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An old sute
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
God not with silken robes old Adam clad,
But skinnes of Beasts, (the most contemned weare)
To shew, that he who Princely Empire had,
Having defac'd Gods Image, did appeare
More like to beasts, and (through his teares) might see
His blinded soule, and bodies misery.
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