Social Commentaries
Of Lesbia
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
OLd widdow Lesbia, after husbands fiue,
Yet feeleth Cupids flames in her reuiue.
And now she takes a gallant youth and trim.
Alas for her, nay, nay, alas for him.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 24
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