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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
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How (reuerend Como) then?
230You know that all the springs in Fairie land
231Ran once to one head: from that head, to vs:
232The mountaine and the valley paid vs fruit;
233The field her corne, the countrey felt no heat
235And Charitie tooke away. We
stept not forth
236But with a god like adoration
237All knees bowed low vnto vs: why was this?
238Why were our gardens Eden? why our bowers
241Was not made common: therefore was not vile;
242It was because in the great Prophets Phanes
243And hallowed Temples, we were Chori
sters:
249But now our very graues
251The monumentall marble Vrnes of bodies
252(Laid to re
st long agoe) vnreuerently
253Are turned to troughes of water now for jades:
255Slept on the cold hard pillowes of the earth,
256Are emptied now, and chang'd to drinking roomes,
258
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What's therefore to be done?
260This
shall be done: They hunted vs like wolues,
261Out of their Fairie forre
sts, whipt vs away
262(As vagabonds) mockt vs, and said our fall
263Could not be dangerous, because we bore
264Our gods vpon our backes: now mu
st we whip them,
But