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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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dove. Thrice happy he, whose nobler thoughts despise To make an object of so easy gains:Thrice happy he, who scorns so poor a prizeShould be the crown of his heroic pains :Thrice happy he, that neer was born to tryHer frowns or smiles; or, being born, did lieIn his sad nurses arms an hour or two, and die. 18 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. S. August, lib. Confess.O you that dote upon this world, for what vic-tory do ye fight ? Your hopes can be crowned withno greater reward than the world can give; andwhat is the world but a brittle thing full of dan-gers, wherein we travel from lesser to greater pe-rils? O let all her vain, light, and momentaryglory perish with herself; and let us be conversantwith more eternal things. Alas! this world ismiserable; life is short, and death is sure. Epig. 4. My soul, whats lighter ihan a feather? Wind.Than wind ? The fire. And what than fire ? The mind.Whats lighter than the mind ? A thought. Than thought ?This bubble world. What than this bubble ? Nought. B O OK I
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e:mbheⓂ️ 5. liis vertitror Ortis .Thus ui /trr/tehi:* Course t/te J3ei// t\r seen ,Zaskd tm m wanton S/iort lyZiisttzndS/i/ee/i BOOK I.—EMBLEM V. 1 Cor. VII. 31. The fashion of this world passeth away. Gone are those golden days, whereinPale conscience started not at ugly sin : When good old Saturns peaceful throneWas unusurped by his beardless son : When jealous Ops neer feard th abuseOf her chaste bed, or breach of nuptial truce: When just Astrsea poisd her scalesIn mortal hearts, whose absence earth bewails i When froth-born Venus and her brat,With all that spurious brood young Jove begat, In horrid shapes were yet unknown;Those halcyon days, that golden age, is gone. There was no client then to waitThe leisure of his long-taild advocate; * Talion law, or the law of retaliation, a punishment inthe Mosaic law, whereby an evil is returned similar to thatcommitted. 20 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. The talion* law was in request,And Chancry Courts were kept in evry breast: Abused statutes had no

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