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] |
The Children of Bethlehem
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The Children of Bethlehem
Vox Sanguinis.
A voice was heard in Ramab, or on high;
Fair Rachel wept, because her babes must die:
In Bethlem Rachel's buried; therefore she
Is stil'd the Mother of this Infantrie.
No voice comes sooner to the ears of God,
Or crieth louder than the voice of blood:
Herod the Fox these pretty Lambs did kill,
Who the first Martyrs were by act, not will:
In act and will I would a Martyr prove,
And give this world, to gain the world above.
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