Social Commentaries
On Drunkennesse
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
The youngest of all vices (that I know)
Is Drunkennesse, which in the age of Noe
First reel'd into the World, and thus appeares
Like the Red Dragon, after thousand yeares:
Yet sure to Hell this sucking Vice hath spew'd
More soules, than all that ancient multitude.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On Drunkennesse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/212/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On Drunkennesse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/212/.
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