Social Commentaries
Of deuotion and promotion
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
I Met a Lawyer at the Court this Lent,
And asking what great cause him thither sent,
He said, that mou'd with Doctor Androes fame,
To heare him preach, he onely thither came:
But straight, I wisht him softly in his eare,
To find some other sense, else some will sweare,
Who to the Court come onely for deuotion,
They in the Church pray onely for promotion.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 57
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