are, and buyers.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 40
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