Social Commentaries
Hope of preferment
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
A sweete enchauntresse is the flattering hope
Of dignity, that gives the phansie scope
To wander to Elyzium, and doth keepe
The wit still waking, though the Conscience sleepe.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Hope of preferment.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/174/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Hope of preferment.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/174/.
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