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’Tis not to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast failed: ’Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit; And not commit those sins thou hast bewailed. He that bewails, and not forsakes them too, Confesses rather what he means to do.
’Tis not to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast failed: ’Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit; And not commit those sins thou hast bewailed. He that bewails, and not forsakes them too, Confesses rather what he means to do.
Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
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- Francis Quarles
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- Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 540 · printed citation: Quarles · subject: SIN
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