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Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations (1862)

Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660, Farlie, Robert, Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Pigot, Richard · London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 125

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what it hath therefrom.The fnuffe to afhes, fmoake turnes into ayre ;Lights beautys gone, which fometime was fo faire;When Death had givn his laft and fatall blow,Our foule to Heaven, our Earth to earth doth goe ;Riches and honours, which it once did love,The Soule now lothes ; and feekes to dwell… … AND GOD WILL KEEP YOU FROM SINS. EVERY SUITOR IS NOT A HEART-BREAKER. Tangor, non Frangor, ab undis.

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