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THESAURO-PHULAKION[Greek]: or, A treasury of divine raptures

Consisting of Serious Observations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams. Alphabetically rank'd and fil'd by a Private Chaplain to the Illustrious and Renowned Lady Urania The Divine and Heavenly Muse. The first part [by Nicholas Billingsley]

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17. On a Bargain.

Who contracts with the Devil, & fells himself
To him for worldly pleasures, honors, pelf
That bargain yields bare gain, nay him undoes,
For light chaff, he his precious soul forgoes.