Religion
Book IV, 101: On a waking Conscience
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book IV
Religion
There is a kind of Conscience some men keepe,
Is like a Member that's benumb'd with sleepe;
Which, as it gathers Blood, and wakes agen,
It shoots, and pricks, and feeles as big as ten.
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