Social Commentaries
Gold like straw
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Straw ripens Fruits with kindly heate (we know)
Yet serves in hot Spaine to conserve the Snow,
That cooles their Wines: so warmes deceitfull gold
The heart with joy, yet makes Devotion cold.
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