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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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EPIGRAM 4.

[Cupid; thy diet's strange; It dulls; It rowzes]

Cupid; thy diet's strange; It dulls; It rowzes;
It cooles; it heats; it binds, and then it looses:
Dull-sprightly-cold-hot Foole, if ev'r it winds thee
Into loosenesse once, take heed; It binds thee.
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