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Subject: MARRIOTT, JOHN (D. 1653)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "MARRIOTT, THE GREAT EATER", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here to your view's presented the great eater
Last Line: Those that feed him councell shall not want
Subject(s): "food & Eating;law & Lawyers;marriott, John (d. 1653);


ON MARRIOT, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks for this rescue time; for thou hast won
Last Line: Send us no more such eaters, or more meat.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Marriott, John (d. 1653)


ON THE GREAT EATER OF GRAYS-INN, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! For a lasting wind! That I may rail
Last Line: For writing this, pray god, thou eat not me.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Law & Lawyers; Marriott, John (d. 1653); Attorneys