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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
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ost nimble where it deaf should be;His eye most blind where most it ought to see;And, when his hearts most bound, then thinksitself most free. Thou grand impostor! how hast thou obtaind The wardship of the world ? Are all men turnedIdiots and lunatics ? Are all retaind Beneath thy servile bands ? Is none return* dTo his forgotten self? Has none regaindHis senses ? Are their senses all adjourn* d ?What, none dismissd thy court? Will no plump feeBribe thy false fists to make a glad decree,T* unfool whom thou hast fooPd, and set thyprisners free ? S. Bern, in Ser. In this world is much treachery, little truth :here all things are traps; here every thing is beset 74 EMBLEMS. BOOK II. with snares; here souls are endangered, bodies areafflicted : here all things are vanity aud vexation ofspirit. Epig. 3. Nay, Cupid, pitch thy trammel where thou please,Thou canst not fail to take such fish as these.Thy thriving sport will neer be spent: no needTo fear, when evry corks a world: Thou It speed.
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Quam_ grave Ser-vxtiuia eft e£uod leris Etc a parat. Great mi&pt thie <5/airv he , where fa ycur shareSiicJi .s-lig/it2te/re,?hmcnt/h/ls, tv ea^e your (arc. BOOK II.—EMBLEM IV. Hosea XIII. 3. They shall be as the cliaff that is driven with awhirlwind out of the floor, and as the smokeout of the chimney. Flint-breasted Stoics, you, whose marble eyesContemn a wrinkle, and whose souls despiseTo follow Natures too affected fashion,Or travel in the regent walk of passion;Whose rigid hearts disdain to shrink at fears,Or play at fast or loose, with smiles and tears ;Come, burst your spleens with laughter to beholdA new-found vanity, which days of oldNeer knew: a vanity that has besetThe world, and made more slaves than Mahomet;That has condemned us to the servile yokeOf slavery, and made us slaves to smoke.But stay, why tax I thus our modern timesFor new-blown follies, and for new-born crimes? 76 EMBLEMS. BOOK It. Are we sole guilty, and the first age free? No, they were smokd and

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