A Wounded Conscience, Who Can Beare?
Salues, Sores doe cure; and Medicines, Maladies:
Friendship, Oppression; Wisedome , poore Estate :
Fauour, Restraint; and Time, Captiuities ;
Good life, Reproch , and louing Manners, Hate:
But, these , nor ought else, that are blest , or best ,
(except the Highest grace ) haue pow'r to cure
A wounded spirit (with Sadnesse still opprest)
but It doth Death out-Ilue, and Hell out-dure.
Were our Meate, Manna; our Weedes, Salomons;
Monarches , our Friends ; and Eden , our Free-hold
Our Guardes, Goliahs , our Seates , highst Thrones ,
our Houses Siluer , hung with Pearle and Gold
All these, and all what else can Sense delight
Doe rather kill , than cure a wounded Spirit .
Friendship, Oppression; Wisedome , poore Estate :
Fauour, Restraint; and Time, Captiuities ;
Good life, Reproch , and louing Manners, Hate:
But, these , nor ought else, that are blest , or best ,
(except the Highest grace ) haue pow'r to cure
A wounded spirit (with Sadnesse still opprest)
but It doth Death out-Ilue, and Hell out-dure.
Were our Meate, Manna; our Weedes, Salomons;
Monarches , our Friends ; and Eden , our Free-hold
Our Guardes, Goliahs , our Seates , highst Thrones ,
our Houses Siluer , hung with Pearle and Gold
All these, and all what else can Sense delight
Doe rather kill , than cure a wounded Spirit .
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