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Sonnet 30.
[We must not now vpbraid each others crimes]
We must not now vpbraid each others crimesCommitted wrongly in the time of warre;
For we haue all (alas) too often-times
Prouok't the vengeance of the Lord too farre:
Some robbing Iustice, vnder maske of Reason;
Some blowing coles, to kindle-vp Sedition;
Some 'gainst their King attempting open Treason;
Some Godding Fortune (Idol of Ambition).
Alas, we knowe our cause of maladie,
All apt t'accuse, but none to cleanse th'impure;
Each doth rebuke, but none doth remedy:
To knowe a griefe, it is but halfe a cure.
Is it our sinnes? let's purge away that bane;
Eor what helps Physicke, if it be not tane?
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