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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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EPIGRAM 12.

[How art thou shaded in this vale of night]

How art thou shaded in this vale of night,
Behind thy Curtaine flesh? Thou seest no light,
But what thy Pride does challenge as her owne;
Thy Flesh is high: Soule, take this Curtaine downe.
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