Social Commentaries
Away prophane
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Those Beasts were to be ston'd, that came but neare
That Mount, where God in terrour did appeare:
And men that in Gods Temple dare present
Their beastly lusts, may feare like punishment.
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