Social Commentaries
To Gripe and Holdclose
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
Gripe sais Rags cloaths are lousie, but Holdclose
Sais they'r so poor, they are not worth a louce:
Though your phrase differ; thus agree you may,
Give him fresh cloaths, heel shift his lice away.
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Heath, Robert. “To Gripe and Holdclose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/141/.
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Heath, Robert. “To Gripe and Holdclose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/141/.
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