. Quarles' Emblems . ^. - m:^:k: i If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it please the king; letmy life bo given meat my petition.—ESTHER VII. 3. THOU art the great Ahasuerus, whose command Doth stretch from pole to pole ; the worlds thy land Rebellious Vashti s the corrupted will, Which, being calld, refuses to fulfil Thy just command ; Esther, whose tears condole The razed city, is the regenrate soul ; A captive maid, whom thou wilt please to grace With nuptial honours in stout Vashtis place : Her kinsman, whose unbended knee did thwart Proud Hainans glory, is the fleshly part ; The so
. Quarles' Emblems . ^. - m:^:k: i If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it please the king; letmy life bo given meat my petition.—ESTHER VII. 3. THOU art the great Ahasuerus, whose command Doth stretch from pole to pole ; the worlds thy land Rebellious Vashti s the corrupted will, Which, being calld, refuses to fulfil Thy just command ; Esther, whose tears condole The razed city, is the regenrate soul ; A captive maid, whom thou wilt please to grace With nuptial honours in stout Vashtis place : Her kinsman, whose unbended knee did thwart Proud Hainans glory, is the fleshly part ; The sober eunuch, that recalld to mind The new-built gibbet (Haman had divind For his own ruin), fifty cubits high, Is lustful thought-controlling chastity ; Insulting Haman is that fleshly lust Whose red-hot fury, for a season, must Triumph in pride, and study how to tread On Mordecai, till royal Esther plead. 2i8 Quarks Emblems. Great King, thy sent-for Vashti will not come ;O let the oil of the blessd virgins wombCleanse
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