Social Commentaries
Heavenly endowments
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
We should the Robe of glory (as it were)
Spinne out of Christ by faith, embroyder't here
With workes of Piety, perfume it too
With Incense of our Prayers; else we doe
But feast on dainty dreames, and Heaven-ward reare
A scale of phansies, that no weight will beare.
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