Francis Quarles' Emblems and : Hieroglyphics of the life of man, modernized : in four books (1773)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear’s Head, in Pater-Noster-Row · leaf 127
g : Strength with Age,decays.No folid laft-ing Happinnefs we findIn all thofe Pleaiures wliich bewitch Mankind.Thefe then rejcj^led, let us next exploreThofe Treafures which Religion has in Store,God is alone an everlafting Good,Worthy alone to be by Man purfud-Sincerely love Him, and obey his… … Our Saviours Crofs, that ciirfecl Tree !What genrous fruits it bears for me !How irratefiil is its Shadow now !It yields Repafl and Picaiiirc too. [ 125 3EMBLEM XIV. Cant. ii. 3.Christ /^f mojl delightful Shadow. WHEN the Sun darts his fcordikg BeamsDirtctly on our He...d?,We ftieker in the W oi or…
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