Social Commentaries
In Septimium
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
Septimus liues, and is like garlick seene,
For though his head be white, his blade is greene:
This old mad coult deserves a Martyr's praise,
For he was burnèd in Queene Marie's daies.
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