. Emblems . What CafikP)all Ihold? Wbatroalis fmllbcldmif Wbitberfoever Igo^myfeJf folloroeth me : For jobatfoever tbou fieft, 0 man, tboumai/i. But tby oron confcience: Wktrefoever O Lord I^o^ I findtbee, if angry, a ^vingor ; // appiafed, a Redeemer : WbatWi) have J,but to flie fromtbet to tbet I That fboumdifi avoidtby God J addrefs tbee to tby Lord, EPIG. 12. Hath vengfancc found thee ? Can rhy fears commandNo rocki to (hield thcc from her thundring handi*KnowVt thou not where to fcapc ? Ill tell thee where;My foul make clean thy confcience; hide thee 4 17^ # Emllemes]XIII. Book 3.
. Emblems . What CafikP)all Ihold? Wbatroalis fmllbcldmif Wbitberfoever Igo^myfeJf folloroeth me : For jobatfoever tbou fieft, 0 man, tboumai/i. But tby oron confcience: Wktrefoever O Lord I^o^ I findtbee, if angry, a ^vingor ; // appiafed, a Redeemer : WbatWi) have J,but to flie fromtbet to tbet I That fboumdifi avoidtby God J addrefs tbee to tby Lord, EPIG. 12. Hath vengfancc found thee ? Can rhy fears commandNo rocki to (hield thcc from her thundring handi*KnowVt thou not where to fcapc ? Ill tell thee where;My foul make clean thy confcience; hide thee 4 17^ # Emllemes]XIII. Book 3. \f^n^^h^l. Are not my daues fe^Teafe ■done that I mat/ be^ayh fns a lud Book 3. Emhkmes: 177 XIII. JOB 10. not my Jays feiv^> Ceafe then, and letnte alone, that I may lexmil my [elf a little. MY Glaft is half nnrpcnt 5 Forbear tarrcftMy thriftlcfs day too foon : my poor requeftIs thai my glafs may run but out the reft. My time-devoured minutes will be doneWithout thy help; fee, fee how fvvift they run •Cut not my thred before my thred be fpun. The gaini not great I purchafe by this ftay ;What loll fuftainft thou by fo fmall delay,To whom ten thoufand yean are but a day ? ■ My following eye can hardly make a fhiftTo count ray winged hours; they fly for^ffift^They fcarce deferve the bounteous name of gift. The fecret wheels of hurrying Time do giveSo (hort a warning, and fo faft they I am dead before I feem to live. And whats a Life ? a weary Pilgrimage,Whofe glory in one diy doth fill the ftagcWith Child-hood, Man-hood, and decrepit Age. And whats a Life ? the
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