Religion
Book III, 84: On SOPHRONIA
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book III
Religion
The chast Sophronia knowes not how to scape
Th'inevitable danger of a Rape;
Cruell Sophronia drawes her hasty knife
And would relieve her Chastity with life:
Doubtfull Sophronia knowes not what to doe,
She cannot keepe the one, and t'other too:
Sophronia's in a strait; One eye is fixt
O'th' seventh Commandment; t'other, on the sixt;
To what Extreames is poore Sophronia driven!
Is not Sophronia left at Sixe and Seaven?
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Quarles, Francis. “Book III, 84: On SOPHRONIA.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/286/.
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Quarles, Francis. “Book III, 84: On SOPHRONIA.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/286/.
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