M. Legouis in a recent French version has left it ambiguous:

Mais quand j'ai vu que tu voyais mon coeur

Et savais mes pensées au dela du savoir d'un ange.

The MS. reading, 14 'but an Angel', heightens the antithesis.

ll. 27-8. _Perchance as torches which must ready bee

Men light and put out._

'If it' (i.e. a torch) 'have _never_ been _lighted_, it does not

easily take light, but it must be _bruised_ and _beaten_ first; if

it have been lighted and put out, though it cannot take fire _of it

self_, yet it does easily conceive fire, if it be presented within any

convenient distance.' _Sermons_ 50. 36. 332.

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