"Humors Looking Glasse" by Samuel Rowlands is a funny poem that pokes fun at how people acted in the 1600s. The book is like a collection of jokes and stories that show how silly people could be, especially when it came to things like getting married, drinking too much, or trying to find love. Rowlands uses humor to make readers laugh and also think about what's right and wrong, using short, witty poems and stories to make fun of different types of people, like husbands who are too jealous or wives who spend too much money, painting a funny picture of the strange things people did back then and making people think about what it means to be a good person.
Humors Looking Glasse
By Samuel Rowlands
Travel back in time through witty verses and discover a world of comical characters and bizarre customs that reveal the amusing side of human nature long ago.
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Samuel Rowlands was an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse which reflect the follies and humours of lower middle-class life in his day. He seems to have had no literary reputation at the time, but his work throws much light on the development of popular literature and social life in London, where he spent his life. His contact with the middle and lower classes of society included working in 1600–1615 for William White, and then George Loftus, booksellers, who published Rowlands's pamphlets in this time.
Samuel Rowlands was an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse which reflect the follies and humours of lower middle-class life in his day. He seems to have had no literary reputation at the time, but his work throws much light on the development of popular literature and social life in London, where he spent his life. His contact with the middle and lower classes of society included working in 1600–1615 for William White, and then George Loftus, booksellers, who published Rowlands's pamphlets in this time.
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