Social Commentaries
Of Mile the glutton
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
MIlo with haste to cram his greedy gut,
One of his thumbs vnto the bone had cut:
Then straight it noysed was about by some,
That he had lost his stomack with his thumb.
To which one said, No worse hap fall vnto him:
But if a poore man finde it, 'twill vndoe him.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 55
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