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Divine Fancies

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

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83. On pious Vses.

They that, in life, oppresse, and then bequeath
Their Goods to pious uses at their death,
Are like those Drunkards, being layd to sleepe,
That belch and vomit what they cannot keepe:
To Gods and Mans acceptance, I presume
Their severall Actions send the like perfume.