Emblemes by Francis Quarles.

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Title
Emblemes by Francis Quarles.
Author
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
Publication
Cambridge :: Printed by R. D. for Francis Eglesfeild ...,
1643.
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Emblems -- Early works to 1800.
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"Emblemes by Francis Quarles." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56969.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.

Pages

Page 187

INNOCENT. de vilitate condit. humanae.
O who will give mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I may bewail the miserable ingresse of mans condition; the sinfull pregresse of mans conversation, the damnable egresse in mans dissolution? I will consider with tears, whereof man was made, what man doth, and what man is to do: Alas, he is formed of earth, conceived in sinne, born to punishment: He doth evil things, which are not lawfull; He doth •…•…ilthy things, which are not decent; He doth vain things, which are not •…•…pedient.
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