Social Commentaries
On Nebuchadnezzar, Deposed
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
What Object's this, of pitty or of feare?
Great Babels Monarch, picking Sallets here
With Hawke-like Tallons, and a Horse-like maine,
That lately did a gemmed Crowne sustaine:
'Twas farre from lo ftiest Royalty to slide
To such subjection: but illusive pride
Ioyes in such Gambolls, jeering, when she brings
Scepters to Bables, and does foole the greatest things.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On Nebuchadnezzar, Deposed.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/247/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On Nebuchadnezzar, Deposed.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/247/.
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