Social Commentaries
On Sir Cod the Perfumed
From Epigrams (1616)
Social Commentaries
That Cod can get no widow, yet a knight,
I scent the cause: he wooes with an ill sprite.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 19.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Sir Cod the Perfumed.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/68/.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Sir Cod the Perfumed.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/68/.
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