Social Commentaries
Of the beatificall Vision
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Peace Epicures, cease Stoicks, with the rest
Of Ancients, to make knowne what makes you blest:
Your chiefe goods are but empty dreames, but mine
A reall vision, glorious, and Divine.
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