Arts & Sciences
To all to whom I write
From Epigrams (1616)
Arts & Sciences
May none whose scatter'd names honour my book,
For strict degrees of rank or title look:
'Tis 'gainst the manners of an epigram;
And I a poet here, no herald am.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 9.
Cite this poem
MLA
Jonson, Ben. “To all to whom I write.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/61/.
Chicago
Jonson, Ben. “To all to whom I write.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/61/.
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