Social Commentaries

On Resolute Bat

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2

Social Commentaries

As rough as bear-skins for behaviour,
A bisket face as hard for favour,
As blunt as back of knife, as dul
As whetstone, or cram'd capon ful,
His talk as women backward flat,
And though laught at, he's Resolute Bat;
Hee'l to the Club, and prate his share
Or more, pay lesse than any there;
Oh what a pretty thing is it
To be but bold though without wit?

MLA

Heath, Robert. “On Resolute Bat.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/205/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “On Resolute Bat.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/205/.

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