Social Commentaries

Epigram 32: Looke how yon I etchers Legs are

by John Taylor 1580–1653

From The Sculler (1612)

Social Commentaries

Looke how yon I etchers Legs are worne away
With haunting of the Whore-house euery day:
He knowes more greasy Panders, Bauds, & Drabs,
And eats more Lobsters, Artichockes, and Crabs,
Blew roasted Egges, Potatoes, Muskadine,
Oysters, and pith that growes i'th Oxes Chine:
With many Drugs, Compounds, and Simples store,
Which makes him haue a stomacke to a Whore.
But one day heele giue ore, when tis too late,
When he stands begging through an iron grate.

MLA

Taylor, John. “Epigram 32: Looke how yon I etchers Legs are.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/69/.

Chicago

Taylor, John. “Epigram 32: Looke how yon I etchers Legs are.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/69/.

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