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Divine Fancies

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

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79. On the receiving of the Lords Supper.

Men take the Sacred Seales of their Salvation,
As some doe Physick, not for health, but fashion;
The Day preceding, and the following Day,
There's none so strict; none so reformd as they:
They curb the fury of their wanton Ryot,
And call their Surfeits to a stricter Dyet:
The Time expyr'd, the first Assault that happs,
Prevailes, and strikes them to a worse Relaps;

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Like Doggs to vomits they returne agin,
As though th'ad past a Patent now to sin:
Let such Day-Christians, on the very toppe
Of all their mirth, remember Iudas Soppe.