Death & Dying
Epigram 70. An Epitaph on an old Bawde
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Death & Dying
Here lies an old Bawde whom the grave should have gotten
Fourty years since, for then she was rotten:
Now here she doth lie for all People to piss on,
(For fear of Doomes-day) in a stinking Condition.
But enough of this business; for well we may think
The more we stir in it the more it will stink.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 70. An Epitaph on an old Bawde.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/113/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 70. An Epitaph on an old Bawde.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/113/.
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