. Quarles' emblems . ghts in rest : Till then, my days are months, my months are years, My years are ages to be spent in tears : My griefs entailed upon my wasteful breath. Which no recovry can cut ofl but death. Breath drawn in cottages, puffd out in moans, Begins, continues, and concludes in groans. Qnarles Eniblcnis. 193 Innocent, de Vilitate Condit. who will give mine eyes a fountain of tears, that Imay bewail the miserable ingress of mans condition ; thesinful progress of mans conversation ; the damnable egressin mans dissolution ? I will consider with tears, whereofman was made
. Quarles' emblems . ghts in rest : Till then, my days are months, my months are years, My years are ages to be spent in tears : My griefs entailed upon my wasteful breath. Which no recovry can cut ofl but death. Breath drawn in cottages, puffd out in moans, Begins, continues, and concludes in groans. Qnarles Eniblcnis. 193 Innocent, de Vilitate Condit. who will give mine eyes a fountain of tears, that Imay bewail the miserable ingress of mans condition ; thesinful progress of mans conversation ; the damnable egressin mans dissolution ? I will consider with tears, whereofman was made, what man doth, and what man is to do !alas! he is formed of earth, conceived in sin, born to punish-ment : he doth evil things, which are not lawful; he dothfilthy things, which are not decent; he doth vain things,which are not expedient. Epig. heart, thy lifes a debt by bond, which bearsA secret date ; the use is groans and tears :Plead not; usurious nature will have well the intrest as the BOOK THE FOURTH
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