Living

Haud conveniunt

by Henry Peacham 1576?–1643?

From Minerva Britanna (1612)

Living

I MVCH did muse, why Venus could not brooke,
The savadge Boare, and Lion cruell feirce,
Since Kinges and Princes, haue such pleasure tooke
In hunting: haply cause a Boare did peirce
Her Adon faire, who better lik't the sport,
Then spend his daies, in wanton pleasures court.

Which fiction though devisd by Poets braine,
It signifies vnto the Reader this;
Such exercise Loue will not entertaine,
Who liketh best, to liue in Idlenes:
The foe to vertue, Cancker of the wit,
That bringes a thousand miseries with it.

MLA

Peacham, Henry. “Haud conveniunt.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/166/.

Chicago

Peacham, Henry. “Haud conveniunt.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/166/.

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