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 145
ancy ; he has found the Cheat. Grandeur and Riches, and fuch collly Things,He puits unenvyd to the Great and Kings,With all the Guilt and Trouble them attend.With thefe hell not his better Trcafures blend.Sorrows r.nd Cares, in cvry Thing he feeb,And evry Objecl ha? its lurking Ills,Temptations… … O with what Diligence and CareThcic dainty Bodies we repair !\ et a few Years when come and gone, Grim Death will flrip us Skin from Bone, [ 143 1 E M B L E M VIIL Alan is D cat us Prifiner, SEE for what End ue feed and clothe,Cherilh and pamper, pleafe and footheThefe Bodies made of Clay ;Deaths…
Emblems -- Early works to 1800 · Emblem books, English -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century · Emblem books -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century
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