Social Commentaries
Against Writers that carpe at other mens bookes
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
THe Readers, and the Hearers like my bookes,
But yet some Writers cannot them digest.
But what care I? For when I make a feast,
I would my Guests should praise it, not the Cookes.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 5
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