IDENTILIN$$ F16600C/HSMin/1639(CtY,MH)\p. 337/TJS/mf/Pr8-15-91/c:TJS/o(MH)/5-23-92 [see notes]
166.00C.0HE %XI#X.
166.00C.001 I%+F poysons minerals, and if that tree,
166.00C.002 Whose fruit threw death on (else immortall) us,
166.00C.003 If lecherous goats, if serpents envious
166.00C.004 Cannot be damn'd, alas, why should I be?
166.00C.005 Why should intent or reason, borne in me,
166.00C.006 Make sinnes, else equall, in me more hainous?
166.00C.007 And mercy being easie, and glorious
166.00C.008 To God; in his sterne wrath, why threatens he?
166.00C.009 But who am I, that dare dispute with thee?
166.00C.010 O God, oh! o,f(CtY)of(MH) thine onely worthy blood,
166.00C.011 And my teares, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
166.00C.012 And drowne in it my sinnes black memory;
166.00C.013 That thou remember them, some claime as debt,
166.00C.014 I thinke it mercy if thou wilt forget.
166.00C.0SS [horizontal rule]
166.00C.0$$ %1no ind; IDENTILIN, cont.: P:RT\o(C:Keynes B.4.8[1];B.4.7[2])\5-?-03\C:JSC\10-9-03: no press variants found%2