8. EPIGRAM. On Jesuits.
O Jesuits! Subtil i' th' Arts and Schools,
Knaves in the World, and in Religion Fools;
Christ's profest Servants, and the Slaves of Popes,
But both defie, when they oppose your Hopes;
Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry.
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- Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry.
- Author
- Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.
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- London :: printed by T. Hodgkin; and are to be sold by Matth. Gillyflower, in Westminster-Hall,
- 1694.
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Missioners y' are to the Earths utmost ends,
Feign'd Lovers of the Faith, Riches true Friends;
Who more preferr a Pow'r in Courts to hold,
Than even in Heaven to have your Names enrol'd;
Who further have prevail'd, Truth to expel
The Church of God, than even the Gates of Hell.