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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]

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1.

THE FIRST BOOKE

I.

I. JAMES I. XIV.

II.

II. JAMES I. XV.

III.

III. PROVERBS XIV. XIII.

IV.

IV. PSALMS LXII. IX.

V.

V. I CORINTHIANS VII. XXXI.

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VI.

VI. ECCLESIASTES II. XVII.

All is vanitie and vexation of spirit.

6.

EPIGRAM 6.

VII.

VII. I PETER V. VIII.

VIII.

VIII. LUKE VI. XXV.

IX.

IX. I JOHN II. XVII.

X.

X. JOHN VIII. XLIV.

XI.

XI. EPHESIANS II. II.

XII.

XII. ISAIAH LXVI. XI.

XIII.

XIII. JOHN III. XIX.

XIV.

XIV. PSALMS XIII. III.

XV.

XV. REVELATION XII. XII.

2.

THE SECOND BOOKE.

3.

THE THIRD BOOKE.

4.

THE FOURTH BOOKE.

5.

[Hieroglyphikes]

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EPIGRAM 6.

[Worldling, whose whimpring folly holds the losses]

Worldling, whose whimpring folly holds the losses
Of Honour, Pleasure, health and Wealth such Crosses,
Looke here, and tell me what your Armes engrosse,
When the best end of what ye hugg's a Crosse.