Social Commentaries
The body and the soule
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
God at one instant did not make the whole
Of man, but first the Body, then the soule:
And hence the fleshly Rebell (for the right
Of eldership) doth with the Spirit fight.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The body and the soule.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/217/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The body and the soule.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/217/.
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