Social Commentaries
Epigram 14: The deuill is a knaue
From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)
Social Commentaries
I Shell dislikes the surplusse and the cope,
And calls them idle vestments of the Pope:
And mistresse Maude would goe to Church full faine
But that the corner cap makes her refraine:
And Madam Idle is offended deepe,
The Preacher speakes so lowde, she cannot sleepe:
Loe thus the deuill sowes contentious seed,
Whence sects, and schismes, and heresies doo breed.
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