Social Commentaries
Sinnes attendants
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Sinne hath three Bond-maids, Feare, & Guilt, and Shame,
That dayly follow, duely haunt the same:
But be I rather joylesse left alone,
Than on the left hand goe, so waited on.
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