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The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule

Set foorth by Sir William Leighton

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If Corrupt flesh prouoke thee.

Psal. 118.

Lord pearce my flesh with thy true feare,

subdue my wicked vilde desire:
I know thy iudgements are seuere,
in me Lord quench lusts burning fire:
Which sinne, God graunt all may abhore,
which is the cause of many more.