The beast of reason
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Once in a season, beasts too taste of love. Only the beast of reason is its slave, and in that folly drudges all the year.
1771 text
“Once in a season, beasts too taste of love: Only the beast of reason is its slave, And in that folly drudges all the year.”
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 44 in the 1771 Works. Genesis 6:5.
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