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Emblems, divine and moral (1812)

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham · leaf 275

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r, wherein the soul relisheth no earthlythings, but only savoureth divine nourislmient! S. Bern. Serm. li. in Cant.By flowers, understand faith; by fruit, goodworks. As the flower or blossom is before thefruit, so is faith before good works: so neither isthe fruit without the flower, nor good works… … 269 CANTICLES II. 16. 3Iy beloved is mine, and I am his; he feedethamong the lilies. JLen like two little bank-dividing brooks,That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, And having rangd and searchd a thousand nooks,Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames,Where in a greater current they…

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