Divine poems Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles |
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Eleg. 14.
O but the dregs of flesh and bloud! How closeThey grapple with my soule, and interpose
Her higher thoughts; which, yet but young of wing,
They cause to stoope and strike at every thing;
Passion presents before their weakned eye,
Iudgement and better reason standing by:
I must lament, Nature commands it so:
The more I strive with teares, the more they flow;
These eyes have just, nay double cause of mone,
They weepe the cōmon losse; they weep their own:
He sleepes indeed; then give me leave to weepe
Teares fully answerable to his sleepe.
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