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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
Chapter 10: Of the Rule of true Love: the Love of God and our selves: similitude to these, the caus…
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She brings her young ones what mea• she can find, When she her self with hunger's almost pined. And the like affection, another Poet hath expressed in the most cruel of all the Beasts, the Tiger: ——Sic Aspera Tigris1 Foetibus abreptis Scythico deserta sub Antro Accubat, & lepidi lambit vestigia lecti. —The Tiger (which most thirsts for blood) Seeing her self robbed of her tender brood, Lies down lamenting in her Scythian Den, And licks the prints where her lost whelps had lion.
She brings her young ones what mea• she can find, When she her selfe with hunger's almost pin'd. And the like affection, another Poet hath expressed in the most cruell of all the Beasts, the Tyger: ——Sic Aspera Tygris1 Foetibus abreptis Scythico deserta sub Antro Accubat, & lepidi lambit vestigia lecti. —The Tyger (which most thirsts for blood) Seeing her selfe rob'd of her tender brood, Lies down lamenting in her Scythian Den, And licks the prints where her lost wholps had lyon.
- 1Statius. Theb. Lib. 10.