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Divine Fancies

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

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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23. On three dayes and nights.

Thou knowst our dying Saviour did repose
On Friday; On the Sabbath, he arose;
Tell me, by what account can he be said
To lodge three dayes and nights among the dead?
He dyde for all the Word: what wanted here,
Was full supply'd in t'other Hemisphere.