Social Commentaries
To Briskape the Gallant
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Though thou hast little judgment in thy head,
More than to dresse thee, drinke, and goe to bed,
Yet mayst thou take the wall, and th' way shalt lead,
Sith Logick wills that simple things precede.
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