Social Commentaries
On Tobias his Fish
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
The Entrailes of this Fish, once laid on fire,
Caus'd all infernali Spirits to retire:
So a zeale-burning heart the fiends doth quell,
And a good liver feares no bugges of Hell.
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