Religion
Book I, 82: On the insaiablenesse of Mans heart
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book I
Religion
This Globe of earth ha's not the pow'r to fill
The Heart of Man, but it desirs still:
By him that seekes, the Cause is easly found;
The Heart's Triangular; The Earth is Round;
He may be full; but, never to the brim
Be filld with Earth, till earth be fill'd with him.
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