Emblemes (1635) (14751019332)
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Title: Emblemes
Year: 1635 (1630s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 Benlowes, Edward, 1603?-1676
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London, Printed by G.M. (George Miller?) and sold at Iohn Marriots Shope
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hat pleafure that thcu once did take Amongfl thy Lillies3 and f.\eete Bedscffpices:Hale ftrongly, thou whefe hand has powr to flakeThe fwift foot Fury of ten thouiand Vices:Let not that duit-devouring Dragon b:aft,His craft -has wonne, what Iudahs Lyon loit;Remember what it cravd,Recount the price it ccft- IslODQIU Jooki. EMBLEMES. 47 I s x o D o r : lib. i. De fummo bono. By how much tie newer Sathanperceives the vorld to an end,yfo much the more fiercely Hee troubles it with perfeeuttmtbatmowing himfelje is to bs damnsd.heemayget company mmlamnation* Ctpkian. inep: BroadandWatiom u the road to infernaUUfe: TJ^rea^Jn;icementsanddeath-bringingpteafures, There the KeviH flat-ters, that hee may deceive-, Smiles, that he may endamage 5 ffalures % that he may destroy. Epi g.xi.Nay foft and fake, good world, Poft not too faftjThy Iourncys end requires not halfe this hsfhVnleffe that Arme thou fo difdaintt, reprives thee3Alas thou needs muft goe: the devill drives thee. EMBLEMES; Booki. xh:
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>ok*. EMBLEMED 4^ XII.-ISAYLXVLXI. Teemayfuck^utnotbefatUfiedSoitbtbe \brefl of her Confutation. 1 Tt jHat never fUld?Be thylips skrewd fu fall (feife thee?I V To thearths full hreaft ? For flnme, for fhamc un*mm takft a furfeit,where thou fhotfldft but taft,And makft too much not halfe enough, to pleafe thee: Ahfoole,forbeare$Thou fwallowft at one breath»oth food and poyfon down5Thou drawft both milk & death, ■ v • i rhe ubrous breafts, when fairely drawne, repaft The thriving Infant with their milkie flood.Jut being ovcrrtiaind,returne3 at laft,VnholfOmc Gulps composd of wind and bioodjA modrate ufe does both repaft and pleafe 5Who faints beyond a meane, draws in and gulps defeafe, Jut, O, meane whofe good the leaftabufe.Makes bad, is too too hard to be directed 5Can Thornes bring erapes, or Crabs apleafing juce?Thers nothing wholfome, where the wholes infe&ediVnfeife thy lipSj Earths milks a ripned CoreThat drops from her defeafe,that matters ftem her Sore, .* - ■
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Francis QuarlesFrancis Quarles war ein englischer Dichter und Emblematiker. Gemessen an der Auflagenzahl seiner Werke, besonders der beiden beliebtesten, des Gedichtbandes Emblemes und der Aphorismensammlung Enchyridion, gilt er seinem Biographen Karl Josef Höltgen zufolge als der „populärste englische Dichter des 17. Jahrhunderts“. Die Zeit seines Wirkens fällt größtenteils in die politisch und religiös unruhige Regierungszeit Karls I., mit dessen Politik und den daraus erwachsenden gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen Quarles sich in seinen Werken kritisch auseinandersetzte. .. weiterlesen