Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Clxxvi. [144]

English poem

Clxxvi. [144]

by (1631–1705)

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“You think ’If we had been as he   whom God did so betrust, We to our cost would ne’er have lost   all for a paltry lust.’ Had you been made in Adam’s stead,   you would like things have wrought, And so into the self-same woe,   yourselves and yours have brought.

The free gift.