Social Commentaries
Poverties priviledge
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Ierusalems great Chiefes are forc'd away
By Babels Monarch, when meane persons stay:
And as a prey to the hellish Tyrant are
Rich Worldlings, when poore starvelings better fare.
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