Divine poems Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles |
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Eleg. 17.
Rebellious Iudah! Could thy flattring crimesSecure thee from the dangers of the times?
Or did thy summer Prophets ere foresay
These evills, or warn'd thee of a winters day?
Did not those sweet-lipt Oracles beguile
Thy wanton eares, with newes of Wine, and Oile?
But heaven is just: what his deepe counsell wild,
His prophets told, and Iustice hath fulfill'd:
He hath destroy'd; no secret place so voyd,
No Fort so sure, that Heaven hath not destroy'd:
Thou land of Iudah! How's thy sacred throne
Become a stage, for Heathen to trample on!
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