Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
Upon Peter Fishing. |
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Upon Peter Fishing.
Do'st fish in the deep sea? 'tis Christs command,That thou shouldst rather fish upon dry land.
Thou art a Fisher, not of fish, but men:
Consider how to catch them, where, and when.
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Which he must use, must be the holy book:
The Scripture is the net, which drags great store
From Seas of troubles, to the blessed shore.
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