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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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[Hieroglyphikes]

The minde of the Frontispeece.

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I.

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Behold I was shaped in Iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. PSALMS 51. 5.

St. AUGUST.

1.

II.

III.

HIEROGLIPH III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

HIEROGLIPH VII.

VIII.

HIEROGLIPH VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

HIEROGLIPH XII.

XIII.

HIEROGLIPH XIII.

XIV.

HIEROGLIPH XIV.

XV.

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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.