Social Commentaries
Of Lesbia, a great Lady
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
LEsbia doth laugh to heare sellers and buyers
Cald by this name, Substantiall occupyers:
Lesbia, the word was good while good folke vsd it,
You mard it that with Chawcers iest abusd it:
But good or bad, how ere the word be made,
Lesbia is loth perhaps to leaue the trade.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 8
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