Religion
Book III, 26: On the Boxe of Oyntment
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book III
Religion
It is no wonder, he, above the rest,
Whom thirty pieces tempted to betray
The Lord of Glory to his death, profest
The Boxe of Oyntment was but cast away:
He that dare murther at so small a cost,
May eas'ly thinke the charge in Buriall, lost.
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