. Quarles' Emblems . ain poor seeming goods ; which, being got,Make firm possession but a thoroughfare; Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper; And, being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper. Quarlcd Emblems* S. Greg. Horn. iii. secund. Parte we give more to the flesh than we ought, \\c nourishan enemy ; if we give not to her necessity what we ought,we destroy a citizen : the flesh is to be satisfied so far assuffices to our good : whosoever alloweth so much to her asto make her proud, knoweth not how to be satisfied : to besatisfied is a great art; lest, by the
. Quarles' Emblems . ain poor seeming goods ; which, being got,Make firm possession but a thoroughfare; Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper; And, being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper. Quarlcd Emblems* S. Greg. Horn. iii. secund. Parte we give more to the flesh than we ought, \\c nourishan enemy ; if we give not to her necessity what we ought,we destroy a citizen : the flesh is to be satisfied so far assuffices to our good : whosoever alloweth so much to her asto make her proud, knoweth not how to be satisfied : to besatisfied is a great art; lest, by the satiety of the flesh, webreak forth into the iniquity of her folly. HUGO de heart is a small thing, but desireth great is not sufficient for a kites dinner, yet the whole world isnot sufficient for it. Epig. makes thee, fool, so fat ? Fool, thee so bare ?Ye suck the self-same milk, the self-same air;No mean betwixt all paunch, and skin and bone ?The means a virtue, and the world has
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