Social Commentaries

To Person Guilty

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

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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Epigrams, no. 38.

MLA

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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