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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
1881T'ecclipse your brightnes: heauen tooke your part,
1883Haue her vnworthy found to
shine agen:
1884Your Fairies therefore on their knees intreat,
1885Shee may be puld out from the firmament,
1886Where
shee was plac'd to glitter.
1888Strike those whom we haue lou'd? albeit the children,
1890Set daggers to it, we could be content
1891To chide, not beat them, (might we vse our will,)
1892Our hand was made to saue, but not to kill.
1895
Fid.
The fall of one, like multitudes on yee,
1896Makes all the re
st, (of footing) be more nyce:
1899Ten thousand to like danger it doth arme:
1900All mercy in a Prince, makes vile the
state,
1903But are the impartiall beame between both scales;
1904Yet if we needs mu
st bow, we would incline
1905To that where mercy lies, that scale's diuine:
1907Nay (which is more) our peoples: for their good,
1908We mu
st the Surgeon play, and let out blood.
1910But falling by Luciferan insolence,
1911With him a Con
stellation drops from thence.
1914That doing this worke, we wi
sh we could not write.
1916Not one arm'd man among
st vs? you might now
1917Be all old-beaten souldiers: truth I thanke ye;
1918If I were now a jewel worth the
stealing,
1919Two theeues might bind you all.
Omn.
With much adoe.
Titan.