Dia Poemata Poetick Feet Standing Upon Holy Ground: Or, Verses on certain Texts of Scripture. With Epigrams, &c. By E. E. [i.e. Edmund Elys] |
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Homo Lapsus.
She tooke of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave
also to her husband with her, and he did eat.
Gen. 3. 6.
The Universe at once th' Old Serpent Stung:
A World of Mischief in a womans Tongue.
She Tempts her Husband: and her Noisome Breath
Blasts Him, and His Posterity to Death.
And he did Eat (by th Counsell of a wife)
Not to Sustain, but to Destroy His Life.
But, ah! He Err'd not thus alone: He Fell
On Us so hard, He prest Us down to Hell:
Where we had stay'd, but that th' Jesus of Men
Went down Himselfe to fetch Us up agen.
His Mouth was made our Slaughter-House: and we,
Being in His Loins, had there our Destinie:
His Jawes Crush his own Happinesse; and Ours:
We Surfeit too at that which He Devours.
Oh! we are Sick to Death; can't Eased be
But by the Fruit, Born on a better Tree,
Which is our Living Food: yea, (strange! yet true)
'Tis both our Physick, and Physitian too.
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