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Divine Fancies

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

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13. On the Hypocrite.

Hee's like a Bullrush; seems so smooth, that not
The eye of Cato can discry a knot:
Pill out the Barke, and strip his smoother skin,
And thou shalt find him spungie, all within:
His browes are alwayes ponderous as Lead,
He ever droopes, and hangs his velvet head:
He washes often; but, if thou enquire
Into his depth, his rootes are fixt in myre.