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A paraphrase upon the canticles

and some select hymns of the New and Old Testament, with other occasional compositions in English verse. By Samuel Woodford
  

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SPONSUS.

Sub arbore malo suscitavi te.

Sponsus.
There 'twas, under the Apple-Tree,
Where first I found, and first rais'd Thee.
Thy Mother there her Fruit disclos'd,
And there thou first didst lie expos'd,

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And hadst lain still, but that I came,
Led to Thy rescue, by my first Loves purest flame.