item: #1 of 32
          id: A10246
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Argalus and Parthenia The argument of ye history. Written by Fra: Quarles.
        date: 1629.0
       words: 41201
      flesch: 63
     summary: And now , my Lord , although this office be Vnsutable to my sex , and disagree T●…o much perchance , with the too mean condition Of my estate , more like to finde dirision , Then satisfaction ; yet , my gratious Lord , Extr'ordinary merits doe afford Extr'ordinary meanes , and can excuse The breach of custome , or the common vse ; VVherefore , incite●… 〈◊〉 the deare directions Of dead Parther●… , 〈◊〉 mine owne affections , And by the exc'lence of your high desert , I here present you with a faithfull heart , A heart , to you deuoted ; which assures It selfe no happinesse , but in being yours . Her Mother was a Lady , whom deepe age More fi l'd with honour , then diseases ; s●…ge , A modest Matron , strict , reseru'd , austere , Sp●…ring in sp●…ch , bu●… liberall of her eare ; Fi●…rce to her fo●…s , and violent where she l kes ; Wedded to what her owne opinion strikes ; Fr●…quent quent in almes , and charitable deeds , Of mighty spirit , constant to her beads , Wisely suspitious ; but what need we other Then this ? she was the rare Parthenia's mother ; That rare Parthenia , in whose heauenly eye Sits maiden-mildnesse , mixt with Maiesty , Whose secret power hath a double skill , By frownes or smiles , to make aliue , or kill ; Her cheeks are like two bancks of fairest flowers , Inricht with sweetnesse from the twilight showers , Whereon those iarres which were so often bred , Composed were , betwixt the white and red : Her haire raught downe beneath her yuory knees , As if that Nature , to so rare a piece , H●…d meant a shadow , labouring to show A●…d boast the vtmost , that her hand could doe : Like sm●…llest flaxe appea●…'d her Nymph like haire , But only fl●…xe was not so small , so faire : H r lips like Rubies , and you 'd thinke , within , In stead of teeth , that orient Pearles had bin : The whiten●…sse of her dainty n●…ck you know , If euer you behold the new-salne Snow ; Her Swan-like brests were like two little Spheares , Wherein , each a zure line in view appeares , Which , were they obuious but to euery eye , All liberall Arts would turne Astronomie ; Her sl●…nder wast , her lilly hands , her armes I dare not 〈◊〉 to view , because all charmes Forbidden are : My bashfull Muse descends No lower sleppe : He●…e her Commission ends , And by another vertue doth enioyne My pen to treate perfection , more diuine : The chast Diana , and her Virgin-crew Was but a Type of one , that should ensue In after ages , which we find exprest , And here fulfill'd in chasts Parthenia's brest : True vertue was the obiect of her will ;
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        item: #2 of 32
          id: A10251
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Diuine fancies digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations / by Fra. Quarles.
        date: 1633.0
       words: 40349
      flesch: 82
     summary: ●thing , if compar'd with Thee ; If lesse and worse then Nothing , tell me than , Where is that S●mthing , thou so boasts , proud Man ? 16. Madam , May your Honors increase with your howers , and let eternall Glory crowne your U●rtues ; that when this Age shall sleepe in Dust , our Children , yet unborne , may honour your glorious Memory , under the happinesse of his Government , whose Governesse you are ; which shall be daily the Subject of his Prayers , who is The sworne-Servant of your Ladiships Perfections , FRA : QVARLES .
    keywords: art; bin; blood; common; crowne; day; dayes; death; doe; dye; earth; eye; eyes; faire; faith; fall; feare; flesh; glory; god; gods; goe; gold; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heav'n; keepe; land; lesse; life; light; like; lord; love; man; mans; men; nature; nay; new; oft; owne; peace; reason; rest; saviour; selfe; sin; sins; soule; sun; thee; thine; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; world; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 32
          id: A10255
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: An elegie vpon my deare brother, the Ionathan of my heart, Mr. Iohn Wheeler, sonne to Sir Edmond Wheeler of Riding Court neare Windsor, in the County of Buckingham, deceased
        date: 1637.0
       words: 2381
      flesch: 67
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: eebo; english; heart; tcp; teares; text; thy; wheeler
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        item: #4 of 32
          id: A10256
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: An elegie upon the truely lamented death of the Right Honorable Sir Julius Cæsar Knt. Master of the Rolles, and of Snt Katherins: and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Counsell. Wept by Fra: Qua
        date: 1636.0
       words: 2122
      flesch: 70
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 11029)
    keywords: caesar; death; eebo; english; fra; tcp; text
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        item: #5 of 32
          id: A10260
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: A feast for vvormes Set forth in a poeme of the history of Ionah. By Fra. Quarles.
        date: 1620.0
       words: 22536
      flesch: 78
     summary: GOd a sent Ionah the Prophet , to the Nineuites , to denounce his Iudgements against them for their sinnes : b but Ionah tooke shipping , intending to fly to Tarshish : c God raised a Storme , which indangered the Ship : d Whereupon the Mariners ( perplext ) e did cast Lots , to see for whose sake the Tempest was : The Lot fell vpon Ionah , f They all consented , and cast Ionah into the Sea : g But God prouided a Whale , which receiued Ionah , and swallowed him , in whose Belly he continued three Dayes , and three Nights : Where ( h He praying to God ) i God at length spake to the Whale , and the Whale did cast him vpon dry Land safe and sound :
    keywords: blood; chap; death; doe; doth; downe; dye; earth; eyes; faith; feare; feast; giue; god; goe; good; grace; griefe; hand; hath; haue; heart; heauen; hist; ionah; land; life; liue; lord; loue; man; men; mercy; neuer; praise; shall; sinnes; soule; thee; thine; thou; thy; tongue; vers; vpon; works; world
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        item: #6 of 32
          id: A10262
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Hadassa: or The history of Queene Ester with meditations thereupon, diuine and morall. By Fra. Quarles.
        date: 1621.0
       words: 15702
      flesch: 76
     summary: degenerate Cambyses ( vices ) ( Whose hand was fill'd with blood , whose heart with Sits crowned King , to vexe the Persian state , With heauy burthens , and with sore regrate . Cambyses now sits King , now Tyrant ( rather : ) ( Vnlucky Sonne of a renowmed Father . ) Blood cries for Blood : Himselfe reuenged hath His bloody Tyranny , with his owne death ; That cruell * sword on his owne flesh doth feed , Which made so many loyall Persians bleed , Whose wofull choyce made an indiff'rent thing , To leaue their liues , or lose their Tyran ' King : Cambyses dead , with him the latest drop ▪ Of Cyrus blood was spilt , his death did stop The infant source of his braue Syers worth , Ere after-times could spend his riuers forth .
    keywords: blood; chap; command; day; death; doe; ester; feast; god; good; great; haman; hand; hath; haue; heart; honour; iewes; king; land; life; liues; lord; mordecai; peace; persian; power; princely; princes; queene; royall; state; thee; thy; vpon; world
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        item: #7 of 32
          id: A10263
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Hieroglyphikes of the life of man. Fra: Quarles
        date: 1638.0
       words: 7992
      flesch: 85
     summary: But how , and when infus'd , ask not my Pen ; Here flyes a Cloud before the eyes of men : ●●●n not tell thee , how ; nor canst thou tell mee , when . It is an Aegyptian dish , drest on the English fashion : They , at their ●easts , used to present a Deaths-head at their ●econd course ; This will serve for both : You need not feare a surfet : Here is but ●●ttle ; And that , light of digestion : If it but ●lease your Palate , I question not your sto●ack : Fall too ; and much good may 't doe ●ou .
    keywords: art; daies; death; epig; flame; glory; hath; life; light; man; marshall; nature; sculpsit; soule; tapour; tcp; text; thee; thou; time
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        item: #8 of 32
          id: A10264
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The historie of Samson: written by Fra: Quarles
        date: 1631.0
       words: 24057
      flesch: 58
     summary: He offers by the Angells hand : The Angell vanishes in a flame . The day 's at hand , wherein thou must untie The Riddles tangled Snarle , or else must die ; Now , when that day was come wherein the feast Was to expire ; the Bride , ( whose pensive brest Grew sad to death ) did once more undertake Her too resolved Bridegroome thus , and spake : Vpon these knees , that prostrate on the floore , Are lowly bended , and shall nev'r give ore To move thy goodnesse , that shall never rise , Vntill my Suite finds favour in thine eyes , Vpon these naked knees , I here present My sad request : O let thy heart relent ; A Suitor sues , that never sued before ; And she begs now , that never will beg more : Hast thou vow'd silence ? O remember , how Thou art engaged by a former vow ; Thy heart is mine ; The secrets of thy heart Are mine ; Why art thou dainty to impart Mine owne , to me ?
    keywords: blood; come; day; death; doe; eyes; faire; feare; glory; god; good; hand; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; land; life; lips; love; man; pleasure; power; samson; sinne; soule; strength; thee; thine; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; vpon; wombe
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        item: #9 of 32
          id: A10266
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Iob militant with meditations diuine and morall. By Fra. Quarles.
        date: 1624.0
       words: 25310
      flesch: 79
     summary: Euen so the affection of this tender Syre ( Being made more feruent , with the selfe-same fyre Of dearest loue , which flamed in their brests , Preserued ( as by Fuell ) in those Feasts ) Was rauish'd in the height of Ioyes , to see His happy Childrens ten-fold vnitie : As was his Ioy , such was his holy Feare , Lest he , that plants his Engines euery-where , Bayted with golden Sinnes , and re-insnares The soule of man , turning his Wheat to Tares , Should season Error with the taste of Truth , And tempt the frailtie of their tender youth . Satan appeares , and then professes Himselfe mans Enemy , confesses Gods loue to Iob , malignes his Faith , Gaines power ouer all he hath .
    keywords: cause; chap; day; dayes; death; doe; doth; dust; e're; earth; eyes; forth; friends; god; good; griefe; hand; hath; haue; heart; heauen; ill; iob; iudge; iustice; life; light; lips; lord; man; mans; men; neuer; power; satan; selfe; soule; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; tongue; vpon; words; world
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        item: #10 of 32
          id: A10267
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Memorials vpon the death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight
        date: 1639.0
       words: 2020
      flesch: 59
     summary: Memorials vpon the death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 974:4) Memorials vpon the death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
    keywords: eebo; english; quarles; robert; sir; tcp; text
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        item: #11 of 32
          id: A26353
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The life and death of Dr. Martin Luther the passages whereof have bin taken out of his owne and other Godly and most learned, mens writings, who lived in his time.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 43475
      flesch: 76
     summary: The life and death of Dr. Martin Luther the passages whereof have bin taken out of his owne and other Godly and most learned, mens writings, who lived in his time. The life and death of Dr. Martin Luther the passages whereof have bin taken out of his owne and other Godly and most learned, mens writings, who lived in his time.
    keywords: answer; body; book; cause; christ; church; course; day; death; duke; elector; epist; faith; forth; george; germany; god; gods; good; gospel; great; hath; iohn; judgement; letter; life; like; lord; luther; man; matters; melancthon; men; pag; people; place; pope; princes; rome; saxony; set; spirit; things; thou; time; tom; tongue; truth; wittenberg; words; world; yeere
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        item: #12 of 32
          id: A43639
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Schola cordis, or, The heart of it selfe, gone away from God brought back againe to him & instructed by him in 47 emblems.
        date: 1647.0
       words: 23696
      flesch: 91
     summary: Like to a ●… , that is ●… , ●… heart is ●… , ●… still is found Comp●…st w●…th care , ●…nd ●… with the feare Of God , as with a flaming sword , and speare . My ●… refusing heart ●… all wake :
    keywords: canst; christ; death; doe; dost; doth; embleme; epigr; feare; fire; god; good; hath; heart; light; lord; love; mind; ode; owne; rest; self; sinne; soule; stand; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; wilt; world
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        item: #13 of 32
          id: A56827
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]
        date: 1698.0
       words: 27017
      flesch: 72
     summary: Think of God ( especially in thy Devotion ) in the Abstract , rather than in the Concrete : If thou conceive him good , thy finite Thoughts are ready to terminate that Good in a conceiv'd Subject ; if thou think him great , thy bounded Conceit is apt to cast him into a comprehensible Figure : When thou dost Evil , that Good may come thereby , the Evil is surely thine ; if Good should happen to ensue upon the Evil which thou hast done , the Good proceeds from God : If therefore thou do Evil , thereby to occasionate a Good , thou lay'st a bad Foundation for a good Building , and servest the Devil , that God may serve thee .
    keywords: art; canst; danger; desire; end; evil; fear; glory; god; good; hath; heart; honour; life; love; man; max; pleasure; prince; self; sin; soul; thee; thine; thou; thy; war; way; wisdom
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        item: #14 of 32
          id: A56828
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Judgement & mercy for afflicted soules, or, Meditations, soliloquies, and prayers by Fra. Quarles.
        date: 1646.0
       words: 27996
      flesch: 70
     summary: I blush O Lord to confesse the basenesse of my life , and am utterly asham'd of mine owne foolishnesse : I have placed my affections upon the nasty Rubbish of this world , and have slighted the inestimable Pearle of my salvation ; I have wallow'd in the mire of my inordinate desires , and refused to bee washt in the streames of thy compassion ; I have put my confidence into the faithfulnesse of my servant , and have doubted the providence of thee my gratious Father ; I have served unrighteous Mammon with greedinesse , and have preferred drosse and dung before the Pearly gates of New Jerusalem ; Thou hast promised to bee all in all to those that feare thee , and not to faile the soule that trusts in thee ; but I refused thy gratious offer , and put my confidence in the vanity of the Creature : But gratious God to whom Repentance never comes unseasonable , that find ' ●t an ●are when sinnes finde a tongue , regard the con●rition of a bleeding heart , and withdraw not thy mercy from a pensive soule . 2002-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-05 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-06 John Latta Sampled and proofread 2002-06 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-07 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Pictor adumbravit Vultum ●uem cernimus a●t hic Non valet egregias 〈◊〉 mentis Opes Has si seire cupis , sua consu●c Carmina ●n ●●lis Dotes percipies pectoris eximias What heere wee see is but a Graven face Onely the shaddow of that brittle case Wherin were treasur'd up those Gemms , which he Hath left behind him to Posteritie .
    keywords: bee; blood; conscience; day; doe; evill; feare; glory; god; good; hand; hath; heart; heaven; honour; judgement; life; lord; love; man; mans; meditation; mee; mee o; mercy; o god; o lord; owne; pleasure; prayer; selfe; sinne; soule; spirit; thee; thou; thy; time; tongue; truth; wee; world; ● ●
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        item: #15 of 32
          id: A56830
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: King Solomon's recantations being an extract out of the famous works of the learned Francis Quarles ... : with an essay, to prove the immortality of the soul, by way of symetry, or connexion.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 32011
      flesch: 55
     summary: The Scripture speaks of Ho●Souls , as if they had the Pleasure of walking on th● Globes of the Heavens , and to be in the midst of th● Stars , to walk upon the Sun and the Moon after t●● manner of Spirits ; it accommodates it self to o● ross manner of speaking , and of conceiving t● most Spiritual things under Corporeal forms , whic● may be called a clear distinct Idea of the visib●● World , which God gives to Just Souls ; they wa● after their manner upon the Arches of Heaven ; they are capable of being at the same time at both the Poles of the World ; they are said to fill its whole extent ; they are in both the Hemispheres . 1686. and Sold by Randal Taylo● near Stationers Hall ; I. Harding , at the Bi●● and Anchor in Newport-street ; Rich.
    keywords: bodies; body; day; death; divine; glory; god; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; holy; infinite; let; life; like; lord; love; man; men; nature; o ●; power; self; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; virtue; wisdom; world; ● e; ● n; ● nd; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #16 of 32
          id: A56832
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The loyall convert
        date: 1644.0
       words: 7499
      flesch: 67
     summary: Power in it selfe is neither good nor evill , but as it is in subjecto , the person ; If an evill King an evill Power , if a good King , a good Power : God sends the one in Mercy ; and we must be subject ; the other in Judgement , and we must be subject : in things lawfull , actively ; in things unlawfull , passively : If a good King , he must have our praise and our plyance ; If an evill King , he must have our Prayers , and our Patience . God that hath put power into the hand of Majestie , hath likewise planted mercie in the heart of Soveraigntie : And , will ye take away both his birth-right and his Blessing also ? Take heed , you doe not slight that , which one day may prove your Sanctuarie .
    keywords: ans; armes; god; hath; king; peace; power; religion; subjects; text; thou; truth; way
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        item: #17 of 32
          id: A56836
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The profest royalist his quarrell with the times, maintained in three tracts ...
        date: 1645.0
       words: 32595
      flesch: 65
     summary: And what Law denies the King power to pardon Delinquents ? God , that hath put power into the hand of Majesty , hath likewise planted Mercy in the heart of Soveraignty : And , will ye take away both his birth-right and his Blessing also ? Take heed , you doe not slight that , which one day may prove your Sanctuary . If the enjoyment of Peace depends upon a full Assurance of Truth , our discords may beare an everlasting date : God hath threatned to remove his Candlesticke , and our wickednesse justly feares it ; And so long as we feare it , shall we abjure Peace , the blessed meanes to prevent it ?
    keywords: ans; blood; burges; cal; cap; church; doctor; feare; god; gods; good; government; great; hath; holy; king; kingdome; like; line; lord; majesty; man; nay; new; parliament; peace; people; power; princes; religion; repl; set; subjects; thee; things; thou; time; truth; way; zeale
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        item: #18 of 32
          id: A56839
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The shepheards oracles delivered in certain eglogues. By Fra: Quarles.
        date: None
       words: 27943
      flesch: 73
     summary: But stay , deare Shepheard , shall my sisters crimes , Or shall th' unjust Rebellions of her times Be plagu'd in me ? Or shall thy lips demand The debts of Iudabell at Gentilla's hand ? But there 's a wiser sort ; and such are they That spread their stronger wings , and use to prey For their own selves ; that can behold the Sun , Like Joves own bird , and when the day is done , Can roost themselves ; these kind of birds are wary Where they frequent , their hagard eyes are chary Near whom th' approach : for these the Shepherd plants His close-laid Gins ; their common food are Wants , And fucking Lev'rets ; often time they stoop At their own shades , fly thousands in a troop : We bait our Gins with fleshly Recreations , Larded with Pardons , drest with Dispensations : Oft times we take ; but taken , there 's the skill , How to reclaim their wildnesse to our will : At first , they 'l strive and struggle out of breath ; If we use force , they 'l beat themselves to death : They will not brook the dark , whose Eagle eyes Have view'd the Sun ; Here , Swain , we must be wise ; They must have freedome , Shepheard , yet not so But that their freedome may appeare to grow From our permission ; then they must be fed With dainties , whereunto they ne'er were bred ; And 't is the nature of these birds to feed So long , till their dull wings can find no speed , Nor they , their wings ; Howe'r , put case , they try Their wings are clipt , unknown ; they cannot fly ; Thus kept with feeding , and with gentle handing , And made familiar with our wanton dandling , They 'l make themselves our Slaves ; & in strong bands Will yeild themselves close prisoners to our hands ; They 'l fall before thee , and like water spilt , Maist draw them with a finger where thou wilt : Now we begin to work , our smoother brow Growes more severe ; our wanton favours , now , Wax more reserv'd ; they that before we dandled Like looser Minions , they must now be handled Like servill stuffe ; they now must know their distance ; Where we command , there must be no resistance : They must not question now ; and what we say , They must beleeve ; what we enjoyne , obey : These are the Hawks we fly with ; and our Game Is Gold and Glory , and an honour'd name : These are the generous Spaniels that retrive Imperiall Crownes , and swallow Kings alive : The simpler sort maintain us plump and fat , But these advance the Glory of our State : The Eyas Faulcon's not so fierce in Game , As th' high pitch'd Hagard , whom our hands reclaime : These are brave dayes ; and these brave dayes we live : This is the trade that Roman Shepheards drive .
    keywords: anar; art; blood; day; doe; eare; earth; eyes; faire; feed; flocks; fold; gentilla; glory; god; good; hand; hath; heart; heaven; holy; know; lambs; love; man; nay; night; pan; place; power; rest; rom; sheep; shepheard; swain; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; times; tongue; truth
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        item: #19 of 32
          id: A56841
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Solomons recantation, entitvled Ecclesiastes paraphrased with a soliloquie or meditation upon every chapter : very seasonable and useful for these times / by Francis Quarles ; with a short relation of his life and death.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 19578
      flesch: 77
     summary: Away , away ; the holy Saints-bell rings , Put on thy robes , and oyle thy sacred wings : Call home thy heart , and bid thy Thoughts surcease To be thy Thoughts ; Go , bind them to the peace ; Take good security , or if such fail , Commit them to the all-commanding Iail Of thy cram'd bags , there to lie close and fast Vntill thy heav'n atoning vowes be past : Confine thy rambling pleasures to the trust Of vacant houres : And let thy wisdome thrust Indulgent Hagar , and her base born child From thy sad Gates ; Let them be both exil'd From thy soft b●some ; Let not Ishmael share Whith holy Isa'c ; Isa'c must be heire : Nor let thy sorrow melted heart bemone Thy banisht bondslave , nor her thirsty sonne : Take thou no care for them ; Heav'n will supply Their craving thirst with bottles from thine eye : Leave all thy servill Fancies in the vale , Mount thou the sacred Hill , and there , bewaile Thy dying Isa'c , whose free gift may be A living pledge betwixt thy God and thee . Alas , my soul , if heaven should suit thy store With thy desire , then wouldst desire yet more : Or if spring tides of Gold shonld a degree Transcend thy wish , perchance it would want thee : What if a num'rous Off-spring should proclame A perpetuity to th' lasting Name ; Or if the even-spun Twine should be extended Till thou could'st number Nations all descended From thine own loynes ; yet , if the sparing hand Of wayward Providence should chance to brand Thy dayes with poverty , th' abortive birth Is more indebted to the gracious earth Then thou , Whose shadow-grasping hand even tires Upon the vanity of the vast desires : Nay , if both beav'n and earth should undertake T' extract the best from all Mankind to make One perfect happy man , and thou wert Hee ; Thy finite fortunes still would disagree With thy insatiate soul : Some Q●almes of earth , Hereditary to thy humane birth , Would print thy pamper'd soul with such a fresh And lively Character of feeble flesh , That all thy joyes ( do Fortune what she can )
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        item: #20 of 32
          id: A56843
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The virgin widow a comedie : vvritten by Fra. Quarles.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 19952
      flesch: 92
     summary: Kettreena , we thank ye , Health and wealth 's a double purchase . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
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        item: #21 of 32
          id: A56845
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The Whig rampant, or, Exaltation being a pleasant new song of 82, to a new tune of, Hey boys, up go we.
        date: 1682.0
       words: 1357
      flesch: 71
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A56845) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 60544)
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        item: #22 of 32
          id: A56846
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The vvhipper vvhipt being a reply upon a scandalous pamphlet, called The whip, abusing that excellent work of Cornelius Burges, Dr in divinity, one of the Assembly of Divines, entituled, The fire of the sanctuary newly discovered / inserti authoris, Qui Mockat, Mockabitur.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 15511
      flesch: 67
     summary: He whose enlightned judgment there called his God to witnesse , hath condemned your Cause , styled you by the Name of Rebell , and branded your actions with the style of flat REBELLION : His Conscience , then , had neither Feare to pinch it ; nor Affection , to enlarge it ; nor could his Merits aime at any By-respects for his maintayning of so known a truth , so doubly fortified both by the law of God and Nature : REBELLION is a Trade the Devil is free of : It is both Trade and Devil too : No wonder , Cal. to see you run so fast ; You know who drives you : If he testify in secret to his God , his dislike of such Varlots , avoide needlesse societie , and unnecessary commerce with them , and in his soul , secretly mourne for their dishonouring God , he hath done his duty .
    keywords: blood; burges; cal; cap; church; conscience; doctor; fire; god; gods; good; hath; holy; king; line; man; men; pag; people; princes; religion; repl; spirit; text; zeale
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        item: #23 of 32
          id: A56847
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
        date: 1698.0
       words: 27071
      flesch: 74
     summary: When thou dost Evil , that Good may come thereby , the Evil is surely thine ; if Good should happen to ensue upon the Evil which thou hast done , the Good proceeds from God : If therefore thou do Evil , thereby to occasionate a Good , thou lay'st a bad Foundation for a good Building , and servest the Devil , that God may serve thee . If thou desire that inestimable grace of Saving Faith , detest that insatiable Vice of damnable Covetousness ; it is impossible one heart ( though never so double ) should lodge both : Faith possesseth thee of what thou hast not , Covetousness disposesseth thee of what thou hast , thou canst not serve God , unless Mammon serve thee . MAX. 67.
    keywords: art; danger; desire; end; evil; fear; glory; god; good; hath; heart; honour; life; love; man; max; men; prince; self; sin; soul; thee; thine; thou; thy; war; way; wisdom
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        item: #24 of 32
          id: A56943
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Boanarges and Barnabas, or, Judgment and mercy for afflicted soules containing of [brace] meditations, soliloquies, and prayers / by Francis Quarles.
        date: 1646.0
       words: 27990
      flesch: 71
     summary: Like a Flie , thou stingest his sores and feed'st on his corruptions ; Iesus came eating and drinking , and was judg'd a glutton ; Iohn came fasting , and was challeng●d with a devill ; Iudge not my soule , lest thou be judged ; maligne not thy brother , lest God laugh at thy destruction : Wouldst thou escape the punishment ? judge thy selfe : Wouldst thou avoid the sin ? humble thy selfe . Seek God whilst thou canst not see him , for when thou seest him , thou canst not find him ; seek him by hope , and thou shalt finde him by faith : In the day of grace hee is invisible , but neare ; in the day of judgement he is visible , but far off .
    keywords: bee; blood; conscience; day; doe; glory; god; good; hand; hath; heart; heaven; honour; judgement; lie; life; lord; love; man; mans; meditation; mee; mercy; o god; o lord; owne; pleasure; prayer; selfe; sin; soule; spirit; thee; thou; thou o; thy; time; tongue; truth; world
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        item: #25 of 32
          id: A56969
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Emblemes by Francis Quarles.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 43216
      flesch: 83
     summary: Illuminate , O illuminate my blind soul , which ●…itteth in darknesse , and the sh●…dow of death : and direct my feet in the way of peace . EPIG. Broad and spatious is the road to infernal li●… : there are enticements and death-bringing pleasures .
    keywords: alas; august; bloud; breath; canst; cap; crown; day; death; delight; desire; die; doth; earth; epig; ev'ry; eyes; face; fear; find; fire; flames; flesh; glory; god; good; grief; hand; hast; hath; heart; heav'n; honour; life; light; look; lord; love; man; men; pleasure; rest; self; snares; soul; t ●; tears; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thoughts; thy; turn; vain; way; wings; world; ● ●
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        item: #26 of 32
          id: A56976
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Enchiridion Containing institutions, divine contemplative. Practicall. Moral ethicall. Oeconomicall. Politicall. Written by Fra: Quarles.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 27341
      flesch: 76
     summary: IF thou be ambitious of Honour , and yet fearfull of the Canker of Honour , Envy ; so behave thy self , that Opinion may be satisfied in this , that thou seekest Merit , and not ●●me ; and that thou attribute●t thy Preferment rather to Providence , then thy own Vertue : Honour is a due debt to the deserver ; and who ever envied the payment of a debt ? a just advancement is a providentiall act , and who ever envied the act of Providence ? CHAP. WHen thou dost evil that good may come thereby , the evill is surely thine : if good should happen to ensue upon the evill which thou hast done ; the good proceeds from God ; if therefore thou doe evill , thereby to occasionate a good , thou la●●t a bad foundation for a good building ; and ●ervest the Devill that God may serve thee : where the end of evill is good in the intention , there the end of that good is evill in the extention . CHAP. XLI .
    keywords: art; canst; chap; danger; death; desire; end; enemy; evill; feare; glory; god; gods; good; hand; hath; heart; himselfe; honour; lesse; life; love; man; men; owne; pleasure; prince; selfe; thee; thine; thou; thou canst; thy; vertue; way; ● ●
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        item: #27 of 32
          id: A56987
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Hosanna, or, Divine poems on the passion of Christ by Francis Quareles.
        date: 1647.0
       words: 4452
      flesch: 80
     summary: THe seventh day from his birth , he did begin Obedience to the Law and pawnd his s●●n , He would fulfill it ; when Ziskas houre was come He should expire , he bad them make a Drum Of s' skin , conceited it would scare the foe 'T was strange antipothie , if it would doe so . The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest').
    keywords: day; earth; fire; men; starre; stone; sunne; text; tongues; world
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        item: #28 of 32
          id: A56988
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Institutions, essays and maxims, political, moral & divine divided into four centuries.
        date: 1695.0
       words: 27320
      flesch: 76
     summary: The first , by the Virtue of glorious Parents , which till thou degenerate too much may raise thee upon the wings of Opinion . Hast thou lost thy Money , and dost thou Mourn ? another lost it before thou hadst it ; Be not troubled ; perchance if thou hadst not lost it now , it had lost thee for ever : Think therefore What thou hast rather escaped than lost :
    keywords: art; canst; danger; death; desire; end; evil; fear; glory; god; god max; good; hath; heart; honour; life; love; man; max; pleasure; prince; self; sin; soul; thee; thine; thou; thy; virtue; war; way; wisdom
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        item: #29 of 32
          id: A61073
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Prison-pietie, or, Meditations divine and moral digested into poetical heads, on mixt and various subjects : whereunto is added a panegyrick to the right reverend, and most nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London / by Samuel Speed ...
        date: 1677.0
       words: 51315
      flesch: 85
     summary: Now what is mans life but a burning Light ? and so long as this Light continues , God gives us time to make our peace with him , and to provide for our future safety ; but this Light being once extinguished before we draw neer to God , by Repentance and Conversion , those two fabricks of Salvation , what remains but a sudden and an eternal destruction ? God hath made man a lovely Creature ; do not then make thy self a Monster .
    keywords: angels; body; christ; christian; day; death; die; doth; earth; end; eyes; father; finde; glory; god; god doth; good; grace; hand; hast; hath; heart; heaven; hell; holy; king; life; light; like; lord; love; man; men; mercy; nature; o lord; peace; poor; praise; prayer; self; sin; sins; son; soul; tears; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; vain; way; world
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        item: #30 of 32
          id: A68936
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Sions sonets. Sung by Solomon the King, and periphras'd by Fra. Quarles
        date: 1625.0
       words: 9517
      flesch: 79
     summary: 2. O Thou , the Center of my choise desires , In whom I rest , in whom my soule respires ; Thou art the flowre of beautie , and I prize thee Aboue the World , how e're the World disprize thee : The blinde imagins all things black , by kinde ; Thou art as beautifull , as they are blinde : 3. COme forth ( my deare ) the spring of joyes inuite thee , The * Flowres contend for beautie , to delight thee , Their sweet ambition's onely , which might bee Most sweet , most faire , because most like to thee : The * Birds ( sweet Heralds of so sweet a Spring ) Warble high notes , and Hymenaeans sing ; All sing , with joy , t' injoy so sweet a Hearer ; Come forth ( my Loue ) then whom , my life 's not dearer .
    keywords: beautie; bride; bridegroome; diuine; doe; earth; eyes; face; faire; glorie; haue; heart; heauen; loue; rest; sacred; sonet; soule; spirit; thee; thine; thou; thy
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        item: #31 of 32
          id: A68937
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Sions elegies. Wept by Ieremie the prophet, and periphras'd by Fra. Quarles
        date: 1625.0
       words: 10191
      flesch: 69
     summary: Weepe on ( mine Eyes ) mine eyes shall neuer cease : Speake on ( my Tongue ) forget to hold thy peace ; Cease not thy teares ; close not thy lips , so long , Till Heauen shall wipe thine eyes , & heare thy tongue ; Whatheart of brasse , what Adamantine brest Can know the torments of my soule , and rest ? 16. QVotidian feuers of reproach , and shame , Haue chill'd our Honour , and renowned Name ; We are become the By-word , and the scorne Of Heauen and Earth ; of Heauen and Earth , forlorne ; Our captiu'd soules are compast round about , Within , with troopes of Feares ; of Foes , without ; Without , within distrest ; and in conclusion , We are the haplesse children of Confusion ; Oh , how mine eyes , the riuers of mine eyes , O'reflow these barren lips , that can deuise No Dialect , that can expresse or borrow Sufficient Metaphores , to show my sorrow ! ELEG .
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        item: #32 of 32
          id: A77759
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Midnights meditations of death: with pious and profitable observations, and consolations : perused by Francis Quarles a little before his death. / Published by E.B.
        date: 1646.0
       words: 21585
      flesch: 79
     summary: Thou God of spirits , be pleas'd to aw my heart With death and judgement : that , when I would sinne , I may remember that I must depart , And whatsoe're condition I am in When I sink under Deaths hand , ( There 's no penance in the grave , Nor then can I mercy have ) Sure these bad courses cannot choose but hurt us ; They make Deaths looks more ghastly , and his sting More piercing : but our wealth cannot support us 'gainst smallest pains and fears that Death will bring .
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