Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · Halifax : Printed & published by Milner & Sowerby, Cheapside · leaf 108
(being once possessed thereof) nonecan take from thee: whereto all pleasure, beingcompared, is torment, all joy is grief, sweet thingsare bitter, all glory is baseness, and all delectablethings are despicable. S. Bern. Joy, in a changeable subject, must necessarilychange as the subject changeth.… … VetUurum exhorretco diem. ISAIAH. X. 3. What will ye do in the day of your visitation ? towhom will ye flee for help ? and where will ye leaveyour glory ? Is this that jolly god, whose Cyprian bow Has shot so many flaming darts,And made so many wounded beauties go Sadly perplexd with whirapring…
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