Social Commentaries
Epigram 38. To those Preachers
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
My friends, I wish you would forbear your running
After this whore; and henceforth show your cunning
(Leaving this subject, to no purpose vext)
To follow in the lieu of it your text.
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