Social Commentaries
Worldly pleasure
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
As Ioab Amaziah did embrace,
And stabbe together: so with flattering face
False pleasure courts us, but with paine the whiles
Wounds whom she wooes, & slaughters when she smiles.
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