Social Commentaries
To Luke Warme
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
The Aegyptian Copties, though they long remaine
In Churches, neither kneele, nor sit, but leane
On crutches still: why dost not thou the same,
Whose Sanctity is sicke, Devotion lame.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Luke Warme.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/411/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Luke Warme.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/411/.
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