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Divine Fancies

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

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89. On Reproofe.

Tis not enough to strive agin the Act,
Or not to doe't; we must reprove the Fact
In others too; The Sin, being once made knowne
To us, if not reprov'd, becomes our owne:
We must disswade the Vice, we scorne to follow;
We must spit out, as well as never swallow.