Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham · leaf 199
that the time of our life isnothing but a passage to death. S. Greg. Lib. ix. Cap. Ixiv. 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.… … 193 DEUT. XXXII. 29. O that men were wise, that they understood this,that they ivould consider their latter end ! ILESH. 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? 194…
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