Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Cxix. [102]

English poem

Cxix. [102]

by (1631–1705)

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“You understood that what was good,   was to be followed. And that you ought that which was naught   to have relinquished. Contrariwise it was your guise   only to imitate Good men’s defects, and their neglects   who were regenerate.