Social Commentaries

On Bawds and Usurers

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Social Commentaries

If, as their ends, their fruits were so, the same,
Bawdry and Usury were one kind of game.

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Epigrams, no. 57.

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Jonson, Ben. “On Bawds and Usurers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/100/.

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Jonson, Ben. “On Bawds and Usurers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/100/.

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