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Sonnet. 9.
[Since cursed fates haue fatally decreed]
Since cursed fates haue fatally decreedTo tosse and tumble harmelesse Innocence:
And all the crue of hels abortiue breed
Haue glutted Enuies maw, by lawes defence:
Yet God whose knowledge knows the least offence,
Who all things sees, with his all-searching eye.
Doth with his glorious great omnipotence,
Right wronged wrongs, & heares his seruants cry.
His mercie's not immur'd within the sky,
But freely he doth powre it downe on earth:
He with afflictions scourge his sonnes doth try,
And when he pleases, turnes their mone to mirth,
And though man liues in care, and dies in sorrow,
A heauy euening brings a ioyfull morrow.
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