Two bookes of epigrammes, and epitaphs Dedicated to two top-branches of gentry: Sir Charles Shirley, Baronet, and William Davenport, Esquire. Written by Thomas Bancroft |
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42. On Iosephs Cloake.
The Snake his slough, the Dove her plume doth cast,(Whose innocence and prudence held we fast)
As Ioseph left his garment, yet retained
A jewell, which once left is ne're regained.
Thus stone-cold chastity farre off doth flye,
And Lust assumes the Cloake of modesty.
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