Ralph Venning. 1620(?)-1673.
All the beauty of the world, 't is but skin deep.[262:4]
Orthodoxe Paradoxes. (Third edition, 1650.) The Triumph of Assurance, p. 41.
They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.[262:5]
Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649.)
Footnotes
[262:4] Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.—Henry: Commentaries. Genesis iii.
[262:5] See Skelton, page 8.