Poem by Matthew Prior

Epigram («YES, every poet is a fool»)

YES, every poet is a fool:	
  By demonstration Ned can show it:	
Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule	
  Prove every fool to be a poet.

1. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
2. To the Author of the Foregoing Pastoral - (Love and Friendship)
3. Written in an Ovid
4. Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana
5. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death

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