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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

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EPIGRAM 7.

[Mechanick soule; thou must not only doe]

Mechanick soule; thou must not only doe
With Martha; but, with Mary, ponder too:
Happy's that house, where these faire sisters vary;
But most, when Martha's reconcil'd to Mary.