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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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EPIGRAM 4.

[Lord shall we grumble, when thy flames do scourge us?]

Lord shall we grumble, when thy flames do scourge us?
Our sinnes breath fire; that fire returnes to purge us:
Lord, what an Alchymist art thou, whose skill
Transmutes to perfect good, from perfect ill!
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