Quarles - PR3652 D58 1669

Where ra i!ht ( ·in the deptl1 cf meditation) She well difcerns, witheyes of cbntemptatioA, The glory ofGod, in his ~mpcrial Seat, Full flrong in .Might, in MaJefty complear, Where troops of Powers~ Vertue1, Cherubims, Angels, ,4r~ba.ngtls, Saints, and Seraphims, , Arc chauntingprttiR1 ro their Heavcn.ly King, Whet~ ~allelujah taey for ever fing. · ' 'Qolar Inferni. l - [ ~ · ] ' LEt Poets plea(e to torture rantal111, Lot grip;~g Vulcur~s gnawPrs,methtus,· · l– And let poor lXlott turn hts endlefs wheel, · Let N,emep1 torment with \vhips of ftccl ; . They far ceme fhorc, t'cxprefs the rains of thofe . That rage in Hell, enwrapt in endlcfs woes : . Where tpne no end, and plagueJ find no exemptlO.M. ; Where crjeJ adqnit no help, nor plact tedemption; · Where fire lacks n~ .#ame, the flame ·nobeat, . . . To rpake their torment1 !harp, and plagues complete; Where wretched Souls to tqrtureJ bound !hal\ be, .. 75 Serving aworld of years; and not be "Rrce ; ~ Where nothing's heard but yeflr, and.fudden criu; • Whde Jirt. ttever fla.kes, nor wo:rm c'r dies. · But where thi$ Iilell is plac'd ( my Mrife ) ftop rhete ; ~ord, !hewm~ ~~at it i.~, hut never ~here• .;M.ors tua'"' • y .- . ( I~) , , CAn he be fair, tl1at wi.thers at a blafi ? . Or he be firo11g, that aiery breath can cat\: f ,,, Can he be wife, that knows not ~1ow to live ? · 9r he b'4 ric~, t.hat ~0rhing hath to give ?. •

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