Social Commentaries
Of Cinna's Election
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
PVre Cinna makes no question he's elect,
Yet lewdly liues: I might beleeue him better,
If he would change his life, or change one letter,
And say that he is sure he is eiect.
An holy, true, and long preserued purity,
May hap, and bu perhap breede such securitie.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 74
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