Quarles' emblems, divine and moral- together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800) (14745702634)

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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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a fwain ; Or if thy vows be paft, and Hymens bands Have ceremonyd your unequal hands. Annul, at leaft avoid, thy lawlefs act With infufficiency, or precontract: Or if the act be good, yet mayit thou plead A fecond freedom ; for the flefh is dead. * Denver \ i, e, jointure, or portion. NAZIANZ. 2i6 EMBLEMS. Book V. NAZI AN Z. Orat. xvi. How I am joined to this body^ I know not; which^when it is healthful^ provoketh 7ne to war; and^ beingdamaged by war^ affecteth me %vith grief: which Iboth love as a fellow -ferv ant ^ and hate as an utterene?ny. It is a pleafani foe^ and a perfidious friend.O Jirange cmjunMon end aVenation I what. I fear, Iembrace; and luhat I love, I arn afraid of: before Jmake war, Ia?n reconciled-, before I enjoy peace, I amat variance. EPIG. 8. What need that houfe bedaubed with flefh and blood ?Hangd round with Tilks and gold ? repaired with food .^Coft idly fpent! that coft doth but prolongThy thraldom. Fool, thou makeH thy gaol too ftrong* Philip- B .T. Ern/- t^
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m>,J^^^»^^m^i«^^*^ BookV. emblems. 21 IX. Ph iLi ppi A>js i. 23.I am in a fir ait between tiuo, having a deftre tofolvedy and to be with Chriji. ^; I. WHAT meant our careful parents, fo to wear^And lavifli out their ill-extended hours.To purchafe for us large polleflions here, Which (tho unpurchasd) are too truly ours ?What meant they, ah ! what meant they to endureSuch loads of needlefs labour, to procureAnd make that thing our own, which was our own too (fure? What mean thefe livries * and poflefEve keys ? Wfiat mean thefe bargains, and thefe needlefs fales ?What need thefe jealous, thefe fufpicious ways,Of law-devisd and law-difTolvd entails ? No need to fweat for gold, wherewith to buyEftates of high-prized land; no need to tieEarth to their heirs, were they but cloegd with earth, (as I. 3- O were their fouls but cloggd with earth, as I, They would not purchafe with fo fait an itch ;They would not take of alms, what now they buy;Nor call him happy, whom the world counts ri