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1Come, my dear
pledges1
of our constant loves:2Come look upon these pretty, innocent doves!
3
See how they swallow orient pearls like peas:2
4A
cordial3
which our greatest faintings ease;5And with their lives
ere4
with these pearls they’ll part:6So treasure sacred truths within your heart.
7Though tyrant
lapidaries5
show their spite,8Your graces, like these pearls, will shine more bright.
9Despair not, though you at their mercy lie:
10Your
virtues6
live, although your bodies die.11Then, if you will in glory live above,
12Like these white doves, those blesséd unions love;
13But shun those people which are like those swine
14Which at God’s word and minister’s
repine7
:15Throw them the choicest orient pearls you have,
16They’ll trample’m in the dirt and
ramp8
and rave;17And when you think their malice at an end,
18If God restrain not, they’ll your bowels
rend9
.19Of these,
the boar God’s vineyards10
that11
destroy20And with their filth his sacred
fane12
annoy.21
So mad Antiochus the temple stained13
;22Even so
our janizaries Paul’s prophaned14
,23Making the church a stable and a
stews15
24The while
imprisoning nobles in the mews16
.25The greatest miracle our Savior wrought
26Was when he
scourged17
out those which sold and bought18
.