. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . nty, Thefe by Handfuls throws was not made to hoard,Pleafures are by it proeurd. Now he plies the chearful Bottle 5 Now a Venus he adores;In a Coach you fee him rattle, And along the Streets he icours :Juft like an unmanagd Horle,Never keeps a fteady Courfev Reflexion, Now Twenty Years are told ; the Youths a Man ;And he has run two Inches of his Blood now nimbly courfes thro his Veins,And vigrous Life all thro his Nature r
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . nty, Thefe by Handfuls throws was not made to hoard,Pleafures are by it proeurd. Now he plies the chearful Bottle 5 Now a Venus he adores;In a Coach you fee him rattle, And along the Streets he icours :Juft like an unmanagd Horle,Never keeps a fteady Courfev Reflexion, Now Twenty Years are told ; the Youths a Man ;And he has run two Inches of his Blood now nimbly courfes thro his Veins,And vigrous Life all thro his Nature he drives along the flowfy Way,Where Pleafure leads, and where the Graces play,With Bacchus he his jovial Soul regales,And future Evils on himfelf his Goddefs too, muft be adord ;A Youth without a Miftrefs looks Hours are fpent in Gaiety and Love,Refoivd the various Joys of Life to he ranges on from Scene to Scene,,Wild in his Courfe, his Paflions feel no Rein ;Till by the Experience he has dearly bought,He fees hi*Errors, and is beuer taught. l82 HlEROOLYPHlCKS. Book VI. HIEROGLYPHICK The Youth is now advancd to Man,And thirty merry Years has ran;Reafon muft now afTurne her Place,And plan the Method of his Race, Book VI. Moral andD ivine. 183 HIEROGLYPHICK XI. MANHOOD. NO W the Youths a Man his Reafon is mature ;Now he fe«s whats Good and Great,What will Happinefs procure. If Ambition fire his Soul, Arms and Battles fweetly found;Who his Courage can controul, Till with Laurels he is crownd ? If a ftudious Life he chufe, Clofe he plies his Book and Pen ;Thus devoted to the Mufe, Soon hell rank with learned M£h. Reflexion, Now he is ripend into proper Age,And Thirty Years has a&ed on the Strengths mature, his Senfes are in Prime,To fwig full Draughts of Pleafure nows his Time-;Yet with more Caution than he did before,—He views the Dangers ere he trulls the now begins to prune
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