Religion
Book I, 39: Of common Devotion
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book I
Religion
Ovr God and Souldiers we alike adore
Ev'n at the Brink of danger; not before:
After deliverance, both alike requited;
Our God's forgotten, and our Souldier's slighted.
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