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Divine Fancies

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

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13. On the three Christian Graces.

Faith.

It is a Grace, that teaches to deprave not
The Goods we have; To have the goods we have not.
Hope.
It is a Grace, that keeps th'Almighty blamelesse,
In long delay: And men (in begging) shamelesse.

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Charitie.
It is a Grace, or Art to get a Living
By selling Land; and to grow rich, by giving.