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First Line: Since sev'n sins from these our eyes
Last Line: Haste and lust that so do win me.
Subject(s): Haste; Lust; Sin


SINCE sev'n sins from these our eyes
Bar the gates of Paradyse,
Holy father, if truth's in me,
I'll abhor them everywhere,
An thou wilt but to me spare
Haste and lust that so do win me.

These in me are Nature's flaw,
These nor precept, nay, nor law
Nor your nimble speech can alter;
And when simple sorrowe might
Save me from my sinful plight,
Whim would make my lips to falter.

I have tried to foil them oft
With a Pater Noster soft,
With a Bible text to smother;
In the midst of combats fell,
Voices soothe mine ire and tell
Howe kind Nature is their mother.

'Tis not God hath giv'n me these
To augment mine enemies,
But a new Pandora sowing
With her own hand far and wide,
As a bane for human pride,
This strange falsehood in me growing.

For no saint, howe'er devout,
Firm and zealous could put out
Such a blaze of sinful fuel;
Carmelite, Celestine pure
Never could 'gainst such a lure,
Keep unbroke a law so cruel.

Do thou then as I have claimed,
Soe that, firm and unashamed,
I've a conscience clean within me,
As of old the Saints were knowne:
From the sev'n sins take alone
Haste and lust that so do win me.





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