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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

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S. AUGUST. in Soliloq.

In vaine is that washing, where the next sin defiles: He hath ill repented whose sinnes are repeated: That stomack is the worse for vomiting, that licks up his vomit.