. Quarles' emblems . ^^ TJic fashion of this ivorld passeth aiuay.— i CoR. Vll. 41, Gone are those golden days wherein Pale conscience started not at ugly sin :When good old Saturns peaceful throneWas unusurped by his beardless son :When jealous Ops neer feard th abuse Of her chaste bed, or breach of nuptial truce :When just Astrea poisd her scales In mortal hearts, whose absence earth bewails :When froth-born Venus and her brat. With all that spurious brood young Jove horrid shapes were yet unknown ; Those halcyon days, that golden age is was no client then to wait The lei

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. Quarles' emblems . ^^ TJic fashion of this ivorld passeth aiuay.— i CoR. Vll. 41, Gone are those golden days wherein Pale conscience started not at ugly sin :When good old Saturns peaceful throneWas unusurped by his beardless son :When jealous Ops neer feard th abuse Of her chaste bed, or breach of nuptial truce :When just Astrea poisd her scales In mortal hearts, whose absence earth bewails :When froth-born Venus and her brat. With all that spurious brood young Jove horrid shapes were yet unknown ; Those halcyon days, that golden age is was no client then to wait The leisure of his long-taild advocate ;The talion law was in request. And Chancry Courts were kept in every breastAbused statutes had no tenters. And men could deal secure without indentures : 24 Quarlcs Emblems. There was no peeping hole to clear The wittals eye from his incarnate fear :There were no lustful cinders then To broil the carbonadod hearts of men :The rosy cheeks did then proclaim A shame of guilt, but not a

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