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 31
d Slaughter thrivea.Some vaunt their Peaigree and noble Eirth,And yet no greater Scoundrels are on Earth.Some laugh to fee how others play the Fool,Yet their own Names may read upon th« Roll.Here Mirth and Jvy in evry Shape abound.And Noife and Riot merrily go round :Yet Death, they know, each Step… … The World is always turning round,No ftable Footing on its found ;Time, with his Scytlie and Hour-glafs,Shews us how Aviftly all Things pafs. [ 29 ]EMBLEM IX. The World daily changing. IF Time but give the World a Spurn,Round withihe World we Wieiches turn 5AVe have no liable Footing here.Our…
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