Social Commentaries
A troublesome world
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
This World resembles Labans house, wherein
Good Iacob nought save trouble found and sin:
But having left it, by the Angels scale
Takes heavenly heights, and slights this earthly vale.
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