Quarles' emblems, divine and moral- together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800) (14725035186)

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Title: Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man

Year: 1800 (1800s)

Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644

Subjects: Emblems

Publisher: London : Printed for Alex. Hogg

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ne)That boldly f *dopts each houfe he views, his own;Makes evry purle his chequer :;: ^ ::.nd^ at pleafure.Walks forth, and taxes all the world, like Caefar;At length, by virtue of a juft command.His fides are lent to a feverer hand ;Whereon his, pafs, not fully underftood.Is taxed in a manufcript of blood ;Thus paft from town to town ; until he comeA fore repentant to his native home:Evn fo the rambling heart, that idly rovesFrom crimes to fin, and uncontrould removesFrom luft to luft, when wanton flefh invitesFrom old worn pleafures to new choice delights jAt length, corrected by the filial rodOf his offended, but his gracious God,And laftid from fins to fighs; and, by degrees,From fighs to vows, from vov/s to bended knees jFrom bended knees to a true penfive breaft;From thence to torments not by tongue expreft; •* Recakined: to cakine, is, with chymifts, to burn to a cinder.•I Dopts^ i. e, adopts, or makes his own.j Che^uer-^ 3^ e= exchequer, or treafury, 3 Returns 5 B.H ^w//T.

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Patet ^dxeri , clauditur Orbi.. Book II. EMBLEMS. - 09 Returns; and (from his finful fe!f exild) Finds a glad father, he a welcome child : O then it lives ; O then it lives involvd In fecret raptures ; pants to be diflblvd : The royal off-fpring of a fecond birth, Sets ope to heavn, and fhuts the door Lo earth •. If love-fick Jove commanded clouds fhou!dhap To rain fuch fhowrs as quickend Danaes lap : Or dogs (far kinder than their purple mafter) Should lick his fores j he laughs, nor v.ecps the fafler. If earth (heavn*s rival) dart her idle ray ; To heavn, tis wax,— and to the wo:Id, tis ca.-; If earth prefcnt delights, it fcorns to draw; But, like the jet * unrubbd, diidains thatHraA. No hope deceives it, and no doubt divides it; No grief diilurbs it, and no error guides it; No good contemns it, iind no virtue blames it; No guilt condemns it, and ivj folly fiiames it i No floth befots it, and no luli enthralls it -, No fcorn afflids it, and no pafiion galls it: It is a carknetf

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