Social Commentaries
On the Spunge filled with Vinegar
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Mans life is like this Spunge, and steepes
It selfe in woes; when crusht, he weepes.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On the Spunge filled with Vinegar.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/315/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On the Spunge filled with Vinegar.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/315/.
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