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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

Urquhart, Thomas (1611-1660)

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38. How to make all the world peaceable.

If so in ev'ry man the flesh would dwell
At concord with the spirit, that it cease
Against its soverainty to rebell,
The universall world would be at peace;
For if there were no avarice, no hate:
No pride, nor lust, there could be no debate.