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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

Urquhart, Thomas (1611-1660)

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4 That Lust, and drunkennesse are odious vices.

Wrath makes a man to sin couragiously,
And pride doth swell with faire appearances:

But drunkenesse, and too much Leacherie
Are sloven, filthie, villanous, and base;
For by the one Gods image being exil'd,
His Temple by the other is defil'd.