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PAINE AND PLEASURE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: God suffers not his saints, and servants deere
Last Line: Gives them by turnes their grief and jollitie.
Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery


God suffers not His Saints, and Servants deere,
To have continuall paine, or pleasure here:
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turnes their grief and jollitie.





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