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Flamma sine Fumo

or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns]

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Peter's denial.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Peter's denial.

Angelus cecidit, licet in cælo; Adam cecidit licet in Paradiso; & Petrus cecidit licet in Scholâ Christi.

Art thou the Rock, where Christ his Church would build,
Yet when thy master fights, thou leav'st the field?
No wonder if weak buildings be cast downe
With boistrous winds, when rocks are overthrown;
Where was thy courage, when the Lamb did stand
Before the Wolf, left to his furious hand?
Wouldst hou forsake thy Saviour, swear and ban,
In all thy life thou never knewst the man?
Lord, leave me not vnto my self, lest I
Fall from the faith, and thy great name deny.

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I hear a warning-peece, the Cock doth crow,
And Peter feels his sad condition now:
He doth repent his curses, oaths, and fears,
In the sad language of his flowing tears.
Let not my fountains cease, nor tears be few;
Tears are the Angels joy, and Heavens dew.