Social Commentaries
Of the Clock and the Cock
From Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567)
Social Commentaries
GOod reason thou allow
one letter more to mée
Than to the Cock: For Cocks doe sléept
when Clocks doe wake for thée.
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Turberville, George. “Of the Clock and the Cock.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/95/.
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Turberville, George. “Of the Clock and the Cock.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/95/.
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