Social Commentaries

Epitaph on John Newter

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2

Social Commentaries

Reader! John Newter who erst plaid
The Jack on both sides, here is laid,
Who like th'herb John Indifferent
Was nor for King or Parliament;
Yet fast and loose he could not play
With death, he took him at a Bay;
What side his soule hath taken now
God or Div'l? we hardly know:
But this is certain, since he dy'd,
Hee hath been mist of neither side.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “Epitaph on John Newter.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/191/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “Epitaph on John Newter.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/191/.

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