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... first , proceeds from heaven Truth's errour , Wifedome's but wife infolence , And light's but darkneffe , not deriv'd from thence ; Wifdom's a straine tranfcends Morality , No vertue's abfent , Wifedome being by . Vertue , by constant ...
... first , proceeds from heaven Truth's errour , Wifedome's but wife infolence , And light's but darkneffe , not deriv'd from thence ; Wifdom's a straine tranfcends Morality , No vertue's abfent , Wifedome being by . Vertue , by constant ...
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... first , and last , That mooving all , is yet immoveable , Great without quantitie , in whofe forecast , Things paft are prefent , things to come are paft ; Swift without motion , to whose open eye , The hearts of wicked men unbrested ...
... first , and last , That mooving all , is yet immoveable , Great without quantitie , in whofe forecast , Things paft are prefent , things to come are paft ; Swift without motion , to whose open eye , The hearts of wicked men unbrested ...
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... first , the day doth faintly yeeld , And who the fecond , bafely flies the field . Man's not a law full ftearfman of his dayes , His bootleffe wish , nor haftens nor delayes : We are God's hired workmen ; he discharges Some late at ...
... first , the day doth faintly yeeld , And who the fecond , bafely flies the field . Man's not a law full ftearfman of his dayes , His bootleffe wish , nor haftens nor delayes : We are God's hired workmen ; he discharges Some late at ...
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... first she doth th ' Earth behold , And only this material world fhe views : At first her mother Earth fhe holdeth dear , And doth embrace the world , and worldly things ; She flies close by the ground , and hovers here , And mounts not ...
... first she doth th ' Earth behold , And only this material world fhe views : At first her mother Earth fhe holdeth dear , And doth embrace the world , and worldly things ; She flies close by the ground , and hovers here , And mounts not ...
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... first gave her birth , And their fad Friends lay'd her in earth : If any of them ( Reader ) were Knowne unto thee , fhed a teare , Or if thyfelfe poffeffe a gemme , As deare to thee , as this to them ; Though a stranger to this place ...
... first gave her birth , And their fad Friends lay'd her in earth : If any of them ( Reader ) were Knowne unto thee , fhed a teare , Or if thyfelfe poffeffe a gemme , As deare to thee , as this to them ; Though a stranger to this place ...
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