Social Commentaries
Eminent Examples
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
The obvious actions of the great, that strike
Our sences to the quicke, are not unlike
Those varied Rods, which Jacob once did leave
Before his Ewes, what time they should conceive:
For after such impressive objects goe
The sheepish vulgar, which few precepts know.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Eminent Examples.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/242/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Eminent Examples.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/242/.
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