Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed for Alex. Hogg · leaf 242
chance to fill my veins With flattring warmth, and flafh of courtly fire.My foul can take a pleafure in her pains :My lofty flrutting fleps difdain to tire ;My antic knees can turn upon the hingesOf compliment, and fcrue a thoufand cringes. 4-But when I come to thee, my God, that art The royal mine… … Piabn-i; 5- TAiis: lef me still aitenJ mv heaiTilv Giurle.That m his fTqv.^ mvForfstefis nmvmt shdt Book IV. EMBLEMS. 155 5-So when the ftreams of fwift-foot Rhine convey Her upland riches to the Belgic fhore.The idle veflel Aides the watry way. Without the blaft, or tug, of wind or oar :Her…
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