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THESAURO-PHULAKION[Greek]: or, A treasury of divine raptures

Consisting of Serious Observations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams. Alphabetically rank'd and fil'd by a Private Chaplain to the Illustrious and Renowned Lady Urania The Divine and Heavenly Muse. The first part [by Nicholas Billingsley]

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136. On Cinnamon.

Arabia sends us Spicy Cinnamon,
Our fragrant graces flow from Christ alone;
Sweet-wood yields not so redolent a smell
As do those vertues, which in Christ Spouse dwell.
Legitur Exod. 30. 23. and Cant. 4. 14. Ducamus a canna vel a cantignum & nama dulce.