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Emblems, divine and moral (1812)

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham · leaf 271

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om shall I ask? who will tell my belovedthat I am sick of love? GuLiEL. in Cap. v. Cant.I live, but not I: it is my beloved that livethin me: I love, myself, not with my o\m love, butwith the love of my beloved that loveth me: Ilove not myself in myself, but myself in him, andhim in me. Epic.… … CANTICLES II. 5. &lafj me tvith flowers, and comfort me with apples,for I am sick of love, O TYRANT love! how doth thy sovreign powrSubject poor souls to thy imperious thrall! They say, thy cups composd of sweet and sour;They say, thy diets honey mixd with gallj How comes it then to pass, these…

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