Social Commentaries
Epigram 1: All you that stedfastly doe fixe your
From The Sculler (1612)
Social Commentaries
All you that stedfastly doe fixe your eyes,
Vpon this idle issue of my braine,
Who voyd of any intricate disguise,
Discribes my meaning rusticall and plaine.
My Muse like Sisiphus with toylsome trade,
Is euer working, yet hath neuer done,
Though from the Romish Sea she well gan wade,
Yet is her labour as twere new begun.
For hauing at the Papists had a fling,
Great Brittaines vice, or Vertues now I sing.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 1: All you that stedfastly doe fixe your.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/38/.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 1: All you that stedfastly doe fixe your.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/38/.
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