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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.

3.

THE THIRD BOOKE.

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4.

THE FOURTH BOOKE.

I.

I. ROMANS VII. XXIII.

II.

II. PSALMS CXIX. V.

III.

III. PSALMS XVII. V.

IV.

IV. PSALMS CXIX. CXX.

V.

V. PSALMS CXIX. XXXVII.

VI.

VI. ESTHER VII. III.

VII.

VII. CANTICLES VII. XI.

VIII.

VIII. CANTICLES I. III.

IX.

IX. CANTICLES VIII. I.

X.

X. CANTICLES XXX. I.

XI.

XI. CANTICLES III. II.

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XII.

XII. CANTICLES III. III.

Have you seene him whom my soule loveth? When I had past a little from them, then I found him, I took hold on him, and left him not.

12.

EPIGRAM 12.

XIII.

XIII. PSALMS LXXII. XXVIII.

XIV.

XIV. CANTICLES II. III.

XV.

XV. PSALMS CXXXXVII. IV.

5.

[Hieroglyphikes]

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EPIGRAM 12.

[What? found him out? Let strong embraces bind him]

What? found him out? Let strong embraces bind him;
Hee'l fly perchance, where teares can never find him:
New Sins will lose what old Repentance gaines:
Wisedome not onely gets, but got, retaines.