Social Commentaries
To one that asked me why I would write an English Epigram after B. Johnson
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
How! dost thou ask me why my ventrous pen
Durst write an English Ep'gram after Ben?
Oh! after him is manners, though it would
'Fore him, have writ, if how, it could have told.
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Heath, Robert. “To one that asked me why I would write an English Epigram after B. Johnson.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/185/.
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Heath, Robert. “To one that asked me why I would write an English Epigram after B. Johnson.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/185/.
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