Social Commentaries
To Princes
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Ye Royall guides, that 'fore your people goe,
Thinke on that Meteor in the Wildernesse,
Which Israel led: for airy honour so
Still floates and flits, but sooner vanishes.
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