. Quarles' Emblems . ; a worse fiend, when mosta saint. Shes empty : hark, she sounds : tis vain and void ; Whats here to be enjoydBut grief and sickness, and large bills of sorrow, Drawn now, and crossd to-morrow ?Or what are men, but puffs of dying breath, Revivd with living death ?Fond lad, O build thy hopes on surer grounds Than what dull flesh propounds ;Trust not this hollow world ; shes empty: hark, shesounds. QuarleJ Emblem: S. Chrys. in Ep. ad I lebContemn riches, and thou shalt be rich : contemn glory, and thou shalt be glorious; contemn injuries, and thou shaltbe a conqueror; contem

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. Quarles' Emblems . ; a worse fiend, when mosta saint. Shes empty : hark, she sounds : tis vain and void ; Whats here to be enjoydBut grief and sickness, and large bills of sorrow, Drawn now, and crossd to-morrow ?Or what are men, but puffs of dying breath, Revivd with living death ?Fond lad, O build thy hopes on surer grounds Than what dull flesh propounds ;Trust not this hollow world ; shes empty: hark, shesounds. QuarleJ Emblem: S. Chrys. in Ep. ad I lebContemn riches, and thou shalt be rich : contemn glory, and thou shalt be glorious; contemn injuries, and thou shaltbe a conqueror; contemn rest, and thou shalt gain rest;contemn earth, and thou shalt find Heaven. HUGO, Tab. de Vanit Mundi. The world is a vanity which afTordeth neither beauty tothe amorous, nor reward to the laborious, nor encouragementto the industrious. EPIG. house is to be let for life or years ;Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears :Cupid, t has long stood void ; her bills make known,She must be dearly let, or let

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