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| That all, (w.ch always is all every where [21] |
| Which cannot sinne, and yet all sinnes must beare |
| Which cannot dye, yet cannot chuse but dye). |
| Loe!, Faythfull Virgin, yeelds himselfe to lye |
| In prison in thy womb. And though hee there |
| Can take no Sinne, nor thou giue; hee will weare |
| (Taken from thence) flesh wch deaths force may try. |
| E're by the Spheres time was begotten*, thou |
| Wast in his mind who is thy sonne and brother |
| Whome thou conceaudst conceau'd. yea thou art now |
| Thy Makers maker, and thy ffathers Mother |
| Th'hast light in darke, and shutst in little roome |
| Im.ensity cloysterd in thy deare Womb. |
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| 3 Natiuity |
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| Im̄ensity cloysterd in thy deare womb |
| Now leaues his wellbelou'd emprisonment. |
| There hath hee made himselfe, to his intent, |
| Weake enough now into the world to come. |
| But ô, for Thee, for him, hath the Inne no roome? |
| Yet lay him in this Stall, and from th'Orient |
| Starrs and Wisemen shall trauell to present.prevent. |
| Th'effect of Herods dire and* generall doome. |
| Seest thou, my Soule with thy fayths eyes how hee |
| (Who fills all places, yet none holds him) doth lye? |
| Was not his pitty towards thee wondrous high |
| That would haue neede to bee pittyed of thee? |
| Kisse him, and with him into Egipt goe |
| With his kind Mother who pertakes thy woe
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[CW: 4 With his___] |