. Francis Quarles' Emblems and : Hieroglyphics of the life of man, modernized : in four books . ats, and flceps by Turns,His Life is but a Dream. Reflexion. The beft of Knowledge is thyfelf to know ;On this fair Tree the Richeii Blefungs firft Original know whence derived,Wrapt up Sin when in thy Mother born, a naked, helplefs, crying Child,.With many Spots of tainting Sin ere to Reafon was thy Senfe, long in fv^addled Ignorance immurdThy Candle, pjacd in a brittle Urn,Dimley and weak at fird began to , enlightend but by flow degrees,Obj

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. Francis Quarles' Emblems and : Hieroglyphics of the life of man, modernized : in four books . ats, and flceps by Turns,His Life is but a Dream. Reflexion. The beft of Knowledge is thyfelf to know ;On this fair Tree the Richeii Blefungs firft Original know whence derived,Wrapt up Sin when in thy Mother born, a naked, helplefs, crying Child,.With many Spots of tainting Sin ere to Reafon was thy Senfe, long in fv^addled Ignorance immurdThy Candle, pjacd in a brittle Urn,Dimley and weak at fird began to , enlightend but by flow degrees,Objefts, imperfeftly diilinguifhd, is the time betwixt his Birth and Death,And may To-morrow draw his fhorteH Breath ;Flutters a while upon the bufy Scene,For Pleafure mofi his Appetite is Curtain drawn, the Man no more darkened Stage a gloomy Afpefl Mailer, Death, at length has closd the Play,And fent his Audience mournfully iength this Mighty Man, who lookd fo brave,Pursd in a Coffin, drops into the Grave. [ 154 ]H I E R O G L Y P H I C K ^^/k^^^. ?:Sf\^t^^: LtTvi^fe*-

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