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_Aethiops lotus._ Act. viii. 38.

Ille niger sacris exit, quam lautus! ab undis:

Nec frustra Aethiopem nempe lavare fuit.

Mentem quam niveam piceae cutis umbra fovebit?

Tam volet et nigros sancta Columba lares.

_On the baptized Ethiopian._

Let it no longer be a forlorne hope

To wash an Ethiope:

He's washt; his gloomy skin a peacefull shade

For his white soule is made:

And now, I doubt not, the Eternall Dove

A black-fac'd house will love. CR.

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