. Quarles' Emblems . ^ /HP Ik JH^iirJNL-. Flic fashion of this world passcth away.— I Cor. VII. 41 GONE are those golden days wherein Pale conscience started not at ugly sin :When good old Saturns peaceful throne Was 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 begat,In horrid shapes were yet unknown ; Those halcyon days, that golden age is was no client then
. Quarles' Emblems . ^ /HP Ik JH^iirJNL-. Flic fashion of this world passcth away.— I Cor. VII. 41 GONE are those golden days wherein Pale conscience started not at ugly sin :When good old Saturns peaceful throne Was 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 begat,In 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 Quarks 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 guilt
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