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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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28. On a Basilisk.

Sin is a Basilisk, its poisnous breath,
Is mortal, 'tis the Harbinger of death:
Let's first discover it, and make it flie.
Lest it should us pursue, and so we die,