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Lychnocausia

Sive Moralia Facum Emblemata: Lights Morall Emblems: Authore Roberto Farlaeo Scoto-Britanno [i.e. by Robert Farley]
Farley, Robert
  
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To the most Noble and Illustrious Lady, both for Nobility and Piety, as of Vertue a rare and peerlesse example, Lady Anne Kare, Countesse of Ancram.
  
To his friend the Author.
  
To the Author.
  
To the Author.
  
To the Ingenious Author, on his Latin and English Morall Emblems.
  
Britaines Great Lights.
  
Oxonia.
  
Cantabrigia.
  
To the Reader.
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[Study me in thy Prime]

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14.

[When that my clammy substance was entire]

When that my clammy substance was entire,
I was an earthly nurse of heav'n-bred fire;
Now envious time doth me in ashes turne
And to a tedious snuffe my light doth burne:
Loe I have done, take thou this light of mine;
I yeeld, doe what thou canst, the turne is thine.
So the Comedian having plaid his share,
Gives place to others, who then actors are:
A King his weighty office having done,
Dying transfers his Scepter to his sonne:
When that the crasie Souldiers strength doth faile,
The younger must the enemy assaile.
Happy is he the evening of whose daies
Doth crowne his death with ever-living bayes.
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