Social Commentaries
On Gallus
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
Troubled in conscience Gallus weds his whore,
Hopes shee'l as honest prove as she was poore;
What skils saies hee? 'tis but as 'twas before,
I kept her then, and now I do no more:
For better and for worse our wives we take,
A Whore purchance an honest wife may make.
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Heath, Robert. “On Gallus.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/171/.
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Heath, Robert. “On Gallus.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/171/.
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