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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

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St. AUGUST.

Consider O man what thou wert before thy Birth, and what thou art from thy birth to thy death, and what thou shalt be after death: Thou wert made of an impure substance, cloathed and nourished in thy Mother's blood.