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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
  
  
  

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26. On a spirituall Fever.

My soule hath had a Fever, a long while;
O, I can neither rellish, nor digest;
My nimble Pulses beat; my veynes doe boile;
I cannot close mine eyes, I cannot rest:
O, for a Surgeon, now, to strike a Vaine!
That, that would lay my Heate, and ease my Paine:
No, no, It is thy Blood, and not my owne,
Thy Blood must cure me, Iesus, or else none.