Social Commentaries
On bad Patrons
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Some Patrons worse than those our Saviour scourg'd
Out of the House of Prayer, which he purg'd
From sinne: for those i'th' Temple onely sold,
But these will sell the Temples selfe for Gold.
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