Social Commentaries
Of Riches
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Like Sparrowes Dung, that seel'd up Tobits sight,
Is wealth, whose love our soules becloudeth quite,
And with pollution so belimes her wings,
That heavily she mounts to heavenly things.
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