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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 15. To the Infant.

What he doth spend in groanes, thou spendst in teares:
Judgment and strength's alike in both your yeares;
Hee's helpless; so art thou; What difference than?
Hee's an old Infant; Thou, a young old Man
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