Social Commentaries
Epigram 5: Time
From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)
Social Commentaries
All making, marring, neuer turning Time
To all that is, is period, and is prime:
Time weares out Fortune, Loue, and Death and Fame
And makes the world forget ther proper name.
Ther's nothing that so long on earth can last,
But in conclusion Time will lay it wast.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 5: Time.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/172/.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 5: Time.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/172/.
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