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Divine emblems

Embellished with etchings on copper, after the fashion of Master Francis Quarles. Designed and written by, Johann Abricht [i.e. Jonathan Birch
Birch, J. (1783-1847)

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DIVINE EMBLEMS.
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EMBLEM I.
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EMBLEM II.
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EMBLEM III.
  
[A dainty voyage thou hast made, forsooth]
  
EPIG.
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EMBLEM IV.
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EMBLEM V.
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EMBLEM VI.
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EMBLEM VII.
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EMBLEM VIII.
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EMBLEM IX.
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EMBLEM X.
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EMBLEM XI.
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EMBLEM XII.
  
[ALAS!]

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EPIG.

[What is the World?—a field of flowers, and weeds, and stubble!]

What is the World?—a field of flowers, and weeds, and stubble!
And life?—a very schoolboy's soapen bubble!
Which if a fly but cross its airy way,
The bubble bursts—the Globe has passed away!
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