Death & Dying
Epigram 69. An Epitaph on a Penitent Bawde
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Death & Dying
Here lies a good woman (to speak but the truth)
Who liv'd by her Tail all the days of her youth:
And when she was old, and none could endure her,
Stuck still to the Flesh, and became a Procurer:
Yet was at her death so full of Remorses,
That she cri'd a peccavi for all her lewd courses.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 69. An Epitaph on a Penitent Bawde.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/112/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 69. An Epitaph on a Penitent Bawde.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/112/.
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