Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · Halifax : Printed & published by Milner & Sowerby, Cheapside · leaf 156
am a mise-rable man, but a free man; free, because a man ;miserable, because a servant: in regard of mybondage, miserable; in regard of my will, inexcus-able : for my will, that was free, beslaved itself tosin, by assenting to sin; for he that comoiittetlisin, is the servant to sin. , Epig. 4. Tax… … JOB X. 9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me asthe clay ; and wilt thou bring me into dust again ? Thus from the bosom of the new-made earthPoor man was delvd, and had his unborn birth;The^same the stuft, the self-same hand doth trimHie plant that fades, the beast that dies, and him :…
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