Social Commentaries
On old Sharke
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Sharke bad me to his roast, but in the end
Forc'd me to pay both for my selfe and friend:
Thus (though a Coward) shew'd he mettle yet,
In beating of me with a silver spit.
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