Social Commentaries
Of father Peleus stable
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
OLd Peleus burn'd a Stable to the ground,
Which now to build doth cost three hundred poūd
That's but one Gennets price with him, no force,
A Stable? No: He did but lose a horse.
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Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 76
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