Social Commentaries
Of Leda and Balbus
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
LEda was Balbus queane, yet might shee haue denide it.
She weds him, now what meanes hath Leda left to hide it?
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Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 4
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