Religion
Book IV, 50: On Dreames
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book IV
Religion
Who dreams a Sin, & not his dreams forbid it
An entertainment, sins, as if he did it;
Which if thy slumbring Soule could not prevent,
Th'art safe, if thou hast dreamd thou didst repent.
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