Social Commentaries
To cracking Iohn
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Fye, make not wise men mad by boasting so,
Sith every child thy sillinesse doth know,
Whose vaporous braine might in a Cherry-stone
Be lodged; cracke't, and where's the kernell Iohn?
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