. Quarles' emblems . ess, helpless thing, that, born, does cry To feed, that feeds to live, that lives to die. Great GOD and man, whose eye spent drops so often For me, that cannot weep enough ; O soften These marble brains, and strike this flinty rock; Or, if the music of thy Peters cock Will more prevail, fill, fill my hearkning ears With that sweet sound, that I may melt in tears ! 1 cannot weep until thou broach mine eye;O give me vent, or else I burst, and die. S. Ambros. in Psal. that commits sins to be wept for, cannot weep forsins committed ; and being himself most lamentable
. Quarles' emblems . ess, helpless thing, that, born, does cry To feed, that feeds to live, that lives to die. Great GOD and man, whose eye spent drops so often For me, that cannot weep enough ; O soften These marble brains, and strike this flinty rock; Or, if the music of thy Peters cock Will more prevail, fill, fill my hearkning ears With that sweet sound, that I may melt in tears ! 1 cannot weep until thou broach mine eye;O give me vent, or else I burst, and die. S. Ambros. in Psal. that commits sins to be wept for, cannot weep forsins committed ; and being himself most lamentable, hath notears to lament his offences. Ojiarlcs Emblems. 165 Nazianz. Orat. are the deluge of sin, and the worlds sacrifice. S. HiERON. in appeases GOD, but a tear compels him: thatmoves him, but this constrains him. Epig. is an island ported round with fears ;Thy way to Heavn is through the sea of tears;It is a stormy passage, where is foundThe wreck of many a ship, but no man
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