. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . ,Figures you fee of weeping Woe* With all their melancholy laughs and jumps about ; Yet mould you alk the Reafon why ? All he will fay Dont put me out, • You fee I am a merry Trout, * Im not at Leifure now to Moral. What a mad World is this ?~Look round, beholdWhat odd, fantaftick Scenes themfelves Wealth by fome is eagerly purfud,As if it was the only, everlafling there mows down ten thoufand Li
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . ,Figures you fee of weeping Woe* With all their melancholy laughs and jumps about ; Yet mould you alk the Reafon why ? All he will fay Dont put me out, • You fee I am a merry Trout, * Im not at Leifure now to Moral. What a mad World is this ?~Look round, beholdWhat odd, fantaftick Scenes themfelves Wealth by fome is eagerly purfud,As if it was the only, everlafling there mows down ten thoufand Lives,And wondrcufly by Blood and Slaughter vaunt their Pedigree and noble Birth,And yet no greater Scoundrels are on laugh to fee how others play the Fool,Yet their own Names may read upon the Mirth and Joy in evry Shape abound,And Noife and Riot merrily go round :Yet Death, they know, each Step they take, awaits,And may this Night ileal thro their barred Gates;When, if he finds them unprepared, they knowTheir certain Doom is never ending 2 HlEROGLYPHICKS, Book I. *************************** EMBLEM The World is always turning round,No liable Footing on its found jjTime, with his Scythe and Hour-glafe,Shews us howfwiftly all Things pafs. Book I. Morai and Divine* 39 E M B L E M World daily changing. IF Time but give the World a Spurn,Round with the World we Wretches turn;We have no liable Footing here,Our Fortune varies like the YearThe Mifers tumbled to the Ground,And all his Moneys fcatterd round ;Evn Cupid with his Quiver muftBe rolled in the common Dull. The World is daily changing Face,And Men are mown away like Grafs $But he that will not fuffer Lofs,Mull fix his Hold upon the Crofs. The Moral. How fondly we the Worlds Delights embrace 1How happy, if we are in Fortunes Grace!Her SmUes our chief Felicity we judge,And in her Favours all our Blifs we that we are, when evry Moment (hewsHow oft her Favorites a
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