Social Commentaries
Winke not at great faults
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
When Paul was preaching, Eutychus asteepe
Came toppling from aloft, and dead was found:
So those that in the Church no watch will keepe,
Fall lame from goodnesse, though their sleepe be sound.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Winke not at great faults.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/328/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Winke not at great faults.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/328/.
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