Religion
Book II, 61: On the World
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book II
Religion
The World's an Inne; and I, her Guest,
I eate, I drinke, I take my Rest:
My Hostesse Nature, do's deny me
Nothing, wherewith she can supply me:
Where, having stayd a while, I pay
Her lavish Bills, and goe my way.
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