Social Commentaries

In Brunum

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

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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