Social Commentaries
The World
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
The World's a Forrest, (maim'd with fatall strokes)
Where Wolves and Foxes are wilde youths desires,
Where dead men Ashes are, the living, Oakes;
And Cats and Women are but scratching Bryers.
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