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Wer’t possible that my ambitious sin,
Durst commit rapes upon a Cherubin,
I might have lustfull thoughts to her, of all
Earths heav’nly Quire the most Angelicall.

— Thomas Randolph

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Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes;
Her breath is the perfume of sacrifice.

First thinke, and if thy thoughts approve thy will,
Then speake, and after what thou speakst fulfill.

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Thinke that is just; 'tis not enough to doe,
Unless thy very thoughts are upright too.

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Reprove not in their wrath incensèd men,
Good councell comes cleane out of season then.
But when his fury is appeas'd and past,
He will conceive his fault and mend at last.

Poems (1638)

Earth’s not so coy as you are now.
But willingly admits the plow.
For how had man or beast been fed,
If she had kept her maiden head?

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