Social Commentaries
In Brunum
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
Brunus, which deems himselfe a faire sweet youth
Is thirty nine yeares of age at least;
Yet was he neuer, to confesse the truth,
But a dry starveling when he was at best:
This gull was sicke to shew his night-cap fine,
And his wrought pillow over-spread with lawne;
But hath been well since his griefe's cause hath line
At Trollup's by Saint Clement's Church, in pawne.
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