Social Commentaries
The Devills child, the Devills lucke
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Iudas, that did the Khapsacke beare;
Like a false-hearted Souldier,
The bloody colours did forgoe
Of his deare Lord, to serve his foe
For helish pay, yet in the close
Had not one crosse to helpe his woes;
But (with his empty bagge by's side)
Was hang'd, and broke, and poorely dy'd.
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