Authority Cited: Quarles
Author name and dates: Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
BKG Bio-tweet: Ancient family; Court, Ireland service; Royalist; popular illustrated book of apothegms; SJ cites in 4th
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) (BKG Note: one Quarles citation was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Inexact quote, perhaps from memory. The edition of Divine Fancies used by SJ is unknown. The 9th edition was published in 1723. Only early editions appear to use the spelling "cloath")
Divine Fancies. Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles. 1632, London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-street;
I'll ne'er distrust my God, for cloath, and bread
Whilst lilies flourish, and the ravens fed. Quarles.
1632 text:
Are not the Ravens, great God, sustaind by Thee?
And wilt thou cloth the Lilyes, and not me?
I'le nere distrust my God, for Cloath, & Bread,
Whilst Lilyes flourish, and the Ravens be fed.
Author name and dates: Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
BKG Bio-tweet: Ancient family; Court, Ireland service; Royalist; popular illustrated book of apothegms; SJ cites in 4th
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) (BKG Note: one Quarles citation was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Inexact quote, perhaps from memory. The edition of Divine Fancies used by SJ is unknown. The 9th edition was published in 1723. Only early editions appear to use the spelling "cloath")
Divine Fancies. Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles. 1632, London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-street;
- Lib. IIII, 65. On Ravens and Lilies; cloth (added in 1773 Dict.)
I'll ne'er distrust my God, for cloath, and bread
Whilst lilies flourish, and the ravens fed. Quarles.
1632 text:
Are not the Ravens, great God, sustaind by Thee?
And wilt thou cloth the Lilyes, and not me?
I'le nere distrust my God, for Cloath, & Bread,
Whilst Lilyes flourish, and the Ravens be fed.