Francis Quarles. 1592-1644.
Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.[203:4]
Divine Poems (ed. 1669).
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day
Whose conquering ray
May chase these fogs;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Light will repay
The wrongs of night;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Emblems. Book i. Emblem 14.
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 2.
[204]
This house is to be let for life or years;
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known,
She must be dearly let, or let alone.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 10, Ep. 10.
The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid,[204:1]
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 13.
The next way home 's the farthest way about.[204:2]
Emblems. Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.
It is the lot of man but once to die.
Emblems. Book v. Emblem 7.
Footnotes
[203:4] Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.—Young: Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011.
[204:1] To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.—Euripides: Alcestis, line 418.
[204:2] The longest way round is the shortest way home.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (Italian).