Social Commentaries

To Big

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2

Social Commentaries

Big why hast got so smal a wife? 'tis best
Thou sai'st, of evils we should chuse the least:
Thou hop'st to overlay her, that's thy plot,
Kil her and get another, is it not?

MLA

Heath, Robert. “To Big.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/207/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “To Big.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/207/.

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