A Paraphrase on The Ten Commandments in Divine Poems Illustrated With Twelve Copper Plates, shewing how Personal Punishments has been inflicted on the Transgressors of these Commandments, as is Recorded in the Holy Scripture. Never before Printed. Also, a Metrical Paraphrase upon the Creed and Lord's-Prayer. Written by George Wither |
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Commandment X.
[When in us this Vice begins]
X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House, &c.
When in us this Vice begins,
Crowns we pawn for crooked pins,
And by coveting of more
Forfeit what we had before.
Blockish Ahab therefore mind
Who by fooling in this kind
Life and Kingdom (to his cost)
For a Kitchen-garden lost;
And his fall is on Record
That his fault might be abhorr'd.
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