Social Commentaries
Of the corne that rained
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
I Handled, tasted, saw it with mine eyes,
The graine that lately fell downe from the skies:
Yet what it tok'ned could I not deuise,
And many doubts did in my minde arise.
At last, I thus resolu'd, it signifies
That this is our sole meane, to mend this dearth,
To aske from heau'n, that we doe lacke on earth.
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Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 18
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