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Divine Fancies

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

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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21. On Church-contemners.

Those Church-contemners, that can easly waigh
The profit of a Sermon with a Play;

Whose testy stomacks can digest, as well,
A profer'd Iniury, as a Sermon-bell;
That say vnwonted Pray'rs, with the like wills,
As queazy Patients take their loathed Pills:
To what extremity would they be driven,
If God, in Iudgement, shold but give them Heauen.