Social Commentaries
To a fat Usurer
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
Fat folks we say by nature are most free:
You and your purse are fat, and yet I see
Your hand and that stil shut, the reasons this;
In costive flesh thy lean soul buried is.
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Heath, Robert. “To a fat Usurer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/114/.
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Heath, Robert. “To a fat Usurer.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/114/.
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