Social Commentaries
Of mis-conceiuing
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
LAdies, you blame my verses of scurrilitie,
While with the double sense you were deceiu'd.
Now you confesse them free from inciuilitie.
Take heede henceforth you be not misconceiu'd.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 56
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