Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed for Alex. Hogg · leaf 192
I difTolve in fteams, and reek to death 1Thefe narrow fluices of my dribbling eyesAre much too ftrait for thofe quick fprings that rife.And hourly fill my temples to the top; 1 Cannot fhed for evry fm a drop ; Great Builder of mankind, why haft thou fentSuch fwelling floods, and made fo fmall a… … Jer.g.i./V fAaf mine£ve.y. likjplotintauis,w~vuld I^cfiftTo s-treitm ivith Tear-^-projixrrtiCTLcl to mv Sin . BooKlir. EMBLEMS. 125 O thou that didft, with hopeful joy, entombMe thrice three moons in thy Jaboridus womb,And then, with joyful pain, broughtfl forth a Ton,.What, worth thy labor, has…
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