Social Commentaries
Against our Fashion-mongers
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
In various formes the Tempter doth appeare,
But onely humane shape good Angels weare:
We then that still new-fangled fashions use,
Whom follow wee? the Fiend, that us pursues.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Against our Fashion-mongers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/331/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Against our Fashion-mongers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/331/.
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