Social Commentaries
To ambitious favourites
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Looke favourites (that ever climbing are)
On Absolon, hung by the lockes on high:
For so your actions goe against the haire,
And danger hangs upon your dignity.
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