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Title: Emblems, divine and moral
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663 Wilkins, W. Walker (William Walker)
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : J. Robins
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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the lilies and sweet beds of spices.Hale strongly, thou whose hand has powr to slackThe swift-foot fury of ten thousand vices:Let not thy dust-devouring dragon boastHis craft has won what Judahs lion lost;Remember what is eravd; recount the price it cost. Isidor. Lib. 1. de Summo Bono.By how much the nearer Satan perceiveth theworld to an end, by so much the more fiercely hetroubleth it with persecution ; that, knowing him-self is to be damned, he may get company in hisdamnatiori. 46 EMBLEMS. BOOK ?. Cyprian, in Ep.Broad and spacious is the road to infernal life;there are enticements and death-bringing pleasures.There the devil flattereth, that he may deceive;smileth, that he may endamage; allureth, that hemay destroy. Epig, 11. Nay, soft and fair, good world; post not too fast;Thy journeys end requires not half this haste.Unless that arm thou so disdainst reprives* thee,Alas! thou needs must go, the devil drives thee. * Reprices, curbs, restrains; from the French, reprimer. B O 6 K I
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EltBLET.I 12. Tnopem. me copia fecit What, fire the Riches which t/it World, cartgrant / J/rtt/v ft/.u- f/u\s-, alas■has ntadi me ie<r/tt. BOOK I.—EMBLEM XII. Isaiah LXVI. 11.Ye may suck, but not be satisfied with the breast of her consolation.What, never filld ? Be thy lips screwd so fastTo th* earths full breast ? for shame, for shameunseize thee;Thou takst a surfeit where thou shouldst but taste,And makst too much not half enough to pleasethee.Ah, fool, forbear; thou swallowest at onebreathBoth food and poison down! thou drawst bothmilk and death. The ubrous breasts, when fairly drawn, repastThe thriving infant with their milky flood;But, being overstraind, return at last Unwholesome gulps composed of wind and blood.A modrate use does both repast and please;Who strains beyond a mean, draws in and gulpsdisease. 48 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. But O, that mean, whose good the least abuseMakes bad, is too, too hard to be directed:Can thorns bring grapes, or crabs a pleasing juice ?Theres n

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