Social Commentaries
A Postscript
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Social Commentaries
Would honest Tom G—d get rid of a scold,
The torture, the plague of his life!
Pray tell him to take down his lion of gold,
And hang up his brazen-fac'd wife.
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Codex Note
Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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