Social Commentaries
On Maltworme
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
This sonne of Riot spent on Ale and Beere,
And Indian fume, two Thousand pounds a yeare:
Yet nought for all his Angels hath to shew,
Except a great Nose of a glorious hew,
Worth all his body; for that is but mould,
But his tryumphant Nose scornes beaten gold.
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