Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).

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Title: Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).
Author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
Publication: Amsterdam :: Printed by Stephen Swart ...,; 1677.
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Subject terms: Conduct of life.; Maxims.
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CHAP. LVI.

IF a Conquerour hath subdued a Countrey, or a City abounding with pleasures, let him be very circumspect to keep himself and his Souldiers tem∣perate. Pleasures bring effoeminacy; and effoeminacy fore-runs ruine: such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselvs upon their intemperate Conquerours.