Social Commentaries
Of Repentance
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Put not Repentance off till thou beest old,
For such Devotion heartlesse growes and cold:
Nor ere shall that man for a wise one passe,
That layes much treasure on a tyred Asse.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Of Repentance.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/251/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Of Repentance.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/251/.
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