. Quarles' Emblems . IV may suck, but not be satisfied with the breast of Jie>consolation.—ISAIAH LXVI. 1 i. What, never filld ? Be thy lips screwed so fast To th earths full breast? for shame, for shame un-seize thee ;Thou takst a surfeit where thou shouldst but taste,And makst too much not half enough to please , fool, forbear ; thou swallowest at one breathBoth food and poison down ! thou drawst both milk anddeath. The ubrous breasts, when fairly drawn, repastThe thriving infant with their milky flood, But being overstraind, return at last Unwholesome gulps composed of wind and bl

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. Quarles' Emblems . IV may suck, but not be satisfied with the breast of Jie>consolation.—ISAIAH LXVI. 1 i. What, never filld ? Be thy lips screwed so fast To th earths full breast? for shame, for shame un-seize thee ;Thou takst a surfeit where thou shouldst but taste,And makst too much not half enough to please , fool, forbear ; thou swallowest at one breathBoth food and poison down ! thou drawst both milk anddeath. The ubrous breasts, when fairly drawn, repastThe thriving infant with their milky flood, But being overstraind, return at last Unwholesome gulps composed of wind and modrate use does both repast and please ; Who strains beyond a mean, draws in and gulps disuse. But, O that mean, whose good the least abuseMakes bad, is too, too hard to be directed : E 2 52 Quarks Emblems. Can thorns bring grapes, or crabs a pleasing juice % Theres nothing wholesome where the wholes thy lips : earths milks a ripened core,That drops from her disease, that matters from her so

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