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If Eve did err, it was for knowledge’ sake,
The fruit being fair persuaded him to fall.

— Emilia Lanier

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Greatness is no sure frame to build upon,
No worldly treasure can assure that place;
God makes both even, the Cottage with the Throne.

You came not in the world without our pain,
Make that a bar against your cruelty;
Your fault being greater, why should you disdain
Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)

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