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Divine Fancies

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

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78. On God and the King.

Ovr God and Prince (whom God for ever blesse)
Are both, in Mercy, of a Constitution:
Both slow, till meere necessity shall presse,
To put their penall Lawes in Execution:
And marke, How in a like successe they ioyne;
At both we grumble; and at both, repine.