Social Commentaries
In Paulum
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
By lawfull mart, and by unlawfull stealth,
Paulus in spite of enuy, fortunate,
Deriues out of the Ocean so much wealth,
As he may well maintaine a lord's estate;
But on the land a little gulfe there is,
Wherein he drowneth all the wealth of his.
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