Social Commentaries
The Divels temptation
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Sathans temptation seemes the steele,
That striking on our hearts of stone,
Makes lust to sparkle; yet (we feele)
Oft cooles our hott'st devotion.
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