The Works in Verse and Prose (including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes |
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In Publium. 43.
Publius [a] student at the Common-law,Oft leaves his Bookes, and for his recreation,
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Where he is rauisht with such delectation,
As downe among the beares and dogges he goes;
Where, whilst he skipping cries “to head to head,”
His satten doublet and his veluet hose
Are all with spittle from aboue be-spread:
When he is like his father's countrey hall,
Stinking with dogges, and muted all with haukes;
And rightly too on him this filth doth fall,
Which for such filthy sports his bookes forsakes,
Leaving old Ployden, Dyer, Brooke alone,
To see old Harry Hunkes, and Sacarson.
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