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Him first to love, great right and reason is, Who first to us our life and being gave, And after, when we fared had amiss, Us wretches from the second death did save; And last, the Food of Life, which now we have, Even He Himself, in His dear Sacrament, To feed our hungry souls, unto us lent. Then next to love our brethren, that were made Of that self-mould, and that self-Maker’s hand.
Him first to love, great right and reason is, Who first to us our life and being gave, And after, when we fared had amiss, Us wretches from the second death did save; And last, the Food of Life, which now we have, Even He Himself, in His dear Sacrament, To feed our hungry souls, unto us lent. Then next to love our brethren, that were made Of that self-mould, and that self-Maker’s hand.
Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
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- Edmund Spenser
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- Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 583 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: SUPPER, THE LORD’S
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