Social Commentaries
To Lysippus a Barber
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2
Social Commentaries
Lysippus! some mistane, have said that you
Are a Barbarian, but I think a Jew,
You circumcise so much, and for your ends
So smoothly stroak the faces of your friends,
Making young novices of all that you
Can circumvent: thus you are a Barbarous Jew.
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Heath, Robert. “To Lysippus a Barber.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/264/.
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Heath, Robert. “To Lysippus a Barber.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/264/.
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