Social Commentaries
On Captain Hazard, the Cheater
From Epigrams (1616)
Social Commentaries
Touch'd with the sin of false play in his punk,
Hazard a month forswore his, and grew drunk,
Each night, to drown his cares; but when the gain
Of what she had wrought came in, and waked his brain,
Upon the accompt, hers grew the quicker trade:
Since when he's sober again, and all play's made.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 87.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Captain Hazard, the Cheater.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/128/.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Captain Hazard, the Cheater.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/128/.
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