Social Commentaries
To Doctor Butler, in his last sicknesse
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
How angry seemes the Fates at thee,
(Rare man!) that thousands hast set free
From their arrests▪ and (sure) didst make
Those adamantine Sisters quake,
Lest through thine Arte their power should
Both be contemned and controul'd:
But Death into his vengefull jawes,
This Butlers selfe now rudely draws.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Doctor Butler, in his last sicknesse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/129/.
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