Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
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Man's Infirmity.
Wise Adam fell in Paradise; the goodAngels in Heaven fell, who always stood
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Though in Christs school he was brought up so well;
David committed murther; righteous Lot
Defil'd his name with an incestuous blot:
No Oak so strong, no Cedar is so tall,
But shaken with tempestuous wind may fall;
No man so perfect is, so pure a Saint,
But in the battel he may fail and faint,
(If God prevents not:) Man, that's born to sorrow,
May safely stand to day, and fall to morrow.
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