. Quarles' emblems . / will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not departfrom me.—JER. XXXII. 40. So, now the souls sublimd: her sour desiresAre recalcind in Heavns well temperd fires:The heart restord and purgd from drossy nature,Now finds the freedom of a new-born creature:It lives another life, it breathes new breath;It neither fears nor feels the sting of death:Like as the idle vagrant (having none)That boldly dopts each house he views, his own;Makes evry purse his chequer; and, at forth, and taxes all the world, like Caesar;At length, by virtue of a just command,H
. Quarles' emblems . / will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not departfrom me.—JER. XXXII. 40. So, now the souls sublimd: her sour desiresAre recalcind in Heavns well temperd fires:The heart restord and purgd from drossy nature,Now finds the freedom of a new-born creature:It lives another life, it breathes new breath;It neither fears nor feels the sting of death:Like as the idle vagrant (having none)That boldly dopts each house he views, his own;Makes evry purse his chequer; and, at forth, and taxes all the world, like Caesar;At length, by virtue of a just command,His sides are lent to a severer hand;Whereon his pass, not fully taxed in a manuscript of blood;Thus past from town to town; until he comeA sore repentant to his native home :Een so the rambling heart, that idly rovesFrom crimes to sin, and uncontrolld removesFrom lust to lust, when wanton flesh invitesFrom old worn pleasures to new choice delights; 126 Quarles Emblems. At length corrected by the filia
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