Social Commentaries
To Person Guilty
From Epigrams (1616)
Social Commentaries
Guilty, be wise; and though thou know'st the crimes
Be thine, I tax, yet do not own my rhymes:
'Twere madness in thee, to betray thy fame,
And person to the world, ere I thy name.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 30.
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Jonson, Ben. “To Person Guilty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/77/.
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Jonson, Ben. “To Person Guilty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/77/.
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