Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man (1736)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C Hitch, S. Ballard, J. Batley, and J. Wood, S. Birt, A. Ward, and J Clarke in Duck Lane · leaf 376
can but only raileAnd blaze a while, and then away :There is no folftice in thy dayThe midnight glory liesBetwixt th* extrc.imsOf right,A glory foird with Ihame, and fooid with falfe delight. Ba^ Hieroglyph. XII. S^S Hajt thoti cVnnhed tip to the full age of thy fewdays^. look back^wardSy and thou… … jep.ig;^2> 7i the middle-aged. Thou that art prancing on the lufty noonGf thy full age, boaft not thy fdf too foon 2Convert that breath to wail thy fickle ftate 5Take heed, thoult brag too foon, or boaft too late. 3^4 Hieroglyph, XIH.-
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