Social Commentaries
In Cosmum
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head
Then Ioue, when Pallas issued from his braine;
And still he strives to be deliveréd
Of all his thoughts at once, but all in vaine;
For, as we see at all the play-house doores,
When ended is the play, the dance, and song,
A thousand townesmen, gentlemen, and whores,
Porters and serving-men, together throng,--
So thoughts of drinking, thriuing, wenching, warre,
And borrowing money, raging, in his mind;
To issue all at once so forward are,
As none at all can perfect passage find.
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