Amorea, The Lost Lover Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin |
On a simple Gentleman which spake in dispraise of Poetry.
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Amorea, The Lost Lover | ||
On a simple Gentleman which spake in dispraise of Poetry.
A gentleman, for want of education,Said Epigrams, and Poems, were but toyes.
And in his judgement and small estimation,
Are only fit for Girles, and for Boyes:
Another standing by that wished well
To Poetry, and lov'd a witty Rhime,
Your judgement Sir, alas what can you tell?
Thus 'tis to cast a Pearl before a Swine,
Pray hold your peace, for Poets hold it fit,
That Ignorance must not be Judge of Wit.
Amorea, The Lost Lover | ||