. Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man . ou doatft j vain earthy thou 5- What mean dull fouls, in this high meafure. To haberdaifliIn earths bafe wares, whofe greatefi treafure Is drofs and trafh ;The height of whofe inchanting pleafure Js but a fiafli fAre thefe the goods that thou fupplyftUs mortals with ? Are thefe the highft?Can thefe bring cordial peace ? Falfe world, thou lyft. * pyji, a word ufed at carcf j i, e, to challenge. VET. ^^ i: M B L E M: S. Book 11^ PET. BLES. Ihe world is deceitful: her end is douBtful; her con-chfion horrible ;
. Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man . ou doatft j vain earthy thou 5- What mean dull fouls, in this high meafure. To haberdaifliIn earths bafe wares, whofe greatefi treafure Is drofs and trafh ;The height of whofe inchanting pleafure Js but a fiafli fAre thefe the goods that thou fupplyftUs mortals with ? Are thefe the highft?Can thefe bring cordial peace ? Falfe world, thou lyft. * pyji, a word ufed at carcf j i, e, to challenge. VET. ^^ i: M B L E M: S. Book 11^ PET. BLES. Ihe world is deceitful: her end is douBtful; her con-chfion horrible ; her judge is terrible j and her punijh^went is intolerable, Lib. ConfefT. 7he vain glory of this world is a deceitful fwcetnefs^ afruit lefs labour^ a perpetual fear ^ a dangerous honor: henbeginning is without providence^ and her end not wiihoatrepentance. EPIG. 5. World, thou*rt a traitor; thou haft ftamp*(l thy bafeAnd chymic metal with great Caefar^s with thy baftard bullion thou haft barteredFor wares of price i how juftly drawn and cjuartcrir Job BIL £ Sic decipat Orlns. BoeKH. EMBLEMS. 71 vr. Job vi. 31. JLd not him that is deceived, truft in vanity ; for vanityjhall be his r^compeme, 1. BElieve hef fitit5lier glafs ^ifrufesFalFe portraitures : thou canft efpyNo true reHe^tion : fhe abufesHer-mif-informd beholders eye ; Her cryftals falfely fteeld ; it fcattersDeceitful beams ; believe her not, (he flatter** flaring mirror reprefents No right proportion, view, or feature:Her very looks are <:ompliments ; They make thee fairer, goodlier, greater:The fkilful glofs of her refle6lion-But paints the context c^ thy coarfe complexion, 3. Were thy dimenfion but a flride. Nay, wert thou ftatured but a fpan^uuch as the long-bilTd troops defyd, A very fragment of a man ! Shell make thee Mimas, which you Jove flain tyrant, or thIonic hill. 4-Had furfeits, or th ungracious ftar, Confpird to make one common placeOf all deformities that are W
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