Social Commentaries
Epigram 31. Of Mary a Chambermaid
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
Mary a Chambermaid, a brown-eyde Lass
Complain'd that she all day in labour was;
I laugh'd at her simplicity, and said,
Surely at Night then you'l be brought to bed.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 31. Of Mary a Chambermaid.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/74/.
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