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Divine Fancies

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

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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9. On Repentance.

Tis not, to Cry God mercy, or to sit
And droope; or to confesse, that thou hast faild;
Tis, to bewaile the sinns, thou didst commit,
And not commit those sinns, thou hast bewaild:
He that bewailes, and not forsakes them too,
Confesses, rather, what he meanes to doe.