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. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.—Canticles 11. 16. EEN like two little bank-dividing brooks, That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, And having rangd and searchd a thousand nooks,Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames,Where in a greater current they conjoin : So I my best beloveds am ; so he is mine. Een so we met; and after long pursuit,Een so we joind, we both became entire ; No need for either to renew a suit, For I was flax, and he was flames of firm united souls
. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.—Canticles 11. 16. EEN like two little bank-dividing brooks, That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, And having rangd and searchd a thousand nooks,Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames,Where in a greater current they conjoin : So I my best beloveds am ; so he is mine. Een so we met; and after long pursuit,Een so we joind, we both became entire ; No need for either to renew a suit, For I was flax, and he was flames of firm united souls did more than twine ; So I my best beloveds am ; so he is mine. If all those glittring monarchs, that commandThe servile quarters of this earthly ball, Should tender, in exchange, their shares of land,I would not change my fortunes for them all :Their wealth is but a counter to my coin ; The worlds but theirs ; but my beloved s mine. 268 Quarks Emblems. Nay, more ; if the fair Thespian ladies allShould heap together their diviner treasure, That treasure should be de
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