Social Commentaries
Of the Pillar of Salt, the remainder of Lots Wife
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
What object's this that doth assault my sense
With feare? the monument of her offence,
Who with good Lot did from lewd Sodome goe,
Yet for apostacy was pillory'd so;
Warning us all to season with this Salt
Our ranke affections, and avoyde her fault.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Of the Pillar of Salt, the remainder of Lots Wife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/273/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Of the Pillar of Salt, the remainder of Lots Wife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/273/.
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