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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.

VI.

VI. ECCLESIASTES II. XVII.

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.

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XV.

XV. REVELATION XII. XII.

The Devill is come unto you, having great wrath, because hee knoweth that hee hath but a short time.

15.

EPIGRAM 15.

2.

THE SECOND BOOKE.

3.

THE THIRD BOOKE.

4.

THE FOURTH BOOKE.

5.

[Hieroglyphikes]

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EPIGRAM 15.

[My Soule, sit thou a patient looker on]

My Soule, sit thou a patient looker on;
Judge not the Play before the Play be done:
Her Plot has many Changes: Every Day
Speakes a new Scene; The last Act crownes the Play.