. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . Stay me with flowers, and comfort me with apples: for I am sickof love.—CiVNTICLES 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 fr
. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . Stay me with flowers, and comfort me with apples: for I am sickof love.—CiVNTICLES 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 grove,To cool my palate and renew my scent,For 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. -64 Quarks Emblems. O bring me apples to assuage that fire, Which, ^Etna-like, inflames my flaming breast ;Nor is it
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