Social Commentaries
Of zealous alacrity
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
That God, that did the Israelites command
To eate with eager hast the Paschall Lambe,
Now wills, when pious workes we take in hand,
That we with nimble zeale performe the same:
For he that Heaven incessantly doth move,
Admits no sluggish soules to rest above.
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