Social Commentaries
Of the cruell hatred of Stepmothers
From Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567)
Social Commentaries
THe Sonne in lawe his Stepdame being dead,
Began hir Hierce with Garlands to cōmende:
Meane while there fell a stone vpon his head
From out the Tombe that brought the Boy abed,
A proofe that Stepdames hate hath neuer ende.
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Turberville, George. “Of the cruell hatred of Stepmothers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/113/.
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Turberville, George. “Of the cruell hatred of Stepmothers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/113/.
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