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Divine Fancies

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

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59. On my selfe.

If Righteous Ely was not vengeance-free,
How shall I scape! He was a Saint, to me:
Nay, Lord, how would my heart & comfort faile,
If I should weigh thy Mercies in our Scale!