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Divine Fancies

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

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8. On Sin.

How, how am I deceiv'd! I thought my bed
Had entertaind a faire, a beauteous Bride:
O, how were my beleeving thoughts misled
To a false Beauty, lying by my side!
Sweet were her Kisses, full of choyce delight;
My Fancy found no differance in the night:
I thought they were true Ioyes, that thus had led
My darkned Soule, But they were false Alarmes;
I thought I'd had faire Rachel in my Bed,
But I had bleare-ey'd Leah in my armes:
How seeming sweet is Sin, whē cloathd with Night;
But, when discover'd, what a loathd delight!