Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · Halifax : Printed & published by Milner & Sowerby, Cheapside · leaf 236
en I touch thee, I am chaste ; whenI receive thee, I am a virgin : O most sweet Jesu,Thy embraces defile not, but cleanse ; thy attrac-tion polluteth not, but sanctifieth: O Jesu, thefountian of universal sweetness, pardon me that Ibelieved so late, that so much sweetness is in thyembraces. Epig.… … CANTICLKS III. 1. By night on my bed I soupht him whom my soulloveth ? I sought Lim, but I found him not. The learned Cjmic having lost the way To honest men, did, in the height of day, By taper-light, divide his steps about The peopkd streets, to find this dainty out; But faild : the Cjniic…
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