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Divine Fancies

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

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30. On Idolatry.

Can common madnes find a thing, that's more
Repugnant to the very Lawes of Nature;
That the Creators Image should adore
The senslesse Image of a sensuall creature!
If such be Gods; if such our helpers be,
O, what are Men! How more then Beasts are we!