Two bookes of epigrammes, and epitaphs Dedicated to two top-branches of gentry: Sir Charles Shirley, Baronet, and William Davenport, Esquire. Written by Thomas Bancroft |
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177. Christmas in a Consumption.
Old Christmas seemes a weakling child againe,(A Child of twelve dayes old) nor can containe
Himselfe from soft teares and excessive mone,
Now his kind Nurse, good House-keeping, is gone.
Cookes (that their fingers lick't) their hands may wring,
And Butlers o're their sounding Hogsheads sing
Sad notes: for now their Offices are throwne
Upon the backe of Pride, and all's her owne.
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