Fons Lachrymarum or a fountain of tears: From whence doth flow Englands Complaint, Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphras'd with Divine Meditations and an elegy Upon that Son of Valor Sir Charles Lucas. Written by John Quarles |
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Meditat. 44.
If thou wouldst go to Heav'n, my Soul, go on,(Not as the sluggard of wise Solomon,)
Be not so timerous as he, to say,
There is a Lyon lurking in the way:
Go on with courage, let the way delight thee,
Then shall the Lyon grumble, and not bite the{e}.
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