Social Commentaries
The Usurer
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
He puts forth money as the Hangman sowes
His fatall Hempe-seed, that with curses growes:
So grows his damn'd wealth, in the Devils name,
That doth in Hell the Harvest-home proclaime:
For which deepe reason my poore Muse preserves
This suite, that Poets ne're prove Usurers.
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