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Divine Fancies

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

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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67. On Man.

At our Creation, but the Word was said,
And we were made:
No sooner were, but our false hearts did swell
With Pride, and fell:
How slight is Man! At what an easie cost
Hee's made and lost!