Social Commentaries
To Zounds the Swaggerer
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
What dost thou meane to revell roare, and spend?
To drinke, and drabbe, and sweare so? wilt thou rend
Thy way to Hell? The Devill will spy day
At a small hole, and snatch his Chuck away.
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MLA
Bancroft, Thomas. “To Zounds the Swaggerer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/91/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Zounds the Swaggerer.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/91/.
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