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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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[Hieroglyphikes]

The minde of the Frontispeece.

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I.

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Behold I was shaped in Iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. PSALMS 51. 5.

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HIEROGLIPH III.

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HIEROGLIPH VII.

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HIEROGLIPH VIII.

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HIEROGLIPH XII.

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HIEROGLIPH XIII.

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HIEROGLIPH XIV.

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HUGO.

O the extreame loathsomnesse of fleshly lust, which not onely effeminates the mind, but enerves the body; which not onely distaines the soule, but disguises the person! It is usher'd with fury and wantonnesse. It is accompanied with filthinesse and uncleannesse, and it is followed with griefe and repentance.