Religion
Book III, 9: On Repentance
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book III
Religion
Tis not, to Cry God mercy, or to sit
And droope; or to confesse, that thou hast faild;
Tis, to bewaile the sinnes, thou didst commit,
And not commit those sinnes, thou hast bewaild:
He that bewailes, and not forsakes them too,
Confesses, rather, what he meanes to doe.
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