Poem by Francis Quarles

On the World

The world's an Inn; and I her guest.
I eat; I drink; I take my rest.
My hostess, nature, does deny me
Nothing, wherewith she can supply me;
Where, having stayed a while, I pay
Her lavish bills, and go my way. 

1. Hos Ego Versiculos
2. The Loadstone
3. On the Life and Death of Man
4. On Change of Weather
5. On the Infancy of Our Savior

Jonathan Swift On the World ("WITH a whirl of thoughts oppress’d")

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