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