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Satyre III. |
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Kinde pitty chokes my spleene; brave scorn forbids |
Those teares to issue which swell my eye-lids, |
I must not laugh, nor weepe sinnes, and be wise, |
Can railing then cure these worne maladies? |
Is not our Mistresse faire Religion, |
As worthy of all our Soules devotion, |
As vertue was in the first blinded age? |
Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage |
Lusts, as earths honour was to them? Alas, |
As wee do them in meanes, shall they surpasse |
Us in the end, and shall thy fathers spirit |
Meete blinde Philosophers in heaven, whose merit |
Of strict life may be imputed faith, and heare |
Thee, whom hee taught so easie wayes and neare |
To follow, damn'd? O if thou dar'st, feare this. |
This feare great courage, and high valour is; |
Dar'st thou ayd mutinous Dutch, and dar'st thou lay |
Thee in ships woodden Sepulchers, a prey |
To leaders rage, to stormes, to shot, to dearth? |
Dar'st thou dive seas, and dungeons of the earth? |
Hast thou couragious fire to thaw the ice |
Of frozen North discoueries, and thrise |
Colder then Salamanders? like divine |
Children in th'oven, fires of Spaine, and the line, |
Whose countries limbecks to our bodies bee, |
Canst thou for gaine beare? and must every hee
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