Social Commentaries
Of Divine Precepts
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
How good is God! whose every sweete command
Doth with the soules and bodies safety stand,
Whose true and happy preservation lies
In antidotes of vertuous exercise:
But vice is like a worme, that Canker sets
Into the Bone, and harder Conscience frets.
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