Social Commentaries
Of going to Bathe
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
A Common phrase long vsed here hath beene,
And by prescription now some credit hath:
That diuers Ladies comming to the Bathe,
Come chiefely but to see, and to be seene.
But if I should declare my conscience briefely,
cannot thinke that is their Arrant chiefely.
For as I heare that most of them haue dealt,
They chiefely came to feele, and to be felt.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 58
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