Social Commentaries

In Cosmum

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

Social Commentaries

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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