Social Commentaries
In Ciprum
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
The fine youth Ciprius is more tierse and neate,
Then the new garden of the Old Temple is;
And still the newest fashion he doth get,
And with the time doth change from that to this;
He weares a hat of the flat-crowne block,
The treble ruffes, long cloake, and doublet French;
He takes tobacco, and doth weare a lock,
And wastes more time in dressing then a wench:
Yet this new fangled youth, made for these times,
Doth aboue all praise old George Gascoine's rimes?
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Davies, John. “In Ciprum.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/119/.
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