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Emblemes

A book of short devotional poems by Francis Quarles, first published 1635; it was adapted from two Jesuit emblem books, Typus Mundi (1627) and Herman Hugo's Pia Desideria. The poems are each based on some scriptural text, and some in the form of dialogues (e.g. between Eve and the Serpent, between Jesus and the Soul, and between the Flesh and the Spirit).