Social Commentaries
Epigram: Bob now resolves on marriage schemes to trample
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Bob now resolves on marriage schemes to trample,
And now he'll have a wife all in a trice.
Must I advise--Pursue thy dad's example
And marry not.--There, heed now my advice.
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Codex Note
Imitated by Coleridge from Lessing's Sinngedicht
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