Social Commentaries
On a Fart, Let in the House of Commons
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Social Commentaries
READER I was born, and cry'd ;
I crack'd, I smelt, and so I dy'd.
Like Julius Cesar's was My death,
Who in the senate lost his breath.
Much alike entomb'd does lie
The noble Romulus and I;
And when I dy'd, like Flora fair,
I left the Common-Wealth my heir
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Prior, Matthew. “On a Fart, Let in the House of Commons.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/158/.
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Prior, Matthew. “On a Fart, Let in the House of Commons.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/158/.
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