. Quarles' Emblems . Tlicy shall be as the chaff that is driven with a whirl-wind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.—HOSEA XIII. 3. Faint-hearted Stoics, you, whose marble eyesContemn a wrinkle, and whose souls despiseTo follow natures too affected fashion,Or travel in the regent walk of passion ;Whose rigid hearts disdain to shrink at fears,Or play at fast and loose, with smiles and tears ;Come, burst your spleens with laughter to beholdA new-found vanity, which days of oldNeer knew : a vanity that has besetThe world, and made more slaves than Mahomet :That has condemnd us
. Quarles' Emblems . Tlicy shall be as the chaff that is driven with a whirl-wind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.—HOSEA XIII. 3. Faint-hearted Stoics, you, whose marble eyesContemn a wrinkle, and whose souls despiseTo follow natures too affected fashion,Or travel in the regent walk of passion ;Whose rigid hearts disdain to shrink at fears,Or play at fast and loose, with smiles and tears ;Come, burst your spleens with laughter to beholdA new-found vanity, which days of oldNeer knew : a vanity that has besetThe world, and made more slaves than Mahomet :That has condemnd us to the servile yokeOf slavery, and made us slaves to stay, why tax I thus our modern times,For new-born follies, and for new-born crimes ?Are we sole guilty, and the first age free ?No, they were smokd and slavd as well as we :Whats sweet-lipt honours blast, but smoke? Whatstreasure, G 82 Quarks Emblems. But very smoke ? And what more smoke than pleasure ? Alas ! theyre all but shadows, fumes and blasts
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