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PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN (TO A BASE, A TENOR, AND TWO TREBLES) by JOSEPH BEAUMONT

First Line: HOW SHALL CHRYSTALL PURER GROW?
Last Line: SWEET LAW OF HUMILITIE.
Subject(s): MARY. MOTHER OF JESUS; WOMEN IN THE BIBLE; WORSHIP; VIRGIN MARY;

HOW shall Chrystall purer grow?
What shall purge, & whiten Snow?
In this Sacred Virgin-Mother
Snow & Chrystall joyne together.
What shall Days faire gate adorne,
What shall gild ye face of Morne?
Ne'r did East so pure as Shee
Beare a Sun of Majestie.
Yet must Chrystall, yet must Snow,
Yet must th' East to clensing goe:
By no Law, but onely the
Sweet Law of Humilitie.



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