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The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich

R. C.

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When too much zeal doth fire devotion, Love is not love, but superstition: Even so in civil duties, when we come Too oft, we are not kind, but troublesome. Yet as the first is not idolatry, So is the last but grieved industry: And such was mine, whose strife to honour you By overplus, hath rob’d you of your due.

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