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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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29.

[What e're my stat's, my love proves constant still]

What e're my stat's, my love proves constant still
To this my Soule, we part against our will;
Or when fierce Boreas with his blustering gale,
Or some mischance my lovely sight doth quale:
Else I and Light my life, would never part,
Before to ashes fates did me convert.
Nature commands us to maintaine our breath
And being, shunning life-destroying death.
Yet man from Atropus oft takes the knife,
And cuts his fatall thred devouring life:
For why, he fearing death before his day,
Before th' allarum, makes himselfe away.
Ah wretch! unworthy to behold the skye,
Who will not live, and knowes not how to dye.
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