. 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. Quarks Emblems. 107 S. Chrys. in Ep. ad 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. Quarks Emblems. 107 S. Chrys. in Ep. ad 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, Lib. de Vanit. world is a vanity which affordeth 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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