Social Commentaries
To Person Guilty
From Epigrams (1616)
Social Commentaries
Guilty, because I bade you late be wise,
And to conceal your ulcers, did advise,
You laugh when you are touch'd, and long before
Any man else, you clap your hands and roar,
And cry, good I good I this quite perverts my sense,
And lies so far from wit, 'tis impudence.
Believe it, GUILTY, if you lose your shame,
I'll lose my modesty, and tell your name.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 38.
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Jonson, Ben. “To Person Guilty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/83/.
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Jonson, Ben. “To Person Guilty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/83/.
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