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Identifier: emblemesquarlesf00quar (find matches)
Title: Emblemes
Year: 1658 (1650s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Hieroglyphikes of the life of man Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650 Simpson, William, fl. 1635-1646
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfeild, and are to be sold at the Crowne, & at ye Marygold St. Paules Churchyard
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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321 To tL deader. p;g^ F you are fatisfied with my Em blemes, 1 here fet before you a fe-cond fervice. It is an /Egyptiandifh, dreftontheEnglifh fafhlon:They , at their Feafts , ufcd to prefent aDeaths-head at their lecond courfe : Thiswill ferve for both. You need not fear a fur-fet : Here is but little 5 andthat, lightofdi-geftion : If it but pleafe your Palate, I que-ftion not your ftomack: Fall too j and much50odmayitdoyou. Convivio addit Minerval. E. B. Remy Regem^ Regimen^ RegtonemjRcligionem,£xornati celckrat, laudato honor at ^ amat. B EN E VOL us. Hierolyph, I.
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. I )in,7 J^uminc inane Hieroglyph, I. j2; P saLM 51. 5. behold I Vfinspoapen in iniquity, a.ndinfitt didmy mother conceive me, X/jAnismans ^SC There is none that cm Read God aright, unlefle he firil: fpellMan:Man is the flairs, whereby his knowledge din^bsTo his Creatour though It oftentimesStUHibles for want of lig!:t> and ionictitres tripsFor want of careful heed j and fometitnos flipsThrough unadvifcdhafl J and when at lei.gthHis weary ftcps have rcachd the top^ his ftrengtiiOft fails to fland i his giddy brains turn round,And ThaetonAikCi falls headlong to the ground :Thefe flairs are often dark, and full of dangerTo him, whom want of prafticc rrakes a flrangerTo this blind way :The Lamps of nature lendsBut 3 falfe light, and lights to her orrn ends,Thefe be the wayes to Heavn j thefe paihs requiteA light that fprings from that Diviner fire,Whofe humanefoul-enlightning fun-beams dartThrough the bright crannies of th immortal part* And here, thou great Original of Light, Whofe

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