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Come children come and learn your father's trade

DMI number:
43022
First Line:
Come children come and learn your father's trade
Last Line:
And with their money drink and drab and whore
Poem Genre / Form:
Advice, Satire, and Couplet
Themes:
Crime, Money / wealth, Politics, Religion, The law, Trades / labour, and Virtue / vice
Content/Publication
Title:
Rome rhym'd to death. Being a collection of choice poems: in two parts [ESTC R16454]
Page No(s):
pp.98-107
Poem Title:
The Informers Lecture To His Sons, Instructing them in the Mysteries of that Religion.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed