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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A ROGUE, by CHARLES COTTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, read this man, than whom Last Line: And now y'ave warning of a devil. | |||
READER, read this man, than whom Is none more vile in Christendom: Thou may'st know him, wheresoe'er Thou meet'st him, by his character, And, to begin first with his face, It is the worst that ever was, So crab-like, wrinkled, and so foul, His mother shit him sure at stool. To that, his limbs are such, thou'dst swear No two of them could make a pair: His hands! Man never saw such clutches, Nor such feet walk without crutches; The bulk to these fair branches is A chaos of confounded vice; A trunk of tumours and diseases, Which a thousand ulcers eases, With a stink that would infect us, Did not kinder Heaven protect us. Now how this hide of his is lin'd! To this shape he has a mind Of so damn'd a leprous taint As the Devil himself would Saint. Bloody, revengeful, treacherous: A hellish liar, covetous; A cursed sycophanting slave, A fool, a coward, and a knave: Lewdly debaucht (the Devil take him!) As drabs, and dice, and drink can make him: Loudly profane 'bove blasphemy, The abstract of all villainy; Ignorant of all things, but evil: And now y'ave warning of a Devil. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAURA SLEEPING; ODE by CHARLES COTTON RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 2 by CHARLES COTTON THE RETIREMENT; TO MR. IZAAK WALTON by CHARLES COTTON A JOURNEY INTO THE PARK; TO SIR ASTON COCKAIN by CHARLES COTTON A PARAPHRASE by CHARLES COTTON A VALEDICTION by CHARLES COTTON A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE by CHARLES COTTON AMORET IN MASQUERADE by CHARLES COTTON AN ELEGY UPON THE LORD HASTINGS by CHARLES COTTON AN EPITAPH ON MY DEAR AUNT, MRS. ANN STANHOPE by CHARLES COTTON |
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