Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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On Pride. |
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On Pride.
The proud man looks that ev'ry one should shewA Reverence to him, though none they owe.
I'll value such, as we do coyn, set forth
Just what they go for, rather than their worth.
Pride unto Reason seemeth ever strange;
Is Reason absent? there 'tis Pride doth range.
And then for Reason, there is none beside
That is so highly opposite to Pride:
For Reason maketh Art Dame Nature's ape,
And Pride turns Nature out of Nature's shape.
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