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For, as it is his fame, now his soul is here,
So, in the form thereof his bodie's there,
And if, fair soul, not with first Innocents
Thy station be, but with the Penitents
(And who shall dare to ask then when I am
Dy'd scarlet in the blood of that pure Lamb,
Whether that colour, which is scarlet then,
Were black or white before in eies of men?)
When thou remembrest what sins thou didst find
Amongst those many friends now left behind,
And seest such sinners as they are, with thee
Got thither by repentance, let it be
Thy wish to wish all there, to wish them clean;
Wish him a David, her a Magdalen.
The Annuntiation and Passion.
Tamely frail flesh, abstain to day;
My soul eates twice, Christ hither and away,
She sees him man, so like God made in this,
That of them both a circle embleme is,
Whose first and last concurr; this doubtful day
Of feast or fast, Christ came, and went away.
She sees him nothing twice at once, who 'is all;
She sees a Cedar plant it self, and fall.
Her Maker put to making, and the head
Of life, at once, not yet alive, and dead;
She sees at once, the Virgin mother stay
Reclus'd at home, Publique at Golgotha.
Sad and rejoyc'd shee's seen at once, and seen
At almost fifty, and at scarce fifteen
At once a son is promis'd her, and gone,
Gabriel gives Christ to her, He her to Iohn:

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