Social Commentaries

In Publium

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

Social Commentaries

Publius a student at the Common-law,
Oft leaves his Bookes, and for his recreation,
To Paris-garden doth himselfe withdrawe;
Where he is rauisht with such delectation,
As downe among the beares and dogges he goes;
Where, whilst he skipping cries "to head to head,"
His satten doublet and his veluet hose
Are all with spittle from aboue be-spread:
When he is like his father's countrey Hall,
Stinking with dogges, and muted all with haukes;
And rightly too on him this filth doth fall,
Which for such filthy sports his bookes forsakes;
Leaving old Ployden, Dyer, Brooke alone,
To see old Harry Hunkes, and Sacarson.

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