Social Commentaries
To Iustice Much-ill
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
You terme your selfe a Pillar of this Land,
As if our Realme on rotten propps did stand:
But who their Tenants to the quick will pare,
Not Pillars they, but Caterpillars are.
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