Social Commentaries
Fond delights to be relinquisht
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Abra'm when Isaac left the dugge, did make
A Feast, (though none we heare of at his birth)
And when soft manlesse pleasure we forsake
For wisedomes truth, more cause we have of mirth,
Than if we should false Mammons summes collect,
That make the Chest sound, but the brest infect.
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