Identifier: piadesideriaor01hugo (find matches)
Title: Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates.
Year: 1686 (1680s)
Authors: Hugo, Herman, 1588-1629 Arwaker, Edmund, d. 1730 Harold Jantz Collection. NcD
Subjects: Christian life Emblem books, English
Publisher: London: : Printed for Henry Bonwicke ...
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fioudgive ore,Till the laft drop had empty d all their flore.Slow de I grudge the Clouds their e?tvyd Rain 1How wijh the boundlefs Treafares of the Main!Thenfioud my Tears> like that, jufi motion keep,And Iffioud take a firange delight to weep?J$or thefwift current of my grief forbid, • Till in the waves this little World were hid:Hid, as the neightrring Valleys are orefpread,When the warm Sun melts Tindus fnowy head.Thebleft Affyrian found in Jordans SeasA hap>py Medcine for his foul Difeafe; B;t (43> But what kind Torrent will my Cure begin,Andcleanfe my filthier Leprofie of Sin ? See! from my Sslv 10^ sJ0$ a fir earn of BloodKHI bath my (elfin that Redeeming Flood.that healing Torrent was on furfofefpilt,To wajh my pains, and expiate all my guik.That ever-flowing Ocean willfuffccFor thedefe&ofmyexhauiled Eyes, Hieron. in Jerem. cap. % If 1 were all dijfolvd to Tears, and thofe not cnfy,fbme few drops, but an Ocean or a DelugeJhould never weef enough. »J IX. Tkc (44)
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FAiiTainS ofJIcIl cad&L abm(h77ie £TSal:i8.4 un W) IX. me pahs of Hell came afouttne) the ftiareiof Death overtook me. Pfal. 18.4. Bile in this fad diftrefs my (elf I view,Methinkslmake^ff^wsftorytrue: -ong I the pleafuresof the JfWpurfud,ill, like its Beafts, my felf grew wild and rude jhopd with Hunting to divert my care,ut ran at laft irlto the fecret Snare. Yet to thofe Wood* (alas!,) I did not go, Ihofe inncent Sports give health andfhafure tQQl (pread no Toils to take the iixtfrousDeer, for aimd my Javlin at the rugged Bear. fappy, had I my time fo well imployd, for had I been by my own Game deftroyd: had not then miCfpent my youthful days, for torn my flefh among (harp thorny ways. * But (4<0 But I (alas!) ftill plyd the fparkling Wine,IhatpoysVious Juice of the pernicious Vine;And this exposd me to Loves fatal Dart,The falfe betrayr of my unguarded heart :Love, not contented with his Bowe alone,Has more deftrudYive Inftruments than One:Nor Wine alone on its own ftrengt

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