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Divine Fancies

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

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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26. On the Boxe of Oyntment.

It is no wonder, he, above the rest,
Whom thirty pieces tempted to betray
The Lord of Glory to his death, profest
The Boxe of Oyntment was but cast away:
He that dare murther at so small a cost,
May eas'ly thinke the charge in Buriall, lost.