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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.

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VI.

VI. PSALMS LXXIII. XXV.

Whom have I in heav'n but Thee? and what desire I on earth in respect of Thee?

6.

EPIGRAM 6.

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.

XIII.

XIII. PSALMS LV. VI.

XIV.

XIV. PSALMS LXXXIV. I.

XV.

XV. CANTICLES VIII. XIV.

[Hieroglyphikes]

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EPIGRAM 6.

[Who would not throw his better thoughts about him]

Who would not throw his better thoughts about him,
And scorne this drosse within him; that, without him?
Cast up (my soule) thy clearer eye; Behold.
If thou be fully melted: There's the Mould.