Social Commentaries
On severall Countries
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
In severall figures severall Regions are,
Cast and describ'd, some round, some angular:
So Irelands forme is Ovall, Britaine takes
The threatning semblance of a sharpned Axe,
(Where-with large France seemes hewne into a square)
And to an Oxes hyde we Spaine compare:
But Nature well, brave Italy doth show
Like a swift Legge, that farre with Fame doth goe.
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