Social Commentaries
To Charnwood
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Charnwood, if all thy Stones were turn'd to Bread,
(As once the Fiend did such a motion make)
It would be more than Zerxes fed,
Or Tenariffe and Aetna both could bake;
And hungry Churles (that raile at Souldiers)
Would rend up Rock-bread, and turne Pioners.
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