Social Commentaries
Of Warre
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
War's like a curst wife, whence a man may cull
Some fruites of goodnesse, (though of mischiefe full:)
For those land-surfeits wanton peace doth breed,
Warre by incision cures, when Kingdomes bleed.
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