Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · Halifax : Printed & published by Milner & Sowerby, Cheapside · leaf 192
life is no-thing but a passage to death. S. Greg. Lib. ix. Cap. kiv. in Job. As moderate afflictions bring tears, so immode-rate take away tears; insomuch that sorrow be-cometh no sorrow, which swallowing up the mindof the afflicted, taketh away the sense of theaffliction. Epig. 13. Fearst thou to… … DECT. xxxn. 29. O that men were wise, that they understood this,that they woold consider their latter end! FLE9H. SPIRIT. Fl. What means my sisters eye so oft to passThrough the long entry of that optic glass ?Tell me; what secret virtue doth inviteThy wrinkled eye to such unknown delight ? 190…
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