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Petrarchs seven penitentiall psalms

paraphrastically translated: With other Philosophicall Poems, and a Hymne to Christ vpon the Crosse. Written by George Chapman

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Of Man.

Man is so soueraigne and diuine a state,
That not contracted and elaborate,
The world he beares about with him alone,
But euen the Maker makes his breast his throne.