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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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dart as lightning from the thundering skies, And evry minute dashesAgainst the wanton windows of mine eyes !Lord, close the casement, whilst I standBehind the curtain of thy hand ! S. August. Soliloq. Cap. iv.O thou Son, that illuminateth both heaven andearth ! woe be unto those eyes which do not be-hold thee: woe be unto those blind eyes whichcannot behold thee: woe be unto those which turnaway their eyes that they will not, behold thee:woe be unto those that turn not away their eyesthat they may behold vanity. S. Chrys. Sup. Mat. xix.What is the evil woman but the enemy of friend-ship, an unavoidable pain, a necessary mischief, a 52 EMBLEMS. BOOK IV. natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domesticdanger, a delectable inconvenience, and the natureof evil painted over with the colour of good ? Epig. 5. Tis vain, great God, to close mine eyes from ill,When I resolve to keep the old man still:My rambling heart must covnant first with Thee,Or none can pass betwixt mine eye and roe.
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Either.;. 3 •If in t/ir Sight Z hav? tht£-jfiir0Utt fintnd,ZetrnrZetitifn nifh Succefe 3e vrwrntt . BOOK IV.—EMBLEM VI. Esther VII. 3. If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it pleasethe king, let my life be given me at my petition. Thou art the great Assuerus, whose commandDoth stretch from pole to pole ; the world s thy land:Rehellious Vashtis the corrupted will,Which, being calld, refuseth to fulfilThy just command: Esther, whose tears condoleThe razed city, *s the regenrate soul;A captive maid, whom thou wilt please to graceWith nuptial honours in stout Vashtis place :Her kinsman, whose unbended knee did thwartProud Hamans glory, is the fleshly part:The sober Eunuch, that recalled to mindThe new-built gibbet (Haman had divindFor his own ruin), fifty cubits high,Is lustful thought-controlling Chastity : 54 EMBLEMS, BOOK IV. Insulting Haman is that fleshly lust,Whose red-hot fury, for a season, mustTriumph in pride, and study how to treadOn Mordecai, till royal Esther plea

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