Social Commentaries
Of Mortification
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Sith Paradise is lost, looke not to see
God in soft pleasures walkes: for surely he,
That did to Moses in a Bush appeare,
Loves sharpe compunction, and a life austere.
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