Social Commentaries
Epigram 18: Lord who would take him for a
From The Sculler (1612)
Social Commentaries
Lord who would take him for a pippin squire,
That's so bedawb'd with lace and rich attire?
Can the dambd windefalls of base bawdery,
Maintaine the slaue in this imbrodery?
No maruaile Vertue's at so lowe a price,
When men knowes better how to thriue by Vice.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 18: Lord who would take him for a.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/55/.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 18: Lord who would take him for a.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/55/.
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