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 171
being loosd.Seeds of Difeafes in the Body lurk,Still growing inward as for Death they work.What Numbers has the deep-mouthdSea devocrd!What Numbers fall beneath the murdring SwordlWhat dreadful Kavock, by divine Command,The Plague has made throughout a guilt]/ Land!Nor Sex, nor Age, nor Strenirtli,… … SnufF not your Candle down too low,The more its trlmmd the lefs twill fliev/;So of vour Bodies be not nice ■You may, you know, be cyerrvvife, [ 1^9 JH I E H O G L Y P H I C K IV. Nature her own Docin. TH E Candle too much fnufFd, will lofeMuch of its Light, which weakly grows^Endangerd too by evjy…
Emblems -- Early works to 1800 · Emblem books, English -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century · Emblem books -- Great Britain -- England -- 18th century
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