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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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