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Eleg. 8.

Hadst thou (Ierusalem) O, had thy heart
Beene loyall to his love, whose once thou wert,
O, had the beames of thy unvailed eye
Continu'd pure; hadst thou beene nice, to try
New pleasures, thus thy Glory ne're had wasted,
Thy Walls, till now, like thy Reproch, had lasted.
Thy Lovers, whose false beauties did entice thee,
Have seene thee naked, and doe now despise thee;
Drunke with thy wanton pleasures, they are fled,
And scorne the bountie of thy loathed bed;
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Lest to thy guilt (the servant of thy sin)
Thou sham'st to show, what once, thou gloriedst in?
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