Social Commentaries
Against Itis a Poet
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
ITis with leaden sword doth wound my Muse,
Itis whose Muse in vncouth termes doth swagger
For should I wish Itis for this abuse,
But to his leaden sword, a woodden dagger:
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 93
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