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2. On Zacharias and the blessed Virgin.
His tongue requir'd a Signe, which might affordA cleerer Evidence, then the Angels word;
And had it too: Vntill those things shall come
To passe, his faithlesse lips are striken dumb:
Our blessed Virgin, at her Salutation,
Seemd ev'n as faithles, on the selfe same fashion
Her lips reply'd: And how can these things be?
Hard Iustice! why he punisht, and not shee?
The Reason's easie to be riddl'd out;
Hers was the voyce of Wonder; His, of doubt:
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