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Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800)

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed for Alex. Hogg · leaf 31

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death in her dcftrudive fmiles ;She hugs the foul (he hates ; and there does proveThe veryfl; tyrant, where (lie vows to love ;And is a ferpent moft, when moft (he feems a dove. 7-Thrice happy he, whofe nobler thoughts defpife To make an objeft of fo eafy gains ;Thrice happy he, who fcorns fo poor… … iris -reT tLttu- Orlil Book I. EMBLEMS. ,7 S. AUGUST, lib. ConfefT. 0 you that dote upon this world, for what viElory doye^ fight ? Your hopes can be crowned with no greaterreward than the world can give; and what is theworld, but a brittle thing full of dangers, wherein wetravel from lefftr to…

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