. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . ^^^\ of/in ? or what affrights thee ?[t thou begin to fear, thy fear :bool, can he bear thee hence, and not thyfms? i8) Book oh thatthcv were .ytfc thcr tJicv iretiU wulrr -ftand tiiif}Thctj tiOidd confidet t/ictr latt.^r cnJ D c titer en. J2. ^^^ Book 3 • Emblems. 181 XIV. DEUT. O that men were wife^ that they ufiderjloodthis^ that they would confider their tatterend, Flefi. means my (ifters eye fo oft to pafs VV Through the long entry of that optick glafs ?Tell me


. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . ^^^\ of/in ? or what affrights thee ?[t thou begin to fear, thy fear :bool, can he bear thee hence, and not thyfms? i8) Book oh thatthcv were .ytfc thcr tJicv iretiU wulrr -ftand tiiif}Thctj tiOidd confidet t/ictr latt.^r cnJ D c titer en. J2. ^^^ Book 3 • Emblems. 181 XIV. DEUT. O that men were wife^ that they ufiderjloodthis^ that they would confider their tatterend, Flefi. means my (ifters eye fo oft to pafs VV Through the long entry of that optick glafs ?Tell me 5 what fecret virtue doth inviteThy wrinkled eye tofuch unknown delight ? Sp, It help3 the fight, makes things remote appearIn perfe£l view 5 it draws the objeflis near. p/. What fenfe-delighting objects doft thou fpie ?What doth that glafs prefent before thine eye ? Sf> I fee thy foe, my reconciled friend. Grim death, een ftanding at theglafses end:His left hand holds a branch of palm 5 his rightilolds forth a two-edgd fword. Fl, A proper is this all ? doth thy profpeftive pleafeThabufed fancy with no fhapes but thele? S^. Yes, I behold the darkened lun bereavnOf all his light, the battlements of heavnSw


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