Social Commentaries
Holy violence
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Iacob, that rugged Esau's heele did hold,
Taught us thereby some rigid course to take
With hatefull sins, and plucke them (if we could)
From us by th'heeles, that head against us make.
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