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O Passing accurs'd! O endless Miseries! Become smart upcoming, Kid, neither commonly thy Care become vain, To help you avoid the fresh new Mis'ry, additionally the Bliss see; Provide Heav'n thy Cardio, in the event that thou their Crown wou'dst gain.59 Hugo produces a great bravura rhetorical flourish in a half a dozen-flex repeated ‘Illa ... Haec' investigations you to definitely mirrors this new flipping of an enthusiastic emblematic medallion regarding obverse so you're able to contrary. By doing so the guy mirrors the fresh stark possibilities you to faces the new reader now, within this lifetime. This is certainly a game out of dice after new world, plus the share is the destiny out of a person heart. Quarles (illus. 147) reveals Heaven as the a prize are striven having, but his strategies was oblique and indirect. Unlike exhibiting brand new eternal delights, the guy presents you into the alternative – an enthusiastic earthly online game out of dishes where prizes is tawdry: an excellent ‘wonderful garland' kept from the Gill Chance, a great ‘top getting fools'. The ball player pulls into disgust, as recognition dawns that stakes are what he's, and you can finishes: I'll quit to online game, right until fairer ground be given Nor need to winne untill new mark be heaven.60 The brand new ‘fairer ground' is actually, obviously, celestial.