Social Commentaries
To my Reader
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
Wonder not why I humbly do not write,
Flatt'ring Encomium's to this Lord, that Knight
And each known friend, as hungry Poets use!
Mine is a substantive unpension'd Muse;
Nor e'r was hir'd to write an Epigram
In praise of this fool Lord, or that proud Dame.
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