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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.

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 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.