Social Commentaries
Of Exchange
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
OLd Caius sold a wench, to buy a barke.
Yong Titus gaue the ship, to haue the slut.
Who makes the better mart, now let vs marke,
Th' one loues to roue, the tother goes to rut.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 28
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