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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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[By Fathers, backt; by Holy Writ, led on]

1.

THE FIRST BOOKE

2.

THE SECOND BOOKE.

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3.

THE THIRD BOOKE.

The Entertainment.

I.

I. ISIAH XXIX. VI.

II.

II. PSALMS LXIX. III.

III.

III. PSALMS VI. II.

IV.

IV. PSALMS XXV. XVIII.

V.

VI.

VI. JOB VII. XX.

VII.

VII. JOB XIII. XXIV.

VIII.

VIII. JEREMIAH IX. I.

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IX.

IX. PSALMS XVIII. V.

The sorrowes of hell compassed me about, and the snares of death prevented me.

9.

X.

X. PSALMS CXLIII. II.

XI.

XI. PSALMS LXIX. XV.

XII.

XII. JOB XIV. XIII.

XIII.

XIII. JOB X. XX.

XIV.

XIV. DEUTERONOMY XXXII. XXIX.

XV.

XV. PSALMS XXX. X.

4.

THE FOURTH BOOKE.

5.

[Hieroglyphikes]

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S. CHRYS. sup. Matth. 19

What is an evill woman but the enemy of friendship, an unavoidable paine, a necessary mischiefe, a naturall tentation, a desiderable calamity, a domestick danger, a delectable inconvenience, and the nature of evill painted over with the colour of good!