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Divine Fancies

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

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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78. To Rhemvs .

Thy Conscience tels thee, that to make debate
Twixt Prince and People; to subvert a State;
To violate a Truce; to murther Kings
Are lawfull; nay, are meritorious things:
Thou hast a Freedome more then we, wherein
To doe against thy Conscience, and not sin.