Social Commentaries
On Worldlings
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Like Gideons troopes, which off the Captaine cast
For bending Beast-like to the ground, to tast
The Crystall River, is the wretched crew
Of Worldlings, which with downe-cast mindes pursue
Their wretched treasure, that like water flowes
By course, and from them with a murmure goes.
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