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Title: Emblems divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man
Year: 1777 (1770s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Hieroglyphics of the life of man Trapp, H
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : Printed and sold by H. Trapp ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rn, does cryTo feed ; that feeds to live, that lives to die.Great God and Man, whofe eye fpent drops fo oftenFor me, that cannot weep enough ^ O foftenThefe marble brains, and ftrike this flinty rock;Or, if the mufic of thy Peters cockWill more prevail, fill, fill my hearkning earsWith that fweet found, that I may melt in tears ?I cannot weep, until thou broach mine eye ;Q give me vent, or elfe I burft, and die. S. AM- 126 EMBLEMS. Book III. S. A M B R O S. in PfaL cxviii. He that co?nmits fim to be wept for^ cannot weep forfins comtmHed: and^ being hitnfelf mofl lamentable^ hathn^ tears to lament his offences. NAZIANZ. Orat. iii.^ears are the deluge of firiy c(nd the worlds facrlfice, S. HIERON. in Efaiam. Prayer appeajes God^ hut a tear compels him: thatmoves him3 this confiralns him. EPIG. 8. Earth is an iHand ported round with fears;.Thy way to heavn is through the fea of tears.It is a ftormy pafTage, where is foundThe wreck of m^ny a (hip, but no mar^ drownda i Ja.ALJA- Ji.m.^mA.
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PllJiniS. BookHL emblems. 117 IX. Psalm xviii. 5. Ihe forrows cf hell compajfed me about^ and the fnares of death prevented me, IS not this type well cut, in evry partFull ^i rich cunning P file*d with Xeuxian art >Are not the hunters, and their Stygian hounds,Limnd full to th life ? didft ever hear the foundsOf mufic, and the lip-dividing breathsOf the ftrong-winded horn, recheats *, and deaths,Done more exact? thinfernal Nimrods halloo \The lawlefs purlieusf ? and the game they follow IThe hidden engines, and the fnares that lieSo undifcoverd, fo obfcured to th eye ?The new-drawn net, and herentangled prey?And him that clofes it ? Beholder, fay,Ist not well done ? feems t not an emlous ftrifeBetwixt the rare-cut pi6ture and the life ?Thefe purlieu-men are devils \ and the hounds(Thofe quick-nofed canibals, that fcour the grounds)Temptations; and the game, the fiends purfue,Are human fouls, which ftill they have in view;Whofe fury if they chance to fcape by flying.The fkilful hunt

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