. Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man . es and fweet beds of (Irongly, thou whofe hand has powr to flackThe fwift-foot fury, often thoufand vices :Let not that duft-devouring dragon boaft,His craft has won what Judahs Lion lofl;Remember what is cravd ^ recount the price it I DOR, Lib. i. de Summo hoiu much the nearer Satan perceiveth the world toan endy by Jo much the more fiercely he troubleth it zuithperfecution ; that^ knowing himjelf to be damned, he mayget company in his damnation. CYPRIAN, in and/pad ous
. Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man . es and fweet beds of (Irongly, thou whofe hand has powr to flackThe fwift-foot fury, often thoufand vices :Let not that duft-devouring dragon boaft,His craft has won what Judahs Lion lofl;Remember what is cravd ^ recount the price it I DOR, Lib. i. de Summo hoiu much the nearer Satan perceiveth the world toan endy by Jo much the more fiercely he troubleth it zuithperfecution ; that^ knowing himjelf to be damned, he mayget company in his damnation. CYPRIAN, in and/pad ous is the road to infernal life \ thereare inticements and death-bringing pkafures. There thedevil flat tereth, that he may deceive ; Jmileth^ that he mayendamage; allureth, that he may deflroy, EPIG. , foft and fair, good world; poft not too faft ;Thy journeys end requires not half this that arm thou Xo difdainft, reprives* thee,Alas, thou needs muft go;. the devil drives thee. * Ref-rivcs, i. e. curbs, reftraia&; from th« Frerch, Isaiah ^^/^A/:?,. Inopcau me copia iecil . U7iiJt are HhtcA the Mor/d cti/i \ h/ce this, matie rue itnut. Book I. EMBLEMS. 33 XII. Isaiah Ixvi. 11. Ie may fuck, hut not befatisfied with the hreafl of her conjolation, I. WHAT, never filldr Be thy lips fcrevvM fo faftTo thearths full bread? for fhame, for (hame, [iinfeize thee; Thou tak*ft a furfeit where thou fhouldfl but tafie. And makfl: too much not half enough to pleafc thee. Ah, fool, forbear; thou fwallowelt at one breath Both food and poifon down ; thou drawft both milk [and ubrous breafts, when fairly drawn, repaft The thriving infant with their milky flood ;But, being overflraind, return at laft Unwholefome gulps composed of wind and blood.• A modrate ufe doth both repaft and pleafe :Who ftrains beyond a mean, draws in and gulps dif- [eafe. 3-But, O that mean, whofe good the leaft abufe Makes bad, is too, too hard
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