Social Commentaries

In Fastum

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

Social Commentaries

"That youth," saith Faustus, "hath a lyon seene,
Who from a dicing-house comes money-lesse":
But when he lost his haire, where had he beene?
I doubt me he had seene a Lyonesse?

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