Social Commentaries
Of a drunken Smith
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
I Heard that SMVG the Smith, for ale and spice
Sold all his tooles, and yet he kept his vice.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 47
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