Social Commentaries
On Gipsy
From Epigrams (1616)
Social Commentaries
Gipsy, new bawd, is turn'd physician,
And gets more gold than all the college can
Such her quaint practice is, so it allures,
For what she gave, a whore; a bawd, she cures.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 41.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Gipsy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/86/.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Gipsy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/86/.
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