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Quarles' emblems (1861)

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867, Rogers, W. Harry (William Harry), 1825-1873, Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver, Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905, engraver, Dundas, Judith, 1927-2008, former owner. IU-R, Leighton Son & Hodge, binders. IU-R · London : James Nisbet and Co., Berners Street · leaf 226

An illustration from Quarles' emblems, 1861, leaf 226
Turn invay mine cjcs from beholding vanity.—V<>\L^i cxix. ^:,7. How like the threads of flaxThat touch the flame, are my inflamd desires! How like to yielding wax,My soul dissolves before these wanton fires! The fire but touchd, the flame but felt. Like flax, I burn ; like wax, I melt. O how…

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