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A Meditation Upon a Broomstick

1. pessimistic about changing society

2. in Czech

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

1. ironically, she’s not beautiful, she’s an ugly prostitute

2. line 3 boast – breath

3. line 4 battered – beat; strolling – walk around

4. line 13 hide – fur which is not thick

5. line 14 art – skill

6. line 18 hollow – empty

7. line 21 rags – old cloths

8. line 22 dugs – nipples; she is old and unhealthy

9. line 23 the lovely goddess – cruel irony

10. line ? dawbs – violent colour; bolus – pill (a bigger one); puss – kitten; ere – before; running sores – puss (hnis); many an apple – many apples; furrows – metaphor – wrinkles; pawn – zastavárna; or Jamaica... – afraid of deportation