A Rimer
Is a fellow whose face is hatcht all over with impudence, and should he
be hanged or pilloried, its armed for it. He is a Juggler with words,
yet practises the Art of most uncleanly conveiance. Hee doth boggle
very often; and because himselfe winkes at it, thinkes tis not
perceived: the maine thing that ever hee did, was the tune hee sang to.
There is no thing in the earth so pittifull, no not an Ape-carrier, he
is not worth thinking of, and therefore I must leave him as nature left
him; a Dung-hill not well laide together.
(Overbury's Characters, 1615)
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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