. Quarles' emblems . Stay )nc zvithjioiocrs, and comfort me with apples: for I am sickof love.—Canticles ii. 5. O TYRANT love ! how doth thy sovreign powr Subject poor souls to the imperious thrall!They say, thy cups composd of sweet and sour ; They say, thy diets honey mixd with gall ;How comes it then to pass, these lips of oursStill trade in bitter ; taste no sweet at all ?O tyrant love ! shall our perpetual toilNeer find a sabbath to refresh awhileOur drooping souls ? art thou all frowns, and neer asmile ? Ye blessed maids of honour, that frequent The royal courts of our renownd Jehove,Wit
. Quarles' emblems . Stay )nc zvithjioiocrs, and comfort me with apples: for I am sickof love.—Canticles ii. 5. O TYRANT love ! how doth thy sovreign powr Subject poor souls to the imperious thrall!They say, thy cups composd of sweet and sour ; They say, thy diets honey mixd with gall ;How comes it then to pass, these lips of oursStill trade in bitter ; taste no sweet at all ?O tyrant love ! shall our perpetual toilNeer find a sabbath to refresh awhileOur drooping souls ? art thou all frowns, and neer asmile ? Ye blessed maids of honour, that frequent The royal courts of our renownd Jehove,With flowers restore my spirits faint and spent; O fetch me apples from loves fruitful cool my palate and renew my I am sick, for I am sick of love : These will revive my dry, my wasted powrs,And they will sweeten my unsavry hours ;Refresh me then with fruit, and comfort me with flowrs. 264 Quarlcs Enibhins. O bring me apples to assuage that fire, Which, ^tna-hke, inflames my flaming breast ;Nor is
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