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THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: VERSES AGAINST ENTICING COURTEZANS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What mean the poets in invective verse
Last Line: Till waste brings woe, and sorrow hastes despair.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


WHAT mean the poets in invective verse
To sing Medea's shame, and Scylla's pride,
Calypso's charms by which so many died?
Only for this their vices they rehearse,—
That curious wits, which in the world converse,
May shun the dangers and enticing shows
Of such false Sirens, those home-breeding foes,
That from their eyes their venom do disperse.
So soon kills not the basilisk with sight,
The viper's tooth is not so venomous,
The adder's tongue not half so dangerous,
As they that bear the shadow of delight,
Who chain blind youths in trammels of their hair,
Till waste brings woe, and sorrow hastes despair.





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