Social Commentaries
Our Grandames infirmities
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Earth had her dropsie in th' all-drowning Flood,
And now expects her burning Feaver neare:
Her Plurisies effusions are of blood
By wars: her Agues, tremblings of her Spheare:
Which whether yet it proove vertiginous
With round rotations, aske Copernicus,
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