Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham · leaf 243
thee, Iam clean; when 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, thefountain of universal sweetness, pardon me that Ibelieved so late, that so much sweetness is in… … 237 CANTICLES III. 1. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soulloveth; I sought him, but I found him not. 1 HE learned Cynic having lost the way To honest men, did, in the height of day, By taper-light, divide his steps about The peopled streets, to find this dainty out; But faild: the Cynic…
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