Social Commentaries
To Cosmo on his fair scolding wife
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2
Social Commentaries
Smoak makes one fair, yet saies the Proverb, where
It alwaies smoaks, 'tis a foul sign that there
A dangerous Scold doth dwel, whose fiery tongue
Outdo's the fire and draws the smoak along.
The troubled house. Cosmo th' hast light upon
A fair scold to thy wife, the Question
Whither her tongue, that charm'd these clouds to rise,
Or the smoak, cause so many crying eies.
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