Social Commentaries
Of a Carnalist
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
How like is he, a wanton life that leades,
To hoary Iordan! that the flowery meads
Clippes in his progresse, yet doth swiftly tend
To the dead sea, and makes a bitter end.
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