Time & Brevity
Forma Bonum Fragile
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WHAT a frail thing is beauty ! says Baron Le Cras,
Le Cras,
Perceiving his mistress had one eye of glass :
And scarcely had he spoke it,
When she more confus'd as more angry she grew,
By a negligent rage prov'd the maxim too true :
She dropt the eye, and broke it.
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Codex Note
A six-line anecdote of a baron who says beauty is frail just as his mistress, in a rage, drops her glass eye.
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MLA
Prior, Matthew. “Forma Bonum Fragile.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/31/.
Chicago
Prior, Matthew. “Forma Bonum Fragile.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/31/.
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