Social Commentaries

Epigram 8: A Gallant Lasse from out her window

by John Taylor 1580–1653

From The Sculler (1612)

Social Commentaries

A Gallant Lasse from out her window saw
A gentleman whose nose in length exceeded:
Hir boundles will, not lymited by law,
Imagin'd he had what she greatly needed.
To speake with him she kindly doth entreat,
Desiring him to cleare her darke suppose:
Supposing euery thing was made compleate,
And corespondent equall to his nose.
But finding short where she exspected long,
She sigh'd, and said, O nose thou didst me wrong.

MLA

Taylor, John. “Epigram 8: A Gallant Lasse from out her window.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/45/.

Chicago

Taylor, John. “Epigram 8: A Gallant Lasse from out her window.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/45/.

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