Social Commentaries
Evill Objects, infectious
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
As those that gaze on bloody galled eyes,
Become obnoxious to their maladies:
So on lewd precedents who oft will looke
Shall lewdnesse catch, and learne it without booke.
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