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Divine Fancies

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

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84. On Sophronia .

The chast Sophronia knowes not how to scape
Th'inevitable danger of a Rape;
Cruell Sophronia drawes her hasty knife
And would relieve her Chastity with life:
Doubtfull Sophronia knowes not what to doe,
She cannot keepe the one, and to'ther too:

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Sophronia's in a strait; One eyeis fixt
O'th' seventh Commandment; t'other, on the sixt;
To what Extreames is poore Sophronia driven!
Is not Sophronia left at Sixe and Seaven?