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The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library]
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

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II. Festival Hymns.
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III. Job's Curse.
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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
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V. Aurea Grana.

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1. THE FALL.

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Man was the worke of God, fram'd by His hands;
Him did the Serpent cheat, that to death's bands
He was subjected for his sin: for this was all:
He tasted good and evill by his Fall.
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[Sic apud Lactant. ii. 13: fol. Cæsenæ, 1646. Aliter in edd-recent.]


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