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Divine Fancies

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

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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88. On Israel.

Had Israel, in her want but truely humbled,
Isr'el had prayd, & grond to heav'n; not grumbled:
But Isr'el wanted food: Isr'els complaint
Could not be fervent, Isr'el being saint:
Isr'el gets food: Now Isr'el is so full,
That her Devotion, and her Zeale is dull:
Lord when art thou in season? When's the time,
To doe thee service? When's our Zeale in prime?

'Tis alwayes either not full ripe or wasting:
We can not serve our God nor Full nor Fasting.