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. 47.
What was the reason Peter wept? Nay whyDid he go out and weep so bitterly?
Could he not weep within? Did he not dare
Before the wicked, to disburse a tear?
By this example, Peter makes it known
Who truly grieves, desires to grieve alone.
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