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Title: Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man
Year: 1736 (1730s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644
Subjects: Emblems --Early works to 1800. Emblem books, English --Great Britain --England --18th century Emblem books --Great Britain --England --18th century
Publisher: London : printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C Hitch, S. Ballard, J. Batley, and J. Wood, S. Birt, A. Ward, and J Clarke in Duck Lane
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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to burn under thefafe ProteBion of your Honourable Name;where, Iprcjume, thy Jiand fecure from theDam^-of Ignorance, arfd Bhjis of Cenfufe. The Epiftle Dedicatory, // is a Jmall part of that abimdant Servicewhich my thankful Heart oweth your incorn^-parable Goodnefs. Be pleafed to honour itwith your noble Acceptance^ which JJjall benothing but what your own ejieem pjall makeit. MADAM, Your Ladyfhip^s Moft Humble Servant, Fra. ^arks. To To the READER. IF you arc fatisfied with my Emblems^ Ihere fet before you a fecond Service. Itis an Mgyptian Difli, drefsd on the EngliJJjFaihion: They, at their Feafts, ufed toprefent a Deaths-Head at their fecondCourfe : This will ferve for both. Youneed not fear a Surfeit: Here is but little,and that light of Digeftion : If it but pleafeyour Palate, I queftion not your Stomach:Fall to, and much good may it do you. Convlvio addit Minerval. E. B> Rem, Regem, Regimen^ Regionenty Religionem^Exornat^ celebraty laudat^ honorat^ amat. 3i6 Hieroglyph. I.
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SviVC X- ivtrvun-e VTi^rur ?yidr--aScir,\ Hieroglyph. I. 317 PSALM 51. 5. Behold I was Jhapen in iniquity^ and in findid my mother conceive me. M A N is mans A. S. C. Theres none that canRead God aright, unlefs he firft fpell man:Man is the (lairs whereby his knowledge climbsTo his creator, though it oftentimesStumbles for want of light, and fometimes tripsFor want of careful heed 5 and fometimes flipsThrough unadvifed hafte 5 and when at lengthHis weary fleps have reached the top, his ftrengthOft fails to (land 5 his giddy brains turn round.And Thaet07i like, falls headlong to the ground ;Thefe flairs are often dark, and full of dangerTo him, whom want of practice makes a flrangerTo this blind way, the lamp of nature lendsBut a falfe light, and lights to her own ends.Thefe be the ways to heav*n, thefe paths requireA light that fprings from that diviner fire,Whofe human foul enlightning fan beams dartThrough the bt i^lir crannies of th immortal part.And here, ci-.ou great original of

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