Social Commentaries
In Romanum Mnestorem
From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)
Social Commentaries
It chanc't two Romane Conuerts on a day,
For pater noster at the Cards to play;
She mop'd, he pop'd; his popping could not get her,
"For she thought popping elsewher had been fitter.
Thus he went home no wiser then he came,
Sith popping was the Puppies chiefest game.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Romanum Mnestorem.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/31/.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Romanum Mnestorem.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/31/.
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