Quarles' emblems, divine and moral- together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800) (14561375918)

Identifier: quarlesemblemsdi00quar (find matches)
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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living fire,Blown from the fpring of life ? Is not that breathImmortal r Come; ye are as free from deathAs he that made you. Can the flames expireWhich he has kindled ? Can ye quench his fire ?Did not the great Creators voice proclaimWhateer he made (from the blue fpangled frameTo the poor leaf that trembles) very good ?Blefsd he not both the feeder and the food ?Tell, tell me, then, what danger can accrueFrom fuch bled food, to fuch half gods as you ?Curb needlefs fears, and let no fond conceitAbufe your freedom ; woman, take and eat. Eve. Tis true, we are immortal; death is yetUnborn, and, till rebellion make it debt,Undue; I know the fruit is good, untilPrefumptuous difobedience make it ill.The lips that open to this fruits a portalTo let in death, and make immortal mortal. f^^ Serp. You cannot die; com.e, woman, tafte, and fear Eve^. Shall Eve tranfgrefs ? I dare not, O I dare not. Serp. Afraid ? Why drawft thou back thy timroi sHarm on1v falls on fuch as fear a harm. (arm r Heavn
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Sic 3IaliinicecidittLnijcuaxirL oiane MihiirL.T/uuvSi/i ff/icenf/. /rerltarfSfi/f nui/fy/t/te.9.Frcfii Cue fr>iil(Itrtl ti/iat ntanmur 17/s rtrise / Book I. E xM B L E M S. ii II.James i. 15. Then when lujl hath conceived^ H hringethforth fm ; andfmt when it is finijhed^ bringeth forth death. I. LAment,lament; look, look, what thou haft done:Lament the worlds, lament thine own eilate:Look, look, by doing, how thou art undone;Lament thy fall, lament thy change of ftate:Thy faith is broken, and thy freedom gone.See, fee too foon, what thcu lamentft too late.O thou that wert fo many men, nay, allAbridged in one ! how has thy defprate fallDeftroyd thy unborn feed, deftroyd thyfelf withal! 2. Uxorious Adam, whom thy Maker made Equal to angels that excel in powr.What haft thou done ? O why haft thou obey*d Thy own deftruclion r Like a new-cropt fiowr.How does the glory of thy beauty fade !How are thy fortunes blafted in an hour ! How art thou cowd, that hadft the powr to quellThe fpite o