Social Commentaries
To Tumbrell Gullygut
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Some Indian Ethnicks use to sacrifice
Their teeth, as things which they most highly prize,
And thinke their gods delight in: wert thou one
Of those, long since thy fanges had all beene gone,
And grinders too; but Hundreds (gladly blest
By such a losse) had wisht thy bones good rest.
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