Social Commentaries
On Histrio
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
Histrio would needs go write a play of's own,
But could write nought but what's already known,
For hee like th'leaden cisterne held no more
Water, then what the Poet dropt before.
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Heath, Robert. “On Histrio.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/179/.
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