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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 14.

[What soule, no father yet? what nev'r commence]

What soule, no father yet? what nev'r commence
Master in Faith? Still Batchelour of Sense?
Is't insufficiency? Or, what has made thee
Oreslip thy lost degree? Thy lusts have staid thee.
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