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What weaker breast, Since Adam’s armour failed, dares warrant his? That, made by God of all his creatures best, Straight made himself the worst of all the rest: If any strength we have, it is to ill; But all the good is God’s, both power and will; The dead man cannot rise, though he himself may kill.
What weaker breast, Since Adam’s armour failed, dares warrant his? That, made by God of all his creatures best, Straight made himself the worst of all the rest: If any strength we have, it is to ill; But all the good is God’s, both power and will; The dead man cannot rise, though he himself may kill.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Giles Fletcher (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 661 · printed citation: Giles Fletcher · subject: WEAKNESS
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