Social Commentaries
Generall disobedience
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
The most men (though no Kings) I may compare
To Saul, who did the lustiest cattle spare
Of Amalek: for so the lives we save
Of brutish passions, though command we have
To slaughter them; so crosse we are to Gods
Iust Lawes, and even with our selves at oddes.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Generall disobedience.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/369/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Generall disobedience.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/369/.
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