Social Commentaries
On Lippe, the Teacher
From Epigrams (1616)
Social Commentaries
I cannot think there's that antipathy
'Twixt puritans and players, as some cry;
Though Lippe, at Paul's, ran from his text away,
To inveigh 'gainst plays, what did he then but play?
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 75.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Lippe, the Teacher.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/117/.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Lippe, the Teacher.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/117/.
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