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Epigr. 9. In adorantes reliquias.
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Epigr. 9. In adorantes reliquias.
Is it a worthy thing to digge vp bones?To kisse, t'adore the reliques of dead men?
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Which in times past did nought but burie them?
But they perhaps for stinke did then refraine:
But you doe worse to make them stinke againe.
Yet in the very stinking this is odd.
They stank to men then, now they stinke to God.
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