Diuine fancies digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations / by Fra. Quarles.
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- Title
- Diuine fancies digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations / by Fra. Quarles.
- Author
- Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by M.F. for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstans churchyard in Fleetstreet,
- 1633.
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- Subject terms
- Epigrams, English.
- Meditations.
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"Diuine fancies digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations / by Fra. Quarles." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10251.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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TO THE ROYALL BVDDE OF MAIESTIE, and Center of all our Hopes and Happinesse, CHARLES, Prince of Great BRITAINE, France and Ireland, SONNE and HEYRE Apparant to the High and Mighty CHARLES, by the Grace of GOD, King of Great BRITAINE, FRANCE, and IRELAND, &c.
Illustrious Infant:
GIve mee leave to ac∣knowledge my selfe thy Servant, ere thou knowst thy Selfe my Prince: My Zeale burnes mee, and my desires are im∣patient:
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My breeding Muse longs for greene fruit, and cannot stay thy ripenesse: Sweet Babe; The loyalty of my Service makes bold to conse∣crate these early Leaves to thy sa∣cred Infancie, not knowing how to glorifie themselues, more, then by the Patronage of such Princely In∣nocencie. Modell of Sweetnesse, Let thy busie Fingers entertaine this slender Present, and let thy harme∣lesse Smiles crowne it: When thy Infancie hath crackt the Shell, let thy Childhood tast the Kernell; In the meane while, let thy little hands and Eyes peruse it: Lugge it in thy ten∣der Armes, and lay thy burthen at thy Royall Parents feet; for whose sake, it may gaine some honor from their glorious Eyes. Heaven blesse thy Youth with Grace, and crowne
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thy Age with Glorie: Angells con∣duct thee from the Cradle, to the Crowne: Let the English Rose, and the French Lilly florish in thy loue∣ly Cheeke: And let their united Co∣lours presage an euerlasting League. Let the eminent Qualities of both thy renowned Grand-fathers meet in thy Princely Heart; that thou mayst, in Peace, be honourable; and in Warre, victorious. And let the great addition of thy Royall Parents Vertues make thee vp a most incom∣parable Prince, the firme Pillar of our happines, and the future Object of the Worlds wonder
Expected, and prayd for by
Your Highnesses most Loyall and humble servant, FRA: QVARLES.