The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
“It is too little to call man a little world, except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. Man consists of more pieces, more parts, than the world; than the world doth, nay, than the world is.”
IV. Mediscque Vocatur The physician is sent for
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
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