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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.

4.

THE FOURTH BOOKE.

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5.

I.

I. CANTICLES V. VIII.

II.

II. CANTICLES II. V.

III.

III. CANTICLES II. XVI.

IV.

IV. CANTICLES VII. X.

V.

V. CANTICLES V. VI.

VI.

VI. PSALMS LXXIII. XXV.

VII.

VII. PSALMS CXX. V.

VIII.

VIII. ROMANS VII. XXIV.

IX.

IX. PHILIPPIANS I. XXIII.

X.

X. PSALMS CXLII. VII.

XI.

XI. PSALMS XLII. I.

XII.

XII. PSALMS XLII. II.

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XIII.

XIII. PSALMS LV. VI.

O that I had the wings of a Dove, for then I would flee away and be at rest.

13.

XIV.

XIV. PSALMS LXXXIV. I.

XV.

XV. CANTICLES VIII. XIV.

[Hieroglyphikes]

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S. AUGUST. Med. Cap, 25.

If man can love man with so entire affection, that the one can scarce brooke the others absence; If a Bride can be joyned to her Bride-groome with so great an ardency of mind, that for the extremity of love she can enjoy no rest, nor suffring his absence without great anxiety with what affection, with what fervency ought the soule whom thou hast espoused by faith and compassion, to love thee her true God and glorious Bridegroom?