Sions Elegies: Threnodia I, Eleg. 8

HAdst thou (Ierusalem) O, had thy heart
Beene loyall to his love, whose once thou wert,
O, had the beames of thy unvailed eye
Continu'd pure; hadst thou beene nice, to try
New pleasures, thus thy Glory ne're had wasted,
Thy Walls, till now, like thy Reproch, had lasted:
Thy Lovers, whose false beauties did entice thee,
Have seene thee naked, and doe now despise thee;
Drunke with thy wanton pleasures, they are fled,
And scorne the bountie of thy loathed bed;
Lest to thy guilt (the servant of thy sin)
Thou sham'st to show, what once, thou gloriedst i.