Read full poem →Him Basto follow'd, but his fate more hard
Gain'd but one Trump and one plebeian card.
With his broad sabre next, a chief in years,
Dictionary Entry
A member of the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome.
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Poetry examples for “plebeian”
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Read full poem →matter, that only a chymist can recover it; sense may be so hidden in
unrefined and plebeian words, that none but philosophers can distinguish
it; and both may be so buried in impurities, as not to pay the cost of