Social Commentaries
Affliction profitable
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
A fishes Gall blind Tobit cur'd: and so
Bitter affliction lends us light to know
The World, and all its fashood, that in lieu
Of promis'd Roses sticks our breasts with Rue.
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