Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed for Alex. Hogg · leaf 252
How truly bad, how feeming good. Are all the laws of flefh and blood ! 3- O wretched ftate of men.The height of whofe ambition is to borrow What muft be paid againWith griping intreft of the next days forrowf How wild his thoughts ! how apt to range ! How apt to vary ! apt to change ! . ^Hov/… … Prabniig .37. O ticrn atfin- rrit/tc Eyfs .nor fett/i*- rtun^4nt{ TFitrtfm //trr f/tr tr t/ieu iWfe Trcii/i . Book IV. EMBLEMS. i6i 5- The common food he dothSuftain his foul-tormenting thoughts withal. Is honey in his mouthTo-night, and in his heart to-morrow gall j Tis oftentimes, within an hour.…
Emblems
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