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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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t not good. C A- N T J- 172 EMBLEMS. Book IV. Canticles viii. r.O that thou wert as my hrothery that fucked the hreajlsof my mother ! when I foould find thee without^ I wouldkifs thee. COIME, come, mybleiFed infant, asicl immure theeWithin the temple of my facrcd arms ;Secure mine arms, mine arms (hall then fecure theeFrom Herods fury, or the high-priefFs harms :Or if thy dangerd life fuftain a lofs,My folded arms ihali turn thy dying crofs. 2. But ah I what favage tyrant can behold The beauty of (o fweet a face as this \SyAnd not himfelf be by himfelf contrould,And chan2;e his fary to a thoufand kifTes ? Ojie fm:le of thine is worth more mines of treafureThan there were myiiads in the dsys of Ca^far.. 3- O had the tetrarch, as he knew thy birth, So known tliy (tock, he had not thought to paddleIn thy dear blood ; but, proftrate on the earth,Hld veiid his crown before thy royal cradle.And laid the fceptre of his glory down,And beggd a heavnly for an earthly crown. Uluftrious ^J^.EmlK^
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Book IV, EMBLEMS. 173 4- Illuftrious babe ! how Is thy handmaid gracedWith a rich armfull I how doft thou declineThy majefty, that wert fo late embraced In thy great F^-Vrs arms, and now in mine!How humbly gracious art thou, to refrefhMe with thy fpirit, and affume my flefh I But muft the treafon of a traitors hail Abufe the fweetnefs of thefe ruby lips ?Shall marble-hearted cruelty afTail Thefe alabafter fides with knotted whips ?And muft thefe fmiling rofes entertainThe blows of fcorn, and Hurts of bafe difJain ? 6.Ah ! muft thefe dainty little fprings *, that twine So faft about thy f neck, be pierced and tornWith ragged nails ; and muft thefe brows refjgaTheir crown of glory for a crown of thorn ?Ah 1 muft thebleffed infant tafte the painOf deaths injurious pangs; nay, worfe, be flain ? 7-Sweet babe I at what dear rates do wretched I Commit a fin ! Lord, evry fms a dart>And cvry trefpafs lets ajavlin fly; And evVy javlin wounds thy bleeding heart :Pardon, fwcet babe, what) have

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