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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

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S. AUGUST. Soliloq. Cap. 13.

I follow this thing, I pursue that; but am fill'd with nothing. But when I found thee, who art that immutable, individed, and onely good, in myselfe, what I obtained, I wanted not; for what I obtained not, I grieved not; with what I was possest, my whole desire was satisfied.