The Furies With Vertues Encomium. Or, The Image of Honour. In two Bookes of Epigrammes, Satyricall and Encomiasticke. By R.N. [i.e. Richard Niccols] |
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Epig. XXIIII. In Popæam.
Tvrn Bul Popæa to her healths annoyMade drunk at supper by a roaring boy,
Reeles through the street: at which an elder Sage,
Who neuer knew such custome in his age,
Admiring said, I once, and, as I thinke,
But once did see a man thus drown'd in drinke,
But neuer woman. One that heard him vse
This sharpe reproofe, our women to excuse,
Said, Sir, were this a woman that is drunke,
'Twere strange indeed; but 'tis not, 'tis a punke.
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