Social Commentaries
Epigram 26: A Greedy Chuffe once being warnd in
From The Sculler (1612)
Social Commentaries
A Greedy Chuffe once being warnd in poste,
To make appearance at the Court of Hell:
Where grisly Pluto hotly rules the roste:
And being summond by the passing Bell,
With heapes of Golde he would haue bribed Death,
But he disayning bribes, depriu'd his breath,
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