Religion
A Meditation on a meane.
From Divine Raptures (1646)
Religion
LOrd in excesse I see there often lies
Great dangers, and in wants great miseries:
Send me a meane, doe thou my wayes preserve,
For I may surfet Lord, as well as starve.
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