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He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it.
He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it.
Approximate author period: c. 1602 AD · renaissance
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- Dr. John Donne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1602 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Divine Poems. On the Sacrament.
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