Social Commentaries
Mans life in the lapse
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
On Tigris banke when once Tobias sate,
Of slippery life he well might meditate,
Which faster than that swiftest river flowes
With downe-right course to death, nor Eddy knowes.
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