Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death
Author
Donne, John, 1572-1631.
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London :: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street,
1633.
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"Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69225.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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XII.

Father, part of his double interest Unto thy kingdome, thy Sonne gives to mee, His joynture in the knottie Trinitie, Hee keepes, and gives to me his deaths conquest, This Lambe, whose death, with life the world hath blest, Was from the worlds beginning slaine, and he Hath made two Wills, which with the Legacie

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Of his and thy kingdome, doe thy Sonnes invest, Yet such are these laws, that men argue yet Whether a man those statutes can fulfill; None doth, but thy all-healing grace and Spirit, Revive againe what law and letter kill, Thy lawes abridgement, and thy last command Is all but love; Oh let this last Will stand!
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