These tortures, moreover, are aimed with sadistic precision to fall "upon the tendrest parts" (l. The poem "Confession" laments that No scrue, no piercer can Into a piece of timber work and winde, As Gods afflictions into man, When he a torture hath design'd. It concludes, moreover, with a statement of the uniqueness of his suffering that emerges via the chilling syntax of threat: "Onely let others say, when I am dead, / Never was grief like mine." (1) The volume has five poems entitled "Affliction" the speaker of "Affliction (IV)" complains that he is "Broken in pieces all asunder," and "tortur'd in the space / Betwixt this world and that of grace" (ll. "The Sacrifice" is the extended complaint of a god who suffers horribly at the hands of his creatures. Like most early modern religious verse, The Temple expends a lot of verbal energy expressing various kinds of physical and emotional suffering.
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