Social Commentaries
Christmas in a Consumption
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Old Christmas seemes a weakling child againe,
(A Child of twelve dayes old) nor can containe
Himselfe from soft teares and excessive mone,
Now his kind Nurse, good House-keeping, is gone.
Cookes (that their fingers lick't) their hands may wring,
And Butlers o're their sounding Hogsheads sing
Sad notes: for now their Offices are throwne
Upon the backe of Pride, and all's her owne.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Christmas in a Consumption.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/148/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Christmas in a Consumption.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/148/.
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