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 17
er Adl,His black Suggeftions too we can reje£l.When eer he tempts us with delufive Wiles,Or our weak Hearts with gilded Baits beguiles*Let us not parley—for the Danger lies.And-he is fafeft who mod fwiftly flies.If we refill, he, Coward-like, will runTis by our Will alone we are undone.Let but… … Adairiy hekold thy Apple now,Pregnant ^Yith evry human Woe ;The Monfters fopn will make their Way,i\nd ^1 the \\orId rnuft be their Prey, [ 15 ] EMBLEM II. Sins Pr(^gtny. /J D AM, behold what Ills the Af pie held,^ With what a Brood of Monfrers it v/as filldWhat horrid Faces labour for a Birth,To…
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