Social Commentaries
On Wylde
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
His father sick and dying, Wylde mourn'd sore,
But 'twas because he died not before:
At's burial he in mourning weeds was clad,
This was cause th' Mother was not also dead:
She dead, sad soul! he cloath'd himself in Sack
(Cloath I not mean) for th' belly, not the back.
Oh Viperous age! when children shal so soon
Through envy wish their parents dead and gone!
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Heath, Robert. “On Wylde.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/115/.
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Heath, Robert. “On Wylde.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/115/.
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