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Identifier: emblems00quarl (find matches)
Title: Emblems
Year: 1696 (1690s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 Gilliflower, Matthew, publisher Freeman, William, d. 1715, publisher Bell, Andrew, d. 1720?, bookseller
Subjects: Emblems Emblems, English
Publisher: London : Printed for M(atthew) G(illyflower) and W(illiam) F(reeman) and to be sold by Roger Clavel at the Peacock in Fleetstreet, and Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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to hum under thefafe froteiiion of your Honour alk I^ame;ibere, I prefume, they ftand Jecure from theyawps of Ignorance, and Blafls of Cenfure,X It The Epiftle Dedicatory. // is afmall part of that abundant fervkewhich my thankful heart oweth your incom*parable goodnefs. Be pleafed to honour itwith your noble Acceptance, which fhall hnothing but what your own efieem fhall make MADAM, Yout LadifliipsMoft Humble Servant^ fra. Quarks. n To the READER. IF you are fatisfied with my EmhlemSy \here fet before you a ftcond Service. Itis an Egyptian Difh, drefl on the EnglijbFalhion : They, at their Feafts, ufed toprefent a Deaths-Head at their SecondCourfe : This will (erve for both. Youneed not fear a Surfeit: Here is but Httle,and that light of digeftion : If it butpleafe your Palate, I queftion not yourStomack : Fall too ; and much good mayit do you. Convivio addit Minerval. £. B. Rem, Regem, Regimen^ Regionem, RellgionemtExorndtj celehraty laudat, honorat, anti^t^ X 2 3^^ Hieroglyph. I.
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Hieroglyph. L %^% PSALM. 1.5^. BehoU I WAS fbapen in iniquity^ and in findid njy Mother conceive rue. MAn is man* >4. S. C. There is nenc tliat canRead God aright, iii*>lers he firft fperllMan:Man is the ftairs, \*hcreby his knowledge climbf.To his Creatour though it oftentimesStumbles for want of light, ahd fometitrei trip!For want t f careful heed ; aad fometimei (liplThroughunacvifed hrfte; and thenac lengt*His N*eary ftep? have reachd the top, his ftrengthOft falls to l^and ; his giJdy brains turn round,And Iht^on- like, falTs headlong to the ground :Thcfe iT.T-s are often dark, and full of dangerTo him. -^ .om want of praftice makes a ftracger.To this blind way : the Lamps of nature lendsBut afalfelight, and lights to herownendi.Thcfe be the ways to Heaven, thefe paths requireA light it(it Tprings from that Diviner tire,Whofc human foul-enlightnng Sun-beams dartThrough the bright crannies of thimmortal part. And here thou great Original of Light, Whofs crrour-chafing beams

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