Social Commentaries
On Excessive drinking
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Is aged Nature so exhaust and dry,
That men now drinke so much, so greedily?
Or is Hels torrid region neerer to
Vs than it sometimes was? It seemeth so:
For townes smell hot of it in every nooke,
And husbands like her horned monsters looke.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On Excessive drinking.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/157/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On Excessive drinking.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/157/.
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