Religion
Book I, 48: On our Blessed Saviour
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book I
Religion
We often read our blessed Saviour wept;
But never laught, and seldome that he slept:
Ah, sure his heavy eyes did wake, d weepe
For us that sin, so oft, in Mirth, and Sleepe.
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