Social Commentaries
A happy Convert
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
A yongster going to the Stewes, did meet
By chance a dead mans Coffin in the street:
Which courage-quelling sight a mortall blow
Gave to his lust, and tooke impression so,
That he returnes a Penitent, and drawes
His loose affects up to strict vertues Lawes.
O wholesome spectacle! through which he sees
Folly in grosse, and sinnes deformities.
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