Social Commentaries
Courtiers
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language (ed. James Parton)
Social Commentaries
As in all great and crowded fairs
Monsters and puppet-play are wares,
Which in the less will not go off,
Because they have not money enough;
So men in princes' courts will pass
That will not in another place.
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