Social Commentaries
Epigram 30: Vpon my selfe
From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)
Social Commentaries
My selfe I liken to an vntun'de Viol,
For Like a Viol I am in a Case;
And who so of my fortunes makes a triall
Shall (like to me) be strung and tuned base.
And Treables Troubles he shall neuer want,
But heres the Periode of my mischiefes All,
Thogh Base and Trebles, fortune did me grant
And Meanes, but yet alas they are too small.
Yet to make vp the Munck & I must looke
The Tenor in the cursed Counter booke.
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