Social Commentaries

On Mr Fanning the Engastrometh

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2

Social Commentaries

To speak within, and to ones selfe, and yet
Bee heard, is much, yet Fanning doth it:
So tall and stout a man, 'tis strange to see't
So like a coward should his words down eat:
The belly hath no ears they say; yet his
Hath ears to hear, and tongue to talk, I wis.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “On Mr Fanning the Engastrometh.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/194/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “On Mr Fanning the Engastrometh.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/194/.

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