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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
  
  
  

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87. On Mans rebellion.

O, how perverse is Flesh and Blood! in whom
Rebellion blossomes from the very Wombe!
What Heav'n commands, how lame we are to do!
And things forbid how soone perswaded to!
We never read rebellious Israel did
Bow to strange Gods, till Israel was forbid.