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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne - Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, both Morall and Divine, Etc - -Author: George Wither - -Release Date: October 6, 2015 [EBook #50143] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMES *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Chris Jordan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net with -transcriptions from Stephen Rowland and Louise Hope - - - - - - - - - -=Transcriber's notes:= - -In the section "To The Reader" our author writes: - -_There be, no doubt, some faults committed by the =Printer=, both -Literall and Materiall, and some Errors of the =Gravers= in the -=Figures=, (as in the =Tetragrammaton=; in the Figure of =Arîon=; and -in the =Proprieties= due to some other =Hieroglyphicks=); but, for the -most part, they are such, as =Common-Readers= will never perceive; and -I thinke, that they who are =Judicious= will so plainly finde them to -be no faults of mine; that, leaving them to be amended by those, to -whom they appertaine; and, =You=, to accept of these =Play-games= as -you please: I bid you =Farewell=._ - -Therefore all oddities and inconsistencies have been left unchanged. -They have been noted at the end of the transcription. - -An addendum of transcriptions and translations of the mottoes engraved -around each emblem has been added to the final note as a convenience to -the reader. - - - - -A PREPOSITION to this FRONTISPIECE. - - - This BOOKE contayning EMBLEMS, ’twas thought fit, - A _Title-page_ should stand to usher it, - That’s Emblematicall: And, for that end, - Our AVTHOR, to the _Graver_ did commend - A plaine Invention; that it might be wrought, - According as his Fancie had forethought. - Insteed thereof, the _Workeman_ brought to light, - What, here, you see; therein, mistaking quite - The true _Designe_: And, so (with paines, and cost) - The first intended FRONTISPIECE, is lost. - The AVTHOR, was as much displeas’d, as Hee - In such Adventures, is inclin’d to bee; - And, halfe resolv’d, to cast this PIECE aside, - As nothing worth: but, having better ey’d - Those _Errors_, and _Confusions_, which may, there, - Blame-worthy (at the first aspect) appeare; - Hee saw, they fitted many Fantasies - Much better, then what _Reason_ can devise; - And, that, the _Graver_ (by meere _Chance_) had hit - On what, so much transcends the reach of _Wit_, - As made it seeme, an Object of _Delight_, - To looke on what, MISFORTVNE brought to light: - And, here it stands, to try his _Wit_, who lists - To pumpe the secrets, out of _Cabalists_. - If any thinke this _Page_ will, now, declare - The meaning of those _Figures_, which are there, - They are deceiv’d. For, _Destinie_ denyes - The utt’ring of such hidden _Mysteries_, - In these respects: First, _This_ contayneth nought - Which (in a proper sense) concerneth, ought, - The _present-Age_: Moreover, tis ordain’d, - That, none must know the _Secrecies_ contain’d - Within this PIECE; but, they who are so wise - To finde them out, by their owne _prudencies_; - And, hee that can unriddle them, to us, - Shall stiled be, the second OEDIPVS. - Tis, likewise, thought expedient, now and then, - To make some _Worke_, for those _All-knowing men_, - (To exercise upon) who thinke they see - The _secret-meanings_, of all things that bee. - And, lastly, since we finde, that, some there are, - Who best affect _Inuentions_, which appeare - Beyond their understandings; _This_, we knew - A _Representment_, worthy of their view; - And, here, wee placed it, to be, to these, - A FRONTISPIECE, in any sense they please. - -[Illustration: EMBLEMES. _Illustrated by_ Geo: Wither.] - - - - - A - COLLECTION - OF - EMBLEMES, - ANCIENT AND - MODERNE: - - Quickened - With METRICALL ILLVSTRATIONS, both - _Morall_ and _Divine_: And disposed into - LOTTERIES, - - That _Jnstruction_, and _Good Counsell_, may bee furthered - by an Honest and Pleasant _Recreation_. - - _By_ GEORGE WITHER. - - _The First Booke._ - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - LONDON, - Printed by _A.M._ for _Richard Royston_, and - are to be sold at his Shop in _Ivie_-Lane. - MDCXXXV. - - - - -_Recensui hoc Poëma, cui titulus est =(A Collection and Illustration -of Emblems Ancient and Moderne)= in quo nihil reperio, quò minus cum -utilitate imprimatur, ita tamen, ut si non intra septem menses proximè -sequentes Typis mandetur, hæc licentia sit omninò irrita._ - -Ex ædibus Lambithanis - _Iul. 2. 1634._ - GVIL. BRAY. - - - - - A - WRIT OF PREVENTION - Concerning the AVTHORS _Dedication_ - of the foure following BOOKES, to those - _Royall_, _Princely_, and _Illustrious_ PERSONAGES, - whose Names are mentioned - in this _Leafe_. - - I have not often us’d, with _Epigrames_, - Or, with _Inscriptions_ unto many NAMES, - To charge my _Bookes_: Nor, had I done it, now, - If I, to pay the _Duties_ which I owe, - Had other _meanes_; Or, any better Wayes - To honour them, whose _Vertue_ merits praise. - In _ARCHITECT_, it giveth good content, - (And passeth for a praisefull _Ornament_) - If, to adorne the _FORE-FRONTS_, _Builders_ reare - The _Statues_ of their _Soveraigne-Princes_, there; - And, trimme the _Outsides_, of the other SQVARES - With _Portraitures_ of some Heroicke PEERES. - If, therefore, I (the more to beautifie - This _Portion_ of my MVSES _Gallerie_) - Doe, here, presume to place, the _NAMES_ of those - To whose _Deserts_, my LOVE remembrance owes, - I hope ’twill none offend. For, most, who see - Their worthy _mention_, in this BOOKE, to bee, - Will thinke them honor’d: And, perhaps, it may - (To their high praise) be found, another day, - That, in these LEAVES their _Names_ wil stand unrac’d, - When many fairer _STRVCTVRFS_, are defac’d. - - _In this =Hope=, I have placed on the FORE-FRONT (or before the - =First Booke= of these EMBLEMS) a =Ioint-Inscription= to the - KING and QVEENES most excellent MAIESTIE._ - - _Upon the =Right-Side-Front= of this =Building= (or before - the =Second Booke=) One =Inscription= to the most hopefull - =Prince, =CHARLES=, Prince of =Wales=; And, another to his deere - =Brother, =IAMES=, Duke of =Yorke=, =&c.=_ - - _On the other =Side-Front=, (or before the =Third Booke=) - One =Inscription= to the gratious Princesse, FRANCES - Dutchesse-Dowager of RICHMOND and LENOX; And, another to her - most noble Nephew, IAMES Duke of Lenox, &c._ - - _On the =Fourth Front= of our =Square=, (Or before the =Fourth - Booke=) One =Inscription= to the right Honourable PHILIP Earle - of =Pembrooke= and =Montgomery=, &c. And another to the right - Honourable, HENRY Earle of =Holland=, &c._ - - - To the MAJESTIE of Great - _Britaine_, _France_, and _Ireland_, the - Most Illustrious King, - CHARLES; - And his excellently beloved, the most - gratious _Queene_ MARY. - - Sev’n yeares are full expired, Royall SIR, - Since last I kneel’d, an offring to preferre - Before your feete; where, now, my selfe I throw - To pay once more, the _Tributes_ which I owe. - _As many yeares are past, most beauteous QVEENE, - Since witnesses, mine eares and eyes, have beene - Of those Perfections; which the generall =Fame= - Hath sounded forth, in honour of your =Name=._ - And, both your _beaming-splendors_ (oh yee faire, - Thrice blessed, and most fitly-matched PAIRE) - Vpon each other, make such bright reflections; - And have so sweetly mingled your _affections_, - Your _Praise_, your _Pow’re_, your _Vertues_, and your _Beautie_: - That, (if preserving of my _Soveraigne dutie_, - This may be said) you doe appeare, to me, - TWO PERSONS, in One MAIESTY, to be; - To whom, there, appertaines (in veneration - Of your large _Worth_) the right of some _Oblation_ - And, best, I thought, my _Homage_ would be done, - If, thus, the tender were to BOTH-in-ONE. - Which, in this humble GVIFT, my _Love_ presents; - And, wisheth it may adde to your Contents. - Perhaps it shall: For, though I dare not shew - These _Figures_, as well meriting your view; - Nor boast, as if their _Moralls_ couched ought, - By which your sacred _Wisdomes_ may be taught: - Yet, I have humble _Hopings_, that, they might - Prove, some way, an occasion of delight; - Since, meane and common _Objects_, now and then, - Beget contentments in the _greatest-men_. - But, that before this _Booke_, I should propose - Your praisefull NAMES, there is (as I suppose) - A faire inducement: For, considering these - Are EMBLEMS, whose intention is to please - And profit vulgar Iudgements (by the view, - Of what they ought to follow, or eschew.) - And, I well knowing, that your MAIESTIES - Set foorth before my _Booke_, in _Emblem-wise_, - Throughout your Lands, more _Vertues_ might convay, - Than many _Volumes_, of these _Emblems_, may; - It seemed _Petty-treason_, to omit - This good occasion of endeavouring it. - For, (if your MAIESTIES, well heeded, were) - YOV, double-treble-foure-fold _Emblems_ are; - Which, fully to illustrate, would require - The _Wit_ I want; or, meanes to raise, that, higher - Which I have gain’d; (and, which, as yet, hath flowne - By no incouragements, but by her owne.) - Of all the _Vertues_ OECONOMICAL, - Of _Duties_ MORAL and POLITICALL, - Your _Lives_ are _Patternes_, and faire EMBLEMS; whether - Considered apart, or both together. - Your CHILDHOODS were bright _Mirrours_, which did show - What Duties, _Children_, to their _Parents_ owe: - And, by the sequele, we now understand, - That, they who best _obay’d_, can best command. - The glorious _Vertues_ of your NVPTIALL-_state_, - Your _Courtiers_, find so hard to imitate, - That, they admire them, rather; and would sweare, - (Had others told, what, now they see and heare) - That, all the former Times, were not acquainted, - With such a _Paire_, when _Kings_ and _Queenes_ were _Sainted_. - The chastest _Cupids_, and the gamesom’st _Graces_, - Are alwaies mingled in your _Deare-embraces_. - The mutuall enterchanges of your _Loves_, - May teach affection to the _Turtle-doves_: - And, such as are, with goodly sights, delighted, - May see in _You_, all _Excellence_ united. - You, SIR, who beare _Ioves_ Thunders in your Fist, - And, (shake this _Ilands_ EMPIRE, when You list) - Did never in your _Orbe_, a _Tempest_ move, - But, by the Beautious _Mistresse_ of your _Love_ - It might be calm’d. _And, in your lofty =Spheare=, - Most lovely QVEENE, Your Motions ever, were - So smoath, and, so direct; that, none can say, - They have withdrawne his Royall-heart away - From Iust =Designes=; Which, loudly speakes your =Praise=, - And, intimates much more, than, yet, it saies._ - Yea, both Your _Splendors_ doe so glorious growe, - And, You, each other have out-vyed so, - In these, and other _Vertues_; that, on You, - Should I conferre what praise, I thinke, is due, - My _Lines_, (which from that staine have, yet, beene cleare) - Would Flatt’ry seeme, unto an envious eare. - But, what needs _Flatt’ry_, where the _Truth_ may teach - To praise, beyond immodest _Flatt’ries_ reach? - Or, what needs he to feare a _sland’rous-mouth_, - Who seekes no _meed_, nor utters more than Truth? - Your Princely _Vertues_, what can better show, - Than _Peace_, and _Plenty_, which have thrived so, - Whilst You have raign’d that, yet, no people see, - A _Richer_, or more _Peacefull_ time, than wee? - Your _Civill Actions_ (to the publike eye) - Are faire _examples_ of _Moralitie_, - So manifest; That, if he Truth did sing, - Who said, _The World doth imitate the King_; - My _Muses_ dare, with boldnesse to presage, - A Chast, a Pious, and a Prosperous _Age_: - And, that, the stormes which, late, these Realmes deterr’d, - Shall all be quite removed, or deferr’d - Till you Ascend; And, future times have seene, - That, your Examples have not followed beene. - Thus, you are living _Emblems_, to this _Nation_: - Which being mark’d with heedefull speculation, - May serve, as well, to helpe us how to see - Our _Happinesse_, As, what our _Duties_ be. - And, if I might unlocke all _Mysteries_, - Which doe declare, how in a _foure-fold-wise_, - Your Lives are usefull EMBLEMS; I, perchance, - Should vexe blind _Zeale_, or anger _Ignorance_; - And, teach well-temper’d _Spirits_, how to see, - That, we, for Blessings, oft, Vnthankefull be. - For, as you, _Both_, Prime _Children_ are of those - Two _Sister-Churches_, betwixt whom, yet, growes - Vnseemely _strife_; So, _You_, perhaps, may be - An _Emblem_, how those MOTHERS may agree. - And, not by your _Example_, onely, show, - How wrought it may be; but, effect it so. - Yea, peradventure, GOD, united _You_, - That, such a blessed VNION might ensue: - And, that, Your _living-lovingly_, together; - Your Christian _hopefullnesse_, of one another; - Your milde _forbearance_, harsh attempts to proove; - Your _mutuall-waiting_, untill _God_ shall move - By some _calme-voice_, or peacefull _inspiration_, - That _Heart_ Which needeth better _Information_; - And, that, your _Charities_, might give a _signe_, - How, all the _Daughters_, of the SPOVSE _Divine_ - Might reconciled be; And, shew, that, _Swords_, - _Flames_, _Threats_, and _Furie_, make no true _Accords_. - GOD grant a better VNION may appeare: - Yet, wish I not the _tollerating_, here, - Of _Politicke-Agreements_; (further than - Our wholsome _Lawes_, and, _Civill-vowes_ to man, - With _Piety_, approve) but, such, as may - Make up a blessed CONCORD, every way: - Might it be so; your _Vertues_, would become - A Glorious _Blessing_, to all CHRISTENDOME: - Your EMBLEM should, by future _Generations_; - Be plac’d among the famous _Constellations_, - And, _after-times_ (though, Mee, this _Age_ despise) - Would thinke, these _Verses_, had beene _Prophecies_. - What ever may succeed, my _Pray’rs_ and _Powr’s_ - Are this way bent; with _Hope_, that _You_ or _Yours_ - Shall _Helps_ (at least) become, that _Breach_ to close, - Which, in the SEAMLES-ROBE, yet, wider growes. - SO BE IT: And, let bright your _Glories_ bee, - For ever, though _You_ never shine on MEE. - -_Your_ MAIESTIES - - _most Loyall Subject_, - - =GEO: WITHER.= - - - - -TO THE READER. - - -_If there had not beene some =Bookes= conceitedly composed, and sutable -to meane capacities, I am doubtfull, whether I had ever beene so -delighted in reading, as thereby to attaine to the little Knowledge -I have: For, I doe yet remember, that, things =honestly pleasant=, -brought mee by degrees, to love that which is =truely profitable=. And -as =David= said, His =Heart shewed him the wickednesse of the Vngodly=; -(meaning perhaps, that hee felt in himselfe, some =Experiments=, of -the same naturall Corruption, by which they are overcome, who resist -not evill suggestions at their first motions:) Even so, I may truly -acknowledge, that mine owne =Experience= hath showne mee so much of the -common =Ignorance= and =Infirmitie= in mine owne person, that it hath -taught mee, how those things may be wrought upon in others, to their -best advantage._ - -_Therefore, though I can say no more to disswade from =Vice=, or -to incourage men to =Vertue=, than hath already beene said in many -learned =Authors=; yet I may be an occasion by these =Endeavours=, -to bring that, the oftner into remembrance, which they have, more -learnedly, expressed; and perhaps, by such circumstances, as they would -not descend unto, may insinuate further also with some Capacities, -than more applauded =Meanes=. =Viniger=, =Salt=, or common =Water=, -(which are very meane =Ingredients=) make Sawces more pleasing to some -tastes, than =Sugar=, and =Spices=. In like manner, plaine and vulgar -notions, seasoned with a little =Pleasantnesse=, and relished with a -moderate =Sharpnesse=, worke that, otherwhile, which the most admired -=Compositions= could never effect in many =Readers=; yea, wee have had -frequent proofes, that a blunt =Iest= hath moved to more consideration, -than a judicious =Discourse=._ - -_I take little pleasures in =Rymes=, =Fictions=, or conceited -=Compositions=, for their owne sakes; neither could I ever take so -much paines, as to spend time to put my meanings into other words than -such as flowed forth, without =Studie=; partly because I delight more -in Matter, than in =Wordy Flourishes=, But, chiefely, because those -=Verball Conceites=, which by some, are accounted most =Elegant=, -are not onely (for the greater part) =Emptie Sounds= and Impertinent -=Clinches=, in themselves; but, such =Inventions=, as do sometime, -also, obscure the =Sense=, to common =Readers=; and, serve to little -other purpose, but for =Wittie men= to shew =Tricks= one to another: -For, the =Ignorant= understand them not; and the =Wise= need them not._ - -_So much of them, as (without darkning the matter, to them who most -need instruction) may be made use of, to stirre up the =Affections=, -winne =Attention=, or help the =Memory=, I approve and make use of, to -those good purposes, according as my leisure, and the measure of my -=Facultie= will permit; that, =Vanitie= might not, to worse ends, get -them wholly into her =Possession=. For, I know that the meanest of such -conceites are as pertinent to some, as =Rattles=, and =Hobby-horses= -to Children; or as the =A. B. C.= and =Spelling=, were at first to -those =Readers=, who are now past them. And, indeed, to despise =Meane -Inventions=, =Pleasant Compositions=, and =Verball Elegancies=, (being -qualified as is aforesaid) or to banish them out of the world, because -there be other things of more excellencie, were as absurd, as to -neglect and root out all =Herbes=, which will not make =Pottage=; Or, -to destroy all =Flowers=, which are lesse beautifull than the =Tulip=, -or lesse sweet than the =Rose=._ - -_I (that was never so sullenly wise) have alwaies intermingled -=Sports= with =Seriousnesse= in my =Inventions=; and, taken in -=Verball-conceites=, as they came to hand, without =Affectation=; -But, having, ever aymed, rather to profit my =Readers=, than to gaine -their praise, I never pumpe for those things; and am, otherwhile, -contented to seeme =Foolish=, (yea, and perhaps, more foolish than I -am) to the =Overweening-Wise=; that, I may make others =Wiser than -they were=: And, (as I now doe) am not ashamed to set forth a =Game at -Lots=, or (as it were) a =Puppet-play= in =Pictures=, to allure men -to the more serious observation of the profitable =Morals=, couched -in these =Emblems=. Neverthelesse, (if some have sayd, and thought -truly) my =Poems= have instructed, and rectified many People in the -Course of =Honest-living=, (which is the best =Wisedome=) much more -than the =Austerer Volumes= of some criticall =Authors=; who, are by -the =Common-sort=, therefore onely, judged Wise, because they composed -=Books=, which few understand, save they who need them not._ - -_In these =Lots= and =Emblems=, I have the same ayme which I had in -my other =Writings=: and, though I have not dressed them sutably to -curious =Fancies=, yet, they yield wholsome nourishment to strengthen -the constitution of a =Good-life=; and, have solidity enough for -a =Play game=, which was but Accidentally composed; and, by this -=Occasion=._ - -_These =Emblems=, graven in Copper by =Crispinus Passæus= (with a -=Motto= in Greeke, Latine, or Italian, round about every =Figure=; -and with two =Lines= (or =Verses=) in one of the same =Languages=, -periphrasing those =Motto’s=) came to my hands, almost twentie yeares -past. The =Verses= were so meane, that, they were afterward cut off -from the =Plates=; And, the =Collector= of the said Emblems, (whether -hee were the =Versifier= or the =Graver=, was neither so well -advised in the =Choice= of them, nor so exact in observing the true -=Proprieties= belonging to every =Figure=, as hee might have beene._ - -_Yet, the =Workman-ship= being judged very good, for the most part; -and the rest excusable; some of my Friends were so much delighted -in the =Gravers= art, and, in those =Illustrations=, which for mine -owne pleasure, I had made upon some few of them, that, they requested -mee to =Moralize= the rest. Which I condiscended unto: And, they had -beene brought to view many yeares agoe, but that the =Copper Prints= -(which are now gotten) could not be procured out of =Holland=, upon any -reasonable Conditions._ - -_If they were worthy of the =Gravers= and =Printers= cost, being -onely dumbe =Figures=, little usefull to any but to young =Gravers= -or =Painters=, and as little delightfull, except, to =Children=, -and =Childish-gazers=: they may now be much more worthy; seeing the -life of =Speach= being added unto them, may make them =Teachers= and -=Remembrancers= of profitable things._ - -_I doe not arrogate so much unto my =Illustrations=, as to thinke, they -will be able to teach any thing to the =Learned=; yet if they cast -their eyes upon them, perhaps, these =Emblems=, and their =Morals=, may -remember them, either of some =Dutie=, which they might else forget, -or minde them to beware of some =Danger=, which they might otherwise -be unheedfull to prevent. But, sure I am, the =Vulgar Capacities=, may -from them, be many waies both =Instructed=, and =Remembred=; yea, they -that have most need to be =Instructed=, and =Remembred=, (and they who -are most backward to listen to =Instructions=, and =Remembrances=, by -the common Course of =Teaching=, and =Admonishing=) shall be, hereby, -informed of their =Dangers=, or =Duties=, by the way of an honest -=Recreation=, before they be aware._ - -_For, when levitie, or a childish delight in trifling Objects, hath -allured them to looke on the =Pictures=; Curiositie may urge them to -peepe further, that they might seeke out also their =Meanings=, in -our annexed =Illustrations=; In which, may lurke some =Sentence=, or -=Expression=, so evidently pertinent to their =Estates=, =Persons=, or -=Affections=, as will (at that instant or afterward) make way for those -=Considerations=, which will, at last, wholly change them, or much -better them, in their =Conversation=._ - -_To seeke out the =Author= of every particular =Emblem=, were a -labour without profit; and, I have beene so far from endeavouring -it, that, I have not so much as cared to find out their meanings in -any of these =Figures=; but, applied them, rather, to such purposes, -as I could thinke of, at first sight; which, upon a second view, I -found might have beene much betterd, if I could have spared time from -other imployments. Something, also, I was =Confined=, by obliging my -selfe to observe the same number of =lines= in every =Illustration=; -and, otherwhile, I was thereby constrained to conclude, when my best -=Meditations= were but new begunne: which (though it hath pleased Some, -by the more comely Vniformitie, in the Pages) yet, it hath much injured -the libertie of my =Muse=._ - -_There be, no doubt, some faults committed by the =Printer=, both -Literall and Materiall, and some Errors of the =Gravers= in the -=Figures=, (as in the =Tetragrammaton=; in the Figure of =Arîon=; and -in the =Proprieties= due to some other =Hieroglyphicks=; but, for the -most part, they are such, as =Common-Readers= will never perceive; and -I thinke, that they who are =Judicious= will so plainly finde them to -be no faults of mine; that, leaving them to be amended by those, to -whom they appertaine; and, =You=, to accept of these =Play-games= as -you please: I bid you =Farewell=._ - - - The Occasion, _Intention_, and use of the Foure - _Lotteries_ adjoyned to these foure Books - of _Emblems_. - -Stultorum plena sunt omnia. _The world is growne so in Love with -=Follie=, that the Imprinting of over-solid and serious =treatises= -would undoe the Book-sellers; especially, being so chargeable as the -many costly =Sculptures= have made this Booke: therefore, (to advance -their =Profits=, rather than to satisfie my owne =Iudgement=) I was -moved to invent somewhat, which might be likely to please the vulgar -Capacitie, without hindrance to my chiefe =End=. And, though that which -I resolved on, be not so =Plausible= to Criticall understandings, yet -I am contented to hazzard among them, so much of my Reputation as that -comes to._ - -_I have often observed, that where the =Summer-bowers= of Recreation -are placed neare the =Church=, it drawes thither more people from the -remote =Hamlets=, than would else be there. Now, though I praise not -their =Devotion=, yet I am glad if any thing (which is not evill in -it selfe) may be made an occasion of =Good=: (because, those things -may, perhaps, be continued, at last, for Conscience sake, which were -at first begunne upon vaine =occasions=) and, have therefore added -=Lotteries= to these =Emblems=, to occasion the more frequent notice -of the =Morals=, and good =Counsels= tendred in their =Illustrations=; -hoping that, at one time or other, some shall draw those =Lots=, -which will make them the better, and the happier, whilest they live. -I confesse that this Devise may probably be censured, as unsutable -to the gravitie expected in my ripe yeares: and be reputed as great -an Indecorum, as erecting an =Ale-house= at the =Church-stile=; yet, -the same having had beginning in my younger dayes, I do now resolve -not to be ashamed of it, for the Reasons aforementioned. To such as I -was, it will be someway avayleable: and perhaps, if the =Wisest= did -otherwhile, when they walke abroad, to =Vncertaine purposes=, take -up this =Booke=, and (without =Superstitious Conceites=) make tryall -what their =Lots= would remember, or give them cause to thinke on; it -might, now and then, either occasion better =Proceedings=, or prevent -=Mischieves=._ - -_Some =Games= were ever in use; ever, I thinke, will be, and for -ought I know, ever may be without exception. And, I believe, this -=Recreation=, will be as harmlesse as any, if it be used according to -my Intentions. For, my meaning is not, that any should use it as an -=Oracle=, which could signifie, infallibly, what is divinely alloted; -but, to serve onely for a =Morall Pastime=. And, that I may no way -encourage the secret entertaining of such a =Fantasie=, I doe before -hand affirme unto them, that none but =Children=, or =Ideots= may be -tollerated to be so foolish, without laughing at._ - -_Yet, if any one shall draw that =Lot= wherein his =Secret vices= -are reproved; or some good Counsels proposed, which in his owne -understanding are pertinent to his welfare, let not such as =those=, -passe them over as meere =Casualties= to them; for, whatsoever these -=Lots= are to =others=, or in =themselves=, they are to all =these=, -made pertinent in such cases, both by their particular =Knowledges= and -=Occasions=._ - -_Some will thinke perhaps, that I have purposely invented this =Game=, -that I might finde meanes to reprove mens =vices=, without being -suspected, (as I have hitherto unjustly beene) to ayme at particular -persons: For, if any who are =notoriously Guiltie=, shall by drawing -their =Chances=, among other Companions, be so fitted with =Lots=, -(which may now and then happen) that those =Vices= be therby intimated -to the by-standers, of which the world knowes them guilty; they do -therin make their owne =Libels=; and, may (I hope) bee laughed at -without my blame. If not; I doe here warne all such as are worthily -suspected of =Haynous crimes=, and =Scandalous conversations=, either -to forbeare these =Lotteries=; or to excuse me if they be justly shamed -by their own =Act=._ - -_Having thus declared the Reason of this =Invention=, and made these -Anticipations; every man hath his choice, whether hee will make use of -those =Lotteries= or no; hee that will, is left to his =Chance=, of -which, how hee shall make tryall, direction is given in the two last -Pages of this =Booke=._ - - This _Game_ occasions not the frequent crime, - Of _Swearing_, or mispending of our _Time_; - Nor losse of money: For, the _Play_ is _short_, - And, ev’ry _Gamester_ winneth by the sport. - Wee, therefore, know it may aswell become - The _Hall_, the _Parlor_, or the _Dining-roome_, - As _Chesse_, or _Tables_; and, we thinke the _Price_ - Will be as low; because, it needs no _Dice_. - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - - - -[Illustration: - _What I =WAS=, is passed-by; - What I =AM=, away doth flie; - What I =SHAL BEE=, none do see; - Yet, in =that=, my =Beauties= bee._ -] - - -The AVTHORS Meditation upon sight of his PICTVRE. - - _When I behold my =Picture=, and perceive, - How vaine it is, our =Portraitures= to leave - In =Lines=, and =Shadowes=, (which make shewes, to day, - Of that which will, to morrow, fade away) - And, thinke, what meane =Resemblances= at best, - Are by =Mechanike Instruments= exprest; - I thought it better, much, to leave behind me, - Some =Draught=, in which, my living friends might find me - The same I =am=; in =that=, which will remaine, - Till all is ruin’d, and repair’d againe: - And, which, in absence, will more truely show me, - Than, =outward Formes=, to those, who think they know me. - For, though my gratious MAKER made me such, - That, where I love, belov’d I am, as much - As J desire; yet, =Forme=, nor =Features= are, - Those =Ornaments=, in which J would appeare - To =future Times=; Though they were found in me, - Farre better, than I can beleeve they be. - Much lesse, affect I =that=, which each man knowes, - To be no more, but Counterfeits of those, - Wherein, the =Painters=, or the =Gravers= toole, - Befriends alike, the =Wiseman=, and the =Foole=: - And, (when they please) can give him, by their =Art=, - The =fairest-Face=, that had the =falsest-Heart=. - A PICTVRE, though with most exactnesse made, - Is nothing, but the =Shadow= of a SHADE. - For, ev’n our =living Bodies=, (though they seeme - To others more, or more in our esteeme) - Are but the =shadowes= of that =Reall-being=, - Which doth extend beyond the =Fleshly-seeing=; - And, cannot be discerned, till we rise - =Immortall-Objects=, for =Immortall-eyes=. - Our =Everlasting-Substance= lies unseene, - Behinde the Fouldings, of a =Carnall-Screene=, - Which is, but, =Vapours= thickned into =Blood=, - (By due concoction of our daily food) - And, still supplied, out of other =Creatures=, - To keepe us =living=, by their wasted natures: - Renewing, and decaying, ev’ry Day, - Vntill that =Vaile= must be remov’d away. - For, this lov’d =Flesh=, wherewith, yet cloth’d we go, - Is not the same, wee had sev’n yeares ago; - But, rather, something which is taken-in, - To serve insteed of what hath wasted bin, - In =Wounds=, in =Sicknesses=, in =Colds=, and =Heates=, - In all =Excrescions=, and in =Fumes=, and =Sweates=. - Nor shall, this present =Flesh=, long stay with us: - And, wee may well be pleas’d, it should be =Thus=. - For, as I view, those Townes, and Fields, that be - In Landskip drawne; Even so, me thinks, I see - A Glimpes, farre off, (through FAITH’S =Prospective glasse=) - Of that, which after =Death=, will come to passe; - And, likewise, gained have, such meanes of seeing, - Some things, which were, before my =Life= had being, - That, in my =Soule=, I should be discontent, - If, this my =Body= were, more permanent; - Since, =Wee=, and all =God’s= other =Creatures=, here, - Are but the =Pictures=, of what shall appeare. - Yet, whilst they =are=, I thankfully would make - That use of them, for their CREATOR’S sake, - To which hee made them; and, preserve the =Table=, - Still, =Faire= and =Full=, as much as I were able, - By finishing, (in my alotted place) - Those =Workes=, for which, hee fits me by his Grace. - And, if a =Wrenne=, a =Wrenn’s= just height shall soare, - No =Ægle=, for an =Ægle=, can doe more. - If therefore, of my =Labours=, or of MEE, - Ought shall remaine, when I remov’d, must be, - Let it be that, wherein it may be view’d, - My MAKERS =Image=, was in me renew’d: - And, so declare, a dutifull intent, - To doe the =Worke= I came for, e’re I went; - That, I to others, may some =Patterne= be, - Of =Doing-well=, as other men to mee, - Have beene, whilst I had life: And, let my daies - Be summed up, to my =Redeemer’s= praise. - So this be gained, I regard it not, - Though, all that I am else, be quite forgot._ - - - - - _By =Knowledge= onely, =Life= wee gaine, - All other things to =Death= pertaine._ - -[Illustration: VIVITVR INGENIO CÆTERA MORTIS ERṼT - -ILLVSTRATIO I. _Book. 1._] - - How Fond are they, who spend their pretious Time - In still pursuing their deceiving _Pleasures_? - And they, that unto ayery _Titles_ clime - Or tyre themselves in hoording up of _Treasures_? - For, these are _Death’s_, who, when with wearinesse - They have acquired most, sweepes all away; - And leaves them, for their Labors, to possesse - Nought but a raw-bon’d _Carcasse_ lapt in clay. - Of twenty hundred thousands, who, this houre - Vaunt much, of those _Possessions_ they have got; - Of their new purchac’d _Honours_, or, the _Power_, - By which, they seeme to have advanc’t their _Lott_: - Of this great _Multitude_, there shall not _Three_ - Remaine, for any _Future-age_ to know; - But perish quite, and quite forgotten bee, - As _Beasts_, devoured twice ten yeares agoe. - Thou, therefore, who desir’st for aye to live, - And to possesse thy _Labors_ maugre _Death_, - To needfull _Arts_ and honest _Actions_, give - Thy Spanne of _Time_, and thy short blast of _Breath_. - In holy _Studies_, exercise thy _Mind_; - In workes of _Charity_, thy _Hands_ imploy; - That _Knowledge_, and that _Treasure_, seeke to find, - Which may enrich thy _Heart_ with perfect _Ioy_. - So, though obscured thou appeare, awhile, - Despised, poore, or borne to Fortunes low, - Thy _Vertue_ shall acquire a nobler stile, - Then greatest _Kings_ are able to bestow: - And, gaine thee those _Possessions_, which, nor _They_, - Nor _Time_, nor _Death_, have power to take away. - - - _The Man that hath true =Wisdome= got, - Continues =firme=, and =wavers= not._ - -[Illustration: SAPIENTIA CONSTANS - -ILLVSTR. II. _Book. 1._] - - Still fixt, and with triumphant _Laurell_ crown’d, - Is truest _Wisdome_; whom, expressed thus, - Among the old _Impresa’s_, we have found; - And, much, this _Emblem_ hath instructed us. - For, hence we learne; that, _Wisdome_ doth not flow - From those unconstant men, whom ev’ry _Blast_, - Or small _Occasion_, turneth to and fro; - But, from a _Settled head_ that standeth _fast_. - Who’ever shoulders, him, he gives no place; - What _Storme_ soe’re, his _Times_ or _Fortunes_, breath, - He neither hides his _Brow_, nor turnes his _Face_; - But, keepes his Lookes undaunted, ev’n in _Death_. - The _Laureat head_, upon the _Pillar_ set, - Thus signifies; And that _Bay-wreath_ doth show - That constant _Wisdome_ will the conquest get, - When giddy _Policie_ prevailes not so. - If, therefore, thou desirest to be taught, - Propose good _Ends_ with honest _Meanes_ thereto, - And therein _Constant_ be, till thou hast brought - To perfect _end_, that _Worke_, thou hast to doe. - Let neither flatt’ring _Pleasures_, nor _Disgrace_, - Nor scoffing _Censures_, nor the cunning _Sleights_ - Of glozing _Sycophants_, divert that _Race_ - To which, a harmelesse _Prudence_, thee invites. - Though others plot, conspire, and undermine, - Keepe thou a plaine right _Path_; and let their _Course_, - For no advantage, make thee change from _thine_, - Although it (for the present) seemes the worse. - He, thus that workes, puts _Policie_ to Schoole, - And makes the _Machavilian_ prove a foole. - - - _The =Law= is given to =direct=; - The =Sword=, to =punish= and =protect=._ - -[Illustration: LEX REGIT ET ARMA TVENTVR. - -ILLVSTR. III. _Book. 1._] - - When _God-Almighty_ first engrav’d in stone - His holy _Law_; He did not give the same - As if some common Act had then beene done; - For, arm’d with _Fires_ and _Thunders_, forth it came. - By which, that great _Law-maker_, might inferre - What dreadfull _Vengeance_ would on those attend, - Who did against those holy _Precepts_ erre; - And, that, his _Power_, well-doers could defend. - Thereto, this _Emblem_, also doth agree; - For, loe, before the _Tables_ of the _Lawe_, - A naked _Sword_ is borne, whose use may bee - As well to keepe in _Safety_, as in _Awe_. - Whence, _Princes_ (if they please) this note may take, - (And it shall make them happily to raigne) - That, many good and wholsome _Lawes_ to make - Without an _Executioner_, is vaine. - It likewise intimates, that such as are - In _Soveraigne place_, as well obliged be - Their zeale for true _Religion_ to declare, - As, what concerneth _Manners_, to foresee. - It, lastly, showes that _Princes_ should affect - Not onely, over others to _Command_, - But _Swords_ to weare, their _Subjects_ to protect; - And, for their _Guard_, extend a willing hand. - For, _Lawes_, or _Peace_ to boast of; and, the whiles, - The _Publique-weale_, to weaken or disarme, - Is nor the way to hinder _Civill-Broyles_, - Nor to secure it from a _Forraigne-harme_. - For, As by _Lawes_ a Land is kept in frame; - So, _Armes_ is that, which must protect the same. - - - _=Occasions-past= are sought in vaine; - But, oft, they =wheele-about= again._ - -[Illustration: NE TENEAR - -ILLVSTR. IV. _Book. 1._] - - Unwise are they that spend their youthfull _Prime_ - In Vanities; as if they did suppose - That men, at pleasure, might redeeme the _Time_; - For, they a faire advantage fondly lose. - As ill-advis’d be those, who having lost - The first _Occasions_, to _Despairing_ runne: - For, _Time_ hath _Revolutions_; and, the most, - For their Affaires, have _Seasons_ more, then one. - Nor is their Folly small, who much depend - On _Transitorie things_, as if their Powre - Could bring to passe what should not have an _End_; - Or compasse that, which _Time_ will not devoure. - The first _Occasions_, therefore, see thou take - (Which offred are) to bring thy hopes about; - And, minde thou, still, what _Haste_ away they make, - Before thy swift-pac’t houres are quite runne out. - Yet, if an _Opportunity_ be past, - Despaire not thou, as they that hopelesse be; - Since, _Time_ may so revolve againe, at last, - That _New-Occasions_ may be offred thee. - And see, thou trust not on those fading things, - Which by thine owne _Endeavours_ thou acquir’st: - For, _Time_ (which her owne _Births_ to ruine brings) - Will spare, not _thee_, nor ought which thou desir’st. - His _Properties_, and _Vses_, what they are, - In-vaine observ’d will be, when he is fled: - That, they in season, therefore, may appeare, - Our _Emblem_, thus, hath him deciphered; - _Balde_ save before, and standing on a _Wheele_; - A _Razor_ in his Hand, a _Winged-Heele_. - - - _By =Labour=, =Vertue= may be gain’d; - By =Vertue=, =Glorie= is attain’d._ - -[Illustration: LABORE VIRTVS, VIRTVTE GLORIA PARATVR - -ILLVSTR. V. _Book. 1._] - - Svppose you _Sirs_, those mimicke _Apes_ you meet - In strange fantasticke habits? or the Rabble, - That in gay clothes embroyder out the street, - Are truely of _Worshipfull_ or _Honorable_? - Or can you thinke, that, To be borne the Sonne - Of some rich _Alderman_, or ancient _Peere_, - Or that the _Fame_ our Predecessors wonne - May claime those _Wreathes_ which true _Deserving_ weare? - Is _Honour_ due to those, who spend their dayes - In courting one another? or consuming - Their Fortunes and themselves, on Drabbs and Playes? - In sleeping, drinking, and Tobacco-fuming? - Not so. For, (though such _Fooles_, like children, place - Gay _Titles_ on each other) _Wise-men_ know - What slaves they be; how miserably-base; - And, where such _Attributes_ would better show. - An idle _Body_ clothes a vitious _Minde_; - And, what (at best) is purchac’d by the same, - Is nothing else, but stinking _Smoke_ and _Winde_; - Or frothie _Bubbles_ of an empty _Fame_. - True _Glory_, none did ever purchase, yet, - Till, to be _Vertuous_ they could first attaine; - Nor shall those men faire _Vertues_ favour get, - Who _labour_ not, such _Dignities_ to gaine. - And, this _Impresa_ doth inferre no lesse: - For, by the _Spade_, is _Labour_ here implide; - The _Snake_, a vertuous _Prudence_, doth expresse; - And, _Glorie_, by the _Wreath_ is Typifide. - For, where a vertuous _Industry_ is found, - She, shall with Wreaths of _Glory_, thus be crown’d. - - - _Though =Fortune= prove true =Vertues= Foe, - It cannot worke her Overthrowe._ - -[Illustration: NON OBEST VIRTVTI SORS. - -ILLVSTR. VI. _Book. 1._] - - Unhappy men are they, whose Ignorance - So slaves them to the _Fortunes_ of the Time, - That they (attending on the Lot of _Chance_) - Neglect by _Vertue_, and _Deserts_, to clime. - Poore _Heights_ they be which _Fortune_ reares unto; - And, fickle is the _Favour_ she bestowes: - To-day, she makes; to-morrow, doth undoe; - Builds up, and in an instant overthrowes. - On easie _Wheeles_, to Wealth, and Honours high, - She windes men oft, before they be aware; - And, when they dreame of most _Prosperitie_, - Downe, headlong, throwes them lower then they were. - You, then, that seeke a more assur’d estate, - On good, and honest _Objects_, fixe your _Minde_, - And follow _Vertue_, that you may a _Fate_ - Exempt from feare of Change, or Dangers, finde. - For, he that’s _Vertuous_, whether high or low - His _Fortune_ seemes (or whether foule or faire - His _Path_ he findes) or whether friend, or foe, - The _World_ doth prove; regards it not a haire. - His _Losse_ is _Gaine_; his _Poverty_ is _Wealth_; - The Worlds _Contempt_, he makes his _Diadem_; - In _Sicknesse_, he rejoyceth, as in _Health_: - Yea, _Death_ it selfe, becommeth _Life_, to him. - He feares no disrespect, no bitter scorne, - Nor subtile plottings, nor Oppressions force; - Nay, though the World should topsie-turvie turne, - It cannot fright him, nor divert his Course. - Above all Earthly powres his _Vertue_ reares him; - And, up with _Eglets_ wings, to Heav’n it beares him. - - - _A fickle =Woman= wanton growne, - Preferres a =Crowd=, before a =Crowne=._ - -[Illustration: NON SCEPTRO SED PLECTRO DVCITVR - -ILLVSTR. VII. _Book. 1._] - - _Foole!_ Dost thou hope, thine _Honours_, or thy _Gold_, - Shall gaine thee _Love_? Or, that thou hast her heart - Whose hand upon thy tempting _Bayt_ layes hold? - Alas! fond _Lover_, thou deceived art. - She that with _Wealth_, and _Titles_, can be wonne, - Or woo’d with _Vanities_, will wavring bee; - And, when her Love, thou most dependest on, - A _Fiddle-sticke_ shall winne her heart from thee. - To _Youth_ and _Musicke_, _Venus_ leaneth most; - And (though her hand she on the _Scepter_ lay) - Let _Greatnesse_, of her Favours never boast: - For, _Heart_ and _Eye_, are bent another way. - And lo, no glorious Purchace that Man gets, - Who hath with such poore _Trifles_, woo’d, and wonne: - Her footing, on a _Ball_, his _Mistresse_ sets, - Which in a moment slips, and she is gone. - A _Woman_, meerely with an _Out side_ caught, - Or tempted with a _Galliard_, or a _Song_, - Will him forsake (whom she most lovely thought) - For _Players_ and for _Tumblers_, ere’t be long. - You, then, that wish your _Love_ should ever last, - (And would enjoy _Affection_ without changing) - _Love_ where your _Loves_ may worthily be plac’t; - And, keepe your owne _Affection_, still from ranging. - Vse noble _Meanes_, your Longings to attaine; - Seeke equall _Mindes_, and well beseeming _Yeares_: - They are (at best) vaine _Fooles_, whom _Follie_ gaine; - But, there is _Blisse_, where, _Vertue_ most endeares: - And, wheresoe’re, Affection _shee_ procures, - In spight of all _Temptations_, it endures. - - - _This Ragge of =Death=, which thou shalt see, - Consider it; And =Pious= bee._ - -[Illustration: IN HVNC INTVENS PIVS ESTO - -ILLVSTR. VIII. _Book 1._] - - Why, silly Man! so much admirest thou - Thy present _Fortune_? overvaluing so - Thy _Person_, or the beauty of thy _Brow_? - And _Cloth’d_, so proudly, wherefore dost thou goe? - Why dost thou live in riotous _Excesse_? - And _Boast_, as if thy Flesh immortall were? - Why dost thou gather so? Why so oppresse? - And, o’re thy Fellow-creatures, _Domineere_? - Behold this _Emblem_; such a thing was hee - Whom this doth represent as now thou art; - And, such a Fleshlesse _Raw-bone_ shalt thou bee, - Though, yet, thou seeme to act a comelier part. - Observe it well; and marke what _Vglinesse_ - Stares through the sightlesse _Eye-holes_, from within: - Note those leane _Craggs_, and with what _Gastlinesse_, - That horrid _Countenance_ doth seeme to grin. - Yea, view it well; and having seene the same - Plucke downe that _Pride_ which puffs thy heart so high; - Of thy _Proportion_ boast not, and (for shame) - Repent thee of thy sinfull _Vanity_. - And, having learn’d, that, all men must become - Such bare _Anatomies_; and, how this _Fate_ - No mortall _Powre_, nor _Wit_, can keepe thee from; - Live so, that _Death_ may better thy estate. - Consider who created thee; and why: - Renew thy _Spirit_, ere thy _Flesh_ decayes: - More _Pious_ grow; Affect more _Honestie_; - And seeke hereafter thy _Creatours_ praise. - So though of _Breath_ and _Beauty_ Time deprive thee, - New _Life_, with endlesse _Glorie_, _God_ will give thee. - - - _Before thou bring thy =Workes= to Light, - Consider on them, in the =Night=._ - -[Illustration: IN NOCTE CONSILIṼ - -ILLVSTR. IX. _Book. 1._] - - An _Owle_ (the _Hieroglyphicke_ us’d for _Night_) - Twixt _Mercury_ and _Pallas_, here takes place, - Vpon a crown’d _Caduceus_ fixt upright; - And, each a _Cornucopia_ doth imbrace. - Through which darke _Emblem_, I this Light perceive; - That, such as would the _Wit_ and _Wealth_ acquire, - Which may the _Crowne_ of approbation have, - Must _wake by Night_, to compasse their desire. - For, this _Mercurian-Wand_, doth _Wit_ expresse; - The _Cornu-copia_, _Wealthinesse_ implies; - Both gained by a studious _Watchfulnesse_; - Which, here, the _Bird of Athens_ signifies. - Nor, by this _Emblem_, are we taught alone, - That, (when great _Vndertakings_ are intended) - We _Sloth_, and lumpish _Drowsinesse_ must shunne; - But, _Rashnesse_, also, here is reprehended. - _Take Counsell of thy Pillow_, (saith our _Sawe_) - And, ere in waighty Matters thou proceede, - Consider well upon them; lest they draw - Some Afterclap, which may thy Mischiefe breede. - I, for my seriou’st _Muses_, chuse the _Night_; - (More friend to _Meditation_, then the _Day_) - That neither Noyse, nor Objects of the _Sight_, - Nor bus’nesses, withdraw my _Thoughts_ away, - By _Night_, we best may ruminate upon - Our _Purposes_; Then, best, we may enquire - What _Actions_ wee amisse, or well, have done; - And, then, may best into our _Selves_ retire: - For, of the _World-without_, when most we see, - Then, blindest to the _World-within_, are wee. - - - _An =Innocent= no =Danger= feares, - How great soever it appeares._ - -[Illustration: SPERNIT PERICVLA VIRT[VS] - -ILLVSTR. X. _Book. 1._] - - When some did seeke _Arion_ to have drown’d, - He, with a dreadlesse heart his Temples crown’d; - And, when to drench him in the Seas they meant, - He playd on his melodious _Instrument_; - To shew, that _Innocence_ disdayned Feare, - Though to be swallow’d in the _Deeps_ it were. - Nor did it perish: For, upon her Backe - A _Dolphin_ tooke him, for his _Musick’s_ sake: - To intimate, that _Vertue_ shall prevaile - With _Bruitish_ Creatures, if with _Men_ it faile. - Most vaine is then their Hope, who dreame they can - Make wretched, or undoe, an _Honest-Man_: - For, he whom Vertuous _Innocence_ adornes, - Insults o’re _Cruelties_; and, _Perill_ scornes. - Yea, that, by which, Men purpose to _undoe_ him, - (In their despight) shall bring great _Honours_ to him. - _Arion_-like, the Malice of the _World_, - Hath into _Seas_ of _Troubles_ often hurl’d - Deserving Men, although no Cause they had, - But that their _Words_ and _Workes_ sweet _Musicke_ made. - Of all their outward Helps it hath bereft them; - Nor meanes, nor hopes of Comfort have beene left them; - But such, as in the House of _Mourning_ are, - And, what _Good-Conscience_ can afford them there. - Yet, _Dolphin-like_, their _Innocence_ hath rear’d - Their Heads above those _Dangers_ that appear’d. - _God_ hath vouchsaf’d their harmelesse _Cause_ to heed, - And, ev’n in Thraldome, so their Hearts hath freed, - That, whil’st they seem’d oppressed and forlorne; - They _Ioyd_, and _Sung_, and _Laugh’d the World to scorne_. - - - _A =Foole=, in =Folly= taketh Paine, - Although he labour still in vaine._ - -[Illustration: AD SCOPVM LICET ÆGRE ET FRVSTRA - -ILLVSTR. XI. _Book. 1._] - - A Massie _Mil-stone_ up a tedious Hill, - With mighty Labour, _Sisyphus_ doth roll; - Which being rais’d-aloft, downe-tumbleth, still, - To keepe imployed his afflicted _Soule_. - On him, this tedious Labour is impos’d; - And (though in vaine) it must be still assayd: - But, some, by no Necessity inclos’d, - Vpon themselves, such needlesse Taskes have layd. - Yea, knowing not (or caring not to know) - That they are worne and weary’d out in vaine, - They madly toyle to plunge themselves in Woe; - And, seeke uncertaine _Ease_, in certaine _Paine_. - Such _Fooles_ are they, who dreame they can acquire - A Minde-content, by _Lab’ring still for more_: - For, _Wealth_ encreasing, doth encrease _Desire_, - And makes _Contentment_ lesser then before. - Such _Fooles_ are they, whose _Hopes_ doe vainely stretch - To climbe by _Titles_, to a happy Height: - For, having gotten one _Ambitious-Reach_, - Another comes perpetually in sight. - And, their stupidity is nothing lesse, - Who dreame that _Flesh_ and _Blood_ may raysed be - Vp to the _Mount of perfect-Holinesse_: - For (at our best) corrupt and vile are we. - Yet, we are bound by _Faith_, with _Love_ and _Hope_, - To roll the Stone of _Good-Endeavour_, still, - As neere as may be, to _Perfections top_, - Though backe againe it tumble downe the _Hill_. - So; What our _Workes_ had never power to doe, - _God’s_ Grace, at last, shall freely bring us to. - - - _As, to the =World= I =naked= came, - So, =naked=-stript I leave the same._ - -[Illustration: ΠΑΝΤΑ ΛΕΛΟΙΠΑ - -ILLVSTR. XII. _Book. 1._] - - Thrice happy is that Man whose _Thoughts_ doe reare - His Minde above that pitch the _Worldling_ flies, - And by his _Contemplations_, hovers where - He viewes things mortall, with unbleared eyes. - What Trifles then doe _Villages_ and _Townes_ - Large _Fields_ or _Flockes_ of fruitfull _Cattell_ seeme? - Nay, what poore things are _Miters_, _Scepters_, _Crownes_, - And all those _Glories_ which Men most esteeme? - Though he that hath among them, his Delight, - Brave things imagines them (because they blinde - With some false Lustre his beguiled sight) - He that’s above them, their meane-Worth may finde. - _Lord_, to that _Blessed-Station_ me convey - Where I may view the _World_, and view her so, - That I her true Condition may survey; - And all her Imperfections rightly know. - Remember me, that once there was a Day - When thou didst weane me from them with content, - Ev’n when shut up within those _Gates_ I lay - Through which the _Plague-inflicting Angel_ went. - And, let me still remember, that an Houre - Is hourely comming on, wherein I shall - (Though I had all the _World_ within my powre) - Be naked stript, and turned out of all. - But minde me, chiefely, that I never cleave - Too closely to my _Selfe_; and cause thou me, - Not other Earthly things alone to leave, - But to forsake my _Selfe_ for love of _Thee_: - That I may say, now _I have all things left_, - Before that I of all things, am bereft. - - - _To him a happy =Lot= befalls - That hath a =Ship=, and =prosp’rous Gales=._ - -[Illustration: REMIGIO VENTISQ[VE] SECVNDIS - -ILLVSTR. XIII. _Book. 1._] - - No wonder he a prosp’rous _Voyage_ findes - That hath both _Sailes_ and _Oares_ to serve his turne, - And, still, through meanes of some propitious _Winds_ - Is to his wished _Harbour_, swiftly borne. - Nor is it much admir’d, if they that lacke - Those aydes (on which the _Common-faith_ depends) - Are from their hoped aymes repelled backe, - Or made to labour for unfruitfull ends. - Yet neither in the _Ship_, _Wind_, _Oares_, or _Sailes_, - Nor in the want of _Outward meanes_, alone, - Consists it, that our _Hope_ succeedes or failes; - But, most in that, which Men least thinke upon. - For, _some_ endeavour, and their Paines are blest - With _Gales_ which are so fortunate, that they - Fly safe, and swiftly on, among the best, - Whil’st others labour, and are cast away. - _Some_ others, on this _Worlds_ wide _Ocean_ floate, - And neither _Wind_, nor _Tide_ assistant have, - Nor _Saile_, nor _Oare_, nor _Anchor_, nor sound _Boate_, - Nor take so much as heede themselves to save; - And yet are safe: A third sort, then, there are - Who neither want fit _Meanes_, nor yet neglect, - The painefull-_Industrie_, or honest _Care_, - Which _Need_ requires; yet find small good effect. - Therefore, let that which you propose, be _Iust_; - Then, use the fairest _Meanes_, to compasse it: - And, though _Meanes_ faile, yet foster no mistrust; - But fearelesly, to _God_, your _Course_ commit: - For, _Hee_, to _Faithfull-Hearts_, and _Honest-Mindes_ - Turnes _Losse_ to _Gaine_; and _Stormes_, to _prosp’rous Windes_. - - - _Though he endeavour all he can, - An =Ape=, will never be a =Man=._ - -[Illustration: QVID SI SIC - -ILLVSTR. XIIII. _Book. 1._] - - What though an _Apish-Pigmie_, in attire, - His Dwarfish Body _Gyant-lyke_, array? - Turne _Brave_, and get him _Stilts_ to seem the higher? - What would so doing, handsome him I pray? - Now, surely, such a Mimicke sight as that, - Would with excessive Laughter move your Spleene, - Till you had made the little _Dandiprat_, - To lye within some Auger-hole, unseene. - I must confesse I cannot chuse but smile, - When I perceive, how Men that worthlesse are, - Piece out their _Imperfections_, to beguile, - By making showes, of what they never were. - For, in their _borrow’d-Shapes_, I know those Men, - And (through their _Maskes_) such insight of them have; - That I can oftentimes disclose (ev’n then) - How much they savour of the _Foole_ or _Knave_. - A _Pigmey-spirit_, and an _Earthly-Minde_, - Whose looke is onely fixt on Objects vaine; - In my esteeme, so meane a place doth finde, - That ev’ry such a one, I much refraine. - But, when in honour’d _Robes_ I see it put, - Betrimm’d, as if some thing of _Worth_ it were, - Looke big, and on the _Stilts_ of _Greatnesse_, strut; - From scorning it, I cannot then forbeare. - For, when to grosse _Vnworthinesse_, Men adde - Those Dues, which to the _Truest-worth_ pertaine; - Tis like an _Ape_, in _Humane-Vestments_ clad, - Which, when most fine, deserveth most disdaine: - And, more absurd, those Men appeare to me, - Then this _Fantasticke-Monkey_ seemes to thee. - - - _I =pine=, that others may not perish, - And =waste= my =Selfe=, their =Life= to cherish._ - -[Illustration: DVM NVTRIO CONSVMOR - -ILLVSTR. XV. _Book. 1._] - - Observe I pray you, how the greedy _Flame_ - The _Fewell_, on an _Altar_ doth consume. - How it destroyeth that which feedes the same, - And how the _Nourisher_ away doth fume. - For, so it fares with _Parents_ that uphold - Their thriftlesse _Children_ in unlawfull _Pleasures_: - With _Cares_, it weares them out, ere they are old; - And ere their Lives consume, consumes their Treasures. - So fares it with such _Wantons_ as doe feede - Vnchast Desires; for, ev’ry day they grow - Vntill their _Longings_, their _Supplies_ exceede, - And, quite devoure those men that fed them so. - So fares it with all those that spend their _Youth_ - In lab’ring to enrich ungratefull Men, - Who, growing _Great_, and _Wealthy_, by their Truth, - Returne them _Smoke_ and _Ashes_ backe agen. - So fares it with good _States-men_, who to keepe - A thankelesse _Common-wealth_ in happy Peace, - Deprive their _Mindes_ of Rest, their _Eyes_ of Sleepe, - And, waste themselves, that others may encrease. - And, so it fares with Men that passe away - Their time in _Studies_, (and their Healths impaire) - That helps to other men become they may, - And, their defective Knowledges, repaire. - But, let my _Flesh_, my _Time_, and my _Estate_, - Be so consum’d; so spent; so wasted bee, - That they may nourish _Grace_, and perfit that - For which all these were first bestowd’d on me: - So when I quite am vanish’d out of seeing, - I shall enjoy my _Now-concealed-Being_. - - - _When to =suppresse= us, Men intend, - They make us higher to =ascend=._ - -[Illustration: CONCVSSVS SVRGO - -ILLVSTR. XVI. _Book. 1._] - - When we observe the _Ball_, how to and fro - The _Gamesters_ force it; we may ponder thus: - That whil’st we live we shall be playd with so, - And that the _World_ will make her _Game_ of us. - _Adversities_, one while our hearts constraine - To stoope, and knock the Pavements of _Despaire_; - _Hope_, like a Whirle-wind mounts us up againe, - Till oft it lose us in the empty ayre. - Sometimes, above the _Battlements_ we looke; - Sometimes, we quite below the _Line_ are tost: - Another-while, against the _Hazard_ strooke, - We, but a little want, of being lost. - _Detraction_, _Envie_, _Mischief_, and _Despight_, - One Partie make, and watchfully attend - To catch us when we rise to any _Height_; - Lest we above their hatred should ascend. - _Good-Fortune_, _Praises_, _Hopes_, and _Industries_, - Doe side-together, and make _Play_ to please us; - But, when by them we thinke more high to rise, - More great they make our _Fall_, and more disease us. - Yea, they that seeke our _Losse_, advance our _Gaine_; - And to our _Wishes_, bring us oft the nigher: - For, we that else upon the Ground had laine, - Are, by their striking of us lifted higher. - When _Balls_ against the Stones are hardest throwne, - Then highest up into the Aire they fly; - So, when men hurle us (with most fury) downe, - Wee hopefull are to be advanc’d thereby: - And, when they smite us quite unto the Ground, - Then, up to Heav’n, we trust, we shall rebound. - - - _Till =God= hath wrought us to his Will, - The =Hammer= we shall suffer still._ - -[Illustration: DVM EXTENDAR - -ILLVSTR. XVII. _Book. 1._] - - Why should the foolish _World_ discourage Men, - In just endurances? or bid them shunne - Good _Actions_, 'cause they suffer now and then, - For _Doing well_, as if some _Ill_ were done? - Ere _Plates_ extended are, they must abide - A thousand hamm’rings; And, then that which fill’d - So little roome, it scarce your Hand could hide, - Will serve a goodly _Monument_ to gild. - So, he that hopes to winne an honest _Name_, - Must many blowes of _Fortune_ undergoe, - And hazard, oft, the blast of _Evill-Fame_, - Before a _Good-Report_ her Trumpe will blow. - A thousand _Worthies_ had unworthily - Been raked up in Ashes and in Clay, - Vnknowne and bury’d in _Obscurity_, - If Malice had not fil’d their Rust away. - But, lo; their lasting prayses now are spread, - And rais’d, by _Adverse-Chance_, to such a height, - That they most glorious are, now they are dead; - And live in _Injuries_, and _Deaths_, despight. - For, by _Afflictions_, man refined growes, - And, (as the _Gold_ prepared in the _Fire_) - Receiveth such a _Forme_ by wrongs and blowes, - That hee becomes the _Iewell_ we desire. - To thee therefore, _Oh God_! My Prayers are - Not to be freed from Griefes and Troubles quite: - But, that they may be such as I can beare; - And, serve to make me precious in thy Sight. - This please me shall, though all my Life time, I - Betweene thine _Anvill_ and the _Hammer_, lie. - - - _From thence, where =Nets= and =Snares= are layd, - =Make-hast=; lest els you be betray’d._ - -[Illustration: MATVRA - -ILLVSTR. XVIII. _Book. 1._] - - The nimble _Spider_ from his Entrailes drawes - A suttle Thread, and curious art doth show - In weaving _Nets_, not much unlike those _Lawes_ - Which catch _Small-Thieves_, and let the _Great-ones_ goe. - For, as the _Cob-web_ takes the lesser _Flyes_, - When those of larger size breake through their _Snares_; - So, _Poore-men_ smart for little Injuries, - When _Rich-men_ scape, whose Guilt is more then theirs. - The _Spider_, also representeth such - Who very curious are in Trifling-things, - And neither Cost, nor Time, nor Labour grutch, - In that which neither _Gaine_ nor _Pleasure_ brings. - But those whom here that _Creature_ doth implye - Are chiefely such, who under cunning shewes - Of simple-Meanings (or of Curtesie) - Doe silly Men unwarily abuse. - Or else, it meanes those greedy-_Cormorants_ - Who without touch, of Conscience or Compassion, - Seeke how to be enricht by others wants, - And bring the _Poore_ to utter Desolation. - Avoyd them therefore, though compell’d by need; - Or if a _Storme_ inforce, (yee lab’ring _Bees_) - That yee must fall among them; Flie with speed - From their Commerce, when _Calmes_ your passage frees. - Much more, let wastfull _Gallants_ haste from these; - Else, when those Idling-painted-_Butterflies_, - Have flutter’d-out their _Summer-time_, in ease, - (And spent their Wealth in foolish Vanities) - The Blasts of _Want_ may force them to be brought - For shelter thither, where they shall be caught. - - - _When thou a =Dangerous-Way= dost goe, - Walke =surely=, though thy pace be =slowe=._ - -[Illustration: LENTE SED ATTENTE - -ILLVSTR. XIX. _Book. 1._] - - _Experience_ proves, that Men who trust upon - Their Nat’rall parts, too much, oft lose the _Day_, - And, faile in that which els they might have done, - By vainely trifling pretious _Time_ away. - It also shewes, that many Men have sought - With so much _Rashnesse_, those things they desir’d, - That they have brought most likely _Hopes_ to nought; - And, in the middle of their _Courses_, tir’d. - And, not a few, are found who so much wrong - Gods _Gratiousnesse_, as if their thinkings were, - That (seeing he deferres his _Iudgements_ long) - His _Vengeance_, he, for ever, would forbeare: - But, such as these may see wherein they faile, - And, what would fitter be for them to doe, - If they would contemplate the slow-pac’d _Snaile_; - Or, this our _Hieroglyphicke_ looke into: - For, thence we learne, that _Perseverance_ brings - Large Workes to end, though slowly they creepe on; - And, that _Continuance_ perfects many things, - Which seeme, at first, unlikely to be done. - It warnes, likewise, that some _Affaires_ require - More _Heed_ then _Haste_: And that the _Course_ we take, - Should suite as well our _Strength_, as our _Desire_; - Else (as our _Proverbe_ saith) _Haste, Waste may make_. - And, in a _Mysticke-sense_, it seemes to preach - _Repentance_ and _Amendment_, unto those - Who live, as if they liv’d beyond _Gods_ reach; - Because, he long deferres deserved Blowes: - For, though _Iust-Vengeance_ moveth like a _Snaile_, - And slowly comes; her comming will not faile. - - - _A =Sive=, of shelter maketh show; - But ev’ry =Storme= will through it goe._ - -[Illustration: TRANSEAT - -ILLVSTR. XX. _Book. 1._] - - Some Men, when for their Actions they procure - A likely colour, (be it nere so vaine) - Proceede as if their _Projects_ were as sure, - As when _Sound Reason_ did their Course maintayne: - And these not much unlike those _Children_ are, - Who through a _Storme_ advent’ring desp’rately, - Had rather on their Heads, a _Sive_ to beare, - Then _Cov’rings_, that may serve to keepe them drye. - For, at a distance that perchance is thought - A helpfull _Shelter_; and, yet, proves to those - Who neede the same, a _Toy_, which profits nought; - Because, each drop of Raine quite through it, goes. - So, they, whose foolish _Projects_, for a while, - Doe promise their _Projectors_ hopefull ends, - Shall finde them, in the _Tryall_, to beguile; - And, that both _Shame_ and _Want_, on them attends. - Such like is their estate, who, (to appeare - _Rich-men_ to others) doe, with Inward-payne, - A gladsome out-ward _Port_ desire to beare; - Though they at last nor _Wealth_ nor _Credit_ gaine. - And, such are all those _Hypocrites_, who strive - False _Hearts_ beneath _Faire-spoken Words_ to hyde: - For, they o’revaile themselves but with a _Sive_, - Through which, their purposes at length are spyde. - And, then, they either woefully-lament - Their _Brutish-folly_, or so hardned grow - In Sinning, that they never can repent, - Nay, jest and scoffe at their owne Overthrow. - But no false _Vaile_ can serve (when _God_ will smite) - To save a _Scorner_, or an _Hypocrite_. - - - _=Death= no =Losse=, but rather, =Gaine=; - For wee by =Dying=, =Life= attaine._ - -[Illustration: MORS VITÆ INITIVM. - -ILLVSTR. XXI. _Book. 1._] - - I Will not blame those grieved Hearts that shed - _Becoming-teares_, for their departed Friends; - Nor those who sigh out _Passions_ for the _Dead_; - Since, on _Good-natures_, this Disease attends. - When _Sorrow_ is conceiv’d, it must have Vent - (In Sighes or Moysture) or the Heart will breake; - And, much they aggravate our Discontent, - Who, out of _Season_, _Reason_ seeme to speake. - Yet, since our Frailty may require we should - _Remembrances_ admit to keepe us from - Excesse in _Griefe_: this _Emblem_ here behold, - And take such _Hope_ as may our _Teares_ become. - The _Wheat_ although a while it lyes in Earth, - (And seemeth lost) consumes not quite away; - But, from that _Wombe_ receives another _Birth_, - And, with _Additions_, riseth from the Clay. - Much more shall _Man_ revive, whose worth is more: - For, _Death_, who from our Drosse will us refine, - Vnto that other _Life_, becomes the _Doore_, - Where, we in _Immortalitie_ shall shine. - When once our _Glasse_ is runne, we presently - Give up our _Soules_ to _Death_; So _Death_ must give - Our _Bodies_ backe againe, that we, thereby, - The _Light_ of _Life eternall_, may receive. - The Venom’d _Sting_ of _Death_ is tooke away; - And, now, the _Grave_, that was a Place of _Feare_, - Is made a _Bed of Rest_, wherein we may - Lye downe in _Hope_, and bide in safety, there. - When we are _Borne_, to _Death_-ward straight we runne; - And by our _Death_, our _Life_ is new-begnnne. - - - _When =Vice= and =Vertue= Youth shall wooe, - Tis hard to say, which way 'twill goe._ - -[Illustration: QVO ME VERTĀ NESCIO - -ILLVSTR. XXII. _Book. 1._] - - My hopefull _Friends_ at thrice five yeares and three, - Without a _Guide_ (into the World alone) - To seeke my _Fortune_, did adventure mee; - And, many hazards, I alighted on. - First, _Englands_ greatest _Rendevouz_ I sought, - Where VICE and VERTVE at the highest sit; - And, thither, both a _Minde_ and _Bodie_ brought, - For neither of their Services unfit. - Both, woo’d my _Youth_: And, both perswaded so, - That (like the _Young man_ in our _Emblem_ here) - I stood, and cry’d, _Ah! which way shall I goe?_ - To me so pleasing both their Offers were. - VICE, _Pleasures_ best Contentments promist mee, - And what the wanton _Flesh_ desires to have: - Quoth VERTVE, _I will Wisdome give to thee, - And those brave things, which noblest Mindes doe crave_. - _Serve me_ said VICE, _and thou shalt soone acquire - All those Atchievements which my Service brings_: - _Serve me_ said VERTVE, _and Ile raise thee higher, - Then VICES can, and teach thee better things_. - Whil’st thus they strove to gaine me, I espyde - Grim _Death_ attending VICE; and, that her Face - Was but a painted _Vizard_, which did hide - The foul’st Deformity that ever was. - _LORD, grant me grace for evermore to view - Her Vglinesse: And, that I viewing it, - Her Falsehoods and allurements may eschew; - And on faire VERTVE my Affection set; - Her Beauties contemplate, her Love embrace, - And by her safe Direction, runne my Race._ - - - _By =Paine=, on =Pleasures= we doe seize; - And, we by =Suff’rance=, purchase =Ease=._ - -[Illustration: PATIOR VT POTIAR - -ILLVSTR. XXIII. _Book. 1._] - - The lick’rish _Beare_ to rob the _Honey-Bees_ - Among their stinging-Swarms thrusts in his pawes; - Adventureth to climbe up hollow Trees, - And from their _Cells_, the well fill’d _Combes_ he drawes: - Right so, the _Sensuall-Man_ that he may gaine - His bruitish _Lust_, a thousand perills dares; - And, that his _Lawlesse-will_ he may attaine, - Nor _Conscience_, _Credit_, _Cost_, nor _Labour_ spares. - 'Twere shamefull basenesse, therefore, if that he - Who knoweth _Vertue_, and is thought her _Lover_, - Should so by any Perills frighted bee, - To make him such _Affections_ to give-over. - For, why should that _Vaine-Crew_ whose Valour springs - From beastly _Fury_, or inflamed-_Passion_, - Enabled be to compasse bolder things, - Then _Sober-Wit_, and _Grave Consideration_? - Or, why should lisping-_Wantons_, for their _Lust_ - So much adventure as one finger, there, - Where we our Lives in hazard would not thrust - For _Vertues_ Glory, if it needfull were? - For, though her _Sweetnesse_ fast is closed in - With many _Thornes_, and such a Prickling-guard, - That we must smart, before that _Prize_ we winne, - The _Paine_ is follow’d, with a _Rich Reward_. - By _Suff’ring_, I have more _Contentment_ had, - Then ever I acquir’d by _Slothfull Ease_; - And, I by _Griefe_, so joyfull have beene made, - That I will beare my _Crosse_, while _God_ shall please. - For, so at last my _Soule_ may _Ioy_ procure, - I care not, in my _Flesh_ what I endure. - - - _Who by good =Meanes=, good things would gaine, - Shall never =seeke=, nor =aske= in vaine._ - -[Illustration: CONSEQVITVR QVODCVNQ[VE] PETIT - -ILLVSTR. XXIIII. _Book. 1._] - - In vaine faire _Cynthia_ never taketh paines, - Nor faints in foll’wing her desired _Game_; - And, when at any Marke her Bowe she straines, - The winged Arrow surely hits the same. - Her _Picture_, therefore, in this place doth shew - The Nature of their _Mindes_ who _Cynthia_-like, - With _Constancie_ their _Purposes_ pursue, - And faint not till they compasse what they seeke. - For, nought more _God-like_ in this World is found, - Then so _Resolv’d a man_, that nothing may - His _Resolution_ alter or confound, - When any taske of _Worth_, he doth assay. - Nor, is there greater Basenesse, then those _Mindes_ - That from an _Honest-purpose_, can be wrought - By _Threatnings_, _Bribes_, _Smooth-Gales_ or _Boyst’rous-Windes_, - What ever colour or excuse be brought. - You then, that would, with _Pleasure_, _Glory_ gaine, - _Diana_ like, those modest things require, - Which truely may beseeme you to attaine; - And stoutly follow that which you desire: - For, changing though the _Moone_ to us appeare, - She holds a firme Dependence on the _Sunne_; - And, by a _Constant-Motion_, in her _Sphære_ - With him, doth in _Conjunction_ often runne: - So, _Constant-men_, still move their hopes to winne; - But, never by a _Motion-indirect_; - Nor, will they stop the Course that they are in, - Vntill they bring their purpose to effect. - For, whosoever _Honest-things_ requires, - A _Promise_ hath of all that he desires. - - - _Oft =Shooting=, doth not =Archers= make; - But, hitting right the =Marke= they take._ - -[Illustration: NON QVAM CREBRO SED QVĀ BĒE - -ILLVSTR. XXV. _Book. 1._] - - When to the Fields we walke to looke upon - Some skilfull _Mark-man_; so much heede we not - How many _Arrowes_ from his Bowe are gone, - As we observe how nigh the _Marke_ he shot: - And, justly we deride that Man who spends - His _Time_ and _Shafts_, but never ayme doth take - To hit the _White_; or foolishly pretends, - The number of the Shots, doth _Archers_ make. - So, _God_, who marketh our Endeavours, here, - Doth not by _tale_, account of them receive; - But, heedeth rather how _well meant_ they were, - And, at his _Will_ how rightly aym’d we have. - It is not mumbling over thrice a day - A Set of _Ave Maries_, or of _Creeds_, - Or many houres formally to _pray_; - When from a dull _Devotion_ it proceedes: - Nor is it, up and downe the Land to seeke - To finde those well breath’d _Lecturers_, that can - Preach thrice a _Sabbath_, and sixe times a weeke, - Yet be as fresh, as when they first beganne: - Nor, is it, such like things perform’d by _Number_ - Which _God_ respects: Nor doth his _Wisdome_ crave - Those many _Vanities_, wherewith some cumber - Their _Bodies_, as if those their _Soules_ could save. - For, not _Much-doing_, but _Well-doing_, that - Which _God_ commands, the _Doer_, justifies. - To pray without _Devotion_, is to _Prate_; - And, _Hearing_ is but halfe our _Exercise_. - We ought not, therefore, to regard, alone, - How _often_, but how _Well_, the _Worke_ be done. - - - _With =Patience=, I the =Storme= sustaine; - For, =Sun-shine= still doth follow =Raine=._ - -[Illustration: DVRABO - -ILLVSTR. XXVI. _Book. 1._] - - The little _Squirrell_, hath no other Food - Then that which _Natures_ thrifty hand provides; - And, in purveying up and downe the Wood, - She many cold wet Stormes, for that, abides. - She lyes not heartlesse in her Mossie _Dray_, - Nor feareth to adventure through the _Raine_; - But skippeth out, and beares it as she may, - Vntill the Season waxeth calme againe. - Right thus, have I and others, often far’d; - For, when we first into the World were brought, - We found but little, for our Vse prepar’d, - Save that, which by _Hard-Labour_, must be sought. - In many _Stormes_, unheeded, we are faine - To seeke out needfull things; and, smilingly - To jest, at what some others would complaine: - That, none might laugh at our _Necessity_. - Yea, some have liv’d on _Huskes_, whil’st others fed - On that which was their _Labours_ due Reward; - And, were pursu’d (till they almost were dead) - Without the Worlds Compassion or Regard. - Yet, by _Enduring_, they out liv’d the Blast - Of _Adverse-Fortune_; and, with good successe, - (Expecting calmer Seasons) at the last, - Arrived at the Port of _Happinesse_. - Their _Suffring-much_, hath made their _Suffrings_ none; - And brought forth _Hopes_, by which, perceive they may, - That _Nights_ have but their Turnes; and (they once gone) - Their _Darkenesse_, makes much welcomer, the _Day_. - All _Griefe_ shall have an ending, I am sure; - And, therefore, I with _Patience_, will _Endure_. - - - _Where =Hellen= is, there, will be =Warre=; - For, =Death= and =Lust=, Companions are._ - -[Illustration: VBI HELENA IBI TROIA - -ILLVSTR. XXVII. _Book. 1._] - - Their foolish Guise, I never could affect, - Who dare, for any cause, the _Stewes_ frequent: - And, thither, where I justly might suspect - A _Strumpet_ liv’d, as yet, I never went. - For, when (as _Fooles_ pretend) they goe to seeke - Experience, where more _Ill_ then _Good_, they see; - They venture for their _Knowledge_, _Adam_-like; - And, such as his, will their _Atchievements_ bee. - Let, therefore, those that would loose _Trulls_ detest, - Converse with none, but those that modest are; - For, they that can of _Whoredome_ make a Iest, - Will entertaine it, ere they be aware. - _Chast-Company_, and _Chast-Discourse_, doth make - The Minde more pleased with it, ev’ry day; - And, _Frequent viewes of Wantonnesse_, will take - The Sense and Hatred, of the _Vice_ away. - Some, I have k_n_owne, by _Harlots_ Wiles undone, - Who, but _to see their Fashions_ first pretended; - And, they that went _for Company_, alone, - By suddaine Quarrells, there, their Dayes have ended. - For, in the Lodgings of a _Lustfull-Woman_, - Immodest _Impudence_ hath still her Being; - There, _Furie_, _Fraud_, and _Cruelties_ are common: - And, there, is _Want_, and _Shame_, and _Disagreeing_. - Ev’n _Beauty_, of it selfe, stirres loose Desires, - Occasioning both _Iealousies_, and _Feares_; - It kindleth in the Brest, concealed _Fires_, - Which burne the Heart, before the _Flame_ appeares: - And, ev’ry day, experienced are wee; - That, there, where _Hellen_ is, _Troyes_ Fate will bee. - - - _No Inward =Griefe=, nor outward =Smart=, - Can overcome a =Patient-Heart=._ - -[Illustration: VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI. - -ILLVSTR. XXVIII. _Book. 1._] - - Some _Trees_, when Men oppresse their Aged Heads, - (With waighty Stones) they fructifie the more; - And, when upon some _Herbs_, the _Gard’ner_ treads, - They thrive and prosper, better then before: - So, when the Kings of _Ægypt_ did oppresse - The Sonnes of _Iacob_, through their Tyrannies; - Their Numbers, every day, did more encrease, - Till they grew greater then their Enemies. - So, when the _Iewes_ and _Gentiles_, joyn’d their Powre - The _Lord_, and his _Annoynted_, to withstand; - (With raging _Furie_, lab’ring to devoure - And roote the _Gospel_, out of ev’ry Land) - The more they rag’d, conspired, and envy’d, - The more they slander’d, scorn’d, and murthered; - The more, the _Faithfull_, still, were multiply’d: - And, still, the further, their _Profession_ spred. - Yea, so it spred, that quite it overthrew - Ev’n _Tyranny_ it selfe; that, at the last, - The _Patience of the Saints_, most pow’rfull grew, - And _Persecutions_ force, to ground was cast. - The selfe-same Pow’r, true _Patience_, yet retaines, - And (though a thousand _Suff’rings_ wound the same) - She still hath _Hope_ enough to ease her paynes; - That _Hope_, which keepeth off, all _Feare_ and _Shame_: - For, 'tis not _Hunger_, _Cold_, nor _Fire_, nor _Steele_, - Nor all the _Scornes_ or _Slanders_, we can heare, - Nor any _Torment_, which our _Flesh_ can feele, - That conquers us; but, our owne Trayt’rous _Feare_. - Where, _Honest Mindes_, and _Patient_ Hearts, are Mates - They grow victorious, in their _Hardest-Fates_. - - - _By =many Strokes=, that Worke is done, - Which cannot be perform’d at =One=._ - -[Illustration: NON VNO STERNITVR ICTV. - -ILLVSTR. XXIX. _Book. 1._] - - Despaire not _Man_, in what thou oughtst to doe, - Although thou faile when one _Attempt_ is made; - But, adde a _New-Endeavour_ thereunto, - And, then another, and another, adde: - Yea, till thy Pow’r and Life shall quite be spent, - Persist in seeking what thou shouldst desire; - For, he that falleth from a good _Intent_, - Deserves not that, to which he did aspire. - Rich _Treasures_, are by _Nature_, placed deepe; - And, ere we gaine them, we must pierce the _Rockes_: - Such _Perills_, also, them, as _Guardians_ keepe, - That, none can winne them without wounds and knockes. - Moreover, _Glories_, _Thrones_ are so sublime, - That, whosoever thinkes their Top to gaine, - Till many thousand weary steps he clime, - Doth foole himselfe, by Musings which are vaine. - And, yet, there is a _Path-way_, which doth leade - Above the highest things that Man can see; - And (though it be not knowne to all who tread - The _Common-Tract_) it may ascended be. - As, therefore, none should greater things presume - Then well becomes their strength; So, none should feare - (Through _Folly_, _Sloth_, or _Basenesse_) to assume - Those things upon them, which beseeming are. - In _Time_, and by _Degrees_ may things be wrought, - That seem’d impossible to have beene done, - When they were first conceived in the thought; - And, such as these, we may adventure on. - Mine _Arme_, I know, in time will fell an _Oke_; - But, I will nev’r attempt it, at a _Stroke_. - - - _=Afflictions Fire= consumeth =Sinne=; - But, =Vertue= taketh =Life= therein._ - -[Illustration: NVDRISCO IL BVONO ET SPENGO IL REO - -ILLVSTR. XXX. _Book. 1._] - - Whether the _Salamander_ be a _Beast_, - Or _Precious-Stone_, which overcomes the _Flame_, - It skills not; Since, by either is exprest - The Meaning which we purpose by the same: - Both brooke the _Fire_ unhurt; And (more then so) - The fiercer and the longer _Heats_ there are, - The livelyer in the same the _Beast_ will grow; - And, much the brighter, will the _Stone_ appeare. - This _Crowned-Salamander_ in the _Fire_, - May, therefore, not unfitly, signifie - Those, who in _Fiery Charriots_, doe aspire - _Elijah_-like, to _Immortality_: - Or, those _Heroicke-spirits_, who unharm’d - Have through the _Fires_ of _Troubles_, and _Affliction_, - (With _Vertue_, and with _Innocencie_ arm’d) - Walkt onward, in the _Path-way_, of _Perfection_. - The _Fiery-Tryall_, which like _Wood_ and _Hay_, - Consumes the Workes of ev’ry _Wicked-one_; - (And maketh all their _Hopes_ to fume away) - Doth purifie what _Faithfull-men_ have done. - They triumph in the _Flames_, and shall obtaine - The glorious _Crowne_ of _Endless-Happinesse_, - When all that show of _Blisse_ appeareth vaine, - Which _Worldly men_ have seemed to possesse. - For, though some _Sinnes_ and _Follies_, gilded are, - And shine like purest _Gold_, and _Pretious-Stones_; - This _Test_, will finde of what _Allay_ they were, - And, make them knowne but _Counterfeited Ones_: - For, in this _Fornace_, all such _Wormes_ expire; - And, none but _Vertue_ liveth in this _Fire_. - - - _Hee, over all the =Starres= doth raigne, - That unto =Wisdome= can attaine._ - -[Illustration: SAPIENS DOMINABITVR ASTRIS. - -ILLVSTR. XXXI. _Book. 1._] - - I Am not of their Minde, who thinke the _Sun_, - The _Moone_, the _Planets_, and those glorious _Lights_ - Which trim the _Sphæres_, doe in their _Motions_ run - To no more purpose, then to please our _Sights_. - Nor for distinguishment of _Nights_, and _Dayes_, - Or of the _Seasons_, and the _Times_, alone, - Can I suppose the Hand of _God_ displayes - Those many _Starres_, we nightly gaze upon: - For, both by _Reason_, and by _Common-sense_ - We know (and often feele) that from above - The _Planets_ have, on us, an _Influence_; - And, that our _Bodies_ varie, as they move. - Moreover, _Holy Writ_ inferres, that these - Have some such pow’r; ev’n in those Places, where - It names _Orion_, and the _Pleiades_; - Which, _Starres_ of much inferiour Nature are. - Yet, hence conclude not, therefore, that the _Minde_ - Is by the _Starres_ constrained to obey - Their _Influence_; or, so by them inclin’d, - That, by no meanes resist the same we may. - For, though they forme the _Bodies_ temp’rature, - (And though the _Minde_ inclineth after that) - By _Grace_ another _Temper_ we procure, - Which guides the _Motions_ of _Supposed Fate_. - The _Soule_ of _Man_ is nobler then the _Sphæres_; - And, if it gaine the Place which may be had, - Not here alone on Earth, the Rule it beares, - But, is the _Lord_, of all that _God_ hath made. - Be _wise in him_; and, if just cause there bee, - The _Sunne_ and _Moone_, shall stand and wayt on thee. - - - _A =Princes= most ennobling Parts, - Are Skill in =Armes=, and Love to =Arts=._ - -[Illustration: EX VTROQVE CÆSAR - -ILLVSTR. XXXII. _Book. 1._] - - Right blest are they on whom _God_ hath bestowne - A _King_, whose _Vertues_ have approved him - To be an Ornament unto his _Throne_, - And as a Lustre to his _Diadem_. - Hee seekes not onely how to keepe in awe - His _People_, by those meanes that rightfull are; - But, doth unto himselfe, become a _Law_, - And, by _Example_, Pious _Wayes_ declare. - He, loveth _Peace_, and after it pursues; - Yet, if of _Warre_ a just occasion come, - Doth nor _Bellona’s_ Challenges refuse, - Nor feare, to beat _Defyance_ on his _Drum_; - He is as ready, also, to advance - The Lib’rall _Arts_, and from his Lands to drive - All false _Religion_, _Schisme_, and _Ignorance_, - As other publike profits to contrive. - And, such a _Prince_ is not a _Casuall-thing_, - The Glories of a _Throne_, by _Chance_, possessing; - Nor meerely from his _Parents_, doth he spring, - But, he is rather _Gods_ immediate _Blessing_. - If thou desirest such a _Prince_ to be, - Or, to acquire that Worth which may allure - Such _Princes_ to vouchsafe some _Grace_ to thee; - Their Kingly _Vertues_, labour to procure. - In _Military_ Practices delight, - Not for a wicked, or vaine-glorious end; - But, to maintaine the Cause that is upright, - Or thy distressed _Countrey_ to defend. - And, strive that thou, as excellent mayst bee - In _Knowledge_, as, thou art in thy _Degree_. - - - _=True-Lovers= Lives, in one Heart lye, - Both =Live=, or both together =Dye=._. - -[Illustration: PERSEQVAR EXSTINCTṼ - -ILLVSTR. XXXIII. _Book. 1._] - - Hee that shall say he _Loves_, and was againe - So well-belov’d, that neither _Hee_ nor _Shee_ - Suspects each other, neither needs to gaine - New proofes, that they in all Desires agree; - And, yet, shall coole againe in their _Affection_, - (And leave to Love) or live till they are _Lovers_ - The second-time; It some grosse Imperfection - In _One_ (if not in _Both_) of them discovers. - It was not _Love_ which did between them grow; - But, rather, somewhat like unto the same; - Which (having made a faire deceiving _Show_) - Obtain’d, a while, that honorable Name. - For, _False-Affections_ will together play - So lovingly; and, oft, so act those Parts - Which reall seeme; that, for a time, they may - Appeare the _Children_ of _Vnfeigned-Hearts_: - Yea, Many-times, true _Turtles_ are deceiv’d - By counterfeited _Passions_, till their _Love_ - Of her true _Object_ findes her selfe bereav’d; - And, after it, is forced to remove: - But, where _True-Love_ begetteth, and enjoyes - The proper _Object_, which shee doth desire, - Nor _Time_, nor _Injury_ the same destroyes; - But, it continues a _Perpetuall Fire_. - Like am’rous _Thisbe_ to her _Pyramus_, - On all occasions, it continues true: - Nor _Night_, nor _Danger_, makes it timorous; - But, through all Perills, it will him pursue. - Thus, both in _Life_, in _Death_, in all estates, - True-_Lovers_ will be true-_Associates_. - - - _When =Two= agree in their =Desire=, - One =Sparke= will set them =both= on =Fire=._ - -[Illustration: FLAMMESCIT VTERQVE - -ILLVSTR. XXXIV. _Book. 1._] - - The _Westerne-Indians_, when they want a Fire - To warme their naked limbs, or dresse their Food, - At ev’ry need, accomplish their Desire, - By often rubbing of two _Stickes of Wood_. - From whence, these _Observations_ we may take; - First, that in them whose Natures gentlest are, - A long _Contention_ such a Change may make, - As did, before, scarce possible appeare. - Next, that when _Two_ in _Opposition_ bee, - Whose power and strength and Malice is the same, - Their strugling Hearts but seldome doe agree, - Till they beget, a _Selfe-devouring-Flame_. - And, thirdly, it informes, that those chast _Fires_ - Which on _Loves Altars_ keepe a Lasting-Heat; - Are those, which in two Hearts, two _Like-Desires_ - Vpon each other, mutually beget. - Hence, therefore, learne thou, first, not to contemne - Their _Mildnesse_, who to anger are not prone; - Lest, many wrongs doe stirre up _Fires_ in them, - And worke thee Mischiefe, when thou look’st for none. - Be wary, next, though thou thy selfe be strong, - How with a pow’rfull Foe thou dost contend; - For, they that wrastle in _Contention_, long, - Will, sure, beshrew their Madnesse, in the end. - And, if to warme thee by _Loves_ Fires thou seeke, - Thy _Peere_ in _Yeares_, and _Manners_, pray to finde; - Let both your _Aymes_, and _Longings_, be alike; - Be one in _Faith_, and _Will_; and, one in _Minde_: - So, you shall reape the fruits of your Desire, - And warme each other with a kindly _Fire_. - - - _He that delights to =Plant= and =Set=, - Makes =After-Ages= in his =Debt=._ - -[Illustration: POSTERITATI - -ILLVSTR. XXXV. _Book. 1._] - - When I behold the Havocke and the Spoyle, - Which (ev’n within the compasse of my Dayes) - Is made through every quarter of this _Ile_, - In _Woods_ and _Groves_ (which were this Kingdomes praise) - And, when I minde with how much greedinesse, - We seeke the present Gaine, in every thing; - Not caring (so our _Lust_ we may possesse) - What Dammage to _Posterity_ we bring: - They doe, me-thinkes, as if they did foresee, - That, some of those, whom they have cause to hate, - Should come in _Future-times_, their Heires to be: - Or else, why should they such things perpetrate? - For, if they thinke their _Children_ shall succeed; - Or, can believe, that they begot their _Heires_; - They could not, surely, doe so foule a Deed, - As to deface the _Land_, that should be theirs. - What our _Forefathers_ planted, we destroy: - Nay, all Mens labours, living heretofore, - And all our owne, we lavishly imploy - To serve our present _Lusts_; and, for no more. - But, let these carelesse _Wasters_ learne to know, - That, as _Vaine-Spoyle_ is open _Injury_; - So, _Planting_ is a _Debt_, they truely owe, - And ought to pay to their _Posterity_. - _Selfe-love_, for none, but for it selfe, doth care; - And, onely, for the present, taketh paine: - But, _Charity_ for others doth prepare; - And, joyes in that, which _Future-Time_ shall gaine. - If, _After-Ages_ may my _Labours_ blesse; - I care not, _much_, how _Litle_ I possesse. - - - _To =Have=, and not to =Vse= the same; - Is not our =Glory=, but our =Shame=._ - -[Illustration: NIL PENNA, SED VSVS - -ILLVSTR. XXXVI. _Book. 1._] - - The _Estridge_ (though with many _Feathers_ trimm’d, - And deckt with goodly _Plumes_ of no meane size) - Is so unwieldy, and so largely limb’d, - That, up into the Aire he cannot rise. - And, though in Wings and Feathers, he appeares - A goodly _Fowle_, and beares his Head so high, - As if he could oretop the lower _Sphæres_; - And, farre above the towring _Eagles_ flie; - So uselesse are those _Feathers_, and those _Wings_, - To gaine him _Name_ among their aiery Race; - That, he must walke with such Inferiour things, - As in this _Common-Region_, have their place. - Such _Fowles_ as these, are that _Gay-plumed-Crew_, - Which (to high place and Fortunes being borne) - Are men of goodly worth, in outward view; - And, in themselves, deserve nought els but scorne. - For, though their _Trappings_, their _high-lifted Eyes_, - Their _Lofty Words_, and their _Much-feared Pow’rs_, - Doe make them seeme _Heroicke_, _Stout_, and _Wise_, - Their Hearts are oft as _fond_, and _faint_ as ours. - Such _Animals_ as these, are also those - That _Wise_, and _Grave_, and _Learned Men_ doe seeme - In _Title_, _Habit_, and all _Formall showes_; - Yet, have nor _Wit_, nor _Knowledge_, worth esteeme. - And, lastly, such are they; that, having got - _Wealth_, _Knowledge_, and those other _Gifts_, which may - Advance the _Publike-Good_, yet, use them not; - but _Feede_, and _Sleepe_, and _laze their time away_. - He, may be but a _Goose_, which weares the _Quill_; - But, him we praise, that useth it with _Skill_. - - - _He, that his =Course= directly Steeres, - Nor =Stormes=, nor =Windy-Censures= feares._ - -[Illustration: DVM CLAVVM RECTAM TENEAM - -ILLVSTR. XXXVII. _Book. 1._] - - Wee to the _Sea_, this _World_ may well compare; - For, ev’ry Man which liveth in the same, - Is as a _Pilot_, to some _Vessell_ there, - Of little size, or else of larger frame. - Some, have the _Boats_ of their owne _Life_ to guide, - Some, of whole _Families_ doe row the _Barge_, - Some, governe _petty Towneships_ too, beside, - (To those compar’d, which of small _Barkes_ have charge) - Some others, rule great _Provinces_; and, they - Resemble _Captaines_ of huge _Argoses_: - But, when of _Kingdomes_, any gayne the Sway, - To _Generalls of Fleets_, we liken these. - Each hath his proper _Course_ to him assign’d, - His _Card_, his _Compasse_, his due _Tacklings_, too; - And, if their Businesse, as they ought, they mind, - They may accomplish all they have to doe. - But, most Men leave the Care of their owne _Course_, - To judge or follow others, in their wayes; - And, when their Follies make their Fortunes worse, - They curse the _Destiny_, which they should prayse. - For, _Waves_, and _Windes_, and that oft-changing _Weather_ - Which many blame, as cause of all their _Losses_, - (Though they observe it not) helpes bring together - Those _Hopes_, which their owne _Wisedome_, often crosses. - Regard not, therefore much, what those things be, - Which come, without thy fault, to thwart thy _Way_; - Nor, how, _Rash-Lookers-on_ will censure thee; - But, faithfully, to doe thy part, assay: - For, if thou shalt not from this _Counsell_ vary, - Let my _Hopes_ faile me, if thy _Hopes_ miscarry. - - - _A sudden =Death=, with =Shame=, is due - To him, that, sweares =What is untrue=._ - -[Illustration: SI SCIENS FALLO. - -ILLVSTR. XXXVIII. _Book. 1._] - - When th' _Ancients_ made a solemne _League_ or _Vow_, - Their Custome was to ratifie it, thus; - Before their _Idoll-God_, they slew a _Sow_, - And sayd aloud; _So be it unto us_. - Implying, that, if otherwise they did - Then had been vow’d; or, if within their Brest - A _Fraudulent-Intention_ had beene hid, - They merited such Vsage, as that _Beast_. - For, by the _Swine_ that they had slaughtred so, - (Which, during Life, was helpefull unto none) - Of Life deprived by a sudden blow, - And, then, cast out, that none might feed thereon; - They, mystically did inferre; that, he - Who falsify’d that _Oath_ which he had sworne, - Deserv’d, by _Sudden-Death_, cut off to be; - And, as a Beast uncleane, to lye forlorne. - That Heathenish _Hieroglyphicke_, doth implye - This _Christian-Doctrine_; that, we should in _Vowes_, - In _Leagues_, and _Oathes_, assume no Liberty, - But, what sincerest _Honesty_ allowes. - By _Swine_, the babbling _Sophisters_ are meant, - In _Hieroglyphicall_ Signification; - Which wee doe _Sacrifice_, when our intent - Is free from _Falsehood_, and _Æquivocation_. - And, this, let ev’ry Man endeavour for, - Who loves the Blessings, for just men prepar’d; - Or, if the Sinne he doe not much abhorre, - At least, the Danger let him well regard: - For, to pursue him, _Vengeance_ never leaves, - That _falsely Sweares_, or _willingly Deceives_. - - - _Where strong =Desires= are entertain’d, - The =Heart= 'twixt =Hope=, and =Feare=, is pain’d._ - -[Illustration: SPEQVE METVQVE PAVET - -ILLVSTR. XXXIX. _Book. 1._] - - A Troubled _Minde_, ore-charged with _Desires_, - Betweene great _Hopes_, and no lesse _Feares_ opprest, - And payned inwardly with secret _Fires_, - Was thus, by some, in former times exprest. - A _Smoking Heart_, they placed just betwixt - A _Fastned Anchor_, and a _Bended Bow_; - To which a _Barbed-Arrow_ seemed fixt, - And, ready from the _Strayned-String_ to goe. - The _Smoke_ doth _Sighes_, the _Anchor_ doth declare - That _Hope_, which keepes us from Despairing quite; - The _Bowe_ and _Arrow_, signifie that _Feare_, - Which doth, perpetually, the Soule affright. - And, by this _Emblem_, it appeares to me - That they which are with strong _Desires_ opprest, - (Though good or bad the Object of them be) - In seeking _Pleasures_, finde no small unrest: - For, they are not by _Feares_, alone, disturbed, - But, as the _Wiseman_ saith, ev’n _Hope-Delayd - Torments the Heart_; and, when _Desire_ is curbed, - The Soule becommeth sad, and ill-apayd. - A _Groundlesse-Hope_, makes entrance for _Despaire_, - And with Deceiving-showes the Heart betrayes: - A _Causelesse-Feare_, doth _Reasons_ force impaire, - And, terrifies the Soule, in doubtfull wayes. - Yet, quite neglect them not; For, _Hope_ repells - That _Griefe_ sometimes, which would our Hearts oppresse. - And, _Feare_ is otherwhile the _Sentinell_ - Which rouzeth us from dang’rous _Carelesnesse_. - Thus, _Both_ are good: but, _Both_ are Plagues to such, - Who either _Fondly feare_, or _Hope too much_. - - - _Those =Fooles= whom =Beauties= Flame doth blinde, - Feele =Death=, where =Life= they thought to finde._ - -[Illustration: COSI VIVO PIACER CONDVCE A MORTE - -ILLVSTR. XL. _Book. 1._] - - When you doe next behold the wanton _Flyes_ - About the shining _Candle_, come to play, - Vntill the _Light_ thereof hath dimm’d their Eyes, - Or, till the _Flame_ hath sing’d their Wings away: - Remember, then, this _Emblem_; and, beware - You be not playing at such harmefull Games: - Consider, if there sit no _Female_, there, - That overwarmes you, with her _Beauties Flames_, - Take heed, you doe not over dally so - As to inflame the Tinder of _Desire_; - But, shun the Mischiefe, e’re too late it grow, - Lest you be scorched in that _Foolish-Fire_. - For, as those _Wandring-Fires_ which in the Night, - Doe leade unwary _Trauellers_ astray, - Alluring them, by their deceiving _Sight_, - Till they have altogether lost their way: - Right so fantasticke _Beauty_ doth amaze - The Lust-full _Eye_, allures the _Heart_ aside, - Captives the _Senses_ (by a sudden blaze) - And, leaves the _Iudgement_ wholly stupify’d. - Nay, if Men play too long about those _Torches_, - Such is the Nature of their wanton _Flame_, - That, from their Bodies (unawares) it scorches - Those _Wings_ and _Feet_, on which they thither came. - It wasteth (ev’n to nothing) all their _Wealth_, - Consumes their precious _Time_, destroyes their _Strength_, - Bespots their _Honest-Fame_, impaires their _Health_, - And (when their Fatall Thread is at the length) - That thing, on which their Hope of _Life_ is plac’t, - Shall bring them to _Destruction_, at the last. - - - _Let him, that at GODS =Altar= stands, - In =Innocencie=, wash his Hands._ - -[Illustration: PVRIS MANIBVS. - -ILLVSTR. XLI. _Book. 1._] - - When (_Reader_) thou hast first of all survayd - That Reverend _Priest_, which here ingraven stands, - In all his Holy _Vestiments_ array’d, - Endeavouring for _Purifyed-Hands_; - Collect from hence, that, when thou dost appeare - To offer Sacrifice of _Prayse_ or _Prayer_, - Thou oughtst the _Robes_ of _Righteousnesse_, to weare, - And, by _Repentance_, thy defects repaire. - For, thou, that, with polluted _Hands_ presum’st - Before _Gods_ Altar to present thy Face; - Or, in the _Rags_ of thine owne _Merits_ com’st, - Shalt reape _Displeasure_, where thou look’st for _Grace_. - Then, if thou be of those that would aspire - A _Priest_, or _Prelate_, in _Gods_ Church to be; - Be sure, thou first those _Ornaments_ acquire, - Which, may be suting to that _High-Degree_. - Intrude not, as perhaps too many doe, - With _Gifts_ unfit, or by an _Evill meane_: - Desire it with a right _Intention_ too; - And, seeke to keepe thy _Conversation_ cleane. - For, they that have assum’d this _Holy-Calling_, - With _Hands_ impure, and _Hearts_ unsanctify’d, - Defame the _Truth_; give others cause of Falling, - And, scandalize their _Brethren_, too, beside: - Yea, to themselves, their very _Sacrifice_ - Becomes unhallow’d; and, their _Thankes_ and _Prayers_, - The _God of Purity_, doth so despise, - That, all their _Hopes_, he turneth to _Despaires_: - And, all their best Endeavours, countermands, - Till they appeare with unpolluted _Hands_. - - - _No =Heart= can thinke, to what strange ends, - The =Tongues= unruely =Motion= tends._ - -[Illustration: LINGVA QVO TENDIS - -ILLVSTR. XLII. _Book. 1._] - - Well-worthy of our better Heeding were, - That _Holy Pen-mans_ Lesson, who hath sayd, - We should _be slow to Speake, and swift to Heare_; - If, well, the nature of the _Tongue_ we waigh’d. - For, if we let it loose, it getteth _Wings_, - And, flies with wanton Carelesnesse, about; - It prateth in all places, of _All things_; - Tells _Truth_ and _Lyes_, and babbleth _Secrets_ out. - To speake, of things unknowne, it taketh leave, - As if it had all Knowledge in Possession; - And, _Mysteries_ (which no Man can conceive) - Are thought fit Objects for the _Tongues_ Expression. - With _Truth_ it mixeth _Errors_; sayes, unsayes; - And, is the _Preacher_ of all _Heresies_. - That Heart, which gives it motion, it betrayes; - And, utters Curses, Oathes, and Blasphemies. - It spreads all Slanders, which base Envie raiseth; - It moveth Anger, and begetteth Hates: - It blameth _Vertue_; filthy Deeds it praiseth; - And, causeth Vproares, Murthers, and Debates. - Yea, tis the chiefest _Factor_ for the Devill; - And, yet, with speeches feignedly-sincere, - It otherwhile reproveth what is Evill, - And, will in Lowly-words, a _Saint_ appeare. - Now this is knowne; we, next of all, should learne, - How we may shunne the Mischiefe being knowne; - How, we bad _Tongues_, in _Others_, may discerne; - And, how to guide and moderate our _Owne_. - And, reason good; for, none can apprehend, - What Mischiefe doth an Evill _Tongue_ attend. - - - _The =Minde= should have a fixed Eye - On Objects, that are plac’d on High._ - -[Illustration: ΟΥΜE ΒΛLΨΟΝ ΑΝΩ - -ILLVSTR. XLIII. _Book. 1._] - - A _Heart_, which bore the figure of an _Eye_ - Wide open to the _Sunne_; by some, was us’d, - When in an _Emblem_, they would signifie - A _Minde_, which on Celestiall Matters mus’d: - Implying, by the same, that there is nought - Which in this lower _Orbe_, our Eyes can see, - So fit an Object for a manly thought, - As those things, which in Heav’n above us be. - _God_, gave _Mankinde_ (above all other Creatures) - A lovely _Forme_, and upward-looking _Eye_, - (Among the rest of his peculiar _Features_) - That he might lift his _Countenance_ on high: - And (having view’d the Beauty, which appeares - Within the outward _Sights_ circumference) - That he might elevate above the Sphæres, - The piercing Eye, of his _Intelligence_. - Then, higher, and still higher strive to raise - His _Contemplations_ Eyes, till they ascend - To gaine a glimpse of those eternall _Rayes_, - To which all undepraved _Spirits_ tend. - For, 'tis the proper nature of the _Minde_ - (Till fleshly _Thoughts_ corrupt it) to despise - Those Lusts whereto the _Body_ stands inclin’d; - And labour alwayes, _upward_ to arise. - Some, therefore, thought those _Goblins_ which appeare - To haunt old _Graves_ and _Tombes_, are _Soules_ of such, - Who to these loathsome places doomed were, - Because, they doted on the _Flesh_ too much. - But, sure we are, _well-minded Men_ shall goe - To live _above_, when others bide _below_. - - - _Those =Fields=, which yet appeare not so, - When =Harvest= comes, will =yellow= grow._ - -[Illustration: FLAVESCENT - -ILLVSTR. XLIV. _Book. 1._] - - When, in the sweet and pleasant Month of _May_, - We see both Leaves and Blossomes on the Tree, - And view the _Meadowes_ in their best array, - We hopefull are a _Ioyfull-Spring_ to see; - Yet, oft, before the following _Night_ be past, - It chanceth, that a _Vapor_, or a _Frost_, - Doth all those forward bloomings wholly waste; - And, then, their _Sweetnesse_ and their _Beautie’s_ lost. - Such, is the state of ev’ry mortall Wight: - In _Youth_, our _Glories_, and our _Lusts_ we shew; - We fill our selves with ev’ry vaine Delight, - And, will most thinke on that which may insue. - But, let us learne to _heed_, as well as _know_, - That, _Spring_ doth passe; that, _Summer_ steales away; - And, that the _Flow’r_ which makes the fairest show, - E’re many Weekes, must wither and decay. - And, from this _Emblem_, let each _Lab’ring-Swaine_ - (In whatsoever course of life it be) - Take heart, and hope, amidst his daily paine, - That, of his _Travailes_, he good fruits shall see. - The Plow’d and Harrow’d _Field_, which, to thine eye, - Seemes like to be the _Grave_, in which the Seeds - Shall (without hope of rising) _buryed_ lye, - Becomes the fruitfull _Wombe_, where _Plenty_ breeds. - There, will be _Corne_, where nought but _Mire_ appeares; - The Durty _Seed_, will forme a greenish _blade_; - The _Blade_, will rise to _Stemmes_ with fruitfull _Eares_; - Those _Eares_, will ripen, and be _yellow_ made: - So, if in honest _Hopes_, thou persevere, - A Ioyfull _Harvest_ will at last appeare. - - - _As soone, as wee to =bee=, begunne; - We did beginne, to be =Vndone=._ - -[Illustration: FINIS AB ORIGINE PĒDET - -ILLVSTR. XLV. _Book. 1._] - - When some, in former Ages, had a meaning - An _Emblem_, of _Mortality_, to make, - They form’d an _Infant_, on a _Deaths-head_ leaning, - And, round about, encircled with a _Snake_. - The _Childe_ so pictur’d, was to signifie, - That, from our very _Birth_, our _Dying_ springs: - The _Snake_, her _Taile devouring_, doth implie - The _Revolution_, of all Earthly things. - For, whatsoever hath _beginning_, here, - Beginnes, immediately, to vary from - The same it was; and, doth at last appeare - What very few did thinke it should become. - The solid _Stone_, doth molder into _Earth_, - That _Earth_, e’re long, to _Water_, rarifies; - That _Water_, gives an _Airy Vapour_ birth, - And, thence, a _Fiery-Comet_ doth arise: - That, moves, untill it selfe it so impaire, - That from a _burning-Meteor_, backe againe, - It sinketh downe, and thickens into _Aire_; - That _Aire_, becomes a _Cloud_; then, _Drops of Raine_: - Those _Drops_, descending on a _Rocky-Ground_, - There, settle into _Earth_, which more and more, - Doth harden, still; so, running out the _round_, - It growes to be the _Stone_ it was before. - Thus, All things wheele about; and, each _Beginning_, - Made entrance to it owne _Destruction_, hath. - The _Life_ of _Nature_, entreth in with _Sinning_; - And, is for ever, wayted on by _Death_: - The _Life_ of _Grace_, is form’d by _Death_ to _Sinne_; - And, there, doth _Life-eternall_, straight beginne. - - - _Though very =small=, at first, it be, - A =Sprout=, at length, becomes a =Tree=_. - -[Illustration: TANDEM FIT ARBOR - -ILLVSTR. XLVI. _Book. 1._] - - Wee finde it common (but not comely thou) - That, when a good _Endeavour_ is begot, - Vnlesse, at very first, it equall grow - With our Expectance, we regard it not. - Nor _Wit_, nor _Patience_, have we to conceive, - That ev’ry thing, which may by Man be wrought, - Proportionable _Time_, and _Meanes_, must have; - Before it can be to _Perfection_, brought. - Yet, ev’ry day, in things of ev’ry kinde, - _Experience_ hath informed us, herein; - And, that, in many things, a change we finde, - Which, at the first, would scarce believ’d have bin. - For, though a _Gosling_ will not prove a _Swan_, - _Vnruely-Colts_ become _well-trayned Steeds_; - A _Silly-Childe_ growes up a _Mighty-Man_, - And, _Lofty-Trees_ doe Spring from _Little Seeds_. - Learne, therefore hence, that, nothing you despise, - Because it may, at first, imperfect seeme: - And, know, how all things (in some sort) to prise, - Although, you give them not the best esteeme. - From hence, moreover, learne; not to despaire, - When you have just occasion, to pursue - A toylesome worke, or any great affaire: - Since, _all-things_, at the first, from nothing, grew. - And, I my selfe will, also, learne, from hence, - (Of all my Paines, though little fruits I see) - Nor to repine, nor to receive Offence; - But, rather joy in what befalleth mee. - For, though my _Hopes_ appeare but meanely growne, - They will be _Great_, when some shall thinke them none. - - - _When we above the =Crosse= can rise, - A =Crowne=, for us, prepared lies._ - -[Illustration: SVPERATA CRVCE CORONOR - -ILLVSTR. XLVII. _Book. 1._] - - A _Serpent_ rais’d above the Letter _Tau_, - Aspiring to a _Crowne_, is figur’d here: - From whence, a _Christian-Morall_ we may draw, - Which worth our good regarding will appeare. - For, by those _Characters_, in briefe, I see - Which _Way_, we must to Happinesse ascend; - Then, by what _Meanes_, that Path must clymed bee; - And, what _Reward_, shall thereupon attend. - The _Crosse_, doth shew, that _Suffring_ is the _Way_; - The _Serpent_, seemes to teach me, that, if I - Will overcome, I must not then, assay - To _force_ it; but, my selfe thereto _applye_. - For, by embracing what we shall not shunne, - We winde about the _Crosse_, till wee arise - Above the same; and, then, what _Prize_ is wonne, - The _Crowne_, which overtops it, signifies. - Let me, O _God_, obtaine from thee the Grace, - To be partaker of thy Blessed _Passion_; - Let me, with Willingnesse, thy _Crosse_ imbrace, - And, share the Comforts of thy _Exaltation_. - To beare that Part, whereto I doomed am, - My Heart, with Strength, and Courage, _Lord_, inspire: - Then, _Crucifie_ my _Flesh_ upon the same, - As much as my _Corruption_ shall require. - And, when by thy Assistance, I am rear’d - Above that _Burthen_, which lyes yet upon me; - And, over all, which (justly may be fear’d) - Shall, during Life-time, be inflicted on me; - Among those _Blessed-Soules_, let me be found, - Which, with eternall _Glory_, shall be _Crown’d_. - - - _In =Death=, no =Difference= is made, - Betweene the =Scepter=, and the =Spade=._ - -[Illustration: MORS SCEPTRA LIGONIB[VS] ÆQVAT - -ILLVSTR. XLVIII. _Book. 1._] - - Let no man be so sottish as to dreame, - Though all Men in their _Death_ made equall are, - That, therfore, they may gather by this _Theame_, - That, _Parity_, in Life-time, fitting were. - For, as the _Bodies_ Members (which in _Death_ - Have all the like esteeme) had their Degrees, - And Honours, differing in time of _breath_; - The same (in _States_) Discretion comely sees. - Nor, should we hence inferre, that it were just - To disesteeme the breathlesse _Carcasses_ - Of _Kings_ and _Princes_, when they sleepe in Dust; - For, _Civill-Reverence_ is due to these. - Nor, ought we, in their Life-time, to apply - The Truth, which by this _Emblem_ is declar’d, - The _Dignities_ of Men to vilifie; - Or, bring upon their _Persons_ lesse regard. - That, which from hence, I rather wish to preach, - Is this; that ev’ry Man of each degree, - Would marke it so, that he, himselfe might teach - What thoughts and deeds, to him most proper be. - If he be great; let him remember, then, - That (since, nor _Wealth_, nor _Title_, can procure him - Exemption from the Doomes of other Men) - He ought to seeke, how _Vertue_ may secure him. - If he be _Poore_; let him this _Comfort_ take, - That, though, awhile, he be afflicted here, - Yet, _Death_ may him as fully happy make, - As he, that doth a _Crowne Imperiall_ weare. - For, when his Fatall-blow, _Death_ comes to strike, - He, makes the _Beggar_, and the _King_, alike. - - - _What cannot be by =Force= attain’d, - By =Leisure=, and =Degrees=, is gain’d._ - -[Illustration: PAVLATIM NON IMPETV. - -ILLVSTR. XLIX. _Book. 1._] - - Some Foolish-_Boyes_ (and such a _Boy_ was I) - When they at Schoole have certaine houres to passe, - (To which they are compell’d unwillingly) - Much time they spend in shaking of the _Glasse_: - Thus, what they practise, to make-short their stay, - Prolongs it more; for while they seeke to force - The _Sands_, to runne more speedily away, - They interrupt them; and, they passe the worse. - Right so, in other things, with us it fares; - (And, seeming wise, we act a foolish part) - For, otherwhile, what _Time_ alone prepares, - We seeke to make the subject of an _Art_. - Sometimes, by _Rashnesse_, we endeavour what - We ought with _Leisure_, and _Advice_, to doe: - But, if a good _Successe_ doth follow, that, - Our _Wit_ was nothing helpefull thereunto. - Sometime, againe, we prosecute a thing - By _Violence_; when our desir’d effect, - No other meanes so well to passe can bring, - As _Love_ and _Gentlenesse_, which we neglect. - But, let this _Emblem_ teach us to regard - What _Way of Working_, to each _Worke_ pertaines: - So, though some Portion of our Hopes be barr’d, - We shall not, altogether, lose our paines. - Some things are _strong_, and, othersome are _weake_; - With _Labour_, some; and, some with _Ease_ be wrought: - Although the _Reed_ will bend, the _Kexe_ will breake; - And, what _mends_ one thing, makes another _naught_. - Marke this; And, when much _Haste_ will marre thy _Speed_, - That, then, thou take good _Leisure_; take thou _Heed_. - - - _Of =Little-Gaines=, let Care be had; - For, of small =Eares=, great =Mowes= are made._ - -[Illustration: DE PARVIS GRANDIS ACERVVS ERIT. - -ILLVSTR. L. _Book. 1._] - - Among the many Faylings of the _Time_, - This _Emblem_ giveth Cause to mention one, - Which, unto me, doth seeme the greater _Crime_, - Because, to many, it appeareth none. - I finde, that petty things are so neglected - (Well nigh of all) in _Losings_ and in _Winnings_, - As if, what ere they thought to have effected, - Subsisted without _Members_, or _Beginnings_. - The Man, that loseth every _Month_ a _Penny_, - May salve-up _Twelve-months_ Losses, with a _Shilling_. - But, if of other Losses he hath many, - To save a _Pin_, at length, he shall be willing. - For, he that sees his Wine-fill’d _Vessell_ drop, - (Although a _Drop_, in value, be but small) - Should, thence, Occasion take, the _Leake_ to stop, - Lest many _Droppings_ draine him drye of all. - Moreover, they, that will to _Greatnesse_ rise, - A Course, not much unlike to this, must keepe: - They ought not _Small-Beginnings_ to despise; - Nor, strive to _runne_, before they learne to _creepe_. - By many single _Eares_, together brought, - The _Hand_ is fill’d; by _Handfulls_, we may gaine - A _Sheafe_; with many _Sheaves_ a Barne is fraught: - Thus, oft, by _Little_, we doe much obtaine. - Consider this; And, though I wish not thee - To take, of _Trifling-things_, too great a care; - Yet, know thus much (for truth) it best will bee, - If all things may be weighed as they are: - By _slender_ Losses, _great_-ones are begunne; - By many trifling _Gaines_, much _Wealth_ is wonne. - - FINIS _Libri primi_. - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - - - -THE FIRST LOTTERIE. - - -1 - - Thou, dost overmuch respect - That, which will thy harme effect; - But, some other things there bee, - Which will more advantage thee: - Search thy heart; and, thou shalt, there, - Soone discover, what they are: - Yea, thine _Emblem_ showes thee, too, - What to shunne; and, what to doe. - -See, _Emblem_ I. - - -2 - - It is a little fear’d, that you - Are to your owne Designes, untrue; - And, that, if you more constant were, - You would be richer, then you are, - (It may be, also, wiser, too) - Looke, therefore, what you are to doe: - Then, follow it, and, you will say, - That, well advis’d, you were, to day. - -See, _Emb._ II. - - -3 - - How rich or poore soe’re thou be, - Thou, art a _Prince_, in some degree; - And, o’re thy selfe, thou shouldst command, - As doth a _Monarch_, in his Land. - Within thy Heart, therefore, ingrave - The Lawes, that _Grace_ and _Nature_ gave: - For, thus (to counsell thee) inclines - That _Emblem_, which, thy _Lot_ assignes. - -See, _Emb._ III. - - -4 - - Much Liberty, thou hast assum’d; - And, heretofore, so much presum’d - On _Time_, which, alway rideth poast, - That, for awhile, some _Hopes_ are crost. - But, loe, to keepe thee from _Despaire_, - And, thy _Misfortune_, to repaire, - Marke, what to thee, by _Lot_, befell, - And, practise, what is counsell’d, well. - -See, _Emb._ IV. - - -5 - - Thou seekest _Honour_, to obtaine, - By meanes, which frustrate all thy paine. - Thy Predecessors rich were made, - By using of the _Plough_ and _Spade_: - Thou, honourable wouldst be thought, - By taking Courses, that are naught; - But, if, right noble, thou wilt be, - Looke, what thine _Emblem_ counsells thee. - -See, _Emb._ V. - - -_M_ 6 - - This Man, what ever he may seeme, - Is worthy of a high esteeme: - Though _Fortune_ may, his person, grinde; - She, cannot harme him, in his _Minde_. - Right blest, this _Company_ would be, - If all of them, were such, as _He_. - Reade that _Impresa_, which he drew; - For, that, in part, the same will shew. - -See, _Emb._ VI. - - -_M_ 7 - - If some, now present, this had got, - They, would have blushed, at their _Lot_; - Since, very fit, the same doth prove - For one, that’s either light of _Love_, - Or, troubled with a fickle _Mate_: - If you enjoy a better _Fate_, - Yet, hearken, what your _Lot_ doth say; - Lest, you, hereafter, need it may, - -See, _Emb._ VII. - - -8 - - For ought, that, plainely, doth appeare, - You may out-live the longest, here; - Yet, seeing, now, of all this crew, - The _Lot_ of _Death_, you, onely, drew, - See what, your _Emblem_ hath injoyn’d; - And, still, that Morall, beare in minde: - So, _Deaths_ deform’d and ghastly _Shade_ - Shall, _Meanes_ of _Life_, to thee, be made. - -See, _Emb._ VIII. - - -9 - - Though you have _Wit_, and, know it well; - That, rash you are, your _Friends_ can tell; - Yea, _Sleepe_, and _Ease_, possesse you so, - That, some doe feare, you’l sottish grow: - But, lo, your hind’rance, to prevent, - This _Lot_, was, peradventure, sent; - For, in the _Moralls_, that, insue, - Are _Counsells_, fit, for such as you. - -See, _Emb._ IX. - - -10 - - You, have beene wronged, many wayes, - Yet, _patient_ are; and, that’s your praise: - Your _Actions_, also, seem’d upright; - Yet, some there are, that, beare you spite: - Lest, therefore, you discourag’d grow, - An _Emblem_, you have drawne, to show - What other _Innocents_ have borne, - And, how, the worlds despites, to scorne. - -See, _Emb._ X. - - -_M_ 11 - - Doubtlesse, you are either wooing, - Or, some other _Bus’nesse_, doing; - Which, you shall attempt, in vaine, - Or, much hazzard all your paine: - Yet, if good, your _meanings_ are, - Doe not honest _meanes_ forbeare; - For, where things are, well, begunne, - _God_, oft, workes, when Man hath done. - -See, _Emb._ XI. - - -12 - - Be not angry, if I tell - That, you love the _World_, too well; - For, this _Lot_, perhaps, you drew, - That, such _Faults_, you might eschew. - Marke, to what their Soules aspire, - Who, true _Blessednesse_, desire: - For, if you can doe, like those, - _Heav’n_ you gaine, when _Earth_ you lose. - -See, _Emb._ XII. - - -13 - - You love the _Rich_; and, honour them; - The needy-person, you contemne: - Yet, _Wealth_, nor want of _Wealth_, is that, - Which, _wretched_ makes, or _fortunate_: - From other _Causes_, those things flow; - Which, since, you either doe not know, - Or, heede not much, this _Emblem_ came, - That, you might learne to minde the same. - -See, _Emb._ XIII. - - -_M_ 14 - - Thy _Chance_ is doubtfull; and, as yet, - I know not, what to say of it; - But, this I know, a foe thou art - To what thine _Emblem_ hath, in part, - Expressed by a _Mimicke Shape_; - Or, thou, thy selfe, art such an _Ape_. - Now, which of these, pertaines to thee, - Let them, that know thee, Iudges bee. - -See, _Emb._ XIV. - - -15 - - Thy Vertues he may wrong, that sayes - Thou spend’st thy selfe, in wanton wayes; - But, some have thought, and sayd of late, - That, those thou lov’st, consume thy state: - Yet, spare nor _Time_, nor Substance, tho, - Where, them, thou oughtest to bestow; - But, to thine _Emblem_ turne, and, see - When Life, and Wealth, well ventur’d bee. - -See, _Emb._ XV. - - -16 - - Though _Troubles_, you may have (or had) - Enough, to make some others mad; - Yet, be content: for, they, that are - As weake, have had as much to beare; - And, that, which _Malice_ did contrive, - To make them poore, hath made them thrive. - That _Emblem_, which, by _Lot_, you drew, - Prognosticates, as much, for you. - -See, _Emb._ XVI. - - -17 - - Though, you suffer blame and paine, - You, at last, may Comfort gaine, - (Sharing _Honours_, truely gotten, - When, your Foes are dead, and rotten) - For, of this, you have a pawne, - In the _Lot_, that you have drawne; - And, by that, it may appeare, - What your paines, and wages, are. - -See, _Emb._ XVII. - - -18 - - Take you serious heed, I pray, - Whither, you doe goe to day; - Whom you credite; and, for whom - You, ingaged, shall become; - And, unlesse you wish for Sorrow, - Be as provident, to morrow: - For, there are some traps and Snares, - Which, may take you unawares. - -See, _Emb._ XVIII. - - -19 - - Your _Wit_, so much, you trust upon, - That, weaker _Meanes_ hath yours out-gone; - Sometime, you runne, when there is need - Of much more _Warinesse_, then _Speed_. - But, you, to _God_-ward, worse have err’d; - And, yet, _Amendment_ is deferr’d. - See, therefore, what your _Chance_ doth say, - And, take good _Counsell_, while you may. - -See, _Emb._ XIX. - - -20 - - Take heed, you doe not quite forget, - That you are dauncing in a _Net_: - More, then a few, your Course doe see, - Though, you, suppose, unseene to be. - Your Fault, we will no nearer touch; - Me-thinkes your _Emblem_ blabs too much: - But, if, you minde, what is amisse, - You, shall be nere the worse, for this. - -See, _Emb._ XX. - - -21 - - Let such, as draw this _Lot_, have care, - For _Death_, and _Sorrow_, to prepare - All times, to come, lest one of these, - Their persons, unexpected, seize: - For, them, or some of theirs, to stay, - Pale _Death_, drawes neerer, ev’ry day. - Yet, let them not, disheartned, bee: - For, in their _Emblem_, they shall see, - _Death_, may (though, in appearance, grim) - Become, a _blessing_, unto them. - -See, _Emb._ XXI. - - -22 - - With _Mary_, thou art one of those, - By whom, the better part, is chose; - And, though, thou tempted art, astray, - Continu’st in a lawfull way. - Give _God_ the praise, with heart unfaign’d, - That, he, such _Grace_ to thee, hath dain’d; - And, view thy _Lot_, where thou shalt see, - What _Hag_, hath layd a _Trap_, for thee. - -See, _Emb._ XXII. - - -23 - - Although, that, thou demure appeare, - For _Pleasure_, there is no man here - Will venture more: And, some there are, - Who thinke you venture over farre: - Hereof, consider well, therefore, - E’re, so, you venture, any more; - And, in your Lotted _Emblem_, see, - For what, your _Suffrings_ ought to bee. - -See, _Emb._ XXIII. - - -24 - - If ought, thou purpose, to assay, - Pursue the same, without delay; - And, if thou meane to gather fruit, - Be constant in thy _Hopes_ pursuit: - For, by thine _Emblem_, thou mayst finde, - Thy _Starres_, to thee, are well-inclin’d; - Provided, thy _Attempts_ be good: - For, that, is ever understood. - -See, _Emb._ XXIV. - - -25 - - Take heed, thou love not their deceipt, - Who _Number_ give, in steed of _Weight_; - Nor, let their Fansies, thee abuse, - Who, such-like foolish _Customes_, use. - Perhaps, it may concerne thee, much, - To know the _Vanities_ of such; - And, who they are: Marke, therfore, what - Thine _Emblem_, will, to thee relate. - -See, _Emb._ XXV. - - -26 - - Thou, to _Impatience_, art inclin’d; - And, hast a discontented Minde; - That, therfore, thou mayst _Patience_ learne, - And, thine owne _Over-sights_ discerne, - Thy _Lot_ (as to a Schoole to day) - Hath sent thee to the _Squirrells_ Dray; - For, she instructs thee, to indure, - Till, thou, a better _state_, procure. - -See, _Emb._ XXVI. - - -27 - - Your _Lot_, is very much to blame, - Or else, your person, or, your Name - Hath injur’d beene, or, may have wrong - By some loose wanton, ere’t be long: - Therfore, e’re, hence, you passe away, - Marke, what your _Emblem_, now, doth say. - Perhaps, by drawing of this _Lot_, - Some _Harmes_ prevention may be got. - -See, _Emb._ XXVII. - - -28 - - Vpon your head, those weights were laid, - Which, your _Endeavours_, downeward waigh’d; - For, those, who doe your _weale_ envie, - Much feare, your top will spring too high; - Nay, yet, some _Burthen_, you sustaine: - But, what their _Malice_ will obtaine, - Your _Emblem_ prophesies; if you, - With _Patience_, Honest-_wayes_, pursue. - -See, _Emb._ XXVIII. - - -29 - - This _Lot_, befell thee, for the nonce; - For, if things come not, all at once, - Thou, to despairing, soone, dost runne, - Or, leav’st the Worke, that’s well begun: - Which, to prevent, regardfull be - Of what thine _Emblem_ counsells thee. - -See, _Emb._ XXIX. - - -30 - - Afflictions, are thy chiefest _Lot_; - Yea, great ones, too: yet, murmure not. - For, all, must fiery tryalls bide, - And, from their Drosse be purify’d. - Therefore, though this, in sport, be done, - Thy Morall’d _Emblem_, looke upon; - And, learne, those _Vertues_ to acquire, - Which, will not perish in the _Fire_. - -See, _Emb._ XXX. - - -31 - - You seeke a _Lot_, which, proving bad, - Would, peradventure, make you sad; - But, this may please: for, you are taught - To mend a Fortune, that is naught; - And, armed, with such Counsell, here, - That, you, no _Destiny_, need feare. - Now, if you come to Harme, or Shame, - Vpon the _Starres_, lay not the blame. - -See, _Emb._ XXXI. - - -_M_ 32 - - In _Court_, thou mayst have hope, to clime, - This present, or some other time; - But, something thou dost want, as yet, - Which, for that place, must make thee fit. - Presume not, therefore, on thy _Lot_, - Till, those accomplishments are got, - Which, in thine _Emblem_, are exprest; - And, then, march on, among the best. - -See, _Emb._ XXXII. - - -33 - - Some thinke, you love; 'tis true, you doe; - And, are as well beloved too: - But, you (if we the truth shall say) - Love not so truely, as you may. - To make a perfect _Love_, there goes - Much more, then ev’ry _Lover_ knowes. - Your _Emblem_, therefore heede; and, then, - Beginne, anew, to love agen. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIII. - - -34 - - Now, some good _Counsell_, thou dost need; - Of what we say, take, therefore, heed. - Beware, lest thou, too much, offend - A meeke, and, gentle-natur’d, _Friend_: - Though pow’r thou hast, be carefull, too, - Thou vexe not, long, thine able _Foe_; - And, e’re thou love, be sure to finde - Thy _Match_, in _Manners_, and in _Minde_. - If thou demand a Reason, why, - To thee, thine _Emblem_ will replie. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIV. - - -35 - - Beware, thou share not in their crime, - Who care, but for the present time: - For, by thy _Lot_, wee may suspect, - Or that, or things, to that effect. - If so it be, or if thy Minde, - To such an _Errour_, be inclin’d, - Thy _Chance_, unto an _Emblem_, brings, - Which, will advise to better things. - -See, _Emb._ XXXV. - - -36 - - You, love to _seeme_; this, all Men see: - But, would you lov’d, as well, to _bee_. - If, also, better use were made - Of those good _Blessings_, you have had; - Your praise were more. Marke, therefore, well, - What _Moralls_, now, your _Emblem_, tell; - And, gather, from it, what you may, - To set you in a better way. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVI. - - -37 - - To scape a Storme, great thought you take; - But, little heed, what _meanes_ you make. - You, love your ease, and, Troubles, feare; - But, carelesse are, what _Course_ you steere. - Which _Indiscretions_, to prevent, - You, to an _Emblem_, now, are sent: - Whereof, if you regardfull are, - You, lesse will feare, and better fare. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVII. - - -38 - - What you have, done, consider, now; - For, this your _Chance_, doth seeme to show - That you have sworne, or vow’d, of late, - Or promised (you best know what) - Which, you have, since, unwilling bin, - To keepe; or, else, did faile, therein. - If it be so; repent, or els, - What will befall, your _Emblem_ tells. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVIII. - - -39 - - Thy _Hopings_, and thy _Feares_, are such, - That, they afflict, and paine thee, much; - Because, thou giv’st too great a scope - Vnto thy _Feare_, or to thy _Hope_: - For, they will paine, or pleasure thee, - As they enlarg’d, or curbed be. - But, lo; thine _Emblem_, if thou please, - Instructs thee, how, to mannage these. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIX. - - -40 - - Let them, who get this _Chance_, beware, - Lest _Cupid_ snarle them in a Snare: - For, by their _Lot_, they should be apt - To be, in such-like Ginnes, intrapt. - Some helpe, is by their _Emblem_, got, - If they, too late, observe it not; - But, then, no profit will be done them: - For, _Counsell_ will be lost upon them. - -See, _Emb._ XL. - - -41 - - Whether, meerely, _Chance_, or no, - Brought this _Lot_, we doe not know: - But, received, let it be, - As, divinely, sent to thee: - For, that, merits thy regard, - Which, thine _Emblem_ hath declar’d; - And, the best, that are, have need, - Such _Advisements_, well to heed. - -See, _Emb._ XLI. - - -42 - - Thou, hast already, or, e’re long, - Shalt have some dammage by the _Tongue_: - But, fully, yet, it is not knowne, - Whether the _Tongue_ shall be thine owne, - Or else, anothers _tongue_, from whom - This Mischiefe, unto thee, shall come: - But, much the better, thou shalt speed, - If, now, thine _Emblem_, well thou heed. - -See, _Emb._ XLII. - - -43 - - Vnworthy things, thou dost affect, - With somewhat overmuch respect; - Vnto the _World_, inclining so, - As if thy Hopes were all below: - But, now, to rowse thee from this crime, - Good _Counsell_ comes in happy time. - Make use thereof; and, thinke it not - Meere casuall, or a needlesse _Lot_. - -See, _Emb._ XLIII. - - -44 - - Thou, either, too much love, hast plac’t - On things, that will not alway last; - Or else, thou art a little fear’d. - Because thy Hopes are long deferr’d: - Nay, thou art touch’d, in both of these. - Thy Profit, therefore, and thine ease, - It will effect, if well thou minde - What, in thine _Emblem_, thou shalt finde. - -See, _Emb._ XLV. - - -45 - - When thou hast _Changes_, good, or bad, - Ore-joy’d, thou art, or over-sad; - As if it seemed very strange - To see the _Winde_ or _Weather_, change: - Lo, therefore, to remember thee, - How changeable, things Mortall, bee, - Thou, art assisted by this _Lot_; - Now, let it be, no more, forgot. - -See, _Emb._ XLV. - - -46 - - Of thy just _Aymes_, though meanes be slight, - Thou mayst attaine their wished height; - Vnlesse, thy Folly shall destroy - The Weale, thou seekest to injoy, - By thy Despaire, or by neglect - Of that, which, may thy _Hopes_ effect: - For, by thine _Emblem_, thou mayst know, - Great things, from small _Beginnings_, grow. - -See, _Emb._ XLVI. - - -47 - - Thou must have _Crosses_; but they, shall, - To _Blessings_, be converted, all; - And, _Suffrings_, will become, thy Praise, - If, _Wisedome_ order, well, thy wayes: - Yea, when thy _Crosses_ ended are, - A Crowne of Glory, thou shalt weare. - Yet, note, how this to passe is brought: - For, in thine _Emblem_, it is taught. - -See, _Emb._ XLVII. - - -48 - - If they, who drew this _Lot_, now be - Of great _Estate_, or high _Degree_, - They shall ere long, become as poore, - As those, that beg from doore to doore. - If poore they be; it plaine appeares, - They shall become great _Princes_ Peeres: - And, in their _Emblem_, they may know, - What very day, it will be, so. - -See, _Emb._ XLVIII. - - -49 - - You, have attempted many a thing, - Which, you, to passe, could never bring; - Not, that, your Worke was hard to doe, - But, 'cause, you us’d wrong _Meanes_, thereto. - Hereafter, therefore, learne, I pray, - The _Times_ of Working, and, the _Way_; - And, of thine _Emblem_, take thou heed, - If, better, thou desire to speed. - -See, _Emb._ XLIX. - - -50 - - If you, to greater _Wealth_, will rise, - You must not, slender _Gaine_, despise; - Nay, if, you minde not, to be poore, - You must regard slight _Losses_, more: - For, _Wealth_, and _Poverty_, doe come, - Not all at once, but, some and some. - If this, concerne you, any wayes, - See, what your _Emblem_, further, sayes. - -See, _Emb._ L. - - -51 - - Your _Fortune_, hath deserved thank, - That she, on you, bestowes a _Blank_: - For, as you, nothing good, have had; - So, you, have nothing, that is bad. - Yea, she, in this, hath favour showne, - (If, now, your _Freedome_ well be knowne) - For, you, by _Lot_, these _Emblems_, mist, - That you, may chuse out, which you list. - - -52 - - You, by an _Emblem_, seeke to get - What Counsel your _Affaires_ may fit; - But, in particular, there’s none, - Which, you, by _Lot_, can light upon: - And, why? because, no _Morall_, there, - Doth, worthy of your Heed, appeare? - No; but because you rather, need, - Of ev’ry _Emblem_, to take heed. - - -53 - - The _Starres_, are, now, no friends of your, - Or this is not their lucky houre: - For, at this time, unto your _Lot_, - They, by an _Emblem_, answer not. - If, therefore, you desire to know - What good advice they will allow, - Some further _Meanes_, you must assay, - Or, trye your _Chance_, another day. - - -54 - - You, in your secret thoughts, despise - To thinke an _Emblem_ should advise, - Or give you cause to minde or heed - Those things, whereof you may have need: - And, therefore, when, the _Lot_, you try’d, - An answer, justly, was deny’d. - Yet (by your leave) there are but few, - Who, need good _Counsell_, more then you. - - -55 - - In some extreame, you often are, - And, shoot too short, or else too farre; - Yea, such an errour, you were in, - When, for a _Lot_, you mov’d the _Pin_: - For, one touch more, or lesse, had layd - Our _Index_, where it should have stayd. - But, if you can be warn’d, by this, - To keepe the _Meane_, which oft you misse, - You have obtain’d as good a _Lot_, - As any one, this day, hath got. - - -56 - - Among these _Emblems_, none there be, - Which, now by _Lot_ will fall to thee; - However, doe not thou repine: - For, this doth seeme to be a signe, - That, thou, thy Portion, shalt advance - By _Vertue_, not by fickle _Chance_. - Yet, nerethelesse, despise thou not - What, by good _Fortune_, may be got. - - _FINIS._ - - - - - A - COLLECTION - OF - EMBLEMES, - ANCIENT AND - MODERNE: - - Quickened - With METRICALL ILLVSTRATIONS; And, - disposed into LOTTERIES, both _Morall_ - and _Divine_. - - That _Jnstruction_, and _Good Counsell_, may bee furthered - by an Honest and Pleasant _Recreation_. - - _By_ GEORGE WITHER. - - _The Second Booke._ - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - LONDON, - Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEWES. - MDCXXXIV. - - - - - TO - THE HIGH AND MIGHTY - Prince, _CHARLES_, Prince - _of_ WALES, _&c._ - - Fair’st _Blossome_ of our hopes; and _Morning-starre_ - To all these _Ilands_, which inclosed are - By _Neptunes_ armes, within our Northern _climes_; - And who (wee trust) shall rise, in future times, - To be the brightest _Light_, that, then will shine, - Betwixt the _Artick-Circle_, and the LINE. - To YOV (as now you are) that I present - These EMBLEMS, 'tis not so impertinent - As those may thinke it, who have neither seene - What, of your _Cradle-sports_, hath heeded beene; - Nor heard how many serious _Questionings_, - Your _Child-hood_ frameth, out of trifling things: - And, if mine aime I have not much mistooke, - I come not oversoone with such a _Booke_. - So long as in this _Infant-Age_ you are, - (Wherein, the speechlesse _Portraitures_ appeare - A pleasurefull delight) your HIGHNESSE may - Among our EMBLEMS, finde a _Harmelesse-play_: - And, those mute _Objects_ will from time to time, - Still _Riper_, seeme, till you to _ripenesse_ clime. - When their dumb _Figures_, no more sport can make, - Their _Illustrations_, will begin to speake; - And, ev’ry day, new matter still disclose, - Vntill your _Iudgement_ to perfection growes. - They likewise, who their _Services_, to do - Frequent your _Presence_, may have pleasure too, - From this your _Play-game_: yea, and some perchance, - May cure a _Folly_, or an _Ignorance_ - By that, which they shall either heare or view - In these our _Emblems_, when they wait on _You_; - Or, shall be called, by your EXCELLENCE, - To try what LOT, they shall obtaine from thence. - It may, moreover, much increase the sport, - Which is allowed in a vertuous COVRT; - When they whose faults have long suspected bin, - Shall draw forth private Censures of their Sin, - And, heare their EMBLEMS, openly, display, - What, others dare not, but in private, say: - Nor will, to YOV, the MORALS be in vaine, - Ev’n when to manly Knowledge you attaine; - For, though to _Teach_, it will not them become - To be _Remembrancers_, they may presume: - And, that which in their _Child-hood_, men shall heed, - Will soonest come to minde, in time of need. - Incourag’d by these _Hopes_, I thought it meet - To lay this humble _Present_ at your feet. - _Accept it, now_; and, please to favour _me_, - When I growe _old_, and, You a _Man_ shall be. - -_To your Highnesse_ - - _most humbly devoted_, - - GEO: WITHER. - - - TO - THE MOST HIGH-BORNE - and hopeful Prince _JAMES, - Duke of YORKE, &c._ - -Sweet PRINCE, - - Your hand I kisse; and, thus my _Lines_ addresse - Vnto your wise, and vertuous[A] GOVERNESSE. - _For, MADAME, (as his PROXY) it is fit, - That, YOV both =Read=, and =answere= for him, yet. - To YOV for HIM, J therefore tender, here, - To welcome-in the =New-beginning Yeare=, - This harmelesse PLAY-GAME; that, it may have place, - When somewhat =riper Daies=, shall Make his =GRACE=, - Affect such =Objects=; which, to looke upon - May pleasure yeeld him, e’re this =Yeare= be gone. - 'Tis not the least =Discretion=, in great COVRTS, - To know what =Recreations=, and what =Sports= - Become young PRINCES; or, to find out those, - Which may, with harmelesse pleasantnesse, dispose - Their Mindes to =VERTVE=: neither in their =Cradles=, - Should this be heeded lesse, than in their =Sadles=: - Because, when first to =know=, we doe begin, - A small =Occasion=, lets much =Evill= in. - Among those things, which both =Instruct= and =please=; - But few, (for =Children=) are surpassing these: - For, they, to looke on =Pictures=, much desire; - And, not to =Looke alone=, but, to enquire - What things those are, that represented be, - In ev’ry MAP, or EMBLEM, which they see. - And, that which they shall =view=, or shall be =told=, - (By meanes of any =Figure= they behold) - =Experience= breedes; assisteth =Memory=; - Or, helps to forme a =Witty Fantasie=: - And, if those =Formes= to good Instruction tend, - Oft steads them, also, till their lives have end. - Then, since ev’n all of us, much Good receive - By Vertuous PRINCES; And should, therefore, strive - To adde some =helpes=, whereby they might acquire - That =Excellence=, which wee in them desire. - I (being able, to present his GRACE, - With nothing but a =Rattle=, or a =Glasse=, - Or some such =Cradle-play-game=) bring, to day, - This BOOKE, to be as usefull as it may: - And, =how=, and =when=, it will most =usefull= grow, - Without my =Teaching=, YOV can fully show. - For, what is of your =Ablenesse= believ’d, - Through all these famous =Ilands=, hath receiv’d, - A large applause; in =that=, from out of those - Which =ablest= were, both =King= and =State= have chose - Your =Faith= and =Wisedome=, to be TREASVRESSE - Of their chiefe =Iewels=; and the GOVERNESSE - Of our prime Hopes. And, now J this have weigh’d, - Me thinks, there needs no more, by me, be said, - But, (having pray’d your HONOVR to receive - This PRESENT for the DVKE) =to take my leave=; - And =Versifie= to =him=, some other day, - When =Hee= can understand mee, what I say._ - - Till then, let it please your _Honour_ sometimes to remember - _Him_, that - -I am his Graces - - daily and humble - - Oratour, - - GEO: WITHER. - -Footnote: [A] _The Countesse of Dorset._ - - - - - _We best shall quiet clamorous =Thronges=, - When, we our selves, can rule our =Tongues=._ - -[Illustration: NEQVEO COMPESCERE MVLTOS - -ILLVSTR. I. _Book. 2_] - - When I observe the Melanchollie _Owles_, - Considering with what patience, they sustaine - The many clamours, of the greater _Fowles_; - And, how the little _Chirpers_, they disdaine: - When I remember, how, their Injuries - They sleight, (who, causeles give them an offence) - Vouchsafing, scarce to cast aside their eyes - To looke upon that foolish Insolence. - Me thinkes, by their _Example_, I am taught - To sleight the slaunders of Injurious _Tongues_; - To set the scoffes of _Censurers_, at naught, - And, with a brave _neglect_, to beare out _Wrongs_. - Hee, doubtles, whom the _Psalmist_, long agoe, - Vnto a lonely _Desert-Owle_ compar’d, - Did practise thus; And, when I can doe so, - I, shall for all affronts, become prepar’d. - And, (though, this Doctrine, Flesh and blood gaine-say) - Yet, sure, to stopp the malice of _Despight_, - There is no better, (nay, no other) way: - Since, _Rage_ by Opposition gathers _Might_. - _Good =God=! vouchsafe, sufficient grace and strength, - That (though I have not yet, such =Patience= gott) - I may attaine this happy gift, at length; - And, finde the cause, that, yet, I have it not. - Though me, my =Neighbours=, and my =Foes= revile; - Make me of all their words, a =Patient-bearer=: - When er’e I =suffer=, let me be, the while, - As is the silent =Lambe= before the =Shearer=. - So; though my =speakings=, cannot quiet any, - My =Patience= may restraine the Tongues of many._ - - - _When wee by =Hunger=, =Wisdome= gaine, - Our =Guts=, are wiser then our =Braine=._ - -[Illustration: INGENII LARGITOR VENTER. - -ILLVSTR. II. _Book. 2_] - - The _Crowe_, when deepe within a close-mouth’d-_Pot_. - She water finds, her thirstinesse to slake; - (And, knoweth not where else it might be got) - Her _Belly_, teacheth her, this course to take: - She flies, and fetcheth many _Pibbles_ thither, - Then, downe into the _Vessell_, lets them _drop_; - Vntill, so many stones are brought together, - As may advance the water to the top. - From whence, we might this _observation_ heed; - That, _Hunger_, _Thirst_, and those _necessities_, - (Which from the _Bellies_ craving, doe proceed) - May make a _Foole_, grow provident and wise. - And, though (in sport) we say, the _braines_ of some, - Not in their _Heads_, but in their _Gutts_, doe lye; - Yet, that, by wants, Men wiser should become, - Dissenteth not from true _Philosophy_: - For, no man labours with much _Willingnesse_, - To compasse, what he nought at all desires; - Nor seeketh so, his longing to possesse, - As, when some urgent neede, the same requires. - Nay, though he might, a _willingnesse_, retaine, - Yet, as the _Belly_, which is ever full, - Breeds fumes, that cause a _sottish-witles-braine_; - So, _plenteous Fortunes_, make the _Spirits_ dull. - All, _borne to Riches_, have not _all-times_, witt - To keepe, (much lesse, to better) their degree: - But, men to nothing borne, oft, passage get. - (Through many wants) renown’d, and rich to bee: - Yea, _Povertie_ and _Hunger_, did produce, - The best _Inventions_, and, of chiefest use. - - - _Though =Musicke= be of some abhor’d, - =She=, is the =Handmaid= of the =Lord=._ - -[Illustration: MVSICA SERVA DEI - -ILLVSTR. III. _Book. 2_] - - To _Musicke_, and the Muses, many beare - Much hatred; and, to whatsoever ends - Their _Soule-delighting-Raptures_ tuned are, - Such peevish dispositions, it offends. - Some others, in a _Morall way_, affect - Their pleasing _Straines_ (or, for a sensuall use) - But, in _Gods Worship_, they the same suspect; - (Or, taxe it rather) as a great abuse. - The _First_ of these, are full of _Melancholy_; - And, Pitty need, or Comfort, more then blame; - And, soone, may fall into some dangerous _folly_, - Vnlesse they labour, to prevent the same. - The _Last_, are _giddie-things_, that have befool’d - Their Iudgements, with _beguiling-Fantasies_, - Which (if they be not, by discretion, school’d) - Will plunge them into greater _Vanities_. - For, _Musicke_, is the _Handmaid_ of the LORD, - And, for his _Worship_, was at first ordayned: - Yea, therewithall she fitly doth accord; - And, where _Devotion_ thriveth, is reteyned. - _Shee_, by a nat’rall power, doth helpe to raise, - The _mind_ to God, when joyfull Notes are sounded: - And, _Passions_ fierce Distemperatures, alaies; - When, by grave _Tones_, the _Mellody_ is bounded. - It, also may in _Mysticke-sense_, imply - What _Musicke_, in _our-selves_, ought still to be; - And, that our _jarring-lives_ to certifie, - Wee should in _Voice_, in _Hand_, and _Heart_, agree: - And, sing out, _Faith’s_ new-songs, with full concent, - Vnto the _Lawes_, ten-stringed _Instrument_. - - - _Marke, what =Rewards=, to =Sinne=, are due, - And, learne, =uprightnesse= to pursue._ - -[Illustration: DISCITE IVSTICIAM. - -ILLVSTR. IIII. _Book. 2_] - - A _Sword unsheathed_, and a _strangling-Snare_, - Is figur’d here; which, in _dumbe-shewes_, doe preach, - Of what the _Malefactor_ should beware; - And, they doe _threaten too_, aswell as _Teach_. - For, some there are, (would God, that summe were lesse) - Whom, neither good _Advise_, nor, wholesome _Lawe_, - Can turne from Pathwaies of _Vnrighteousnesse_, - If _Death_, or _Tortures_, keepe them not in awe. - These, are not they, whose _Conscience_ for the sake - Of _Goodnesse_ onely, _Godlinesse_, pursues; - But, these are they, who never scruple make - What _Guilt_, but, what great _punishment_ ensues. - For such as these, this _Emblem_ was prepar’d: - And, for their sakes, in places eminent, - Are all our _Gallow-trees_, and _Gibbets_, rear’d; - That, by the sight of them, they might repent. - Let, therefore, those who feele their hearts inclin’d - To any kind of _Death-deserving-Crime_, - (When they behold this _Emblem_) change their mind, - Lest, they (too late) repent, another time. - And, let not those our Counsell, now, contemne, - Who, doome _poore Theeves_ to death; yet, guilty be - Of more, then most of those whom they Condemne: - But, let them Learne their perill to foresee. - For, though a little while, they may have hope - To seeme upright, (when they are nothing lesse) - And, scape the _Sword_, the _Gallowes_, and the _Rope_, - There is a _Iudge_, who sees their wickednesse; - And, when grim _Death_, shall summon them, from hence, - They will be fully plagu’d for their offence. - - - _That =Kingdome= will establish’d bee, - Wherein the =People= well agree._ - -[Illustration: CONSENSV POPVLI REGNṼ SVBSISTIT. - -ILLVSTR. V. _Book. 2_] - - A _Crowned Scepter_, here is fixt upright, - Betwixt foure _Fowles_, whose postures may declare, - They came from _Coasts_, or _Climats_ opposite, - And, that, they diffring in their natures are. - In which, (as in some others, that we finde - Amongst these _Emblems_) little care I take - Precisely to unfold our _Authors_ minde; - Or, on his meaning, _Comments_ here to make. - It is the scope of my Intention, rather - From such perplext _Inventions_ (which have nought, - Of Ancient _Hieroglyphick_) _sense_, to gather, - Whereby, some usefull _Morall_ may be taught. - And, from these _Figures_, my Collections be, - That, _Kingdomes_, and the _Royall-dignitie_, - Are best upheld, where _Subjects_ doe agree, - To keepe upright the state of _Soveraignty_. - When, from each Coast and quarter of the Land, - The _Rich_, the _Poore_, the _Swaine_, the _Gentleman_, - Lends, in all _wants_, and at all _times_, his hand, - To give the best assistance that he can: - Yea, when with _Willing hearts_, and _Winged-speed_, - The men of all Degrees, doe duely carry - Their _Aides_ to publike-workes, in time of need, - And, to their _Kings_, be freely tributary: - Then shall the _Kingdome_ gayne the gloriest height; - Then shall the _Kingly-Title_ be renown’d; - Then shall the _Royall-Scepter_ stand upright, - And, with supremest _Honour_, then, be Crown’d. - But, where this Duty long neglect, they shall; - The _King_ will suffer, and, the _Kingdome_ fall. - - - _From that, by which I =somewhat= am, - The Cause of my =Destruction= came._ - -[Illustration: QVI ME ALIT ME EXTINGVIT. - -ILLVSTR. VI. _Book. 2_] - - The little _Sparkes_ which rak’d in _Embers_ lie, - Are kindly kindled by a gentle _blast_: - And, _brands_ in which the fire begins to die - Revive by blowing; and, flame out at last. - The selfe same _wind_, becomming over strong, - Quite bloweth out againe that very flame; - Or, else, consumes away (ere it be long) - That wasting substance, which maintain’d the same. - Thus fares it, in a Thousand other things, - As soone as they the _golden Meane_ exceed; - And, that, which keeping _Measure_, profit brings, - May, (by _excesse_) our losse, and ruine, breed. - _Preferments_ (well and moderately sought) - Have helpt those men, new _Virtues_ to acquire, - Who, being to superiour places brought, - Left all their _goodnesse_, as they climed higher. - A little _wealth_, may make us better able - To labour in our Callings: Yet, I see - That they, who being poore, were charitable, - Becomming rich, hard-hearted grow to be. - _Love_, when they entertaine it with discretion, - More worthy, and more happy, maketh men; - But, when their _Love_ is overgrowne with _Passion_, - It overthrowes their happinesse, agen. - Yea, this our _Flesh_, (in which we doe appeare - To have that _being_, which we now enjoy) - If we should overmuch the same endeare, - Would our _Well-being_, totally destroy. - For, that which gives our _Pleasures_ nourishment, - Is oft the poyson of our best _Content_. - - - _By =Guiltines=, =Death= entred in, - And, =Mischiefe= still pursueth =Sinne=._ - -[Illustration: SEQVITVR SVA PŒNA NOCENTEM - -ILLVSTR. VII. _Book. 2_] - - _Ixions_ wheele, and he himselfe thereon - Is figur’d, and (by way of _Emblem_) here, - Set forth, for _Guilty men_ to looke upon; - That, they, their wicked Courses might forbeare. - To gaine a lawlesse favour he desired, - And, in his wicked hopes beguiled was: - For, when to claspe with _Iuno_, he aspired, - In stead of her, a _Clowd_, he did embrace. - He, likewise, did incurre a dreadfull _Doome_, - (Which well befitted his presumptuous Crime) - A terror, and, a warning, to become, - For wicked men, through all succeeding time. - As did his longings, and his after _Paine_, - So, theirs affecteth, nor effecteth ought, - But, that, which proveth either false or vaine; - And, their false _Pleasures_, are as dearely, bought: - Yea, that, whereon they build their fairest _Hope_, - May, bring them (in conclusion of the Deed) - To clime the _Gallowes_, and to stretch a _Rope_; - Or, send them thither, where farre worse they speed: - Ev’n thither, where, the _never-standing-Wheele_ - Of _everlasting-Tortures_, turneth round, - And, racks the _Conscience_, till the soule doth feele - All Paines, that are in _Sense_, and _Reason_ found. - For, neither doth black Night, more swiftly follow, - Declining _Day-light_: Nor, with Nimbler Motion - Can _waves_, each other, downe their Channell follow, - From high-rais’d _Mountaines_, to the bigg-womb’d _Ocean_, - Then, _Iustice_ will, when she doth once begin, - To prosecute, an _Vnrepented-Sin_. - - - _When wee have greatest =Griefes= and =Feares=, - Then, =Consolation= sweet’st appeares._ - -[Illustration: POST TENTATIONEM CONSOLATIO. - -ILLVSTR. VIII. _Book. 2_] - - When, all the yeare, our fields are fresh and greene, - And, while sweet _Flowers_, and _Sunshine_, every day, - (As oft, as need requireth) come betweene - The Heav’ns and earth; they heedles passe away. - The fulnes, and continuance, of a blessing, - Doth make us to be senseles of the good: - And, if it sometime flie not our possessing, - The sweetnesse of it, is not understood. - Had wee no _Winter_, _Sommer_ would be thought - Not halfe so pleasing: And, if _Tempests_ were not, - Such Comforts could not by a _Calme_, be brought: - For, things, save by their _Opposites_, appeare not. - Both _health_, and _wealth_, is tastles unto some; - And, so is _ease_, and every other _pleasure_, - Till _poore_, or _sicke_, or _grieved_, they become: - And, then, they relish these, in ampler measure. - _God_, therefore (full as _kinde_, as he is _wise_) - So tempreth all the _Favours_ he will doe us, - That, wee, his _Bounties_, may the better prize; - And, make his _Chastisements_ lesse bitter to us. - One while, a scorching _Indignation_ burnes - The Flowers and Blosomes of our HOPES, away; - Which into _Scarsitie_, our _Plentie_ turnes, - And, changeth _vnmowne-Grasse_ to _parched-Hay_; - Anon, his fruitfull _showres_, and pleasing _dewes_, - Commixt with cheerefull _Rayes_, he sendeth downe; - And then the Barren-earth her cropp renewes, - Which with rich Harvests, Hills, and Vallies Crowne: - For, as to relish _Ioyes_, he sorrow sends, - So, Comfort on _Temptation_, still, attends. - - - _To brawle for =Gaine=, the =Cocke= doth sleight; - But, for his =Females=, he will fight._ - -[Illustration: PRO GALLINIS - -ILLVSTR. IX. _Book. 2_] - - Some, are so _quarrellous_, that they will draw, - And _Brawle_, and _Fight_, for every toy they see; - Grow furious, for the wagging of a straw; - And, (otherwile) for lesse then that may be. - Some, are more staid, a little, and will beare, - Apparent wrongs (which to their face you doe;) - But, when they _Lye_, they cannot brooke to heare - That any should be bold to tell them so. - Another sort, I know, that _blowes_ will take, - Put up the _Lye_, and give men leave to say - What words they please; till spoile they seeke to make - Of their estates; And, then, they’le kill and slay. - But, of all _Hacksters_, farre the fiercest are - Our _Cockrills of the game_, (Sir _Cupid’s_ knights) - Who, (on their foolish _Coxcombes_) often weare - The Scarres they get in their _Venerean-fights_. - Take heede of these; for, you may pacifie - The _first_, by time: The _second_, will be pleas’d - If you submit, or else your words denie; - The _third_, by satisfaction, are appeas’d: - But, he that for his _Female_, takes offence, - Through Iealousy, or madnesse, rageth so; - That, he accepteth of no recompence, - Till he hath wrought his _Rivals_ overthrow. - Such Fury, shun; and, shunne their Vulgar minde, - Who for base trash despitefully contend; - But, (when a just occasion, thou shalt finde) - Thy Vertuous _Mistresse_, lawfully defend. - For, he, that in such cases turnes his face, - Is held a _Capon_, of a Dunghill Race. - - - _If =Safely=, thou desire to goe, - Bee nor too =swift=, nor =overflow=._ - -[Illustration: TVTIVS VT POSSIT FIGI. - -ILLVSTR. X. _Book. 2_] - - Ovr _Elders_, when their meaning was to shew - A _native-speedinesse_ (in Emblem wise) - The picture of a _Dolphin-Fish_ they drew; - Which, through the waters, with great swiftnesse, flies. - An _Anchor_, they did figure, to declare - _Hope_, _stayednesse_, or a _grave-deliberation_: - And therefore when those two, united are, - It giveth us a two-fold Intimation. - For, as the _Dolphin_ putteth us in minde, - That in the Courses, which we have to make, - Wee should not be, to _slothfulnesse_ enclin’d; - But, swift to follow what we undertake: - So, by an _Anchor_ added thereunto, - Inform’d wee are, that, to maintaine our _speed_, - _Hope_, must bee joyn’d therewith (in all we doe) - If wee will undiscouraged proceed. - It sheweth (also) that, our _speedinesse_, - Must have some _staydnesse_; lest, when wee suppose - To prosecute our aymes with good successe, - Wee may, by _Rashnesse_, good endeavors lose. - They worke, with most securitie, that know - The _Times_, and best _Occasions_ of _delay_; - When, likewise, to be neither _swift_, nor _slow_; - And, when to practise all the _speed_, they may. - For, whether calme, or stormie-passages, - (Through this life’s _Ocean_) shall their _Bark_ attend; - This _double Vertue_, will procure their ease: - And, them, in all necessities, befriend. - By _Speedinesse_, our works are timely wrought; - By _Staydnesse_, they, to passe are, safely, brought. - - - _They that in =Hope=, and =Silence=, live, - The best =Contentment=, may atchive._ - -[Illustration: IN SILENTIO ET SPE. - -ILLVSTR. XI. _Book. 2_] - - If thou desire to cherish true _Content_, - And in a troublous time that course to take, - Which may be likely mischieves to prevent, - Some use, of this our _Hieroglyphick_, make. - The _Fryers Habit_, seemeth to import, - That, thou (as ancient _Monkes_ and _Fryers_ did) - Shouldst live remote, from places of resort, - And, in _retyrednesse_, lye closely hid. - The _clasped-Booke_, doth warne thee, to retaine - Thy _thoughts_ within the compasse of thy breast; - And, in a quiet _silence_ to remaine, - Vntill, thy minde may safely be exprest. - That _Anchor_, doth informe thee, that thou must - Walke on in _Hope_; and, in thy Pilgrimage, - Beare up (without _despairing_ or _distrust_) - Those wrongs, and sufferings, which attend thine _Age_. - For, whensoere _Oppression_ groweth rife, - _Obscurenesse_, is more safe than _Eminence_; - Hee, that then keepes his _Tongue_, may keepe his _Life_, - Till Times will better favour _Innocence_. - _Truth_ spoken where _untruth_ is more approved, - Will but enrage the malice of thy foes; - And, otherwhile, a wicked man is moved - To cease from wrong, if no man him oppose. - Let this our _Emblem_, therefore, counsell thee, - Thy life in safe _Retyrednesse_, to spend: - Let, in thy breast, thy thoughts reserved bee, - Till thou art layd, where none can thee offend. - And, whilst most others, give their _Fancie scope_, - Enjoy thy selfe, in _Silence_, and in _Hope_. - - - _Let none despaire of their Estate, - For, =Prudence=, greater is, than =Fate=._ - -[Illustration: FATO PRVDENTIA MAIOR. - -ILLVSTR. XII. _Book. 2_] - - Bee _merry_ man, and let no causelesse feare - Of _Constellation_, fatall _Destinie_, - Or of those false _Decrees_, that publish’d are - By foolish braines, thy _Conscience_ terrifie. - To thee, these _Figures_ better Doctrines teach, - Than those blind _Stoikes_, who necessitate - _Contingent things_; and, arrogantly teach - (For doubtlesse truths) their dreames of changelesse _Fate_. - Though true it bee, that those things which pertaine, - As _Ground-workes_, to _Gods_ glorie, and our blisse, - Are fixt, for aye, unchanged to remaine; - All, is not such, that thereon builded is. - God, gives men power, to build on his _Foundation_; - And, if their _workes_ bee thereunto agreeing, - No _Power-created_, brings that Variation, - Which can disturbe, the _Workmans_ happy being. - Nor, of those _workings_, which required are, - Is any made unpossible, untill - Mans heart begins that _Counsell_ to preferre, - Which is derived from a _crooked-will_. - The _Starres_, and many other things, incline - Our nat’rall _Constitutions_, divers wayes; - But, in the Soule, _God_ plac’d a _Power-divine_, - Which, all those _Inclinations_, overswayes. - Yea, _God_, that _Prudence_, hath infus’d, by _Grace_, - Which, till _Selfe-will_, and _Lust_, betrayes a man, - Will keepe him firmely, in that happy place, - From whence, no _Constellation_ move him can. - And, this is that, whereof I notice take, - From this great _Starre_, enclosed by a _Snake_. - - - _Their =Friendship= firme will ever bide, - Whose hands unto the =Crosse= are tide._ - -[Illustration: CONIVNCTIS VOTIS - -ILLVSTR. XIII. _Book. 2_] - - When first I knew the world, (and was untaught - By tryde experience, what true _Friendship_ meant) - That I had many _faithfull friends_, I thought; - And, of their Love, was wondrous confident. - For, few so young in yeares, and meane in fortune, - Of their _Familiars_, had such troopes, as I, - Who did their daily fellowship importune; - Or, seeme so pleased in their company. - In all their friendly meetings, I was one; - And, of the _Quorum_, in their honest game: - By day or night, I seldome sate alone; - And, welcome seemed, wheresoere I came. - But, where are now those multitudes of _Friends_? - Alas! they on a sudden flasht away. - Their love begun, but, for some sensuall ends, - Which fayling them, it would no longer stay. - If I to vaine expences, would have mov’d them, - They, nor their _paines_, nor _purses_, would have spared; - But, in a reall need, if I had prov’d them, - Small showes of kindnesse, had bin then declared. - Of thrice three thousands, two, perhaps, or three, - Are left me now, which (yet) as _Friends_ I prize; - But, none of them, of that great number be, - With whom I had my youthfull Iollities. - If, therefore, thou desire a _Friend_, on Earth, - Let one _pure-faith_ betwixt you bee begot, - And, seeke him not, in _vanities_, or _mirth_, - But, let _Afflictions_ tye your _true-love-knot_: - For, they who to the _Crosse_, are firmely tyde, - Will fast, and everlasting _Friends_, abide. - - - _A =Candle= that affords no =light=, - What profits it, by Day, or Night?_ - -[Illustration: CVI BONO? - -ILLVSTR. XIIII. _Book. 2_] - - There be of those in every _Common-weale_, - Whom to this _Emblem_ we resemble may; - The _Name_ of none I purpose to reveale, - But, their _Condition_, heere, I will display. - Some, both by gifts of _Nature_, and of _Grace_, - Are so prepared, that, they might be fit - To stand as _Lights_, in profitable place; - Yet, loose their _Talent_, by neglecting it. - Some, to the _common Grace_, and _nat’rall parts_, - (By helpe of _Nurture_, and good _Discipline_) - Have added an accomplishment of _Arts_, - By which, their _Light_ may much the brighter shine. - Some others, have to this, acquired more: - For, to maintaine their _Lampe_, in giving light, - Of _Waxe_, and _Oyle_, and _Fatnesse_, they have store, - Which over-flowes unto them, day and night. - And, ev’n as _Lampes_, or _Candles_, on a Table, - (Or, fixt on golden _Candlesticks_, on high) - To light _Assemblies_, Great and Honourable, - They, oft, have (also) place of _Dignitie_. - By meanes of which, their _Splendor_ might become - His praise, who those high favours did bequeath: - They might encrease the _Light_ of _Christendome_, - And, make them see, who sit in shades of _Death_. - But, many of them, like those _Candles_ bee, - That stand unlighted in a _Branch_ of gold: - For, by their helpe wee nothing more can see, - Than wee in grossest darknesse, may behold. - If such there be, (as there bee such, I feare) - The question is, _For what good use they are_. - - - _The =Sacrifice=, God loveth best, - Are =Broken-hearts=, for =Sin=, opprest._ - -[Illustration: SACRIFICIVM DEO COR CONTRIBVLATIM - -ILLVSTR. XV. _Book. 2_] - - No Age, hath had a people, to professe - _Religion_, with a shew of holinesse, - Beyond these times; nor, did men _sacrifice_, - According to their foolish fantasies, - More oft than at this present. One, bestowes - On _pious-workes_, the hundreth part, of those - Ill-gotten goods, which from the poore he seazed, - And, thinkes his _God_, in that, is highly pleased. - Another, of her dues, the _Church_ bereaves: - And, yet, himselfe a holy man conceives, - (Yea, and right bountifull) if hee can spare - From those his thefts, the tenth, or twentieth share, - To some new _Lecture_; or, a _Chaplaine_ keepe, - To please _Himselfe_, or, preach his _Wife_ asleepe. - Some others, thinke they bring sincere _Oblations_, - When, fir’d with zeale, they roare out _Imprecations_ - Against all those, whom wicked they repute: - And, when to _God_, they tender any sute, - They dreame to merit what they would obtaine, - By _praying-long_, with Repetitions vaine. - With many other such like _Sacrifices_ - Men come _to God_: but, he such _gifts_ despises: - For, neither _gifts_, nor _workes_, nor _any thing_ - (Which we can either _doe_, or _say_, or _bring_,) - Accepted is of _God_; untill he finde - A _Spirit-humbled_, and a _troubled-minde_. - A _contrite Heart_, is that, and, that alone, - Which _God_ with love, and pitie, lookes upon. - Such he affects; therefore (_Oh Lord_) to thee; - Such, let my _Heart_, and, such, my _Spirit_ bee. - - - _A =King=, that prudently Commands, - Becomes the glory of his =Lands=._ - -[Illustration: REGNI CORONA REX - -ILLVSTR. XVI. _Book. 2_] - - The _Royall-Scepter_, Kingly power, implyes; - The _Crowne-Imperiall_, GLORIE, signifies: - And, by _these_ joyn’d in one, we understand, - A _King_, that is an honour to his _Land_. - A _Kingdome_, is not alwaies eminent, - By having Confines of a large _extent_; - For, _Povertie_, and _Barbarousnesse_, are found - Ev’n in some large _Dominions_, to abound: - Nor, is it _Wealth_, which gets a _glorious-Name_; - For, then, those _Lands_ would spread the widest _Fame_, - From whence we fetch the _Gold_ and _Silver-ore_; - And, where we gather _Pearles_ upon the shore: - Nor, have those _Countries_ highest exaltations, - Which breed the strongest, and the Warlikst _Nations_; - For, proud of their owne powre, they sometimes grow, - And quarrell, till _themselves_ they overthrow. - Nor, doe the chiefest _glories_, of a _Land_, - In many _Cities_, or much _People_, stand: - For, then, those _Kingdomes_, most renowned were, - In which _Vnchristian Kings_, and, _Tyrants_ are. - It is the _King_ by whom a _Realme’s_ renowne, - Is either builded up, or overthrowne. - By _Solomon_, more fam’d was _Iudah_ made, - Then, by the Multitude of men it had: - Great _Alexander_, glorified _Greece_, - Throughout the World, which, else had bene a piece - Perhaps obscure; And, _Cæsar_ added more - To _Rome_, then all her greatnesse did before. - _Grant, =Lord=, these =Iles=, for ever may be blessed, - With what, in this our =Emblem= is expressed._ - - - _By =Studie=, and by =Watchfulnesse=, - The Jemme of =Knowledge=, we possesse._ - -[Illustration: STVDIO ET VIGILANTIA. - -ILLVSTR. XVII. _Book. 2_] - - I Thinke you would be wise; for, most men seeme - To make of _Knowledge_ very great esteeme. - If such be your desires, this _Emblem_ view; - And, marke how well the _Figures_, counsell you. - Wee by the Bird of _Athens_, doe expresse, - That painefull, and that usefull _watchfulnesse_, - Which ought to bee enjoyned, unto them, - Who seeke a place, in _Wisdomes_ Academ. - For, as an _Owle_ mewes up her selfe by _Day_, - And watcheth in the _Night_, to get her prey; - Ev’n so, good _Students_, neither must be such, - As _daily_ gad; or _nightly_ sleepe too much. - That _open-booke_, on which the _Owle_ is perch’d, - Affords a _Morall_, worthy to be search’d: - For, it informes, and, darkly doth advise, - Your _Watchings_ be not after Vanities; - (Or, like their _Wakings_, who turne dayes to nights, - In following their unlawfull appetites) - And, that, in keeping Home, you doe not spend - Your houres in sloth, or, to some fruitlesse end. - But, rather in good _Studies_; and, in that, - By which, true _Knowledge_, is arrived at. - For, if your _Studies_, and your _Wakings_, bee - To this intent; you shall that _Path-way_ see - To _Wisdome_, and to _Honour_, which was found, - Of them, whose _Knowledge_ hath been most renownd. - But, if your _Watchings_, and _Retyrednesse_, - Be for your _Lust_, or, out of _Sottishnesse_; - You are not, what th' _Athenian-Owle_ implies, - But, what our _English-Owlet_ signifies. - - - _When =Mars=, and =Pallas=, doe agree, - Great workes, by them, effected bee._ - -[Illustration: ARTE ET MARTE - -ILLVSTR. XVIII. _Book. 2_] - - It prospers ever best, in all Estates, - When _Mars_ and _Pallas_ are continuall Mates. - And, those affaires but seldome luckie be, - In which, these needfull _Powers_, doe not agree. - That _Common-wealth_, in which, good _Arts_ are found - Without a _Guard_, will soone receive a wound: - And, _Souldiers_, where _good-order_ beares no sway, - Will, very quickly, rout themselves away. - Moreover, in our private Actions too, - There must bee both a _Knowledge_, how to doe - The _worke_ propos’d; and _strength_ to finish it; - Or, wee shall profit little by our _Wit_. - _Discretion_ takes effect, where _Vigour_ failes; - Where _Cunning_ speeds not, _outward-force_ prevailes; - And, otherwhile, the prize pertaines to neither, - Till they have joyn’d their _Vertues_ both together. - Consider this; and, as occasions are, - To both of these your due respects declare. - Delight not so in _Arts_, to purchase harmes - By Negligence, or Ignorance of _Armes_: - If _Martiall-Discipline_ thou shalt affect; - Yet, doe not _honest-Policie_, neglect. - Improve thy _Minde_, as much as e’re thou may; - But foole thou not thy _Bodies_ gifts away. - The _Vertues_ both of _Body_, and of _Mind_, - Are, still, to be regarded in their kind. - And, wee should neither of the two disgrace; - Nor, either of them, raise above his place: - For, when these two wee value as wee ought, - Great works, by their _joynt-power_, to passe are brought. - - - _They, after =suffring=, shall be =crown’d=, - In whom, a =Constant-faith=, is found._ - -[Illustration: CONSTANTE FIDVCIA - -ILLVSTR. XIX. _Book. 2_] - - Marke well this _Emblem_; and, observe you thence - The nature of true _Christian-confidence_. - Her _Foot_ is fixed on a _squared-Stone_, - Which, whether side soe’re you turne it on, - Stands fast; and, is that _Corner-stone_, which props, - And firmely knits the structure of our _Hopes_. - _Shee_, alwayes, beares a _Crosse_; to signifie, - That, there was never any _Constancie_ - Without her _Tryalls_: and, that, her perfection, - Shall never be attain’d, without _Affliction_. - A _Cup_ shee hath, moreover, in her hand; - And, by that _Figure_, thou mayst understand, - That, shee hath draughts of _Comfort_, alwayes neere her, - (At ev’ry brunt) to strengthen, and to cheare her. - And, loe, _her_ head is _crown’d_; that, we may see - How great, her _Glories_, and _Rewards_, will be. - Hereby, this _Vertue’s_ nature may be knowne: - Now, practise, how to make the same thine owne. - Discourag’d be not, though thou art pursu’d - With many wrongs, which cannot be eschew’d; - Nor yeeld thou to _Despairing_, though thou hast - A _Crosse_ (which threatens death) to be embrac’t; - Or, though thou be compell’d to swallow up, - The very dregs, of _Sorrowes_ bitter _Cup_: - For, whensoever griefes, or torments, paine thee, - Thou hast the same _Foundation_ to sustaine thee: - The selfe same _Cup_ of _Comfort_, is prepared - To give thee strength, when _fainting-fits_ are feared: - And, when thy _time of tryall_, is expired, - Thou shalt obtaine the _Crowne_, thou hast desired. - - - _=Love=, a =Musician= is profest, - And, of all =Musicke=, is the best._ - -[Illustration: AMOR DOCET MVSICAM - -ILLVSTR. XX. _Book. 2_] - - If to his thoughts my _Comments_ have assented, - By whom the following _Emblem_ was _invented_, - I'le hereby teach you (_Ladies_) to discover - A true-bred _Cupid_, from a fained _Lover_; - And, shew (if you have Wooers) which be they, - That worth’est are to beare your _Hearts_ away. - As is the _Boy_, which, here, you pictured see, - Let them be _young_, or let them, rather, be - Of _suiting-yeares_ (which is instead of _youth_) - And, wooe you in the _nakednesse_, of _Truth_; - Not in the common and disguised _Clothes_, - Of _Mimick-gestures_, _Complements_, and _Oathes_. - Let them be _winged_ with a swift _Desire_; - And, not with _slow-affections_, that will tyre. - But, looke to this, as to the principall, - That, _Love_ doe make them truly _Musicall_: - For, _Love’s_ a good _Musician_; and, will show - How, every faithfull _Lover_ may be so. - Each _word_ he speakes, will presently appeare - To be melodious _Raptures_ in your eare: - Each _gesture_ of his body, when he moves, - Will seeme to _play_, or _sing_, a _Song of Loves_: - The very _lookes_, and _motions_ of his eyes, - Will touch your _Heart-strings_, with sweet _Harmonies_; - And, if the _Name_ of him, be but exprest, - T’will cause a thousand _quaverings_ in your breast. - Nay, ev’n those _Discords_, which occasion’d are, - Will make your _Musicke_, much the sweeter, farre. - And, such a mooving _Diapason_ strike, - As none but _Love_, can ever play the like. - - - _Thy =seeming-Lover=, false will bee, - And, love thy =Money=, more than =Thee=._ - -[Illustration: NON TE SED NVMMOS - -ILLVSTR. XXI. _Book. 2_] - - What may the reason be, so many wed, - And misse the blessings of a _joyfull-Bed_, - But those ungodly, and improper ends, - For which, this Age most _Marriages_ intends? - Some, love _plumpe flesh_; and, those as kinde will be - To any gamesome _Wanton_, as to thee. - Some, doate on _Honours_; and, all such will prize - Thy _Person_, meerely, for thy _Dignities_. - Some, fancy _Pleasures_; and, such _Flirts_ as they, - With ev’ry _Hobby-horse_, will runne away. - Some (like this _Couple_ in our _Emblem_, here) - Wooe hard for _Wealth_; and, very kind appeare, - Till they have wonne their prize: but, then they show - On what their best _Affections_ they bestow. - This _Wealth_, is that sweet _Beautie_, which preferres - So many to their _Executioners_. - This, is that rare _Perfection_, for whose sake, - The _Politician_, doth his _Marriage_, make. - Yea, most of those whom you shall married find, - Were cousned, (or did cousen) in this kind; - And, for some _by-spects_, they came together, - Much more, than for the sakes, of one another. - If this concernes thee, now, in any sense; - For thy instruction, take this warning hence: - If thou hast err’d already, then, lament - Thy passed crime, and, beare thy punishment. - If thou, as yet, but tempted art to erre; - Then, let this _Emblem_ be thy _Counsellor_: - For, I have said my mind; which, if thou slight, - Goe, and repent it, on thy _wedding night_. - - - _Give =Credit=; but, first, well beware, - Before thou =trust= them, =who they are=._ - -[Illustration: FIDE SED CVI VIDE - -ILLVSTR. XXII. _Book. 2_] - - I Rather would (because it seemeth just) - Deceived be, than causelesly distrust: - Yet, _whom_ I credited; and, then, how _farre_; - Bee _Cautions_, which I thought worth heeding were: - And, had not this been taught me long agone, - I had been poorer, if not quite undone. - That, others to such warinesse, may come, - This _Emblem_, here, hath filled up a roome; - And, though a vulgar _Figure_, it may seeme, - The _Morall_, of it, meriteth esteeme. - That _Seeing-Palme_, (endowed with an _Eye_, - And handling of a _Heart_) may signifie - What warie _Watchfulnesse_, observe we must, - Before we venter on a weightie _Trust_: - And, that, to keepe our _kindnesse_ from abuse, - There is of _double-diligence_, an use. - Mens hearts, are growne so false, that most are loath - To trust each others _Words_, or _Bands_, or _Oath_: - For, though wee had in every part an _Eye_, - We could not search out all _Hypocrisie_; - Nor, by our utmost providence, perceive - How many wayes, are open to deceive. - Now, then (although perhaps thou art so wise, - To know already, what I would advise) - Yet may this _Emblem_, or this _Motto_, bee - Instead of some _Remembrancer_, to thee. - So, take it therefore; And, be sure, if either - This _Warning_, or thy _Wit_, (or both together) - Can, still, secure thee from _deceitfull-hearts_; - Thy _luck_ exceedeth all thy other parts. - - - _Hee, that on =Earthly-things=, doth trust, - Dependeth, upon =Smoake=, and =Dust=._ - -[Illustration: HVMANA FVMVS - -ILLVSTR. XXIII. _Book. 2_] - - _Lord!_ what a coyle is here! and what a puther, - To save and get? to scratch and scrape together - The Rubbish of the world? and, to acquire - Those vanities, which _Fancie_ doth desire? - What _Violence_ is used, and what _Cunning_? - What nightly _Watchings_, and what daily _Running_? - What _sorrowes_ felt? what _difficulties_ entred? - What _losses_ hazarded? what _perills_ ventred? - And, still, how sottishly, doe wee persever - (By all the power, and meanes wee can endeaver) - To wheele our selves, in a perpetuall _Round_, - In quest of that, which never will be found? - In _Objects_, here on _Earth_, we seeke to finde - That perfect sollidnesse, which is confinde, - To things in _Heaven_, though every day we see, - What emptinesse, and faylings, in them be. - To teach us better; this, our _Emblem_, here, - Assayes to make terrestriall things appeare - The same they be, (both to our eares and eyes) - That, wee may rightly their Condition prize. - The best, which of earths _best things_, wee can say, - Is this; that they are _Grasse_, and will be _Hay_. - The rest, may be resembled to the _Smoke_, - (Which doth but either blind the sight, or choke) - Or else, to that uncleanly _Mushrum-ball_, - Which, in some Countries, wee a _Puff-foyst_ call; - Whose _out-side_, is a nastie rotten _skin_, - Containing durt, or smoking-dust, _within_. - This is my _mind_; if wrong you thinke I’ve done them, - Be _Fooles_; and, at your perils, dote upon them. - - - _I beare, about mee, all my store; - And, yet, a =King= enjoyes not more._ - -[Illustration: OMNIA MEA MECVM PORTO - -ILLVSTR. XXIIII. _Book. 2_] - - This _Emblem_ is a _Torteise_, whose owne shell - Becomes that _house_, where he doth rent-free dwell; - And, in what place soever hee resides, - His _Arched-Lodging_, on his backe abides. - There is, moreover, found a kind of these, - That live both on the shore, and in the Seas; - For which respects, the _Torteise_ represents - That man, who in himselfe, hath full contents; - And (by the _Vertues_ lodging in his minde) - Can all things needfull, in all places, finde. - To such a _Man_, what ever doth betide; - From him, his _Treasures_, nothing can divide. - If of his _outward-meanes_, Theeves make a prise; - Hee, more occasion hath to exercise - His _inward-Riches_: and, they prove a _Wealth_, - More usefull, and lesse lyable to stealth. - If, any at his harmelesse person strike; - Himselfe hee streight contracteth, _Torteis-like_, - To make the _Shell_ of _Suffrance_, his defence; - And, counts it _Life_, to die with _Innocence_. - If, hee, by hunger, heat, or cold, be payn’d; - If, hee, be slaundred, sleighted, or disdayn’d; - Hee, alwayes keepes and carries, that, within him, - Which may, from those things, _ease_ and _comfort_, win him. - When, him uncloathed, or unhous’d, you see; - His _Resolutions_, clothes and houses bee, - That keepe him safer; and, farre warmer too, - Than _Palaces_, and princely _Robes_, can doe. - _God give mee =wealth=, that hath so little Cumber; - And, much good doo’t the =World= with all her Lumber._ - - - _To =Learning=, J a love should have, - Although one foot were in the =Grave=._ - -[Illustration: TAMEN DISCAM. - -ILLVSTR. XXV. _Book. 2_] - - Here, we an _Aged-man_ described have, - That hath _one foot_, already, in the _Grave_: - And, if you marke it (though the _Sunne_ decline, - And horned _Cynthia_ doth begin to shine) - With _open-booke_, and, with attentive eyes, - Himselfe, to compasse _Knowledge_, he applyes: - And, though that _Evening_, end his last of dayes, - _Yet, I will study, more to learne_, he sayes. - From this, we gather, that, while time doth last, - The time of _learning_, never will be past; - And, that, each houre, till we our _life_ lay downe, - Still, something, touching _life_, is to be knowne. - When he was old, wise _Cato_ learned Greeke: - But, we have _aged-folkes_, that are to seeke - Of that, which they have much more cause to learne; - Yet, no such minde in them, wee shall discerne. - For, that, which they should studie in their _prime_, - Is, oft, deferred, till their _latter-time_: - And, then, _old-age_, unfit for _learning_, makes them, - Or, else, that common _dulnesse_ overtakes them, - Which makes ashamed, that it should be thought, - They need, like _little-children_, to be taught. - And, so, out of this world, they doe returne - As wise, as in that weeke, when they were borne. - _God, grant me grace, to spend my life-time so, - That I my duety still may seeke to =know=; - And, that, I never, may so farre proceed, - To thinke, that I, more =Knowledge=, doe not need: - But, in =Experience=, may continue growing, - Till I am fill’d with fruits of pious-knowing._ - - - _=Good-fortune=, will by those abide, - In whom, =True-vertue= doth reside._ - -[Illustration: VIRTVTI FORTVNA COMES. - -ILLVSTR. XXVI. _Book. 2_] - - Marke, how the _Cornucopias_, here, apply - Their _Plenties_, to the _Rod_ of _Mercury_; - And (if it seeme not needlesse) learne, to know - This _Hieroglyphick’s_ meaning, ere you goe. - The _Sages_ old, by this _Mercurian-wand_ - (_Caducæus_ nam’d) were wont to understand - _Art_, _Wisedome_, _Vertue_, and what else we finde, - Reputed for endowments of the _Minde_. - The _Cornucopias_, well-knowne _Emblems_, are, - By which, great _wealth_, and _plenties_, figur’d were; - And (if you joyne together, what they spell) - It will, to ev’ry Vnderstanding, tell, - That, where _Internall-Graces_ may be found, - _Eternall-blessings_, ever, will abound. - For, this is _truth_, and (though some thoughts in you - Suggest, that this is, often times, untrue) - This, ever is the _truth_; and, they have got - Few right-form’d _Vertues_, who believe it not. - I will confesse, true _Vertue_ hath not ever - All _Common-plenties_, for which most indeavour; - Nor have the _Perfect’st-Vertues_, those high places, - Which _Knowledge_, _Arts_ (and, such as have the faces - Of outward _beauty_) many times, attaine; - For, these are things, which (often) those men gaine, - That are more _flesh_, then _spirit_; and, have need - Of _carnall-helpes_, till higher they proceede. - But, they, of whom I speake, are flowne so high, - As, not to want those _Toyes_, for which wee crye: - And, I had showne you somewhat of their store, - But, that, this _Page_, had roome to write no more. - - - _The =Gospel=, thankefully imbrace; - For, =God=, vouchsafed us, this =Grace=._ - -[Illustration: DEVS NOBIS HÆC OTIA FECIT. - -ILLVSTR. XXVII. _Book. 2_] - - This moderne _Emblem_, is a mute expressing - Of _Gods_ great Mercies, in a _Moderne-blessing_; - And, gives me, now, just cause to sing his praise, - For granting me, my being, in these dayes. - The much-desired _Messages_ of Heav’n, - For which, our _Fathers_ would their lives have giv’n, - And (in _Groves_, _Caves_, and _Mountaines_, once a yeare) - Were glad, with hazard of their goods, to heare; - Or, in lesse bloudy times, at their owne homes, - To heare, in private, and obscured roomes. - Lo; those, those _Ioyfull-tydings_, we doe live - Divulg’d, in every _Village_, to perceive; - And, that, the sounds of _Gladnesse_, eccho may, - Through all our goodly _Temples_, ev’ry day. - _This was (=Oh God=) thy doing; unto thee, - Ascrib’d, for ever, let all Prayses bee. - Prolong this =Mercie=, and, vouchsafe the =fruit=, - May to thy =Labour=, on this =Vine-yard=, suit: - Lest, for our fruitlesnesse, thy =Light of grace=, - Thou, from our =Golden candlesticke=, displace. - We doe, me thinkes, already, =Lord=, beginne - To =wantonize=, and let that =loathing= in, - Which makes thy =Manna= tastlesse; And, I feare, - That, of those =Christians=, who, more often =heare=, - Then practise, what =they know=, we have too many: - And, I suspect my =selfe=, as much as any. - Oh! mend =me= so, that, by amending =mee=, - Amends in =others=, may increased be: - And, let all =Graces=, which thou hast bestow’d, - Returne thee =honour=, from whom, first, they flow’d._ - - - _The =Bees=, will in an =Helmet= breed; - And, =Peace=, doth after =Warre=, succeed._ - -[Illustration: EX BELLO PAX - -ILLVSTR. XXVIII. _Book. 2_] - - When you have heeded, by your _Eyes_ of _sense_, - This _Helmet_, hiving of a Swarme of _Bees_, - Consider, what may gather’d be from thence, - And, what your _Eye_ of _Vnderstanding_ sees. - That _Helmet_, and, those other _Weapons_, there, - Betoken _Warre_; the Honey-making, _Flyes_, - An _Emblem_ of a happy _Kingdome_, are, - Injoying _Peace_, by painfull Industries: - And, when, all these together are exprest, - As in this _Emblem_, where the _Bees_, doe seeme - To make their dwelling, in a _Plumed-Crest_, - A _Morall_ is implyed, worth esteeme. - For, these inferre, mysteriously, to me, - That, _Peace_, and _Art_, and _Thrift_, most firme abides, - In those _Re-publikes_, where, _Armes_ cherisht bee; - And, where, true _Martiall-discipline_, resides. - When, of their Stings, the _Bees_, disarm’d, become, - They, who, on others Labours, use to prey, - Incourag’d are, with violence, to come, - And, beare their _Honey_, and, their _Waxe_, away. - So when a _People_, meerely, doe affect - To gather Wealth; and (foolishly secure) - Defences necessary, quite neglect; - Their Foes, to spoyle their Land, it will allure. - Long _Peace_, brings _Warre_; and, _Warre_, brings _Peace_, againe: - For, when the smart of _Warfare_ seizeth on them, - They crye, _Alarme_; and, then, to fight, are faine, - Vntill, their _Warre_, another _Peace_, hath wonne them; - And, out of their old rusty _Helmets_, then, - New _Bees_ doe swarme, and, fall to worke agen. - - - _The =Heart= of him, that is =upright=, - In =Heavenly-knowledge=, takes delight._ - -[Illustration: COR RECTṼ INQVIRIT SCIENTIĀ. - -ILLVSTR. XXIX. _Book. 2_] - - This _Emblem_, with some other of the rest, - Are scarce, with seemly _Properties_, exprest, - Yet, since a vulgar, and a meane _Invention_ - May yield some _Fruit_, and shew a good _Intention_; - Ile, hence, as well informe your _Intellects_, - As if these _Figures_ had not those defects. - The _Booke_, here shadow’d, may be said, to show - The _Wisdome_, and _Experience_, which we know - By Common meanes, and, by these _Creatures_, here, - Which to be plac’d below us, may appeare. - The _Winged-heart_, betokens those _Desires_, - By which, the _Reasonable-soule_, aspires - Above the _Creature_; and, attempts to clime, - To _Mysteries_, and _Knowledge_, more sublime: - Ev’n to the _Knowledge_ of the _Three-in-one_, - Implyed by the _Tetragrammaton_. - The _Smokings_ of this _Heart_, may well declare - Those _Perturbations_, which within us are, - Vntill, that Heavenly wisedome, we have gain’d, - Which is not, here, below, to be attain’d; - And, after which, those _Hearts_, that are _upright_, - Enquire with daily studie, and delight. - _To me, =Oh Lord=, vouchsafe thou, to impart - The gift of such a =Rectifyed-heart=. - Grant me the =Knowledge= of Inferiour things, - So farre, alone, as their Experience, brings - The =Knowledge=, which, I ought to have of thee, - And, of those Dueties, thou requir’st of mee: - For, thee, =Oh God=, to =know=, and, thee to =feare=, - Of truest =Wisedome=, the Perfections are._ - - - _Where, =Labour=, wisely, is imploy’d, - Deserved =Glory=, is injoy’d._ - -[Illustration: ΕΚ ΠΟΝΟΥ ΚΛΕΟΣ. - -ILLVSTR. XXX. _Book. 2_] - - Doe men suppose, when _Gods_ free-giving Hand, - Doth by their _Friends_, or, by _Inheritance_, - To _Wealth_ or _Titles_, raise them in the Land, - That, those, to _Lasting-glories_, them advance? - Or, can men thinke, such _Goods_, or _Gifts_ of Nature, - As _Nimble-apprehensions_, _Memory_, - An _Able-body_, or, a comely _Feature_ - (Without improvement) them, shall dignifie? - May Sloth, and Idlenesse, be warrantable, - In us, because our _Fathers_ have been rich? - Or, are wee, therefore, truely honourable, - Because our _Predecessours_, have beene such? - When, nor our _Fortunes_, nor our _naturall parts_, - In any measure, are improved by us, - Are others bound (as if we had deserts) - With Attributes of _Honour_ to belye us? - No, no; the more our _Predecessours_ left, - (Yea, and, the more, by _nature_, we enjoy) - We, of the more esteeme, shall be bereft; - Because, our _Talents_, we doe mis-imploy. - True _Glory_, doth on _Labour_, still attend; - But, without _Labour_, _Glory_ we have none. - _She_, crownes good _Workmen_, when their Works have end; - And, _Shame_, gives payment, where is nothing done. - Laborious, therefore, bee; But, lest the _Spade_ - (which, here, doth _Labour_ meane) thou use in vaine, - The _Serpent_, thereunto, be sure thou adde; - That is, Let _Prudence_ guide thy _taking-paine_. - For, where, a _wise-endeavour_, shall be found, - A _Wreath_ of _Glory_, will inclose it round. - - - _Behold, you may, the =Picture=, here, - Of what, keepes =Man=, and =Childe=, in feare._ - -[Illustration: PVEROS CASTIGO VIROSQ[VE] - -ILLVSTR. XXXI. _Book. 2_] - - These, are the great’st _Afflictions_, most men have, - Ev’n from their _Nursing-cradle_, to their _Grave_: - Yet, both so needfull are, I cannot see, - How either of them, may well spared bee. - The _Rod_ is that, which, most our _Child-hood_ feares; - And, seemes the great’st _Affliction_ that it beares: - That, which to _Man-hood_, is a plague, as common - (And, more unsufferable) is a _Woman_. - Yet, blush not _Ladies_; neither frowne, I pray, - That, thus of _Women_, I presume to say; - Nor, number mee, as yet, among your _foes_; - For, I am more your _friend_, then you suppose: - Nor smile ye _Men_, as if, from hence, ye had - An Argument, that _Woman-kinde_ were bad. - The _Birch_, is blamelesse (yea, by nature, sweet, - And gentle) till, with stubborne Boyes, it meet: - But, then, it smarts. So, _Women_, will be kinde, - Vntill, with froward _Husbands_, they are joyn’d: - And, then indeed (perhaps) like Birchen boughes, - (Which, else, had beene a trimming, to their House) - They, sometimes prove, sharpe _whips_, and _Rods_, to them, - That _Wisdome_, and _Instruction_ doe contemne. - A _Woman_, was not given for _Correction_; - But, rather for a furtherance to _Perfection_: - A precious _Balme of love_, to cure Mans griefe; - And, of his Pleasures, to become the chiefe. - If, therefore, she occasion any smart, - The blame, he merits, wholly, or in part: - For, like sweet _Honey_, she, good _Stomackes_, pleases; - But, paines the _Body_, subject to _Diseases_. - - - _=Death’s= one =long-Sleepe=; and, =Life’s= no more, - But one =short-Watch=, an houre before._ - -[Illustration: VITA MORTALIVM VIGILIA. - -ILLVSTR. XXXII. _Book. 2_] - - When, on this _Child-like-figure_, thou shalt looke, - Which, with his _Light_, his _Houre-glasse_, and his _booke_, - Sits, in a _watching-posture_, formed here; - And, when thou hast perus’d that _Motto_, there, - On which he layes his hand; thy selfe apply - To what it counselleth; and, _learne to die_, - While that _Light_ burnes, and, that _short-houre_ doth last, - Which, for this _Lesson_, thou obtained hast. - And, in this _bus’nesse_, use thou no delayes; - For, if the bigger _Motto_ truely, sayes, - There is not left unto thee, one whole _Watch_, - Thy necessary labours, to dispatch. - It was no more, when first thy _Life_ begunne; - And, many _Glasses_ of that _Watch_ be runne: - Which thou observing, shouldst be put in minde, - To husband well, the _space_ that is behind. - Endeavour honestly, whil’st thou hast _light_: - Deferre thou not, thy _Iourney_, till the _night_; - Nor, sleepe away, in Vanities, the _prime_, - And _flowre_, of thy most acceptable _time_. - So watchfull, rather, and, so carefull be, - That, whensoere the _Bridegroome_ summons thee; - And, when thy _Lord_ returnes, unlookt for, home; - Thou mayst, a _Partner_, in their joyes, become. - _And, oh =my God!= so warie, and so wise, - Let me be made; that, this, which I advise - To other men (and really have thought) - May, still, in practice, by my selfe, be brought: - And, helpe, and pardon me, when I transgresse, - Through humane frailtie, or, forgetfulnesse._ - - - _What ever =God= did =fore-decree=, - Shall, without faile, =fulfilled be=._ - -[Illustration: MANET IMMVTABILE FATVM. - -ILLVSTR. XXXIII. _Book. 2_] - - Me thinkes, that _Fate_, which _God_ weighs forth to all, - I, by the _Figure_ of this _Even-Skale_, - May partly show; and, let my _Reader_, see - The state, of an _Immutable-decree_; - And, how it differs, from those _Destinies_, - Which carnall understandings, doe devise. - For, this implies, that ev’ry thing, _to-come_, - Was, by a steady, and, by equall _doome_, - Weigh’d out, by _Providence_; and, that, by _Grace_, - Each _thing_, each _person_, ev’ry _time_, and _place_, - Had thereunto, a _powre_, and _portion_ given, - So proper to their nature (and, so even - To that just _measure_, which, aright became - The _Workings_, and, the _being_, of the same) - As, best might helpe the furthering of that _end_, - Which, _God’s_ eternall _wisedome_, doth intend. - And, though, I dare not be so bold, as they, - Who, of _God’s_ Closet, seeme to keep the _Key_; - (And, things, for absolute _Decrees_, declare, - Which, either _false_, or, but _Contingents_ are) - Yet, in his _Will-reveal’d_, my _Reason_, sees - Thus much, of his _Immutable-decrees_: - That, him, a _Doome-eternall_, reprobateth, - Who scorneth _Mercie_; or, _Instruction_ hateth, - Without _Repenting_: And, that, whensoever, - A _Sinner_, true _amendment_, shall indeavour; - Bewaile his _Wickednesse_, and, call for _grace_; - There shall be, for _Compassion_, time, and place. - And, this, I hold, a branch of that _Decree_, - Which, Men may say, shall _never changed be_. - - - _My =Fortune=, I had rather beare; - Then come, where greater perills are._ - -[Illustration: DETERIVS FORMIDO. - -ILLVSTR. XXXIV. _Book. 2_] - - Marke well this _Caged-fowle_; and, thereby, see, - What, thy estate, may, peradventure, be. - She, wants her _freedome_; so, perhaps, dost thou, - Some _freedomes_ lacke, which, are desired, now; - And, though, thy _Body_ be not so confin’d; - Art straitned, from some liberty of _Minde_. - The _Bird in thrall_, the more contented lyes, - Because, the _Hawke_, so neere her, she espyes; - And, though, the _Cage_ were open, more would feare, - To venture out, then to continue there: - So, if thou couldst perceive, what _Birds of prey_, - Are hov’ring round about thee, every day, - To seize thy _Soule_ (when she abroad shall goe, - To take the _Freedome_, she desireth so) - Thou, farre more fearefull, wouldst of them, become, - Then thou art, now, of what thou flyest from. - Not _Precepts_, but _Experience_, thus hath taught me; - Which, to such resolutions, now have brought me, - That, whatsoever mischiefes others doe me, - I make them yield some true Contentments to me; - And, seldome struggle from them, till I see, - That, _smother-fortunes_ will securer be. - What spight soere my Foes, to me, can doe, - I laugh thereat, within an houre or two; - For, though the World, and I, at first, believe, - My Suffrings, give me cause enough to grieve; - Yet, afterward, I finde (the more to glad me) - That, better _Fortunes_, might farre worse have made me. - By some young _Devills_, though, I scratched am, - Yet, I am hopefull, I shall scape their _Dam_. - - - _The more contrary =Windes= doe blow, - The greater =Vertues= praise will grow._ - -[Illustration: ADVERSIS CLARIVS ARDET. - -ILLVSTR. XXXV. _Book. 2_] - - Observe the nature of that _Fiery-flame_, - Which on the _Mountaines_ top so brightly showes; - The _Windes_ from every quarter, blow the same, - Yea, and to blow it out, their _fury_ blowes; - But, lo; the more they _storme_, the more it _shineth_; - At every Blast, the _Flame_ ascendeth higher; - And, till the _Fuells_ want, that rage confineth, - It, will be, still, a great, and glorious _Fire_. - Thus fares the man, whom _Vertue_, Beacon-like, - Hath fixt upon the _Hills_ of Eminence, - At him, the Tempests of mad _Envie_ strike, - And, rage against his Piles of Innocence; - But, still, the more they wrong him, and the more - They seeke to keepe his worth from being knowne, - They, daily, make it greater, then before; - And, cause his _Fame_, the farther to be blowne. - When, therefore, no selfe-doting _Arrogance_, - But, _Vertues_, cover’d with a modest vaile, - Breake through _obscurity_, and, thee advance - To place, where _Envie_ shall thy worth assaile; - Discourage not thy selfe: but, stand the shockes - Of wrath, and fury. Let them snarle and bite; - Pursue thee, with _Detraction_, _Slanders_, _Mockes_, - And, all the venom’d Engines of _Despight_, - Thou art above their malice; and, the _blaze_ - Of thy _Cælestiall-fire_, shall shine so cleare, - That, their besotted soules, thou shalt amaze; - And, make thy _Splendours_, to their shame, appeare. - If this be all, that _Envies_ rage can doe, - _Lord, give me_ Vertues, _though I suffer too_. - - - _Even as the =Smoke= doth passe away; - So, shall all =Worldly-pompe= decay._ - -[Illustration: SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MVNDI. - -ILLVSTR. XXXVI. _Book. 2_] - - Some better _Arguments_, then yet I see, - I must perceive; and, better causes, why, - To those gay things, I should addicted bee, - To which, the Vulgar their _Affections_ tye. - I have consider’d, _Scepters_, _Miters_, _Crownes_, - With each appurtenance to them belonging; - My _heart_, hath search’d their _Glories_, and _Renownes_; - And, all the pleasant things about them thronging: - My _Soule_, hath truely weigh’d, and, tooke the measure, - Of _Riches_ (which the most have so desired) - I have distill’d the Quintessence of _Pleasure_, - And, seene those Objects, that are most admired. - I, likewise feele all _Passions_, and _Affections_, - That helpe to cheat the _Reason_, and perswade - That those poore _Vanities_, have some perfections, - Whereby their Owners, happy might be made. - Yet, when that I have rouz’d my _Vnderstanding_, - And cleans’d my Heart from some of that Corruption, - Which hinders in me _Reasons_ free commanding, - And, shewes, things, without vailes, or interruption; - Then, they, me thinkes, as fruitlesse doe appeare, - As _Bubbles_ (wherewithall young-children play) - Or, as the _Smoke_, which, in our _Emblem_, here, - Now, makes a show, and, straight, consumes away. - _Be pleas’d, =Oh God=, my value may be such - Of every =Outward-blessing=, here below, - That, I may neither love them overmuch, - Nor underprise the =Gifts=, thou shalt bestow:_ - But, know the use, of all these fading _Smokes_; - And, be refresht, by that, which others chokes. - - - _=Death=, is unable to divide - Their Hearts, whose Hands =True-love= hath tyde._ - -[Illustration: IVSQVE A LA MORT - -ILLVSTR. XXXVII. _Book. 2_] - - Upon an _Altar_, in this _Emblem_, stands - A _Burning-heart_; and, therewithall, you see - Beneath _Deaths-head_, a paire of _Loving-hands_, - Which, close, and fast-united, seeme to be. - These moderne _Hieroglyphickes_ (vulgarly - Thus bundled up together) may afford - Good-meanings, with as much _Propriety_, - As best, with common _Iudgements_, will accord. - It may imply, that, when both _Hand_ and _Heart_, - By sympathizing dearenesse are invited, - To meet each others nat’rall _Counterpart_, - And, are by sacred _Ordinance_ united: - They then have entred that strict _Obligation_, - By which they, firmely, ev’ry way are ty’d; - And, without meanes (or thought of separation) - Should in that _Vnion_, till their _Deaths_, abide; - This, therefore, minde thou, whatsoere thou be - (Whose _Marriage-ring_, this _Covenant_, hath sealed) - For, though, thy Faith’s infringement, none can see, - Thy secret fault, shall one day, be revealed. - And, thou that art at liberty, take heed, - Lest thou (as over great a number doe) - Of thine owne person, make a _Privy-deed_, - And, afterwards, deny thy doing so. - For, though there be, nor _Church_, nor _Chappell_, nigh thee - (Nor outward witnesses of what is done) - A _Power-invisible_ doth alwayes eye thee; - And, thy pretended _Love_, so lookes upon, - That, if thou be not, till thy _dying_, true; - Thy _Falsehood_, till thy _dying_, thou shalt rue. - - - _False =Weights=, with =Measures= false eschew, - And, give to ev’ry man, their =Due=._ - -[Illustration: SVVM CVIQVE TRIBVE - -ILLVSTR. XXXVIII. _Book. 2_] - - Forth of a _Cloud_ (with _Scale_ and _Rule_) extended - An _Arme_ (for this next _Emblem_) doth appeare; - Which hath to us in _silent-showes_, commended, - A _Vertue_, that is often wanting, here. - The World, is very studious of _Deceipts_; - And, he is judged wisest, who deceives. - _False-measures_, and, _Adulterated-weights_, - Of many dues, the needy-man bereaves. - Ev’n _Weights_ to sell, and, other _Weights_ to buy - (_Two sorts of weights_) in practice are, with some; - And, both of these, they often falsifie, - That, they to great, and _suddaine wealth_, may come. - But, Conscience make of raysing your estates, - By such a base, and such a wicked way: - For, this Injustice, _God_ expressely hates; - And, brings, at last, such _thrivers_ to decay. - By _Weight_ and _measure_, _He_, on all bestowes - The Portions due; That, _Weight_ and _Measure_, then, - Which Man to _God_, or to his _Neighbour_ owes, - Should, justly, be returned backe agen. - Give ev’ry one, in ev’ry thing his owne: - Give _honour_, where an _honour_ shall be due; - Where you are _loved_, let your _love_ be showne; - And, yield them succours, who have succour’d you. - Give to thy _Children_, breeding and _Corrections_; - Thy _Charities_, ev’n to thy _Foes_ extend: - Give to thy _wife_, the best of thy _Affections_; - To _God_, thy _selfe_, and, all thou hast, commend: - And, lest thou faile, Remember who hath sayd, - _Such =measure=, as thou giv’st, shall be repay’d_. - - - _He needs not feare, what spight can doe, - Whom =Vertue= friends, and =Fortune=, too._ - -[Illustration: IN VIRTVTE ET FORTVNA. - -ILLVSTR. XXXIX. _Book. 2_] - - When, in this _Emblem_ here, observe you shall - An _Eaglet_, perched, on a _Winged-ball_ - Advanced on an _Altar_; and, have ey’d - The _Snakes_, assayling him, on ev’ry side: - Me thinkes, by that, you straight should apprehend - Their state, whom _Wealth_, and _Vertue_, doe befriend. - My Iudgement, by that _Altar-stone_, conceives - The sollidnesse, which, true _Religion_ gives; - And, that fast-grounded _goodnesse_, which, we see; - In grave, and sound _Morality_, to be. - The _Flying-ball_, doth, very well, expresse - All _Outward-blessings_, and, their _ficklenesse_. - Our _Eaglet_, meaneth such _Contemplatives_, - As, in this world, doe passe away their lives, - By so possessing that which they have got, - As if they car’d not, though, they had it not. - The _Snakes_, may well resemble those, among them, - Who, meerely out of _envie_, seeke to wrong them; - And, all these _Figures_ (thus together layd) - Doe speake to me, as if these words, they sayd: - _That man, who builds upon the best =foundation=, - (And spreads the widest wings of =Contemplation=) - Whil’st, in the =flesh=, he bides, will need some props - of =earthly-fortunes=, to support his =hopes=: - And, other-while, those things, may meanes become, - The stings of =Envie=, to secure him from._ - And, hence, I learne; that, such, as will abide, - Against all _Envie_, strongly fortify’d, - Must joyne, great _Vertues_, and great _Wealth_, together. - _God helpe us, then, =poore-soules=, who scarce have either!_ - - - _=Time=, is a =Fading-flowre=, that’s found - Within =Eternities= wide =round=._ - -[Illustration: ΑΙΩΝΙΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΣΚΑΙΡΟΝ. - -ILLVSTR. XL. _Book. 2_] - - Five _Termes_, there be, which five, I doe apply - To all, that _was_, and _is_, and, _shall be done_. - The _first_, and _last_, is that ETERNITIE, - Which, neither shall have _End_, nor, was _begunne_. - BEGINNING, is the _next_; which, is a space - (Or moment rather) scarce imaginarie, - Made, when the first _Material_, formed was; - And, then, forbidden, longer time to tarry. - TIME entred, when, BEGINNING had an _Ending_, - And, is a Progresse, all the workes of _Nature_, - Within the circuit of it, comprehending, - Ev’n till the _period_, of the _Outward-creature_. - END, is the _fourth_, of those five _Termes_ I meane; - (As briefe, as was _Beginning_) and, ordayned, - To set the last of _moments_, to that _Scæne_, - Which, on this Worlds wide _Stage_, is entertayned. - The _fifth_, we EVERLASTING, fitly, call; - For, though, it once _begunne_, yet, shall it never - Admit, of any _future-end_, at all; - But, be extended onward, still, for ever. - The knowledge of these _Termes_, and of what _actions_, - To each of them belongs, would set an end, - To many Controversies, and Distractions, - Which doe so many trouble, and offend. - TIME’S nature, by the _Fading-flowre_, appeares; - Which, is a _Type_, of Transitory things: - The _Circled-snake_, ETERNITIE declares; - Within whose _Round_, each fading Creature, springs. - Some _Riddles_ more, to utter, I intended, - But, lo; a sudden stop, my words have ended. - - - _When great Attempts are undergone, - Ioyne =Strength= and =Wisedome=, both in one._ - -[Illustration: VIRIBVS IVNGENDA SAPIENTIA. - -ILLVSTR. XLI. _Book. 2_] - - If (_Reader_) thou desirous be to know - What by the _Centaure_, seemeth here intended; - What, also, by the _Snake_, and, by the _Bowe_, - Which in his hand, he beareth alway bended: - Learne, that this _halfe-a man_, and _halfe-a horse_, - Is ancient _Hieroglyphicke_, teaching thee, - That, _Wisedome_ should be joyn’d with outward _force_, - If prosperous, we desire our workes to be. - His _Vpper-part_, the shape of _Man_, doth beare, - To teach, that, _Reason_ must become our _guide_. - The _hinder-parts_, a _Horses_ Members are; - To shew, that we must, also, _strength_ provide: - The _Serpent_, and the _Bowe_, doth signifie - The same (or matter to the same effect) - And, by two _Types_, one _Morall_ to implie, - Is doubled a _fore-warning_ of _neglect_. - When _Knowledge_ wanteth _Power_, despis’d we grow, - And, _know_ but how to aggravate our paine: - Great _strength_, will worke it owne sad overthrow, - Vnlesse, it guided be, with _Wisedomes_ reine. - _Therefore, =Oh God=, vouchsafe thou so to marry - The gifts of =Soule= and =Body=, both, in me, - That, I may still have all things necessary, - To worke, as I commanded am, by thee. - And, let me not possesse them, =Lord=, =alone=, - But, also, =know= their vse; and, so well =know= it, - That, I may doe each =duety= to be done; - And, with upright Intentions, alwayes doe it. - If this be more, then, yet, obtaine I may, - My _will_ accept thou, for the =deed=, I pray._ - - - _The =Ground= brings forth all needfull things; - But, from the =Sunne=, this vertue springs._ - -[Illustration: SOLVM A SOLE - -ILLVSTR. XLII. _Book. 2_] - - We doe acknowledge (as this _Emblem_ showes) - That _Fruits_ and _Flowres_, and many _pleasant-things_, - From out the _Ground_, in ev’ry season growes; - And, that unto their _being_, helpe it brings. - Yet, of it selfe, the _Ground_, we know is dull, - And, but a _Willing-patient_, whereupon - The _Sunne_, with Beames, and Vertues wonderfull, - Prepareth, and effecteth, what is done. - We, likewise, doe acknowledge, that our _eyes_ - Indowed are with faculties of _Seeing_, - And, with some other nat’rall _properties_, - Which are as much our owne, as is our _Being_. - However, till the _Sunne_ imparts his light, - We finde, that we in _darkenesse_ doe remaine, - Obscured in an everlasting night; - And, boast our _Seeing-faculties_, in vaine. - So, we, by nature, have some nat’rall powers: - But, _Grace_, must those abilities of ours - First move; and, guide them, still, in moving, thus, - To worke with _God_, when _God_ shall worke on us: - For, _God_ so workes, that, no man he procures - Against his _nature_, ought to chuse, or shun: - But, by his _holy-Spirit_, him allures; - And, with sweet mildnesse, proveth ev’ry one. - The _Sunne_ is faultlesse of it, when the birth - Of some bad _Field_, is nothing else but _Weeds_: - For, by the selfe-same _Sun-shine_, fruitfull Earth - Beares pleasant Crops, and plentifully breeds. - Thus, from our _selves_, our _Vices_ have increase, - Our _Vertues_, from the _Sunne_ of _Righteousnesse_. - - - _No =passage= can divert the =Course=, - Of =Pegasus=, the =Muses= Horse._ - -[Illustration: RECTO CVRSV - -ILLVSTR. XLIII. _Book. 2_] - - This is the _Poets-horse_; a _Palfray_, SIRS, - (That may be ridden, without rod or spurres) - Abroad, more famous then _Bucephalus_, - Though, not so knowne, as _Banks_ his horse, with us; - Or some of those _fleet-horses_, which of late, - Have runne their _Masters_, out of their estate. - For, those, and _Hobby-horses_, best befit - The note, and practice of their moderne wit, - Who, what this _Horse_ might meane, no knowledge had, - Vntill, a _Taverne-signe_, they saw it made. - Yet, this old _Emblem_ (worthy veneration) - Doth figure out, that _winged-contemplation_, - On which the _Learned_ mount their best _Invention_, - And, climbe the _Hills_ of highest Apprehension. - This is the nimble _Gennet_, which doth carry, - Their _Fancie_, thorow _Worlds_ imaginary; - And, by _Idæas_ feigned, shewes them there, - The nature of those _Truths_, that reall are. - By meanes of _this_, our _Soules_ doe come to know - A thousand secrets, in the _Deeps_ below; - Things, here on _Earth_, and, things above the _Skyes_, - On which, we never fixed, yet, our eyes. - No thorny, miery, steepe, nor craggy place, - Can interrupt this _Courser_, in his race: - For, that, which others, in their passage troubles, - Augments his courage, and his vigour doubles. - _Thus, fares the =Minde=, infus’d with brave desires; - It flies through Darkenesse, Dangers, Flouds, and Fires: - And, in despight of what her ayme resisteth: - Pursues her =hopes=, and takes the =way= she listeth._ - - - _The =Husbandman=, doth sow the Seeds; - And, then, on =Hope=, till =Harvest=, feeds._ - -[Illustration: SPES ALIT AGRICOLAS:· - -ILLVSTR. XLIV. _Book. 2_] - - The painfull _Husbandman_, with sweaty browes, - Consumes in labour many a weary day: - To breake the stubborne earth, he _digs_ and _ploughes_, - And, then, the Corne, he scatters on the clay: - When that is done, he _harrowes_ in the Seeds, - And, by a well-cleans’d Furrow, layes it drye: - He, frees it from the _Wormes_, the _Moles_, the _Weeds_; - He, on the _Fences_, also hath an eye. - And, though he see the chilling Winter, bring - _Snowes_, _Flouds_, and _Frosts_, his Labours to annoy; - Though _blasting-windes_ doe nip them in the _Spring_, - And, _Summers_ Meldewes, threaten to destroy: - Yea, though not onely _Dayes_, but _Weekes_, they are - (Nay, many _Weekes_, and, many _Moneths_ beside) - In which he must with payne, prolong his care, - Yet, constant in his hopes he doth abide. - For this respect, HOPE’S _Emblem_, here, you see - Attends the _Plough_, that men beholding it, - May be instructed, or else minded be, - What Hopes, continuing _Labours_, will befit. - Though, long thou toyled hast, and, long attended - About such workings as are necessary; - And, oftentimes, ere fully they are ended, - Shalt finde thy paines in danger to miscarry: - Yet, be not out of _hope_, nor quite dejected: - For, buryed Seeds will sprout when _Winter’s_ gone; - Vnlikelier things are many times effected; - And, _God_ brings helpe, when men their best have done. - Yea, they that in _Good-workes_ their life imploy; - Although, _they sowe in teares, shall reape in joy_. - - - _Things, to their best perfection come, - Not all at once; but, =some= and =some=._ - -[Illustration: POCO A POCO. - -ILLVSTR. XLV. _Book. 2_] - - When, thou shalt visit, in the Moneth of _May_, - A costly _Garden_, in her best array; - And, view the well-grown Trees, the wel-trimm’d Bowers, - The Beds of Herbs, the knots of pleasant flowers, - With all the deckings, and the fine devices, - Perteyning to those earthly _Paradises_, - Thou canst not well suppose, one day, or two, - Did finish all, which had beene, there, to doe. - Nor dost thou, when young Plants, or new-sowne Lands, - Doe thirst for needfull Watrings, from thy hands, - By _Flood-gates_, let whole Ponds amongst them come; - But, them besprinklest, rather, _some_ and _some_; - Lest, else, thou marre the _Flowres_, or chill the _Seed_, - Or drowne the _Saplings_, which did moysture need. - Let this experiment, which, to thy thought, - May by this _Emblem_, now perhaps, be brought, - Perswade thee to consider, that, no actions, - Can come, but by _degrees_, to their perfections; - And, teach thee, to allot, for every thing, - That _leisurely-proceeding_, which may bring - The ripenesse, and the fulnesse, thou expectest: - And, though thy _Hopes_, but slowly thou effectest, - Discourage not thy selfe; since, oft they prove - Most prosperous actions, which at leisure move. - By many _drops_, is made a mighty _showre_; - And many _minutes_ finish up an _houre_: - By _little_, and by _little_, we possesse - Assurance of the greatest _Happinesse_. - And, oft, by too much _haste_, and, too much _cost_, - Great _Wealth_, great _Honours_, and, great _Hopes_, are _lost_. - - - _=Affliction=, doth to many adde - More =value=, then, before, they had._ - -[Illustration: TRIBVLATIO DITAT. - -ILLVSTR. XLVI. _Book. 2_] - - Though I am somewhat soberer to day, - I have been (I confesse) as mad as they, - Who think those men, that large Possessions have, - Gay Clothes, fine Furnitures, and Houses brave, - Are those (nay more, that they alone are those) - On whom, the stile of _Rich_, we should impose. - But, having, by experience, understood - His words, who sayd, _his troubles did him good_, - I, now perceive, the _Worldly-rich_ are poore, - Vnlesse of _Sorrowes_, also, they have store. - Till from the _Straw_, the _Flaile_, the _Corne_ doth beat; - Vntill the _Chaffe_, be purged from the _Wheat_, - Yea, till the _Mill_, the _Graines_ in pieces teare, - The richnesse of the _Flowre_, will scarce appeare. - So, till mens persons great _Afflictions_ touch - (If _worth_ be found) their _worth_ is not so much, - Because, like _Wheat_, in _Straw_, they have nor, yet, - That value, which in _threshing_, they may get. - For, till the bruising _Flailes_ of GOD’S _Corrections_, - Have threshed out of us our vaine _Affections_; - Till those _Corruptions_, which doe misbecome us, - Are by thy _Sacred-spirit_, winnowed from us; - Vntill, from us, the _straw_ of _Worldly-treasures_; - Till all the dusty _Chaffe_ of empty _Pleasures_; - Yea, till his _Flaile_, upon us, he doth lay, - To thresh the huske of this our _Flesh_ away; - And, leave the _Soule_ uncover’d; nay, yet more, - Till _God_ shall make, our very _Spirit_ poore; - We shall not up to highest _Wealth_ aspire: - But, then we shall; and, _that is my desire_. - - - _Though =Fortune=, hath a powerfull =Name=, - Yet, =Vertue= overcomes the same._ - -[Illustration: VICTRIX FORTVNÆ SAPIENTIA. - -ILLVSTR. XLVII. _Book. 2_] - - A _Snake_, (which was by wise _Antiquitie_ - Much us’d, the type of _Prudencie_ to be) - Hemmes in a _Winged-ball_, which doth imply, - That _Fickle-fortune_, from which, none are free. - Above this _Ball_, the _Snake_ advanceth too, - The _Laurell_, and the _Sword_; which, _Emblems_ are, - Whereby our _Authour_ maketh much adoe, - A _Conquest_ over _Fortune_, to declare. - And, well enough this purpose it befits, - If (_Reader_) any one of those thou be, - Whose _Fortunes_ must be mended by their _Wits_; - And, it affords instructions fit for thee: - For, hence, thou mayst collect, that, no estate - Can, by _Misfortunes_ means, become so bad, - But, _Prudence_ (who is _Mistresse_ over _Fate_) - May rule it so, that, good it might be made. - Though _Fortunes_ outlawes, on thy _Riches_ prey, - By _Wisedome_, there is meanes, of getting more; - And, ev’ry rub that’s placed in thy way, - Shall make thee walke more safely, then before. - Nor _Poverty_, nor _Paynes_, nor _Spightfulnesse_, - Nor other _Mischiefes_, that _Mischance_ can doe thee, - Shall bring thee any sorrow or distresse, - Which will not be, at last, advantage to thee. - _=Lord=, give me such a =Prudence=: for my =Fortune= - Puts many foyles, and cruell thrusts upon me: - Thy helpe, long since, it made me to importune; - And, thou didst grant it, or she had undone me. - Still, daigne me thy assistance, =Lord=, and, than, - Let all =Misfortunes=, doe the worst they can._ - - - _A =Life=, with =good-repute=, Jle have, - Or, winne an honourable =Grave=._ - -[Illustration: AVT MORS AVT VITA DECORA - -ILLVSTR. XLVIII. _Book. 2_] - - In this our _Emblem_, you shall finde exprest - A _Man_, incountring with a _Salvage-beast_; - And, he resolveth (as his _Motto_ sayes) - To _live_ with _honour_; or, to _dye_ with _praise_. - I like the _Resolution_, and the _Deed_, - In which, this _Figure_ teacheth to proceed. - For, us, me thinkes, it counselleth, to doe, - An act, which all men are oblig’d unto. - That ugly _Bore_ (wherewith the man in strife - Here seemes to be) doth meane a _Swinish-life_, - And, all those beastly _Vices_, that assay - To root becomming _Vertues_ quite away; - Those _Vices_, which not onely marre our features, - But, also, ruinate our manly natures. - The harmefull fury, of this raging _Bore_, - Oppose couragiously, lest more and more, - It get within you; and, at last, appeare - More prevalent, then your defences are. - It is a large-growne _Pig_, of that wilde _Swine_, - Which, ev’ry day, attempts to undermine - Our _Safeties_ Fort: Twas he, which long agoe, - Did seeke the _Holy-Vineyards_ overthrow: - And, if we charge him not with all our power, - The _Sire_, or _hee_, will enter and devoure. - _But, what’s our Strength, =O Lord!= or, what are wee - In such a =Combate=, without ayde from thee? - Oh, come to helpe us, therefore, in this Fight; - And, let us be inabled in thy might: - So, we shall both in =life-time=, Conquests have; - And, be victorious, also, in the =Grave=._ - - - _=Shee= shall increase in glory, still, - Vntill her =light=, the world, doth fill._ - -[Illustration: DONEC TOTṼ IMPLEAT ORBĒ. - -ILLVSTR. XLIX. _Book. 2_] - - What in this _Emblem_, that mans meanings were, - Who made it first, I neither know nor care; - For, whatsoere, he purposed, or thought, - To serve my _purpose_, now it shall be taught; - Who, many times, before this Taske is ended, - Must picke out _Moralls_, where was none intended. - This knot of _Moones_ (or _Crescents_) crowned thus, - Illustrate may a Mystery to us, - Of pious use (and, peradventure, such, - As from old _Hieroglyphicks_, erres not much) - _Old-times_, upon the _Moone_, three _names_ bestow’d; - Because, three diverse wayes, her selfe she show’d: - And, in the _sacred-bookes_, it may be showne, - That _holy-Church_, was figur’d by the _Moone_. - Then, these three _Moones in one_, may intimate - The _holy-Churches_ threefold blest estate. - The _Moone_, still, biding in our _Hemisphære_, - May typifie the _Church_, consisting, here, - Of men, yet living: when she shewes her light - Among us here, _in portions of the night_; - The _Church_ it figures, as consist she may - Of _them_, whose _bodies_ in the _Grave_ doe stay; - And, whose blest _spirits_, are ascended thither, - Where _Soule_ and _Body_ meet, at last, together. - But, when the _Moone_ is hidden from our eyes, - The _Church-triumphant_, then, she signifies; - Which, is a _Crescent_ yet, that, some, and some, - Must grow, till all her parts together come: - And, then, this _Moone_ shall beames, at full, display; - LORD, _hasten this great_ Coronation-day. - - - _True =Vertue= is a =Coat of Maile=, - 'Gainst which, no =Weapons= can prevaile._ - -[Illustration: VIRTVS LORICA FIDELIS - -ILLVSTR. L. _Book. 2_] - - _Lord_, what a coyle men keepe, and, with what care - Their _Pistolls_, and, their _Swords_ doe they prepare, - To be in readinesse? and, how they load - Themselves with Irons, when they ride abroad? - How wise and wary too, can they become, - To fortifie their persons up at home, - With lockes, and barres? and such _domestick-Armes_, - As may secure their bodies, there, from harmes? - However, when all’s done, we see, their foes - Breake in, sometimes, and worke their overthrowes. - For, though (about themselves, with Cable-quoiles, - They could inclose a hundred thousand miles) - The _gunshot_ of a slanderous _tongue_, may smite, - Their _Fame_ quite through it, to the very _White_. - Yea, more (though, there, from others, they were free) - They wounded, by themselves, to death might be, - Except their _Innocence_, more guards them, than - The strength of twenty royall _Armies_, can. - If, therefore, thou thy _Spoylers_, wilt beguile, - Thou must be armed, like this _Crocodile_; - Ev’n with such nat’rall _Armour_ (ev’ry day) - As no man can bestowe, or take away: - For, spitefull _Malice_, at one time or other, - Will pierce all borrowed _Armours_, put together. - _Without_, let _Patience_ durifie thy Skin; - Let _Innocencie_, line thy heart _within_; - Let constant _Fortitude_, unite them so, - That, they may breake the force of ev’ry blow: - And, when thou thus art _arm’d_, if ill thou speed; - Let me sustaine the _Mischiefe_, in thy steed. - - _Finis Libri secundi._ - - - - -[Illustration: Decoration] - -THE SECOND LOTTERIE. - - -1 - - Some friends, and foes, of thine, there be, - That make a _wondring-stocke_ of thee; - Some other over-much, of late, - To thy dishonour boldly prate, - And, peradventure, to thy face, - E’re long, they’l doe thee some disgrace: - Thine _Emblem_, therefore, doth advise - That thou should’st make them no replies; - And showes that _silent-patience_, than - Shall stead thee more then _Answers_ can. - -See, _Emblem._ I. - - -2 - - By such as know you, it is thought, - That, you are better _fed_ then _taught_: - And, that, it might augment your _wit_, - If you were sometimes _hunger-bit_. - That _Emblem_, which by _Lot_ you drew, - To this effect doth somewhat shew: - But 'twill goe hard, when you are faine, - To feed your _Bowells_, by your _Braine_. - -See, _Emb._ II. - - -3 - - Perhaps you may be one of those, - Whom, from the _Church_, an _Organ_ blowes; - Or, peradventure, one of them, - Who doth all melody contemne: - Or, one, whose _life_ is yet untaught, - How into _tune_ it should be brought. - If so, your _Lot_, to you hath sent - An _Emblem_, not impertinent. - -See, _Emb._ III. - - -4 - - God blesse thee, whosoere thou art, - And, give thee still an honest heart: - For, by the fortune of thy _Lot_, - That _Sword_, and _Halter_, thou hast got, - Which threatens _death_, with much disgrace; - Or, promises the Hang-mans’s place. - But, be not griev’d; for, now and than, - The _Gallowes_ makes an honest man; - And, some, who scape an outward curse, - Born in their _lives_ and _deaths_ are worse, - -See, _Emb._ IV. - - -_M_ 5 - - Thou would’st be loth, we should suspect, - Thou didst not well thy _King_ affect; - Or, that, thou should’st be so ingrate, - To sleight the welfare of the _State_: - Yet, thou, perchance, art one of those, - Who _discord_ through the _Kingdome_ sowes. - We know not, but if such thou be, - Marke, what thine _Emblem_ teaches thee. - -See, _Emb._ V. - - -6 - - In you, a naturall desire - Beginnes to blow _Affection’s_ fire; - But, by _discretion_, guide the _blast_, - Lest, it consume you, at the last; - Or, by the fury of the same, - Blow out some necessary _Flame_. - Yea, that, which doth your _Profit_ breed, - May harme you, if you take not heed. - -See, _Emb._ VI. - - -7 - - Be carefull, what you goe about; - For, by this _Lot_, there may be doubt, - That you, some wickednesse intend, - Which will undoe you, in the end. - If you have done the _deed_, repent: - If purpos’d ill, the same prevent. - Else, though in _jest_, this _Counsell_ came, - In _earnest_, you may rue the same. - -See, _Emb._ VII. - - -8 - - Thou art afflicted; or, ere long - Shalt sing some lamentable Song: - And, of those troubles, take some share, - Which, thou art very loth to beare. - But, be not overmuch dismayd, - Nor pine, what ere on thee be layd, - For, comfort shall thy joy restore, - And, make thee gladder, then before. - -See, _Emb._ VIII. - - -9 - - If this thy _Chance_ hath done thee right, - Thou art, or hast beene apt to fight; - And, wilt upon occasion small, - Beginne, sometimes, a needlesse _brawle_. - To shew thee, therefore, thy defect; - Or, that thy folly may be check’t, - And, fit thy minde for better things, - Thine _Emblem_, some good _counsell_ brings. - -See, _Emb._ IX. - - -10 - - What thing soere thou undertak’st, - Thou seldome good conclusion mak’st; - For, still, when thou hast ought to doe, - Thou art too _hasty_, or too _slow_; - And, from that equall temper stray’st, - By which, thy worke effect thou mayst. - To mend this fault thou counsell’d art, - Be wiser, therefore, then thou wert. - -See, _Emb._ X. - - -11 - - Thou hast in publicke lived long, - And, over freely us’d thy _tongue_; - But, if thy safety thou desire, - Be _silent_, and, thy selfe _retire_. - And, if thou wilt not be undone, - Possesse thy _joyes_, and _hopes_, alone: - For, they, that will from harmes be free, - Must _silent_, and _obscured_, bee. - -See, _Emb._ XI. - - -12 - - Thy _Fortune_, thou dost long to heare, - And, what thy _Constellations_ are: - But, why should’st thou desire to know, - What things, the _Planets_ doe foreshow; - Seeke, rather, _Wisedome_ to procure, - And, how, all _Fortunes_ to indure: - So, thou shalt gaine a blest estate, - And, be the _Master_ of thy _Fate_. - -See, _Emb._ XII. - - -13 - - Thou, seem’st to have great store of _friends_, - But, they affect thee, for their ends. - There is, in those, but little trust, - Who love, for _profit_, _mirth_, or _lust_. - Learne, therfore, when, thou mayst be sure, - Thy _Friend’s_ affection will indure; - And, that this _Knowledge_ may be got, - Good notice take thou of thy _Lot_. - -See, _Emb._ XIII. - - -14 - - It is conceiv’d, that meanes thou hast, - Or, might’st have had good meanes, at least, - To bring those matters to effect, - Which thou dost carelesly neglect; - And, good for many might’st have done, - Who, yet, hast pleasur’d few, or none. - If this be true, thy _Lot_ peruse, - And, _God’s_ good gifts, no more abuse. - -See, _Emb._ XIV. - - -15 - - Religious thou would’st faine be deem’d, - And, such, to many thou hast seem’d: - But, to this matter more there goes, - Then zealous lookes, and formall showes. - Looke, therefore, that thy heart be true, - What e’re thou seeme in outward view. - And, if _God’s_ favour thou would’st have, - Observe what _Off’rings_, he doth crave. - -See, _Emb._ XV. - - -16 - - That _Emblem_, which this _Lot_ will bring, - Concernes the honour of a _King_: - How, therefore, thee it may concerne, - By thy discretion seeke to learne. - Perhaps, the _Royall-powre_ hath seem’d - To thee, not so to be esteem’d, - As well it merits, to be priz’d. - If so, now better be advis’d. - -See, _Emb._ XVI. - - -17 - - Both learn’d, and wise, thou would’st become, - (Else thou hast much deceived some) - But, if thy _hopes_ thou will effect, - Thou must not likely _meanes_ neglect; - And, what the likelyest _meanes_ may bee, - Thine _Emblem_ hath advised thee: - For, by a _Fowle_, that’s blockish thought, - Good _counsell_ may to thee be taught. - -See, _Emb._ XVII. - - -18 - - If, to _preferment_ thou wilt rise, - Thou must not _Arts_, nor _Armes_, despise; - Nor so in _one_ of these delight, - That, thou the _other_, wholly sleight. - Nor, to thy _Body_ be inclin’d, - So much, as to neglect thy _Minde_. - This, by thine _Emblem_, thou mayst learne; - And, much thy good it may concerne. - -See, _Emb._ XVIII. - - -19 - - Thy _fortunes_ have appeared bad; - For, many _suff’rings_ thou hast had: - And _tryalls_ too, as yet made knowne - To no mans knowledge, but thine owne. - But, let nor losse, nor fame, nor smart, - From constant hopes remove thy heart: - And, as thine _Emblem_ doth foreshew, - A good conclusion will insue. - -See, _Emb._ XIX. - - -_W_ 20 - - Your _Lot_ informeth how to know - Where, best your _Love_ you may bestow: - And, by the same it may appeare - What _Musicke_ most affects your eare. - Denye it not; for (by your leave) - Wee by your lookes, your heart perceive. - And, this perhaps you’l thinke upon - (To purpose) when you are alone. - -See, _Emb._ XX. - - -21 - - This _Lot_ may make us all suspect, - That some wrong _object_ you affect; - And, that, where dearenesse you pretend, - It is not for the noblest end. - What mischiefe from such falshood flowes, - Your _Emblem_ very truely showes; - And, may more happy make your _Fate_, - If counsell be not come too late. - -See, _Emb._ XXI. - - -22 - - To trust on others, thou art apt; - And, hast already beene intrapt; - Or, may’st er’e long be much deceiv’d - By some, whom thou hast well believ’d. - Be heedfull, therfore, of thy _Lot_; - And, let it never be forgot: - So, though some hazzard thou mayst run, - Yet, thou shalt never be undone. - -See, _Emb._ XXII. - - -23 - - It seemes thou tak’st too great a care - For things, that vaine, and fading are; - Or else, dost overprise them so, - As if all blisse from them did flowe. - That, therefore, thou mayst view their worth, - In _Hieroglyphicke_ shaddow’d forth, - Thy _Lot_ befriends thee: marke the same, - And, be in this, no more to blame. - -See, _Emb._ XXIII. - - -24 - - Though some, should thee, for one, mistake, - Whose _wealth_ is all upon his backe, - If what thou hast, bee all thine owne, - God, hath enough on thee bestowne. - A _Princes_ ransome, wee may beare, - In _Iewells_, which most precious are; - And, yet, to many men may seeme, - To carry nothing worth esteeme. - Therefore, though small thy substance be, - Thine _Emblem_, somewhat comforts thee. - -See, _Emb._ XXIV. - - -25 - - By this your _Emblem_, wee discerne, - That, you are yet of age to learne; - And, that, when elder you shall grow, - There, will be more for you to _know_: - Presume not, therefore of your _wit_, - But, strive that you may benefit. - For, of your age, we many view, - That, farre more _wisedome_ have, then you. - -See, _Emb._ XXV. - - -26 - - By thy complaints, it hath appear’d, - Thou think’st thy _Vertues_ want reward; - And, that, if they their merit had, - Thou _rich_, and _nobler_ should’st be made. - To drive thee from that partiall thought, - Thou, by an _Emblem_, shalt be taught, - That, where true _Vertue_ may be found, - The truest _wealth_ will still abound. - -See, _Emb._ XXVI. - - -27 - - By this thy _Lot_, thou dost appeare - To be of those, who love to heare - The _Preacher’s_ voyce; or, else of them, - That undervalue, or contemne - Those dayly _showres_ of wholsome _words_, - Which _God_, in these our times, affords. - Now, which soere of these thou bee, - Thine _Emblem_, something, teaches thee. - -See, _Emb._ XXVII. - - -28 - - Thou deal’st, when thee thy _foe_ offends, - As if, you never should be _friends_. - In _peace_, thou so secure doth grow, - As if, thou could’st not have a _foe_. - How, therefore, _Peace_ and _Warre_ pursues - Each other, this thine _Emblem_ shewes, - That, thou mayst learne, in ev’ry tide, - For future chances, to provide. - -See, _Emb._ XXVIII. - - -29 - - What e’re thou are in outward shew, - Thy Heart is ever very true, - And, to those _Knowledges_ aspires, - Which every prudent _Soule_ desires: - Yet, be not proud that thou hast got - This testimonie, by thy _Lot_. - But, view thine _Emblem_, and endeaver - In search of _Knowledge_ to persever. - -See, _Emb._ XXIX. - - -30 - - If _Glory_, thou desire to get, - Thy _Wits_, thou must on working set; - And, _labour_ unto _Prudence_ adde, - Before true _Honor_ will be had: - For, what thy _Friends_, or _Parents_ brought, - To make thee _famous_, profits nought; - But, rather will procure thy _shame_, - Vnlesse, thou shalt improove the same. - -See, _Emb._ XXX. - - -_M_ 31 - - The time hath beene, that of the _Rod_, - Thou wert more fearefull, then of _God_; - But, now unlesse thou prudent grow, - More cause thou hast to feare a _shrowe_; - For, from the _Rod_, now thou art free, - A _Woman_, shall thy torment be. - At her, yet doe not thou repine, - For, all the fault is onely thine. - -See, _Emb._ XXXI. - - -32 - - It seemes, thy _Time_ thou dost _mispend_: - To warne thee, therefore of thine end; - To shew, how short thy _Life_ will be; - And, with what speed it flyes from thee; - This _Lot_ was drawne: and, may advize, - That, thou thy time shouldst better prize. - Which, if accordingly thou doe, - This, will be _sport_, and profit too. - -See, _Emb._ XXXII. - - -33 - - It may be, thou art one of those, - Who, dost not all aright suppose, - Of _Gods Decrees_; or, of the state - Of an inevitable _Fate_. - That, therefore, so thou maist beleeve, - (And, of these Mysteries conceive) - As thou art bound; this _Lot_ befell. - Peruse, and minde thine _Embleme_ well. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIII. - - -34 - - Thou, at thy _Fortune_, hast repin’d, - And, seem’st imprisond in thy minde, - Because thou art not straight releast - From those things which have thee opprest. - To thee, a _Lot_ is therefore sent, - To qualifie thy _discontent_, - By shewing, that thy present _Fate_ - Preserves thee, from a worse estate. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIV. - - -35 - - Thy _Vertues_ and thy _Worth_ are such, - That, many doe envie thee much; - And, they that hate thee, take delight - To doe thee mischiefe and despight. - But, heart assume, and follow on - The _course_ that thou hast well begunne; - For, all their spight shall doe no more, - But, make thee greater then before. - -See, _Emb._ XXXV. - - -36 - - In outward pompe, thy pleasures are; - Thy hope of blisse is placed there; - And, thou this _folly_ wilt not leave, - Till, all _content_, it shall bereave, - Vnlesse, thou timely come to see - How vaine, all earthly _Glories_ bee. - An _Emblem_, therefore, thou hast gain’d, - By which, this _Knowledge_ is obtain’d. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVI. - - -37 - - It may be feared, that thou hast - In publicke, or in private, past - Some _promise_, or else made some _vow_, - That’s broke, or else indanger’d, now. - If so; this _Lot_ is come, in time, - To mend, or to prevent this crime; - And, shew what should by them be done, - 'Twixt whom _Affection_ is begunne. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVII. - - -38 - - Thou art reproved of _deceipt_, - In faulty _Measures_, and in _Weight_; - And, overbackward hast been knowne, - In giving ev’ry one his owne. - Thine _Emblem_, therefore, counsells thee, - That, thou more just, hereafter be. - For, that, which is by _falsehood_ got, - Makes likely showes, but prospers not. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVII. - - -39 - - So highly, thou dost _Vertue_ prize, - That, thou dost _Fortunes_ helpe despise, - As if, where _Vertues_ present are, - Her favours alwayes needlesse were: - But, sometimes there’s enough to doe, - For _Fortune_, and for _Vertue_ too, - The pow’r of envious tongues to charme, - And, keepe an _Innocent_ from harme. - Therfore, make both of _these_, thy friends; - For, thereunto thine _Emblem_ tends. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIX. - - -40 - - Thou mayst be one of those, perchance, - Who _Schisme_, and _Heresies_ advance, - Because they _Times_ and _Termes_ mistake; - And, _diff’rence_ know not how to make - 'Twixt that, which _temp’rall_ doth appeare, - And, those things which _eternall_ are. - Thou, by thy _Lot_, art therefore warn’d, - To search what should of these be learn’d. - -See, _Emb._ XL. - - -41 - - Great workes to doe, thou hast a _minde_; - But, _pow’r_ thereto thou canst not finde. - Sometime, thy _pow’r_ is not unfit; - But, then thou failest in thy _wit_. - Such _Vndertakings_, therefore, chuse - (If thou wilt not thy time abuse) - As to thy _pow’rs_, and _wits_ agree; - And, let them both imployed bee. - See, _Emb._ XLI. - - -42 - - When any _Blessing_ thou hast gain’d, - Thou mind’st not whence it was obtain’d; - But, bear’st thy selfe, as if the same - By thine owne _pow’r_, or _merit_, came: - That, therefore, thou _mayst_ better heed - From whence, all _Graces_ doe proceed, - Thou, hast an _Emblem_, by this _Lot_, - From which, good _Cautions_ may be got. - -See, _Emb._ XLII. - - -43 - - By this thy _Lot_, it should appeare, - The _Muses_ thy acquaintance are; - Or, that thou art (at least) of those, - Who, of their _Steed_ ambitious growes. - If thou hast _wit_, his _Reynes_ to guide, - Vpon his backe, mount up and ride; - But, if thou finde thy selfe to weake, - Forbeare him, lest thy necke he breake. - -See, _Emb._ XLIII. - - -44 - - In many things, the worse thou art, - By thy despayring, fainting heart; - And, oft, thy labour, and thy cost, - For want of _hopefulnesse_, is lost. - This indiscretion to prevent, - Thou, therefore, by thy _Lot_, art sent, - The _Plough-man’s_ hopefulnesse to see: - Observe it; and, reformed bee. - -See, _Emb._ XLIV. - - -45 - - As soone as e’re thy _Seeds_ are sowne, - Thou _fruits_ expectest, fully growne. - And, if they ripe not in a day, - Thou, foolest all thy hopes away: - That wiser, therefore, thou mayst grow, - Thy _Lot_, an _Emblem_ doth bestow, - To teach, that _workes_ both faire and great, - By _small-degrees_, are made compleat. - -See, _Emb._ XLV. - - -46 - - Thou hadst, or hast, or thou shalt have - Much trouble, ere thou fill thy _Grave_; - And, may’st, when thou expectest rest, - With paine, or sorrowes, be opprest. - But, be content, and waile not much: - For, _Poverty_ shall make thee _rich_. - The paine will soone be overpast, - And, thou shalt happy be at last. - -See, _Emb._ XLVI. - - -47 - - Thy _Fortune_, be it good or bad, - May, by thy _wit_, be better made; - Yea, whatsoere _mischances_ fall, - By _prudence_, thou may’st helpe them all. - That, hopefull, therfore, thou mayst bide, - What change soever, shall betide, - Thou, by thy _Lot_, informed art, - What succours, _Wisedome_ doth impart. - -See, _Emb._ XLVII. - - -_M_ 48 - - A man at _Armes_, thou wouldst be thought, - And, hast the Crowne of _Honour_ sought; - But, thou hast much mistooke the _wayes_, - Which tend to well-deserved _praise_. - How, _Honour_, therefore, may be got, - Thou art informed by thy _Lot_; - And, with what _Foes_, and, for what _end_, - Thou shouldst be ready to contend. - -See, _Emb._ XLVIII. - - -49 - - Perhaps, thou mayst be one of those, - Who doth _God’s_ holy Church oppose; - For, over many in these dayes, - Disturbe her _Peace_, and sleight her _Praise_: - That her _esteeme_, therefore may bee - Increased, or preserv’d, by thee, - Thine _Emblem_, now, to thee, will show, - To what perfection she will grow. - -See, _Emb._ XLIX. - - -50 - - Thou _safety_ lov’st, and wouldst have _Armes_, - Thy person to secure from harmes: - But, most of those thou hast prepar’d, - Are but a weake uncertaine _Guard_, - And, if thou take not greater heed, - May faile thy trust, in time of need. - Thine _Emblem_, therfore, hath exprest, - What _Armes_, for thy defence are best. - -See, _Emb._ L. - - -51 - - Of _Planetary-Calculations_, - Of _Superstitious-Observations_, - Of _Lots_, and _Dreames_, and _Accidents_, - Which have but casuall events, - Thou art so fond; and, unto such, - Thou dost adhere, and trust so much, - That, it succeedeth very well, - No _Emblem_, now, to thee befell: - Lest, these, which onely _Counsells_ bee, - Might seeme firme _Destinies_ to thee. - - -52 - - He that by drawing, here, his _Lot_, - Some caveat or advice hath got, - Did, peradventure, need alone - That _Caution_, which he lighted on: - But, unto thee, so needfull are - All _Warnings_, and, all _Counsells_ here, - That, _Fortune_ will not _one_ bestow, - Lest, thou may’st thinke thou need’st no moe. - - -53 - - You, may be glad, you drew not that, - Which, in your thought, you guessed at; - For, so it points out that _condition_, - Whereof you give a great suspicion, - That, had it such an _Emblem_ nam’d, - As fits you right, you had beene sham’d. - Since, then, your fault is unreveal’d, - Amend, and keep it still conceal’d. - - -54 - - The _Muses_ Oracle is dumbe, - Because to tempt them you are come; - For, in your _heart_, you much despise, - To follow that, which they advise: - Their admonitions, you doe jeere, - And, scorne to helpe your _Wisedome_, here. - The _Muses_, therefore, leave you, still, - To be as foolish, as you will. - - -5 - - It would, perhaps, have made thee proud, - If, now, thy _Lot_ had beene allow’d - To let an _Emblem_ shadow forth - What is conceived of thy _worth_. - Or, if thy _Vertues_ were descry’d, - Perchance, thou wouldst be more envy’d - Then praysed, when they are exprest; - A _Blanke_ for thee, was therefore best. - - -6 - - No _Emblem_, to this _Lot_, replyes; - Minde, therefore, well (I thee advise) - What from the _Preacher’s_ voice thou hear’st, - When in the _Church_, thou next appear’st: - Yea, there indeavour thou, to seeke - Thy _Lot_ of _Counsell_, ev’ry weeke. - For, at all seasons, there will bee - Such _Prophecies_, concerning thee, - That, if of those, thou takest heed, - These _Emblems_, thou shalt never need. - - - _FINIS._ - - - - - A - COLLECTION - OF - EMBLEMES, - ANCIENT AND - MODERNE: - - Quickened - With METRICALL ILLVSTRATIONS, both - _Morall_ and _Divine_: And disposed into - LOTTERIES. - - That _Instruction_, and _Good Counsell_, may bee furthered - by an Honest and Pleasant _Recreation_. - - _By_ GEORGE WITHER. - - _The third Booke._ - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - LONDON, - Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEWES. - MDCXXXIV. - - - - - TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS - Princesse, _FRANCIS_, Dutchesse Dowager - _of_ RICHMOND, _and_ LENNOX, _&c._ - - - Fame sayes (great PRINCESSE) that the _Pow’rs-above_, - Will soone forgive; which, I desire to prove: - For, I am guiltie of a _Venial-sinne_ - Against your GRACE; and, have remain’d therein - Without an _Absolution_, so long time, - That, now, my _Conscience_ checks me for the _Crime_; - And, to reprove me for it, will not cease - Till I have, someway, sought to make my _Peace_. - To palliate my _Fault_, I could produce - Enough, perhaps, to stand for an _Excuse_. - But, when I mind what _Favours_, and what _Fame_ - I might have purchased unto my _Name_, - (By taking Courage, to have done my best) - I dare not make _Excuses_; but, request - Your pardon, rather, and, that some _Oblation_ - May game my _Person_, future acceptation. - To that intent, this humble _Offring_, here, - Within your gracious presence, doth appeare. - And, that it may the more content your eye, - Well-graven _Figures_, help to beautifie - My lowly _Gift_: And, vailed are in these, - A _Treasury_ of Golden _Sentences_; - By my well-meaning _Muse_, interpreted, - That, with your NAME, their Morals may be spread - And scattred, _Largesse-like_, (at your commanding) - To helpe inrich the _Poore in Vnderstanding_. - If YOV accept the _Tender_, I shall know, - Your GRACE is pleased with your _Servant_, so, - As, that there may be hope, my future Actions, - Will give the more contenting Satisfactions: - And, your _Encouragements_, my _Pow’rs_ may raise, - To make the BEAVTIES of your _Later dayes_, - More glorious, far, than your fresh YOVTH’S perfection, - Though, knowne to be, the _Load-stone_ of _Affection_. - For, like the loving TVRTLE, you have stood - So constant, in your vowed _Widdow-hood_; - So strictly, kept a solitarie state; - So faithfull beene, to your deceased MATE; - So firmly true, and truly kinde, to _them_, - Which are the _Branches_ of his _Princely-stemme_; - And, personated in so high a _Straine_, - The parts of HONOVR; that, my rusticke _vaine_, - Must raised be, before it can ascend - To say, how much, your _Fame_, doth you commend. - Yet, if these _Lines_, (or, _that_ they Vsher in) - For me, some _Passage_ may, anew, begin - To your _Esteeme_; I, may so happily, - Illustrate forth, the _Golden-History_ - Of those _Affections_, which within your Brest, - Have to the world remained unexprest. - That, future times, to your applause may reade, - The matchlesse _Paterne_ of a _Widdowed-bed_, - Which you have drawne, for those to _imitate_ - Who can; and, for the rest to wonder at. - For, what (thereto) yet wanteth, in my _Muse_, - Your GRACE, as my _Minerva_, may infuse. - Nor, will it be in vaine, to shew the worth - Of those _Perfections_, truly blazed forth, - Which you may personate: Nor, shall it be - To your _Content_ unusefull, when you see - The _Best part of your selfe_, (as in a _Glasse_) - Disclosed, and set up, before your GRACE, - To represent those _Beauties_, wherein lurkes, - More sweetnesse, than in _Picture-drawers_ Workes; - And shew, how temp’rall _Glories_, and _Affections_, - Have hourely ripened you, for those _Perfections_ - That, make _Immortall_; and, which are that _End_, - Whereto, all Earthly _Graces_, ought to tend. - Then, if your EXCELLENCE, desire to heare, - Those MVSES, honour you, whose prayses are - Attending _Vertue_; and, shall please to live - That _Life of Glory_, which my _Verse_ can give; - Your GRACES favour, (when you please) hath pow’rs - To make both MEE, and all my _Muses_ yours. - And, wee are hopefull, that, so well wee know - Your _Merits_, and those _Duties_, which wee owe, - That, wee shall raise, your HONOVR’S _Trophies_ high, - Though, _Wee our selves_ upon the pavement lie. - Thus, I have made mine _Offring_; and I stand - Attending, now, to kisse your GRACES hand. - -_Your GRACES_ - - _in all humilitie_, - - GEO: WITHER. - - - TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY - Prince, _JAMES_, Duke - _of_ LENNOX, _&c._ - - _When =RICHMOND=, your beloved =Vnkle=, liv’d, - (For whose departure, all this =Empire= griev’d, - And, yet laments) his GRACE did not refuse - To deigne respects, to my obscured MVSE; - Nor scorne, from =Highest-worth=, to stoope so low, - As, mee, in my despisednesse, to know: - And, had not =Bashfulnesse= restrain’d my =Wit=, - From pressing-on, (when he incourag’d it,) - My PEGASVS, had learn’d, e’re now, to rise, - Which, yet, with lame, and sickly =Feathers= flies. - But, HEE hath left us; and, I thought not on - The losse I had of HIM, till he was gone; - Nor could I dreame, till he did hence ascend, - What t’was to want an =Honourable-friend=: - Nor, what they feele, whom =Fate= constraines, to tarry - On stormy Plaines, without a SANCTVARIE. - Assoone, as from among us, he made wing, - My =Hopes= did waine, and, I began to sing - A =Mournfull-song=, not easie to forget; - Because, I beare the =burthen= of it, yet. - Nor was I silent (though my =Epicede= - Appear’d not, for the publike eye to reade) - But, griev’d in private, as one wanting =Art=, - To give, the =Life of praise=, to his desart: - Which, if I could have equall’d with his =Name=, - His =Death= had gain’d my =Verse=, a =living-Fame=. - And, why expresse I this? except it give - Your GRACE, a fit occasion to perceive, - That, my decayed =Hopes= I would renew, - And, faine derive them downe, from HIM to YOV? - That, as you branched from his Princely =Stemme=; - (Are, honour’d with his =Ducall-Diadem=) - And, imitate his Vertue; So, you might - Be =Lord=, in mee, of that, which was his right: - And, for his Noble sake, vouchsafe to own - A =Servant=, which, to you, is yet unknowne. - As =Prologue=, to the service I intend, - This PRESENT comes; and, without =Hope=, or =End=, - Of gaining further =Grace=, or more =Esteeme=, - Than may, with humblest modestie, beseeme - His =Love=, and =Honest-meaning=, to expect, - Whose =Merits= have, no visible effect, - Conducing to your profit; and, from whom - The best of his intents, are yet to come. - I cannot thinke, these =Lots=, or =Emblems=, are - So worthy in themselves, as they’l appeare - In your acceptance; Or, that they can give, - Such Grace to YOV, as they’l from you receive. - Yet, if YOV please, they may be, otherwhile, - A profitable Meanes, to help beguile - A Melancholy thought; And, have the pow’r - To shorten (without losse) a tedious howre. - Sometime (no doubt) content you are to walke - In =Artlesse Groves=; Or, to admit the talke - of Rustick =Swaines= (though ev’ry day you might - Your self in well-trim’d =garden-bowr’s=, delight, - Or, heare the learnedst =Muses=, when you please;) - Ev’n so, for change, you may, perhaps, in these - A =Recreation= finde; and, in some measure, - A =Profit=, intermixed with your =Pleasure=. - I will not make my =Promises= too large, - Lest, my =Performances=, they overcharge - With =Expectation=: but, I leave them, SIR, - To =Bee=, and to =be thought=, the same they are. - And, if your EXCELLENCE, (when you behold - The Ground whereon I first became so bold, - To make this Entrance) shall vouchsafe to daigne - Those =Favours=, which, I dare not thinke to gaine - By =Meer-deserving=; you may then, perchance, - My =Willingnesse=, to =Ablenesse= advance: - And, reap in =Mee= (when ripened they are grown) - Some timely =fruits=, of that, which =you= have sown. - Till then, let it suffice, that I professe - A cheerefull, and a thankfull Readinesse - To honour YOV; and, openly to show - The Dutie, which, it may appeare, I owe - To HIM that’s gone. And, let your GRACE descend - To take this =Pledge=, of what I more intend._ - -Who am in all humilitie - - Your GRACES to be - - commanded, - - GEO: WITHER. - - - - - _If well thou dost, and well intend, - Thou shalt be crowned, in the end._ - -[Illustration: SI RECTE FACIES. - -ILLVSTR. I. _Book. 3_] - - When, many, for the chiefest _Garland_ runne, - That height of _Glory_, can befall but one; - Yet, _Wreaths_ there are, for ev’ry man prepar’d, - According as he meriteth _reward_: - And, though the _Worke_ deserveth little meed, - _Grace_, prints a worth, on ev’ry _willing-deed_, - Which formes it currant; and, doth gratious make - Man’s weake endeavors, for GOD’S _promise_ sake. - All seeke the selfe-same _prize_; but, doe not seeke, - With _mindes_, and, with _endeavors_, all alike. - Most, wish the _Wreath_; but, few those things will doe, - That may be helpfull to attaine thereto: - And, some (that _will be doing_) more delight - In _doing their owne will_, then _doing right_. - One, thinkes by airie _titles_, to atchieve - The _Palme_ he seekes; Another, doth believe - Tis gain’d, by giving to his _Appetite_, - The fulnesse of his _Bodies_ vaine delight: - To reach their _aime_, some others nourish hopes, - By scrambling up unto the dunghill-tops - Of temp’rall _Riches_: and, of all the wayes, - Most thinke this _course_ deserves the greatest _praise_. - But, this our _Emblem’s_ Motto, doth implie, - That, nothing Man possesseth outwardly - Can purchase him the _Crowne_, that should be sought, - Like _rightly-doing_, what is _rightly-taught_. - And, that _God_ never passed any _doome_, - To barre their _blisse_, who righteous would become: - For, ev’n to _Cain_ he said (of sinne detected) - _If well thou dost, thou shalt be well respected_. - - - _A little =Wit=, may stand in stead, - When =Strength= doth faile, in time of need._ - -[Illustration: SUPERAT SOLERTIA VIRES. - -ILLVSTR. II. _Book. 3_] - - The _Squirrell_, when shee must goe seeke her food, - By making passage through some neighb’ring _flood_, - (And feares to be devoured by the Streame) - Thus, helpes her weaknesse, by a _Stratagem_. - On _blocks_, or _chips_, which on the waves doe flote, - She nimbly leaps; and, making them her boate - (By helpe of Windes, of Current, and of Tide) - Is wafted over to the further side. - Thus, that, which for the _Body_ proves unfit, - Must often be acquired by the _Wit_. - And, what our outward _Fortunes_ shall denye, - Our _providence_ must labour to supply. - Those _Casualties_, which may our need befriend, - We should with heedfull diligence attend; - And, watch to seize those _opportunities_, - Which, men of abler fortunes may despise. - Some Birds, when they an _Oyster_ would unlock, - Mount up, and let it fall upon a Rock; - And, when the Cockles on the Shores lye gasping, - (At ev’ry Tides approach their Shells unclasping) - Crowes cast in _Pebles_, and so take that meat - By _craft_, which by their _force_ they could not get. - Wee, by indeav’ring thus, may gaine, at length, - That, which at first appeares above our strength. - By little _Screwes_ an entrance we may make, - Where _Barres of Iron_ cannot passage breake. - Small _Engines_, lift huge weights; and, we have heard, - That one _Wise-man_ (though poore without regard) - May save a City, when the _Men of Warre_, - And, all their _Captaines_, at a _non plus_ are. - - - _To =Kings=, both =Sword= and =Mace= pertaine; - And, these they doe not beare in vaine._ - -[Illustration: NON SINE CAUSA. - -ILLVSTR. III. _Book. 3_] - - When thou behold’st, upon a _Day of State_, - The _King_ (or, some inferiour _Magistrate_) - Walke forth in publicke, and the royall _Mace_, - The _Sword_, or _Scepter_ borne before his face: - Suppose thou not, that those are carried, so, - In ostentation, or for idle show. - These vulgar _Emblems_, are significant; - And, that _authority_, which _Princes_ grant - To _Bodies-politicke_, was, heretofore - Declared, by those _Ensignes_, which they bore. - The bruzing _Mace_ (although, perhaps, with us, - It be not in these times, restrained thus) - That branch of _Royall-power_ did signifie, - Which doth by _Fines_, or _losse of liberty_, - Correct Offenders. By the _Sword_, they meant, - That larger branch of _pow’r_, to represent, - Which takes the _Malefactors_ life away; - And, armes it selfe, when _Rebells_ disobay. - As often, therefore, as thou shalt espie - Such _Hieroglyphickes_ of _Authority_; - Be mindefull, and advis’d (how meane soere - The _Persons_, or the _Places_ may appeare, - Who get this _pow’r_) that still thou honour them: - Lest, thou in those, the pow’r of _God_ contemne. - If not for theirs, yet for thy _Sov’raignes_ cause, - Whom these doe personate; Or, for the _Lawes_, - (Which threaten punishment) thy selfe submit; - And, suffer what _Authority_ thinkes fit: - For, whatsoere they be that guide the _Reyne_, - _He_, gave the _pow’r_, who gave it, not, in vaine. - - - _He, that concealed things will finde, - Must looke =before= him, and =behinde=._ - -[Illustration: PANDO RECONDITA. - -ILLVSTR. IV. _Book. 3_] - - That _Head_, which in his _Temple_, heretofore, - The well-knowne figure of old _Ianus_ bore, - Retain’d the forme, which pictur’d here you finde; - _A Face before him, and a Face behinde_. - And this old _Hieroglyphicke_ doth comprize - A multitude of Heathenish Mysteries; - Which, wee omitting, will insist on what - This _Emblem’s_ Motto, chiefely poynteth at. - In true _Divinity_, 'tis _God_ alone, - To whom, all hidden things are truely knowne. - _Hee_, onely, is that _ever-present-being_, - Who, by the vertue of his pow’r all-seeing, - Beholds, at one aspect, all things that _are_, - That ever _shall be_, and that ever _were_. - But, in a Morall-sense, we may apply - This _double-face_, that man to signifie, - Who (whatsoere he undertakes to doe) - Lookes, both _before_ him, and _behinde_ him, too. - For, he shall never fruitfully forecast - Affaires _to come_, who mindes not what is _past_: - And, such as doe not, oft, _before_ them looke, - May lose the labour, that’s already tooke. - By, sometimes, looking _backward_, we behold - Those things, which have been done in _times of old_; - By looking wisely _forward_, we foresee - Such matters, as in _future-times_ will bee: - And, thus, we doe not onely fruits receive, - From that short space of _time_, in which we live; - But, by this meanes, we likewise have a share, - In _times to come_, and, _times that passed are_. - - _Good =Fortune= will with him abide, - That hath true =Vertue=, for his guide._ - -[Illustration: VIRTUTE DUCE COMITE FORTUNA - -ILLVSTR. V. _Book. 3_] - - The _Gryphon_, is the figure of a creature, - Not found within the Catalogues of _Nature_: - But, by those Wits created, who, to shew - _Internall_ things, _externall Figures_ drew: - The Shape, in which this _Fiction_ they exprest, - Was borrow’d from a _Fowle_, and, from a _Beast_; - Importing (when their parts were thus combin’d) - The _Vertues_, both of _Body_, and of _minde_: - And, Men are sayd on _Gryphons_ backes to ride, - When those mixt _Vertues_, them have dignify’d. - The _Stone_ (this _Brute_ supporting) may expresse - The firme abiding, and the solidnesse - Of all true _Vertues_. That, long-winged _Ball_, - Which doth appeare fast-linked therewithall, - The gifts of changing _Fortune_ doth implye: - And, all those things together, signifie, - That, when by such like _Vertues_ Men are guided, - Good _Fortune_ cannot be from them divided. - If this be true (as true I this believe) - Why should wee murmure, why repine, or grieve, - As if our _Studies_, or our honest paines, - Deprived were of some deserved gaines? - Why should we thinke the world hath done us wrong, - Because wee are not register’d among - Those thriving men, who purse up evr’y day, - For _twelve hours labour_ more then _twelve months pay_? - If wee our _paines_ rewarded cannot see, - Wee count our _Merits_ greater then they be. - But if we bide content, our worth is more; - And rich we are, though others think us poore. - - _When prosperous our =Affaires= doe growe; - God’s =Grace= it is, that makes them so._ - -[Illustration: FLOREBO PROSPICIENTE DEO. - -ILLVSTR. VI. _Book. 3_] - - Svch pleasant _Flowres_, as here are shadow’d out - (Full-grown, well-trim’d, and strongly fenc’d about) - At first, perchance, had planting (where they stand) - And, husbanding, by some good _Gard’ners_ hand: - But, when to perfect ripenesse, they are grown, - (And, spread forth leaves, and blossomes, fully blowne) - They draw it from the Vertue of the _Sunne_, - Which worketh, when the _Gard’ners_ worke is done: - For, lost were all his Travaile, and his praise, - Vnlesse that _Planet_ cheare them with his rayes. - In this our _Pilgrimage_, it fares with us - (In all our _hopes_, and all our _labours_) thus. - For, whatsoever bus’nesse wee intend, - On _God_, our good successes doe depend. - Our Hands may build; but, structures vaine we make, - Till _God_, to be _Chiefe-builder_, undertake. - To wall a _City_, wee may beare the cost; - But, he must _guard_ it, or, the _Towne_ is lost: - The _Plow-man_ useth diligence to sowe; - But, _God_ must blesse it, or, no Corne will grow: - Yea, though _Paul_ plant, and, though _Apollo_ water, - They spend their sweat, upon a fruitlesse matter, - Till _God_, from heaven, their labours please to blesse, - And crowne their travailes, with a good increase. - Let, therefore, those that flourish, like this _Flowre_, - (And, may be wither’d, e’re another houre) - Give _God_ the praise, for making of their _Seeds_ - Bring forth sweet _Flowres_, that, else, had proved Weeds: - And, me despise not, though I thrive not so; - For, _when, God pleaseth, I shall flourish too_. - - _If thou thy =Duties= truely doe, - Of thy =Reward=, be hopefull too._ - -[Illustration: FAC ET SPERA. - -ILLVSTR. VII. _Book. 3_] - - Some _Sects_ are found, who so _believing_ be, - They thinke themselves from _legall-workings_ free; - And, so they live, as if they stood in feare - That, with _Good-works_, their _God_ offended were. - Another sort we know, who credit not, - That any hope of _Mercie_ can be got, - Till they themselves, by their _externall-deed_, - Have _merited_ the favours they shall need: - And, so they prize their _workings_; that, for _Grace_, - They seeme to disallow all usefull place. - Both sorts, their errours may be purged from, - When to the _Fiery-tryall_ they shall come. - So, likewise, may another _Faction_ too, - That erre more deadly then these former doe. - These doe (forsooth) affirme, that _God’s_ decree - Before all _Worlds_ (what Words can fouler be?) - Debarr’d the greatest part of _humane-race_, - Without respecting sinne, from hope of _Grace_; - And, that, howere this number shall indeaver, - They must continue _Reprobates_, for ever. - The first, are errours of Impiety; - But, this, ascends the top of blasphemy; - Dispoyles _Religion_ wholly of her fruits; - And, wrongeth _God_ in all his _Attributes_. - These _Errours_, therefore shunne; and, so _believe_, - That wee thy _Faith_, may by thy _Workes_ perceive. - So _worke_, that thy _believing_ may approve - Thou wrought’st not for thy _Wages_; but, for _love_. - For (whatsoe’re thou be) if thus thou doe, - Thou mayst have _hopes_, and, _God_ will grant them too. - - - _By =Wisedome=, things which passe away, - Are best preserved from decay._ - -[Illustration: RERUM SAPIENTIA CUSTOS. - -ILLVSTR. VIII. _Book. 3_] - - The _Laurell_, which is given for a Crowne - (To men deserving Glory, and renowne) - Is figur’d here, those noble deeds to show, - For which, the _Wreaths_ of _Honour_, we bestow. - Two _Serpents_ (WISDOME’S _Emblems_) twisted are - About this branch of _Lawrell_, to declare, - That, _Wisdome_ is the surest meanes to save - Our Names and Actions, from _Oblivion’s_ Grave. - The _Snakes_ are _two_, perhaps, to signifie - That _Morall-wit_, and _Christian-policie_ - (Vnited both together) doe contrive - The safest _guard_, and best _preservative_. - Consider this, all yee, that trust your _Names_ - To Marble Monuments; or, mount your _Fames_ - By those poore meanes, which Fooles and Knaves pursue; - And, may effect as easily as you: - Nay, with more ease; and, overtop you too, - When you have done the best, your wits can doe. - I say, consider this; and, let the _Pen_ - Of learned, wise, and understanding men, - Renowne your worths, and register the story - Of your deserved, and, well-gotten glory; - Lest, else, it suffer close-imprisonments, - Within the walls of such poore _Monuments_, - As oft are built, to leave it quite forgotten, - Whose bones they cover’d, e’re those bones be rotten. - But, you shall best preserve your _Honest-fame_, - Your _Workes_, your _Hopes_, and _Honours_ of your _Name_, - If you your selves be wise; and, so provide - That _Prudence_, all your _Workes_, and _Speeches_ guide. - - - _Good =Hopes=, we best accomplish may, - By =lab’ring= in a =constant-Way=._ - -[Illustration: LABORE ET CONSTANTIA. - -ILLVSTR. IX. _Book. 3_] - - Some Folkes there are, (and many men suppose, - That I my selfe, may passe for one of those) - Who many likely Businesses intend, - Yet, bring but very few, unto an end. - Which folly to prevent, this _Emblem_, here, - Did in a luckie houre, perhaps, appeare. - For, as to draw a _Circle_, with our hand, - We cause the brazen _Compasses_ to stand - With one foot firmely fixed one the ground; - And move the other in a _Constant-round_: - Right so, when we shall purpose to proceed - In any just, and profitable deed, - We first, should by a _constant-resolution_, - Stand firme, to what we put in execution: - And, then, with _perseverance_, labour out - Those workings, which we are employ’d about. - For, we with _constant-liking_, must elect - Those Businesses, we purpose to effect: - Or els, our _time_, our _labour_, and our _cost_, - Will, oft, be much in vaine, or wholly lost. - With _constant-labour_, we must follow, too, - Those things, which we resolved are to do; - Or, els, our hopes will never be effected, - How warily soe’re we have projected. - Long Iourneys I abhorre; yet, otherwhile - I meane a _Furlong_, and performe a _Mile_. - I greatly feare _Long-labours_ to begin; - Yet some I finish, when I’me entred in: - And, if in _Labour_, I more _constant_ grow, - How I improve, hereafter, you shall know. - - - _Ere thou a =fruitfull-Cropp= shalt see, - Thy ground must =plough’d= and =harro’wd= be._ - -[Illustration: EVERTIT ET AEQUAT. - -ILLVSTR. X. _Book. 3_] - - Before the _Plowman_ hopefull can be made, - His untill’d earth good Hay or Corne will yeeld, - He breakes the hillocks downe, with _Plough_ or _Spade_; - And, harrowes over, all the cloddie Field. - Then, from the _leaveld-ground_, at last, he mowes - That Cropp of grasse, which he had hope to gaine; - Or, there, doth reape the fruit of what he sowes, - With profit, which contents him for his paine. - Our _craggie-Nature_ must be tilled, thus, - Before it will, for _Herbes of Grace_, be fit. - Our _high conceit_, must downe be broke in us; - Our heart is proud, and God must humble it. - Before good _Seed_, in us will rooting take, - _Afflictions_ ploughes and harrowes, must prepare us: - And, that the truer _levell_, he may make, - When we are _sunck_ too low, _Gods_ hand must reare us. - Then, neither stormings of _Adversitie_, - Shall drowne the _Seedes of Hope_, which we have sowne; - Nor shall the _Sunne-beames_ of _Prosperitie_, - Drie up their moisture, ere they ripe are growne. - Oh _Lord_, thou know’st the nature of my _minde_; - Thou know’st my _bodyes_ tempers what they are; - And, by what meanes, they shall be best inclin’de - Such _Fruits_ to yeeld, as they were made to beare. - My barren _Soule_, therefore, _manure_ thou so; - So, _harrow_ it; so _emptie_, and so _fill_; - So _raise_ it _up_, and bring it _downe_, so _low_ - As best may lay it _levell_ to thy _Will_. - In _this Desire_, the worke is well begunne; - Say _thou_ the _Word_, and all is fully _done_. - - - _True =Knowledge= is a constant =Friend=, - Whose =Friendship=, never shall have end._ - -[Illustration: SCIENTIA IMMUTABILIS. - -ILLVSTR. XI. _Book. 3_] - - By viewing this _fixt-Head_, enwreath’d with _Bayes_, - (And, what the _Motto_ round about it sayes) - Your Apprehension’s eye, may partly see - What _constant Vertues_, in true _Knowledge_ be. - For, if right plac’d it be, it ever will - Continue in the same condition, still: - And, though it make mens manners to be chang’d; - Yet, never is it, from it selfe, estrang’d: - Nor doth, nor can it, cease to be a _Friend_, - What _Fate_ soever, shall on us attend. - When _Wealth_ is lost, or faileth to besteed us; - Shee findes out honest meanes to cloath and feede us. - In _farre_, and _forraigne Lands_, shee will become, - As kinde, and as familiar, as at home; - And, _travelleth_, without the costly cumber, - Of Carriages, or Clokebagges full of Lumber. - No _Place_ can from our presence, her enclose; - Nor is she frighted from us by our _Foes_. - No _Pickthankes_, of her Favours, can bereave us; - No _Promises_, can woo her to deceive us. - In _Youth_, in _Age_, in _Sickenesse_, and in _Griefe_, - Shee bringeth Consolation and reliefe: - And, is in all estates, a blessing to us, - So constant (and so apt, all helpes to doe us) - That, he for whom, such _Knowledge_, God provideth, - Enjoyes a _Friend_, that alwaies firme abideth. - _Lord_, I am _friendlesse_ left; therefore, to me, - This _Knowledge_, and this _Friend_, vouchsafe to bee: - For, thou that _Wisdome_ art, (from heav’n descending) - Which, neither hath _beginning_, _change_, nor _ending_. - - - _By =Studiousnesse=, in =Vertue’s= waies - Men gaine an =universall-praise=._ - -[Illustration: VIRTUTE AC STUDIO PER ORBEM FAMA PERPETUA COMPARATUR. - -ILLVSTR. XII. _Book. 3_] - - When _Emblems_, of too many parts consist, - Their Author was no choice _Emblematist_: - But, is like those, that wast whole _howres_, to tell - What, in three _minutes_, might be said as well. - Yet, when each member is interpreted, - Out of these vulgar _Figures_, you may read - A _Morall_, (altogether) not unfit - To be remembred, ev’n, by _men of wit_. - And, if the _Kernell_ proove to be of worth, - No matter from what shell we drew it forth. - The _Square_ whereon the _Globe_ is placed, here, - Must _Vertue_ be; That _Globe_ upon the _Square_, - Must meane the _World_; The _Figure_, in the _Round_, - (Which in appearance doth her _Trumpet_ sound) - Was made for _Fame_; The _Booke_ she beares, may show, - What _Breath_ it is, which makes her _Trumpet_ blow: - The _Wreath_, inclosing all, was to intend - A glorious _Praise_, that never shall have end: - And, these, in one summ’d up, doe seeme to say; - That, (if men _study_ in a _vertuous-way_) - The _Trumpet_ of a never-ceasing _Fame_, - Shall through the _world_ proclaime their praisefull _Name_. - Now _Reader_, if large _Fame_, be thy ambition, - This _Emblem_ doth informe, on what condition - She may be gain’d. But, (herein, me beleeve) - Thy _studie_ for meere-praise, will thee deceive: - And, if thy _Vertues_, be, but onely, those - For which the vulgar _Fame_, her _Trumpet_ blowes, - Thy _Fame’s_ a blast; Thy _Vertues_, Vices be; - Thy _Studie’s_ vaine; and, _shame_ will follow thee. - - - _Above thy =Knowledge=, doe not rise, - But, =with Sobrietie, be wise=,_ - -[Illustration: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE. - -ILLVSTR. XIII. _Book. 3_] - - _Exalt thou not thy selfe_, though, plac’d thou be, - Vpon the topp of that old _Olive-tree_, - From whence the nat’rall branches prun’d have bin, - That, thou, the better, mightst be grafted in. - Be not so _over-wise_, as to presume - The _Gard’ner_, for thy goodnesse, did assume - Thy small _Crab-Olive_, to insert it, there, - Where, once, the _sweetest-berries_, growing were: - Nor let thy Pride those few _old-boughes_ contemne, - Which, yet, remaine upon their ancient _Stemme_; - Because, thy new-incorporated _Sprayes_, - Doe more enjoy the _Sunnes_ refreshing raies: - But, humbled rather, and, more awfull bee; - Lest, _hee_ that cut off _them_, doe breake downe _thee_. - Be _wise_, in what may to thy good, belong; - But, seeke not _Knowledge_, to thy neighbours wrong: - Be thankefull for the _Grace_ thou hast receiv’d, - But, judge not those, who seeme thereof bereav’d; - Nor into those forbidden _secrets_ peepe, - Which _God-Almighty_, to himselfe doth keepe. - Remember what our Father _Adam_ found, - When he for _Knowledge_, sought beyond his bound. - For, doubtlesse, ever since, both _good_ and _ill_ - Are left with _Knowledge_, intermingled still; - And, (if we be not humble, meeke, and warie) - We are in daily danger, to miscary. - Large, proves the fruit which on the _Earth_ doth lie; - _Windes_, breake the twigge, that’s grafted _over-high_; - And, he that will, beyond his bounds, be _wise_, - Becomes a very _Foole_, before he dies. - - - _When each man keepes unto his =Trade=, - Then, all things better will be made._ - -[Illustration: TRACTANT FABRILIA FABRI. - -ILLVSTR. XIV. _Book. 3_] - - We more should thrive, and erre the seldomer, - If we were like this honest _Carpenter_, - Whose _Emblem_, in reproofe of those, is made, - That love to meddle, farther then their _Trade_. - But, most are now exceeding cunning growne - In ev’ry mans affaires, except their owne: - Yea, _Coblers_ thinke themselves not onely able, - To censure; but, to mend _Apelles_ Table. - _Great-Men_, sometime, will gravely undertake - To teach, how _Broomes_ and _Morter_, we should make. - Their Indiscretions, _Peaants_ imitate, - And boldly meddle with affaires of _State_. - Some _Houswives_ teach their _Teachers_ how to pray, - Some _Clarks_, have shew’d themselves, as wise as they; - And in their Callings, as discreet have bin, - As if they taught their _Grandames_ how to _spinne_: - And, if these _Customes_, last a few more Ages, - All Countries will be nothing els, but _Stages_ - Of evill-acted, and mistaken parts; - Or, _Gallemaufries_, of imperfect _Arts_. - But, I my selfe (you’l say) have medlings made, - In things, that are improper to my _Trade_. - No; for, the _MVSES_ are in all things free; - Fit subject of their _Verse_, all Creatures be; - And, there is nothing nam’d so meane, or great, - Whereof they have not Liberty to treat. - Both _Earth_ and _Heav’n_, are open unto these; - And (when to take more libertie they please) - They _Worlds_, and _things_, create, which never were; - And, when they list, they _play_, and _meddle_, there. - - - _A =Shepherd= carefull of the Sheepe, - At all times, faithfull =Watch= doth keepe._ - -[Illustration: NON DORMIT QUI CUSTODIT. - -ILLVSTR. XV. _Book. 3_] - - The Figure of a _Storke_ in elder dayes, - Was us’d in _Hieroglyphick_, many wayes: - But, when _one Foote_, thus grasp’d a _Peple-stone_, - The other being firmely fixed on - The _Staffe Episcopall_; in that position, - It makes an Emblem, of a late edition: - By some, thought not improper, to expresse - Their painefull, and their serious, _watchfulnesse_, - Who take upon themselves, the _Pastorall care_; - And, in that _Function_, truely _watchfull_ are. - The _Shepherds-Crooke_, doth some expression make - Of that regard, which, of their _Flocks_, they take. - The _Peble in the Foote_, doth seeme to showe, - That, these must farther diligence bestowe, - (And, use their utmost pow’r) themselves to keepe - From _slothfull Ease_; and from intemp’rate _sleepe_: - For, he that hath such _Duties_ undertooke, - (And, must the lives of others overlooke) - Shall finde himselfe, unto himselfe become - A burthen, and a Charge more troublesome - Then all his _Flocke_, unles, he still provide - His owne, aswell as others _waies_, to guide. - Now, though this _Emblems_ Morall doth concerne - The _Clergie_ most; yet, hence we all may learne - Strict _watch_ to keepe; since, unto all that bee, - A _Watchmans_ place belongs, in some degree. - Which, to discharge, if wee endeavour, still, - Our universall _Shepherd_ aide us will, - And us from harmes, and error he will keepe, - For, _Hee that guardeth Isr’ell doth not sleepe_. - - - _Our Dayes, untill our Life hath end, - In =Labours=, and in =Hopes=, wee spend._ - -[Illustration: IN SPE ET LABORE TRANSIGO VITAM. - -ILLVSTR. XVI. _Book. 3_] - - As soone as our _first Parents_ disobey’d, - Forthwith a _Curse_, for their offence, was layd, - Inforcing them, and their succeeding race, - To get their Food, with sweatings of the Face. - But, afterward, this _Doome_ to mitigate, - (And ease the miseries of their estate) - _God_ gave them _Hope_, that she might helpe them beare - The burthens of their Travaile, and their care. - A _Woman_ with an _Anchor_, and a _Spade_, - An _Emblem_ of that _Mystery_ is made: - And, this Estate, wee all continue in, - By God’s free _Mercie_, and our proper _Sinne_. - By _Sinne_, the _Labour_ is on us intail’d; - By _Grace_, it is, that _Hoping_ hath not fail’d; - And, if in _Hope_, our Labours wee attend, - That _Curse_ will prove a _Blessing_, in the end. - My Lot is _Hope_, and _Labour_; and, betweene - These _Two_, my Life-time hath prolonged beene: - Yet, hitherto, the best of all my _Paine_, - With most of all my _Hopes_ have beene in vaine; - And to the World-ward, I am like to wast - My time in fruitlesse _labours_, till the last. - However, I have still my _Hopes_ as faire - As hee, that hath no temptings to _Despaire_; - And, change I will not, my _last howres_ for theirs, - Whose _Fortune_, more desirable appeares; - Nor cease to _Hope_ and _Labour_, though, of most, - My _Hope_ and _Labour_ be adjudged lost: - For, though I lose the _shaddow_ of my _Paines_, - The _stubstance_ of it, still, in _God_, remaines. - - - _Man’s life, no =Temper=, more doth blesse, - Then =Simple-prudent-harmelessenesse=._ - -[Illustration: PRUDENTE SIMPLICITATE. - -ILLVSTR. XVII. _Book. 3_] - - When from the harmelesse _Turtle_, and the _Snake_, - Their most commended _properties_ wee take, - (And, mixe them well) they make a composition, - Which yeelds a _temper_ of the best condition. - Yet, _wickednesse_, or _sorrow_, doth abound, - Where, any _one_ of these, _alone_, is found: - For, whensoe’re the _Serpents-braine_ we find, - With which, there is no _Dove-like-meekenesse_ joyn’d, - (Without all peradventure) thence proceedes, - All harmefull fraud, and all injurious deedes. - And, where such _meekenesse_ as doth seeme to be - In harmelesse _Doves_, divided you shall see - From that _discretion_, and that _policie_, - Which in the _Serpents_ head, is thought to lie; - They liable to ev’ry wrong become; - And, to it selfe, make _Vertue_ burthensome. - But, where these two are ioyned, they procure - A life so sweet, so rich, and so secure, - That, all the pow’rs of _Malice_ cannot shake - Their _out-workes_, nor _within_ them, terrors make. - _Vouchsafe thou oh my God! vouchsafe, in me, - That these two =Vertues= may vnited be. - Such =Prudence= give, as never will disdaine - The =Dove-like Innocencie=, to retaine. - That =meekenesse=, grant me, which delighteth not, - It selfe, with =indiscretion=, to besot: - But, let these =two=, each other so defend, - And, so, in me continue, till my end, - That, =simple-prudence=, I may still possesse, - Although the World shall count it =foolishnesse=._ - - - _Where er’e we dwell, the =Heav’ns= are neere; - Let us but =fly=, and wee are there._ - -[Illustration: TRANSITUS CELER EST ET AVOLAMUS. - -ILLVSTR. XVIII. _Book. 3_] - - Why, with a trembling faintnesse, should we feare - The face of _Death_? and, fondly linger here, - As if we thought the _Voyage_ to be gone - Lay through the shades of _Styx_ or _Acheron_? - Or, that we either were to travell downe - To uncouth _Deapthes_, or up some _heights_ unknowne? - Or, to some place remote, whose nearest end - Is farther then Earths limits doe extend? - It is not by one halfe that distance, thither - Where _Death_ lets in, as it is any whither: - No not by halfe so farre, as to your bed; - Or, to that place, where you should rest your head, - If on the ground you layd your selfe (ev’n there) - Where at this moment you abiding are. - This _Emblem_ shewes (if well you looke thereon) - That, from your _Glasse of life_, which is to run, - There’s but one step to _Death_; and, that you tread - _At once_, among the _Living_, and, the _Dead_. - In whatsoever _Land_, we _live_ or _die_, - _God_ is the same; And, _Heav’n_ is, there, as nigh - As in that _place_, wherein, we most desire - Our _Soules_, with our last breathing, to expire. - Which things, well heeding; let us not delay - Our _Iourney_, when we summon’d are away, - (As those inforced _Pilgrims_ use to doe, - That know not whither, nor, how farre they goe) - Nor let us dreame that we in _Time_, or _Place_, - Are farre from ending our uncertaine _Race_. - But, let us fix on _Heav’n_, a faithfull eye, - And, still, be _flying thither_, till wee die. - - - _His =Pace=, must =wary= be, and =slow=, - That hath a =Slippery-way= to goe._ - -[Illustration: PEDETENTIM. - -ILLVSTR. XIX. _Book. 3_] - - A Travailer, when he must undertake - To seek his passage, o’re some _Frozen Lake_, - With _leisure_, and with _care_, he will assay - The glassy smoothnesse of that _Icie-way_, - Lest he may _slip_, by walking over-fast; - Or, breake the crackling _Pavement_, by his hast: - And, so (for want of better taking heed) - Incurre the mischiefes of _Vnwary-speed_. - We are all _Travellers_; and, all of us - Have many passages, as dangerous, - As _Frozen-lakes_; and, _Slippery-wayes_, we tread, - In which our Lives may soone be forfeited, - (With all our hopes of _Life-eternall_, too) - Unlesse, we well consider what we doe. - There is no private _Way_, or publicke _Path_, - But rubs, or holes, or slipp’rinesse it hath, - Whereby, wee shall with _Mischiefes_ meet; unlesse, - Wee walke it, with a _stedfast-warinesse_. - The steps to _Honour_, are on _Pinacles_ - Compos’d of melting Snow, and Isicles; - And, they who tread not nicely on their tops, - Shall on a suddaine slip from all their _hopes_. - Yea, ev’n that way, which is both sure and holy, - And, leades the Minde from Vanities and Folly, - Is with so many other _Path-wayes_ crost, - As, that, by Rashnesse, it may soone be lost; - Vnlesse, we well deliberate, upon - Those _Tracts_, in which our _Ancestours_ have gone: - And, they who with more _haste_, then _heed_, will runne, - May lose the way, in which they well begunne. - - - _Our =Pelican=, by bleeding, thus, - Fulfill’d the =Law=, and cured =Vs=._ - -[Illustration: PRO LEGE ET PRO GREGE. - -ILLVSTR. XX. _Book. 3_] - - Looke here, and marke (her sickly birds to feed) - How freely this kinde _Pelican_ doth bleed. - See, how (when other _Salves_ could not be found) - To cure their sorrowes, she, her selfe doth wound; - And, when this holy _Emblem_, thou shalt see, - Lift up thy soule to him, who dy’d for thee. - For, this our _Hieroglyphick_ would expresse - That _Pelican_, which in the _Wildernesse_ - Of this vast _World_, was left (as all alone) - Our miserable _Nature_ to bemone; - And, in whose eyes, the teares of pitty stood, - When he beheld his owne unthankfull _Brood_ - His _Favours_, and his _Mercies_, then, contemne, - When with his wings he would have brooded them: - And, sought their endlesse peace to have confirm’d, - Though, to procure his ruine, they were arm’d. - To be their _Food_, himselfe he freely gave; - His _Heart_ was pierc’d, that he their _Soules_ might save. - Because, they disobey’d the _Sacred-will_, - He, did the _Law of Righteousnesse_ fulfill; - And, to that end (though guiltlesse he had bin) - Was offred, for our _Vniversall-sinne_. - Let mee Oh _God_! for ever, fixe mine eyes - Vpon the Merit of that _Sacrifize_: - Let me retaine a due commemoration - Of those deare _Mercies_, _and_ that bloudy _Passion_, - Which here is meant; and, by true _Faith_, still, feed - Vpon the drops, this _Pelican_ did bleed; - Yea, let me firme unto thy _Law_ abide, - And, ever love that _Flocke_, for which he dy’d. - - - _Bee =Iust=; for, neither =Sea= nor =Land=, - Shall hide thee from the =Royall-hand=._ - -[Illustration: DISCITE IUSTITIAM. - -ILLVSTR. XXI. _Book. 3_] - - That, which wee call the _Sea-horse_, is a Creature, - Whereby the Priests of _Ægypt_, wonted were, - To typify an _Ill-disposed nature_; - And, such, as to their _Parents_, cruell are: - Because, this _Monster_ (as their _Authors_ write) - When strong he growes, becommeth so ingrate, - That he pursues, with violent despight, - His old and weakly _Sire_, which him begate. - Contrariwise, the _Storke_, they figur’d, then, - When they occasion had, to signifie - The good condition, of those honest men, - Who pleasure take, in workes of _Piety_: - Because, the _Storkes_, not onely harmed none, - But, holpe their aged _Parents_ in their need; - And, those offensive _Serpents_, prey’d upon, - Which, in the Fennes of _Ægypt_, yearely, breed. - The _Royall-Crowne_, therefore, supporting thus - That pious _Fowle_, and overtopping, here, - The wicked, and the fierce _Hyppotamus_, - May serve to _comfort_, and to keep in _feare_. - For, it informes, that, if we pious grow, - And love our _Princes_ (who those _Parents_ bee, - To whom all _Subjects_, filiall duties owe) - The blessings of their _Favours_, we shall see. - It shewes us, also, that, if we affect - _Vnrighteous-wayes_, no _Wit_, or _Strength_ of our, - Nor any _Vncouth-place_, shall us protect - From being reached, by the _Sov’raigne-power_. - The way of _Iustice_, therefore, learne thou still, - For love of _Goodnesse_, or for feare of _Ill_. - - - _Take wing, my =Soule=, and mount up higher; - For, =Earth=, fulfills not my =Desire=._ - -[Illustration: NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO. - -ILLVSTR. XXII. _Book. 3_] - - When _Ganymed_, himselfe was purifying, - Great _Iupiter_, his naked beauty spying, - Sent forth his _Ægle_ (from below to take him) - A blest Inhabitant, in Heav’n to make him: - And, there (as Poets feigned) he doth still, - To _Iove_, and other _God-heads_, Nectar fill. - Though this be but a _Fable_, of their feigning, - The _Morall_ is a _Reall truth_, pertayning - To ev’ry one (which harbours a desire - Above the Starry _Circles_, to aspire.) - By _Ganymed_, the _Soule_ is understood, - That’s washed in the _Purifying flood_ - Of sacred _Baptisme_ (which doth make her seeme - Both pure and beautifull, in _God’s_ esteeme.) - The _Ægle_, meanes that Heav’nly _Contemplation_, - Which, after Washings of _Regeneration_, - Lifts up the _Minde_, from things that earthly bee, - To view those _Objects_, which _Faith’s_ Eyes doe see. - The _Nectar_, which is filled out, and given - To all the blest _Inhabitants of Heaven_, - Are those _Delights_, which (_Christ_ hath sayd) they have, - When some _Repentant-soule_ beginnes to leave - Her foulnesse; by renewing of her _birth_, - And, slighting all the _Pleasures_ of the Earth. - I aske not, _Lord_, those Blessings to receive, - Which any Man hath pow’r to take, or give; - Nor, what this World affords; for, I contemne - Her Favours; and have seene the best of them: - Nay, _Heav’n_ it selfe, will unsufficient bee, - Vnlesse, _Thou_, also, give _Thy selfe_, to mee. - - - _Through many spaces, =Time= doth run, - And, =endeth=, where it first =begun=._ - -[Illustration: IN SE SUA PER UESTIGIA UOLUITUR. - -ILLVSTR. XXIII. _Book. 3_] - - Old _Sages_ by the Figure of the Snake - (Encircled thus) did oft expression make - Of _Annuall-Revolutions_; and of things, - Which wheele about in _everlasting-rings_; - There _ending_, where they first of all _begun_, - And, there _beginning_, where the _Round_ was _done_. - Thus, doe the _Planets_; Thus, the _Seasons_ doe; - And, thus, doe many other _Creatures_, too. - By minutes, and by houres, the _Spring_ steales in, - And, rolleth on, till _Summer_ doth begin: - The _Summer_ brings on _Autumne_, by degrees; - So ripening, that the eye of no man sees - Her Entrances. That _Season_, likewise, hath - To _Winter-ward_, as leasurely a path: - And, then, cold _Winter_ wheeleth on amaine, - Vntill it brings the _Spring_ about againe, - With all those _Resurrections_, which appeare, - To wait upon her comming, every yeare. - These _Roundells_, helpe to shew the _Mystery_ - Of that immense and blest _Eternitie_, - From whence the CREATURE sprung, and, into _whom_ - It shall, againe, with full perfection come, - When those _Additions_, it hath fully had, - Which all the sev’rall _Orbes_ of _Time_ can add. - It is a full, and fairely written _Scrowle_, - Which up into it selfe, it selfe doth rowle; - And, by _Vnfolding_, and, _Infolding_, showes - A _Round_, which neither _End_, nor _entrance_ knowes. - And (by this _Emblem_) you may partly see, - Tis that which _IS_, but, cannot uttred be. - - - _Each =Day= a =Line=, small =tasks= appeares: - Yet, much it makes in threescore Yeares._ - -[Illustration: NULLA DIES SINE LINEA. - -ILLVSTR. XXIV. _Book. 3_] - - Here’s but _one Line_; and, but _one Line a Day_, - Is all the _taske_ our _Motto_, seemes to lay: - And, that is thought, perhaps, a thing so small, - As if it were as good bee nought at all. - But, be not so deceiv’d; For, oft you see - _Small things_ (in time) _great matters_, rise to be: - Yea, that, which when the same was first begun, - A _Trifle_ seem’d, (and easie to be done) - By long nelect of time, will _burthensome_, - And, at the last, _impossible_, become. - Great _Clarkes_, there are, who shall not leave behinde them, - One good _Weekes_ worke, for _Future-Times_ to minde them, - (In _Callings_, either Humane, or Divine) - Who, by composing but _each Day a Line_, - Might _Authors_, of some famous _Workes_ appeare, - In sixtie, seventie, or in eightie yeare; - To which, ten hundred thousands have arrived - Of whom, we see no signe that ev’r they lived. - And, with much pleasure, wee might all effect, - Those needfull _Works_, which often we neglect, - (Vntill too late). If we but, now and then - Did spare one houre to exercise the penn. - For, still, _one-Line_, another draweth on, - And, _Line_ by _Line_, great _Workes_ at last are done. - Whereas, _dis-use_, and many dayes mispent, - Without their _Lines_, let in _discouragement_, - Or, bring _Despaire_; which doth so sottish make us, - That we, to no endeavour can betake us. - Marke this, and, labour in some honest _Way_, - As much as makes, at least, _One Line a Day_, - - - _Our outward =Hopes= will take effect, - According to the =King’s= aspect._ - -[Illustration: AD REGIS NUTUS. - -ILLVSTR. XXV. _Book. 3_] - - When _Phœbus_ with a cheerefull eye, beholds - The Flow’r-embroydred earth, and freely spreads - His beames abroad; behold, the _Marigolds_ - Beginne to reare their low-dejected heads: - The _Tulips_, _Daysies_, and the _Heliotropes_ - Of ev’ry kinde, their closed Leaves display; - And (as it were) with new-recover’d hopes, - Attend upon the _Ruler of the Day_. - Againe, when either in the _West_ he shrowds - His Rayes below this _Horizon_, or hides - His Face behinde the Curtaines of the _Cloudes_; - They lose their beauties, and abate their prides. - Thus fares it with a _Nation_, and their _King_, - 'Twixt whom there is a native Sympathy. - His _Presence_, and his _Favours_, like the _Spring_, - Doe make them sweetly thrive, and fructify: - Yea (like fresh _Groves_, or _Flow’rs_ of pleasing hew) - Themselves in all their jollity they showe; - But, they, if with displeasure, them he view, - Soone lose their Glory, and contemned growe. - All, are not _Heliotropes_ that favour’d growe, - In _Princes_ Courts; nor _Marigolds_, that beare - The golden blossomes; but some spring below, - Like _Daysie flow’rs_, that in the Pathwayes are: - Yet all shall feele it, when their _Sov’raignes_ eye - Doth frowne, or smile, regard, or else neglect: - Yea, it will finde them in _Obscurity_, - By some Disheartning, or some sweet _Effect_, - Vouchsafe to shine on Mee, my Gracious _King_, - And then my _Wither’d_ Leaves, will freshly spring. - - - _The =Right-hand way=, is =Vertues= Path, - Though rugged Passages it hath._ - -[Illustration: HAC VIRTUTIS ITER. - -ILLVSTR. XXVI. _Book. 3_] - - If any covet knowledge of that _Path_, - Which thither tends, where _Peace_ her dwelling hath, - This _Emblem_ (being well observ’d) will show - On whether side, it will be best to goe. - The _Left-hand-way_, seemes to be walk’d, at ease, - Through Lawnes, and Downes, and green-swath’d Passages; - And, much allures the _Traveller_, to trie - The many Pleasures, which doe that _Way_ lye. - The _Right-hand-course_, is through a _Pathlesse-mound_ - Of newly ploughed, and deep-furrow’d Ground; - Which, as uneasie seemeth, to be gone, - As, in appearance, rough to looke upon. - Yet, this is _Vertue’s Path_: This _Way_ uneven, - Is that, which unto ev’ry man is given, - To travaile in; and, hath a safer ending, - Then those, whereon more _Pleasures_ are attending: - And (though it leades us thither, where we see - Few promises of outward _Glories_ bee) - It brings (us when we passe the common sight) - Through easy _Tracts_, to gaine our _Hearts delight_. - The other _Way_ (though seeming streight, it lyes, - To _Pleasure’s_ Pallaces, before our eyes) - Hath many rubs, and perills, which betweene - Our _Hopes_, and _Vs_, will alwayes lurke unseene; - Till we are drawne so farre, that 'twill be vaine, - To seeke, with safety, to returne againe. - This, let us heed; and, still be carefull, too, - Which _Course_ it most concerneth us to goe. - And, though the _Left-hand-way_, more smoothnesse hath, - Let us goe forward, in the _Right-hand-path_. - - - _=I= was erected for a =Bound=, - And I resolve to =stand my ground=._ - -[Illustration: CONCEDO NULLI. - -ILLVSTR. XXVII. _Book. 3_] - - The _Bounder-Stones_, held sacred, heretofore, - Some did so superstitiously adore, - As, that they did not onely rev’rence doe them, - But, have ascrib’d a kinde of _God-head_, to them: - For, _Terminus_ had many a _Sacrifize_, - As well as other senslesse _Deities_. - I am not so prophane, as to desire - Such Ethnick zeale should set our hearts on fire: - But, wish I could, Men better did regard - Those _Bounders_, which _Antiquity_ hath rear’d; - And, that, they would not, with so much delight, - There, make _incroachments_, where they have no _right_. - That, ev’ry man might keep his owne _Possessions_, - Our Fathers, us’d in reverent _Processions_ - (With zealous prayers, and with praisefull cheere) - To walke their _Parish-limits_, once a yeare: - And, well knowne _Markes_ (which sacrilegious Hands - Now cut or breake) so bord’red out their Lands, - That, ev’ry one distinctly knew his owne; - And, many brawles, now rife, were then unknowne. - But, since neglected, sacred _Bounders_ were, - Most men _Incroachers_, and _Intruders_ are: - They grieve each other, and their _Dues_ they steale, - From _Prince_, from _Parent_, and from _Common-weale_. - Nay, more; these bold Vsurpers are so rude, - That, they, on _Christ’s_ Inheritance intrude. - But, that will be aveng’d; and (on his _right_) - Though such incroach, he will not lose it quite: - For, hee’s that _Bounder_, and that _Corner-stone_, - Who all _confines_, and is _confin’d_, of none. - - - _Where =Lovers= fitly matched be, - In =mutuall-duties=, they agree_. - -[Illustration: MANUS MANUM LAUAT. - -ILLVSTR. XXVIII. _Book. 3_] - - Would God, I could as feelingly infuse - A good effect of what this _Emblem_ shewes, - As I can tell in words, what _Moralls_ bee, - The life of that, which here you pictur’d see. - Most _Lovers_, minde their _Penny_, or their _Pleasure_; - Or, painted _Honors_; and, they all things measure, - Not as they are, but as they helpfull seeme, - In compassing those toyes, they most esteeme. - Though many wish to gaine a faithfull _Friend_, - They seldome seeke one, for the noblest end: - Nor know they (should they finde what they had sought) - How _Friendship_ should be manag’d, as it ought. - Such, as good _Husbands_ covet, or good _Wives_ - (The deare companions of most happy lives) - Wrong Courses take to gaine them; yet, contemne - Their honest love, who rightly counsell them: - And, lest, they unawares the Marke may hit, - They blinde their _judgements_, and befoole their _wit_. - He, that will finde a _Friend_, must seeke out one - To exercise unfeigned _love_ upon; - And, _mutuall-duties_, must both yield, and take, - Not for himselfe; but, for his _Friendship_ sake. - Such, as doe rightly _marry_, neither be - With _Dowries_ caught, nor wooe a _Pedigree_; - Nor, meerely come together, when they wed, - To reape the youthfull pleasures of the Bed: - But, seeke that fitnesse, and, that _Sympathy_, - Which maketh up the perfect’st _Amity_. - A _paire_, so match’d; _like Hands that wash each other_, - As _mutuall-helpes_, will sweetly live together. - - - _When =Law=, and =Armes=, together meet, - The =World= descends, to kisse their feet._ - -[Illustration: LEGIBUS ET ARMIS. - -ILLVSTR. XXIX. _Book. 3_] - - The Picture of a _Crowned-king_, here, stands - Upon a _Globe_; and, with outstretched hands, - Holds forth, in view, a _Law-booke_, and a _Sword_: - Which plaine and moderne _Figures_, may afford - This meaning; that, a _King_, who hath regard - To _Courts for pleading_, and _a Court of Guard_, - And, at all times, a due respect will carry, - To pious _Lawes_, and _Actions military_; - Shall not be _Monarch_, onely in those Lands, - That _are_, by _Birth right_, under his commands: - But, also, might (if just occasion were) - Make this whole _Globe_ of Earth, his power to feare; - Advance his _Favorites_; and, bring downe all - His _Opposites_, below his pedestall. - His conquering _Sword_, in forraigne Realmes, he drawes, - As oft, as there is just, or needfull cause: - At home, in ev’ry _Province_ of his Lands, - At all times, armed are his _Trayned bands_. - His _Royall fleets_, are terrours to the Seas; - At all houres, rigg’d, for usefull Voyages: - And, often, he his _Navy_ doth increase, - That _Warres_ Provisions, may prolong his _Peace_. - Nor, by the tenure of the _Sword_, alone, - Delighteth he to hold his awfull _Throne_, - But, likewise, labours, Mischiefes to prevent, - By wholsome _Lawes_, and rightfull _Goverment_. - For, where the _Sword_ commands, without the _Law_, - A _Tyrant_ keepes the Land in slavish awe: - And, where good _Lawes_ doe want an _Armed pow’r_, - Rebellious _Knaves_, their _Princes_, will devoure. - - - _=Faire-shewes=, we should not so much heed, - As the Vprightnesse of the =Deed=._ - -[Illustration: NON QUAM FORMOSA SED QUAM RECTA. - -ILLVSTR. XXX. _Book. 3_] - - When wee should use a _Ruler_, or a _Square_, - Or such like _Instruments_, as usefull are, - In forming other things; we prize not so - The carving, or the colourable show - (Which makes them beautifull in outward sight) - As when, for _Vsefulnesse_, we finde them right. - A warped _Bowe_, though strung with silken threads, - And, crooked _Arrowes_, tipt with Golden heads, - Delight not _Archers_; tyet, such uselesse Toyes - Be fit enough for Bunglers, and for Boyes. - A skilfull _Artist_ (in what Art soe’re, - He seekes, to make his ablenesse appeare) - Will give large Prices, with much more content, - To buy a plaine (if perfect) _Instrument_; - Then, take for nothing (or, for thankes alone) - An uselesse _Toole_, though, gay to looke upon. - From whence, observe; that, if there must be sought, - When meere _Mechanick-workes_ are to be wrought, - Such _Instruments_, as rather have esteeme - For their _true-being_, then for what they seeme. - Much more, should all those _Rules_ be such, whereby - Wee goe about, our selves to rectify; - And, build up, what in _Body_, or in _minde_, - We may defective, or impaired finde. - Else, peradventure, that we thinke to mend, - More faulty may become, at later end. - But, hence, I chiefly learne, to take a care, - My _Life_, and _Actions_, rather be _sincere_, - Then _seeming_ such: And, yet, Ile thinke no shame, - To _seeme_, to be as honest, as _I am_. - - - _My =Substance=, and my =Light=, are spent, - In seeking other mens content._ - -[Illustration: ALIIS INSERVIENDO CONSUMOR. - -ILLVSTR. XXXI. _Book. 3_] - - If this nigh-wasted _Candle_, you shall view, - And, heed it well, it may enlighten you - To looke with more compassion, on their paines, - Who rob themselves, to multiply your gaines. - The _Taper_ burnes, to give another light, - Ev’n till it selfe, it hath consumed quite; - And, all the profit, which it thence doth winne, - Is to be snufft, by ev’ry _Commer-in_. - This is the Lot of some, whom I have knowne, - Who, freely, all their life-time, have bestowne - In such industrious labour, as appeares, - To further others profits, more then theirs; - And, all their _Patrimonies_, well nigh spent, - The ruining of others, to prevent. - The _wit_, the _strength_, and all the _pow’r_ they had, - (Which might, by probability, have made - Good meanes to raise them, in this world, as high, - As most, who climbe to wealthy dignity) - Ev’n these, they have bestow’d, to better them, - Who their indeavours, for their paines, contemne. - These are those _Lamps_, whose _flames_, from time to time, - Have through each _Age_, and through-out ev’ry _Clime_, - To one another, that true _Light_ convey’d, - Which _Ignorance_, had, els, long since betray’d - To utter darknesse. These, despightfull _Pride_ - Oft snuffs; and, oft, to put them out, hath try’d. - But, from the brightnesse of such _Lights_, as they, - We got our _Light of knowledge_, at this day. - To _them_, God make us kinder; and to _Him_, - More thankfull, that we gain’d such light by _them_. - - - _The safest =Riches=, hee shall gaine, - Who alwayes =Faithfull= doth remaine._ - -[Illustration: DITAT SERVATA FIDES. - -ILLVSTR. XXXII. _Book. 3_] - - The _Horne-of-plenty_, which _Wealth_ signifies, - The _Hand-in-hand_, which _Plighted-faith_ implies, - (Together being painted) seeme to teach, - That, such as will be _honest_, shall be _rich_. - If this be so, why then for _Lucre-sake_, - Doe many breake the _Promises_ they make? - Why doe they cheat and couzen, lye, and sweare? - Why practise they all Villanies that are? - To compasse _Wealth_? And, how doe such as they - Inlarge their ill-got _Portions_, ev’ry day? - Or, whence proceedes it, that sometimes we see - Those men grow poore, who _faithfull_ seeme to bee? - Thus, oft it proves; and, therefore, _Falshood_ can, - In likelihood, much more inrich a man, - Then blamelesse _Faith_; and, then, the _Motto_ here - Improper to this _Emblem_, doth appeare. - But, well enough they sute; and, all is true, - Which these things (being thus united) shew. - Should it be then concluded, that all those, - Who poore and honest seeme, have made but showes - Of reall _Faith_? And, therfore, plagu’d have bin - With publicke lashes, for their private sin? - Indeed, sometime it hath succeeded so: - But, know you should, that, most who richest grow, - In _Outward-wealth_, are very poore in that, - Which brings true _Plentie_, and a blest Estate: - And, that, _Good men_, though poore they seeme to bee, - Have _Riches_, which the _Worldling_ cannot see. - Now He, who findes himselfe endow’d with such, - (Whate’re wee thinke him) is exceeding _rich_. - - - _=Poore-Theeves, in Halters= we behold, - And, =great-Theeves=, in their =Chaines of gold=._ - -[Illustration: FVRES PRIVATI IN NERVO PVBLICI IN AVRO - -ILLVSTR. XXXIII. _Book. 3_] - - If you, this _Emblem_, well have look’d upon, - Although you cannot helpe it, yet, bemone - The Worlds blacke Impudence; and, if you can, - Continue (or become) an honest man. - The poore, and petty _Pilferers_, you see - On _Wheeles_, on _Gibbets_, and the _Gallow-tree_ - Trust up; when they, that farre more guilty are, - Pearle, Silke, and costly Cloth of Tissue, weare. - Good _God_! how many hath each _Land_ of those, - Who, neither limbe, nor life, nor credit lose - (But, rather live befriended, and applauded) - Yet, have of all their livelihoods defrauded - The helplesse _Widowes_, in their great distresse? - And, of their Portions, robd the _Fatherlesse_? - Yet, censur’d others Errours, as if none - Had cause to say, that they amisse have done? - How many, have assisted to condemne - Poore soules, for what was never stolne by them? - And, persecuted others, for that Sin, - Which they themselves, had more transgressed in? - How many worthlesse men, are great become, - By that, which they have stolne, or cheated from - Their _Lords_? or (by some practices unjust) - From those, by whom they had beene put in trust? - How many _Lawyers_, wealthy men are growne, - By taking Fees, for _Causes_ overthrowne - By their defaults? How many, without feare, - Doe rob the _King_, and _God_, yet blamelesse are? - _God_ knowes how many! would I did so, too, - _So I had pow’r to make them better doe_. - - - _Whil’st thou dost, here, injoy thy breath, - Continue =mindfull= of thy =Death=._ - -[Illustration: MEMENTO MORI - -ILLVSTR. XXXIV. _Book. 3_] - - When thou beholdest on this _Burying-stone_, - The melancholly _Night-bird_, sitting on - The fleshlesse ruines of a _rotten-Skull_, - (Whose Face, perhaps, hath been more beautifull, - Then thine is now) take up a serious thought; - And, doe as thou art by the _Motto_ taught. - _Remember Death_: and, minde, I thee beseech, - How soone, these _Fowles_ may at thy window screech; - Or, call thee (as the common people deeme) - To dwell in _Graves_, and _Sepulchers_, by them, - Where nothing else, but _Bats_, and _Owles_, appeare; - Or, _Goblins_, form’d by _Fancies_, and, by _Feare_. - If thou shalt be advis’d, to meditate - Thy latter end, before it be too late, - (And, whil’st thy _friends_, _thy strength_, and _wits_ may bee - In likely case, to help and comfort thee) - There may be courses taken, to divert - Those _Frights_, which, else, would terrifie thy heart, - When _Death_ drawes neare; and helpe thee plucke away - That _Sting_, of his, which would thy Soule dismay. - But, if thou madly ramble onward, still, - Till thou art sinking downe that _darkesome-hill_, - Which borders on the _Grave_ (and dost beginne - To see the Shades of _Terrour_, and of _Sinne_ - To fly acrosse thy _Conscience_) 'twill be hard - To learne this _Lesson_; or, to be prepar’d - For that sad parting; which, will forced bee, - Betweene this much beloved _World_, and _thee_. - Consider this, therefore, while _Time_ thou hast, - And, put not off this _Bus’nesse_, till the last. - - - _Doe not the golden =Meane=, exceed, - In =Word=, in =Passion=, nor in =Deed=._ - -[Illustration: ERVA MODVM. - -ILLVSTR. XXXV. _Book. 3_] - - As is the head-strong _Horse_, and blockish _Mule_, - Ev’n such, without the _Bridle_, and the _Rule_, - Our _Nature_ growes; and, is as mischievous, - Till _Grace_, and _Reason_, come to governe us. - The _Square_, and _Bridle_, therefore let us heed, - And, thereby learne to know, what _helpes_ wee need; - Lest, else, (they fayling, timely, to bee had) - Quite out of _Order_, wee, at length, bee made. - The _Square_, (which is an usefull _Instrument_, - To shape foorth senselesse _Formes_) may represent - The _Law_: Because, _Mankind_, (which is by Nature, - Almost as dull, as is the _senselesse-creature_,) - Is thereby, from the _native-rudenesse_, wrought; - And, in the _Way_ of honest-living taught. - The _Bridle_, (which Invention did contrive, - To rule, and guide the _Creature-sensitive_) - May type forth _Discipline_; which, when the _Law_ - Hath school’d the _Wit_, must keepe the _Will_ in awe. - And, hee that can by these, his _Passions_ bound, - This _Emblems_ meaning, usefully, hath found. - Lord, let thy sacred _Law_, at all times, bee - A _Rule_, a _Master_, and a _Glasse_ to mee; - (A _Bridle_, and a _Light_) that I may, still, - Both know my _Dutie_, and obey thy _Will_. - Direct my _Feet_; my _Hands_, instruct thou so, - That I may neither _wander_, nor _mis-doe_. - My _Lookes_, my _Hearing_, and my _Wordes_ confine, - To keepe still firme, to ev’ry _Word_ of thine. - On thee, let also my _Desires_ attend: - And, let me hold this _temper_, till mine end. - - - _Wee then have got the surest =prop=, - When =God=, alone, becomes our =Hope=._ - -[Illustration: FVLCRVM TVTISSIMVM - -ILLVSTR. XXXVI. _Book. 3_] - - I Should not care how hard my _Fortunes_ were, - Might still my _Hopes_ be such, as now they are, - Of helpes divine; nor feare, how poore I bee, - If thoughts, yet, present, still may bide in mee. - For, they have left assurance of such _ayd_, - That, I am of no dangers, now afraid. - Yea, now I see, mee thinkes, what weake and vaine - _Supporters_ I have sought, to helpe sustaine - My fainting heart; when some injurious hand, - Would undermine the Station where I stand. - Me thinks, I see how scurvie, and how base, - It is to scrape for favours, and for grace, - To men of earthly minds; and unto those, - Who may, perhaps, before to morrow lose - Their Wealth, (or their abus’d Authoritie) - And, stand as much in want of helpe as I. - Me thinks, in this _new-rapture_, I doe see - The hand of _God_ from heaven supporting me, - Without those _rotten-Ayds_, for which I whinde, - When I was of my tother _vulgar-minde_: - And, if in some one part of me it lay, - I, now, could cut that _Limbe_ of mine away. - Still, might I keepe this mind, there were enough - _Within_ my selfe, (beside that cumbring stuffe - Wee seeke _without_) which, husbanded aright, - Would make mee _Rich_, in all the _Worlds_ despight. - And, I have hopes, that, had shee quite bereft mee, - Of those few _ragges_ and _toyes_, which, yet, are left me; - I should on _God_, alone, so much depend, - That, I should need, nor _Wealth_, nor other _Friend_. - - - _True =Vertue=, firme, will alwayes bide, - By whatsoever =suffrings= tride._ - -[Illustration: VIRTUS INEXPUGNABILIS. - -ILLVSTR. XXXVII. _Book. 3_] - - This is a well-knowne _Figure_, signifying, - A man, whose _Vertues_ will abide the trying: - For, by the nature of the _Diamond stone_, - (Which _Violence_, can no way worke upon) - That _Patience_, and _long-suffering_ is intended, - Which will not bee with _Injuries_ offended; - Nor yeeld to any base dejectednesse, - Although some bruising _Pow’r_, the same oppresse; - Or, such hard _streights_, as theirs, that hamm’rings feele, - Betwixt an _Anvile_, and a _Sledge_ of Steele. - None ever had a perfect _Vertue_, yet, - But, that most _Pretious-stone_, which God hath set - On his right hand, in _beaming-Majestie_, - Vpon the _Ring_ of blest _ETERNITIE_. - And, this, is that impenitrable _Stone_, - The _Serpent_ could not leave impression on, - (Nor signe of any _Path-way_) by temptations, - Or, by the pow’r of sly insinuations: - Which wondrous _Mysterie_ was of those _five_, - Whose depth King _Solomon_ could never dive. - Good _God_! vouchsafe, ev’n for that _Diamond_-sake, - That, I may of his _pretiousnesse_, partake, - In all my _Trialls_; make mee alwayes able - To bide them, with a minde impenitrable, - How hard, or oft so’ere, those _hamm’rings_ bee, - Wherewith, _Afflictions_ must _new fashion_ mee. - And, as the common _Diamonds_ polish’d are, - By their owne dust; so, let my _errours_ weare - Each other out; And, when that I am pure, - Give mee the _Lustre_, _Lord_, that will endure. - - - _=Truth=, oft =oppressed=, wee may see, - But, quite =supprest= it cannot bee._ - -[Illustration: VERITAS PREMITUR NON OPPRIMITUR. - -ILLVSTR. XXXVIII. _Book. 3_] - - This is that fruitfull _Plant_, which when it growes, - Where wholesome _Water_ in abundance flowes, - Was, by the _Psalmist_, thought a likely _Tree_, - The _Emblem_, of a _blessed-man_, to bee: - For, many wayes, it fitly typifies, - The _Righteous-man_, with his proprieties; - And, those true _Vertues_, which doe helpe increase - His growing, in the state of _Blessednesse_. - The _Palme_, (in this our _Emblem_, figur’d, thus) - Depressed with a _Stone_, doth shew to us - The pow’r of _Truth_: For, as this _Tree_ doth spread, - And thrive the more, when weights presse downe the head; - So, _Gods_ eternall _Truth_ (which all the pow’r - And spight of _Hell_, did labour to devoure) - Sprung high, and flourished the more, thereby, - When _Tyrants_ crush’d it, with their crueltie. - And, all inferiour _Truths_, the same will doe, - According as they make approaches to - The best _Perfection_; or, as they conduce - To _God’s_ due _praise_, or some such pious use. - _Lord_, still, preserve this _Truth’s_ integritie, - Although on ev’ry side, the wicked prie, - To spie how they may disadvantage it. - Yea, _Lord_, though _Sinners_ in high place doe sit, - (As _David_ saith) yet, let them not oppresse - Thy _Veritie_, by their imperiousnesse. - But, make both _Her_, and her _Professors_, bide - The _Test_, like _Silver seven times purifide_. - That, all _Truths_ lovers, may with comfort see, - Shee may _deprest_, but, not, _oppressed_ bee. - - - _They, who but =slowly-paced= are, - By =plodding= on, may travaile farre._ - -[Illustration: PAS A PAS. - -ILLVSTR. XXXIX. _Book. 3_] - - The big-bon’d _Oxe_, in pace is very slow, - And, in his travaile, _step_ by _step_, doth goe, - So leisurely, as if he tir’d had bin, - Before his painfull Iourney did beginne; - Yet, all the day, he stifly ploddeth on, - Vntill the labour of the day be done: - And, seemes as fresh (though he his taske hath wrought) - As when to worke he first of all was brought. - Meane-while, the _Palfray_, which more swiftnesse had, - Hath lost his breath, or proves a _Resty-jade_. - This _Emblem_, therefore, maketh it appeare, - How much it profiteth, to _persevere_; - And, what a little _Industry_ will doe, - If wee continue _constant_ thereunto. - For, meanest _Faculties_, discreetly us’d, - May get the start, of nobler _Gifts_, abus’d. - This, may obserued be in many a one: - For (when their course of life was first begunne) - Some, whose refined _wits_, aspi’rd as high, - As if above the _Sphæres_, they were to flie: - By _Sloth_, or _Pride_, or over-trusting to - Their owne Sufficiencies, themselves undoe. - Yea and those _forward-wits_, have liv’d to see - Themselves inferiours, unto those, to be, - Whom, they did in their jollity, contemne, - As blocks, or dunces, in respect of them. - Then, learne, _Great-wits_, this folly to prevent: - Let _Meane-wits_, take from hence, incouragement: - And, let us all, in our _Affaires_ proceed, - With timely _leisure_, and with comely _speed_. - - - _Vncertaine, =Fortunes= Favours, bee, - And, as the =Moone=, so changeth =Shee=._ - -[Illustration: FORTUNA UT LUNA. - -ILLVSTR. XL. _Book. 3_] - - Ovr _Author_, peradventure, giveth us - Dame _Fortune_ (for these Reasons) pictur’d, thus: - _She_ hath a _Comely-body_, to declare, - How pleasing shee doth usually appeare - To them, that love her Favours. She is _blinde_, - (Or, hath still closed eyes) to put in minde, - How blindly, and how heedlesly, she throwes - Her _Largesse_, where her _Bounty_, she bestowes. - She _stands upon a Ball_; that, wee may learne, - Of outward things, the _tottering_, to discerne: - Her _Ball_ hath _wings_; that it may signifie - How apt her _Favours_ are, away to _flie_. - A _Skarfe displayed by the wind_, she beares, - (And, on her _naked-Body_, nothing weares) - To shew, that what her _Favorite_ injoyes, - Is not so much for _Vsefulnesse_, as _toyes_. - Her _Head is hairelesse, all, except before_; - To teach thee, that thy care should be the more - To hold her _formost kindnesse_, alwayes fast; - Lest, she doe show thee slipp’ry tricks, at last. - And, lastly, that her _changing_ may be showne; - She beareth in her Hand a _Wayned-moone_. - By this Description, you may now descry - Her true conditions, full as well as I: - And, if you, still, suppose her, worth such honour, - You have my leave to _wooe_, and _wayt_ upon her. - Moreover (to her credit) I confesse, - This _Motto_ falsly saith, her _Ficklenesse_ - Is like the _Moones_: For, she hath frown’d on mee - Twelve _Moones_, at least; and, yet, no _Change_ I see. - - - _Vntill the =Steele=, the =Flint= shall smite, - It will afford nor =Heat=, nor =Light=._ - -[Illustration: ANTÈ FERIT QUÀM FLAMMA MICET. - -ILLVSTR. XLI. _Book. 3_] - - Whilst by the High-way-side, the _Flint-stone_ lies, - Drie, cold, and hardnesse, are the properties - We then perceive: But, when we prove it nigher, - We finde, that, _Coldnesse_ doth inclose a _Fire_; - And, that, though _Raine_, nor _cloudie-skie_ appeares, - It will be (many times) bedew’d with _teares_. - From hence, I mind, that many wronged are, - By being judg’d, as they, at first, appeare; - And, that, some should bee prais’d, whom wee despise, - If _inward-Grace_, were seene with _outward-Eyes_. - But, this is not that _Morall_ (wee confesse) - Which this our _Emblem_, seemeth to expresse: - For (if the _Motto_ speake the meaning right) - It shewes, that, _hard-afflictions_ first must smite - Our hardned hearts, before it will bee seene, - That any _light_ of _Grace_, in them, hath beene. - _Before the =Flint= will send forth shining Rayes, - It must bee strucken, by the =Steele=, (it sayes.)_ - Another _Morall_, adde we may to this, - (Which, to the _Figure_, sutes not much amisse.) - The _Steele_, and _Flint_, may fitly represent - _Hard-hearted men_, whose mindes will not relent: - For, when in _opposition_, such become, - The _fire_ of _Malice_, flames and sparkles from - Their threatning Eyes; which else, close hidden rests, - Within the closets of their flintie brests: - And, flame out-right it will not, (though it smokes) - Till _Strife_ breake passage, for it, by her _strokes_. - If any of these _Moralls_ may doe good, - The purpose of my paines is understood. - - - _My _Wit_ got _Wings_, and, high had flowne; - But, _Povertie_ did keepe mee downe._ - -[Illustration: PAUPERTATE PREMOR SUBLEUOR INGENIO. - -ILLVSTR. XLII. _Book. 3_] - - You little thinke, what plague it is to bee, - In plight like _him_, whom pictur’d here you see. - His _winged-Arme_, and his _up-lifted-eyes_, - Declare, that hee hath _Wit_, and _Will_, to rise: - The _Stone_, which clogs his other _hand_, may show - That, _Povertie_ and _Fortune_, keepe him low: - And, twixt these _two_, the _Bodie_ and the _Mind_, - Such labours, and such great vexations finde, - That, if you did not such mens wants contemne, - You could not chuse but helpe, or pitie them. - All Ages had (and, this I know hath some), - Such men, as to this misery, doe come: - And, many of them, at their _Lot_, so grieve, - As if they knew, (or did at least beleeve) - That, had their _Wealth_ suffiz’d them to aspire - (To what their _Witts_ deserve, and they _desire_). - The present Age, and future Ages too, - Might gaine have had, from what they thought to doe. - Perhaps I dream’d so once: But, God be prais’d, - The _Clog_ which kept me downe, from being rais’d, - Was chain’d so fast, that (if such _Dreames_ I had) - My _thoughts_, and _longings_, are not now so mad. - For, plaine I see, that, had my _Fortunes_ brought - Such _Wealth_, at first, as my small _Wit_ hath sought; - I might my selfe, and others, have undone, - Instead of _Courses_, which I thought to runne. - I finde my _Povertie_, for mee was fit; - Yea, and a _Blessing_, greater than my _Wit_: - And, whether, now, I _rich_ or _poore_ become, - Tis nor much _pleasing_, nor much _troublesome_. - - - _A =Mischiefe=, hardly can be done, - Where =many-pow’rs= are knit in one._ - -[Illustration: VIRTUS UNITA FORTIOR. - -ILLVSTR. XLIII. _Book. 3_] - - Observe the _Sheafe of Arrowes_, figur’d here; - And, how the pow’r, and fury, of the _Beare_ - (Though hee attempt it) no device can finde - To breake one _slender-shaft_, while they are _joyn’d_: - Whereas, were they _divided_, strength but small, - Like rotten Kexes, would soone breake them all. - This _Emblem_, therefore, fitly doth imply - That Safeguard, which is found in _Vnity_; - And, shewes, that, when _Dis-union_ is begunne, - It breedeth dangers, where before were none. - The _Psalmist_, numerous _Off-springs_, doth compare - To _Quivers_, that with _Shafts_ replenish’d are. - When _Vnity_ hath knit them in her _bands_, - They prove like _Arrowes_ in a _Gyants_ hands. - And, though, for these, their Foes in wayt have layd, - They shall not be supriz’d, nor made afrayd. - Consider this, yee _Children of one Sire_, - 'Twixt whom, is kindled some contentious _fire_, - And, reconciled be, lest you, at length, - Consume away the marrow of your _strength_; - Or, by dividing, of your _joyned-pow’r_, - Make way for those, who studie to devoure. - Yea, let us all consider, as we ought, - What _Lesson_, by this _Emblem_, we are taught. - For, wee are _Brethren_ all; and (by a _Bloud_ - More precious, then our nat’rall _Brother-hood_) - Nor knit, alone, but, mingled, as it were, - Into a _League_; which is, by much, more deare, - And, much more dangerous, to be undone, - Then all the _Bands_, that can be thought upon. - - - _They, best injoy their Hearts desires, - In whom, =Love=, kindles =mutuall-fires=._ - -[Illustration: AMORE MUTUO. - -ILLVSTR. XLIV. _Book. 3_] - - What may the reason be, that, when Desire - Hath kindled in the brest, a _Loving-fire_, - The _Flame_, which burn’d awhile, both cleere & strong, - Becomes to be extinguished, ere long? - This _Emblem_ gives the reason; for, it showes, - That, when _Affection_, to perfection growes, - The _Fire_, which doth inlighten, first, the same, - Is made an _equall_, and a _mutuall-flame_. - These burning _Torches_, are alike in _length_; - To shew, _Love equall_, both in _time_, and _strength_. - They, to each otherward, their _Flames_ extend, - To teach us, that, _True-lovers_ have no end - Pertayning to _Selfe-love_; and, lo, betweene - These _Two_, one _Flaming-heart_, is to be seene; - To signifie, that, they, but _one_, remaine - In _Minde_; though, in their _Persons_, they are _twaine_. - He, doubtlesse, then, who _Lov’d_, and, giveth over, - Deserveth not the Title of a _Lover_; - Or, else, was unrequited in Affection, - And, was a _Lover_, with some imperfection. - For, _Love_, that loves, and is not lov’d as much, - May perfect grow; but, yet, it is not such, - Nor can be, till it may that _object_ have, - Which _gives_ a _Heart_, for what it would _receive_: - And, lookes not so much _outward_, as to heed - What seemes _within_, to _want_, or to _exceed_. - Whether our Emblem’s _Author_, thought of this, - You need not care; nor, will it be amisse, - If they who perfect _Lovers_, would be thought, - Doe mind, what by this _Morall_, they are taught. - - - _Where =many-Forces= joyned are, - _Vnconquerable-pow’r_, is there_ - -[Illustration: CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS. - -ILLVSTR. XLV. _Book. 3_] - - An _Emblem’s_ meaning, here, I thought to conster; - And, this doth rather fashion out a _Monster_, - Then forme an _Hieroglyphicke_: but, I had - These _Figures_ (as you see them) ready made - By others; and, I meane to _morallize_ - Their Fancies; not to mend what they devise. - Yet, peradventure, with some vulgar praise, - This _Picture_ (though I like it not) displayes - The _Morall_, which the _Motto_ doth imply; - And, thus, it may be sayd to signifie. - He, that hath many _Faculties_, or _Friends_, - To keepe him safe (or to acquire his ends) - And, fits them so; and, keepes them so together, - That, still, as readily, they ayd each other, - As if so many _Hands_, they had been made; - And, in _One-body_, usefull being had: - That man, by their Assistance, may, at length, - Attaine to an _unconquerable-strength_; - And, crowne his honest _Hopes_, with whatsoever - He seekes for, by a warranted Endeavour. - Or, else, it might be sayd; that, when we may - Make our _Affections_, and, our _Sense_, obay - The will of _Reason_, (and, so well agree, - That, we may finde them, still, at peace to be) - They’l guard us, like so many _Armed-hands_; - And, safely keepe us, whatsoere withstands. - If others thinke this _Figure_, here, inferres - A better sense; let those _Interpreters_ - Vnriddle it; and, preach it where they please: - Their _Meanings_ may be good, and so are these. - - - _The =Hearts= of =Kings= are in =God’s= Hands; - And, as He lists, He Them commands._ - -[Illustration: IN MANU DEI COR REGIS. - -ILLVSTR. XLVI. _Book. 3_] - - Why doe men grudge at those, who raysed be, - By royall Favour, from a low degree? - Know this; _Hee should be honour’d, whom the King, - To place of Dignity, shall please to bring_. - Why should they blame their _Kings_, for fav’ring such, - Whom, they have thought, scarce meriting so much? - _God rules their Hearts; and, they, themselves deceive, - Who dreame, that Kings exalt, without Gods leave._ - Why murmure they at _God_, for guiding so - The Hearts of _Kings_, as oft they see him doe? - Or, at his _Workes_, why should they take offence, - As if their _Wit_, could teach his _Providence_? - _His just, and his all-seeing =Wisedome= knowes, - Both =whom=, and =why= he crownes, or overthrowes; - And, =for what cause=, the Hearts of =Princes=, bee - =Inlarg’d=, or =shut=; when we no cause can see;_ - We sometime know, what’s _well_, and what’s _amisse_; - But, of those _Truths_, the root concealed is; - And, False-hoods, and Uncertainties, there are, - In most of those things, which we _speake_, or _heare_. - Then, were not _Kings_ directed by _God’s_ hand, - They, who are best, and wisest in the Land, - Might oft misguide them, either by receiving - A _False report_, or, by some _wrong-believing_. - God’s _Grace_ it is, that _Good-men_ rays’d have bin: - If _Sinners_ flourish, we may thanke our _Sin_. - Both _Good_ and _Bad_, so like in _out-sides_ be, - That, _Kings_ may be deceiv’d, in what they see; - And, if _God_ had not rul’d their _Hearts_ aright, - The _World_, by this time, had been ruin’d quite. - - - _A =Vertue= hidden, or not us’d, - Is either =Sloth=, or =Grace= abus’d._ - -[Illustration: CELATA VIRTUS IGNAVIA EST. - -ILLVSTR. XLVII. _Book. 3_] - - The World hath shamelesse _Boasters_, who pretend, - In sundry matters, to be skill’d so well, - That, were they pleased, so their houres to spend, - They say, they could in many things excell. - But, though they make their hearers to beleeve, - That, out of _Modestie_ their _Gifts_ they hide, - In them wee very plainely may perceive, - Or _Sloth_, or _Envy_, _Ignorance_, or _Pride_. - When other mens endeavours they peruse, - They either carpe at what they cannot mend; - Or else of Arrogance doe those accuse, - Who, to the publike view, their _Workes_ commend. - If these men say, that they can _Poetize_, - But, will not; they are false in saying so: - For, he, whose _Wit_ a little that way lies, - Will _doing_ bee, though hee himselfe _undoe_. - If they, in other _Faculties_ are learned, - And, still, forbeare their _Talents_ to imploy; - The truest _Knowledge_, yet, is undiscerned, - And, that, they merit not, which they injoy. - Yea, such as hide the _Gifts_ they have received, - (Or use them not, as well as they are able) - Are like _fayre Eyes_, of usefull sight bereaved; - Or, _lighted-Candles_, underneath a _Table_. - Their glorioust part, is but a _Painted-cloath_, - Whose _Figures_, to the wall-ward, still are hung. - Their hidden _Vertues_, are apparant _Sloth_; - And, all their life, is to the publike wrong: - For, they doe reape the _Fruits_, by many sowne, - And, leave to others, nothing of their owne. - - - _The =Moone=, which is =decreasing= now, - When shee =returnes=, will =fuller=, grow._ - -[Illustration: REDIBO PLENIOR. - -ILLVSTR. XLVIII. _Book. 3_] - - I Never, yet, did murmuringly complaine, - Although those _Moones_ have long been in the _Waine_, - Which on their _Silver Shields_, my _Elders_ wore, - In _Battels_, and in _Triumphs_, heretofore. - Nor any mention have I ever made, - Of such _Eclipses_, as those _Crescents_ had; - Thereby, to move some _Comet_, to reflect - His _fading-light_, or daigne his _good-aspect_. - For, when I tell the _World_, how ill I fare, - I tell her too, how little I doe care, - For her _despights_: yea, and I tell it not, - That, helpe, or pitie, might from her be got; - But, rather, that her _Favourites_ may see, - I know my _Waynings_, yet, can pleased bee. - My _Light_, is from the Planet of the _Sunne_; - And, though the _Course_, which I obliquely runne, - Oft brings my outward _Fortunes_ to the _Waine_, - My _Light_ shall, one day, bee renew’d againe. - Yea, though to some, I quite may seeme to lose - My _Light_; because, my follies interpose - Their shadowes to eclipse it: yet, I know, - My _Crescents_, will increase, and _fuller_, grow. - Assoone as in the _Flesh_, I beeing had, - I mooved on in _Courses retrograde_, - And, thereby lost my _Splendor_: but, I feele - Soft motions, from that great _Eternall-Wheele_, - Which mooveth all things, sweetly mooving mee, - To gaine the _Place_, in which I ought to bee: - And, when to _Him_, I backe _returne_, from _whom_ - At first I came, I shall at _Full_ become. - - - _Bee warie, =wheresoe’re=, thou bee: - For, from _deceit_, no =place= is free._ - -[Illustration: NUSQUAM TUTA FIDES. - -ILLVSTR. XLIX. _Book. 3_] - - Some write (but, on what grounds, I cannot tell) - That they, who neere unto the _Deserts_ dwell, - Where _Elephants_ are found, doe notice take, - What trees they haunt, their sleeping-stocks to make; - That, when they rest against an halfe-sawne stemme, - It (falling) may betray those Beasts to them. - Now, though the part _Historicall_, may erre, - The _Morall_, which this _Emblem_ doth inferre, - Is overtrue; and, seemeth to imply, - The _World_ to bee so full of Treacherie, - As, that, no corner of it, found can be, - In which, from Falshoods Engines, wee are free. - I have observ’d the _Citie_; and, I finde - The _Citizens_, are civill, grave and kinde; - Yet, many are deluded by their showes, - And, cheated, when they trust in them repose. - I have been oft at _Court_; where I have spent, - Some idle time, to heare them _Complement_: - But, I have seene in _Courtiers_, such deceit, - That, for their Favours, I could never wait. - I doe frequent the _Church_; and, I have heard - Gods judgements, by the _Preachers_, there, declar’d, - Against mens falshoods; and, I gladly heare - Their zealous _Prayers_, and good _Counsells_ there; - But, as I live, I finde some such as they, - Will watch to doe a mischiefe, if they may. - Nay, those poore sneaking _Clownes_, who seeke their living, - As if they knew no manner of deceiving; - Ev’n _those_, their _witts_, can (this way) so apply, - That, they’l soone cousen, wiser men, than I. - - - _This =Day=, my =Houre-glasse=, forth is runne; - Thy =Torch=, to =Morrow=, may bee done._ - -[Illustration: HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI: - -ILLVSTR. L. _Book. 3_] - - There is no Day, nor minute of the Day, - In which, there are not many sent away - From _Life_ to _Death_; or, many _drawing-on_, - Which, must within a little while, bee gone. - You, often, view the _Grave_; you, often, meet - The _Buriers_, and the _Mourners_, in the street, - Conveying of some Neighbour, to that home, - Which must, e’re long, your _dwelling-place_ become. - You see the _Race_, of many a youthfull _Sonne_ - Is finish’d, e’re his _Father’s_ Course is done; - And, that, the hand of _Death_, regardeth neither - Sexe, Youth, nor Age; but, mingleth all together. - You, many times, in your owne houses, heare - The groanes of _Death_, and, view your _Children_, there, - Your loving _Parents_, or, beloved _Wives_, - To gaspe for breath, and, labour for their _lives_. - Nay, you your selves, do sometime find the paines - Of _Sicknesse_, in your Bowels, and your Vaines. - The _Harbingers_ of _Death_, sometime, begin - To take up your whole _Bodie_, for their _Inne_. - You beare their heavie _Aches_, on your back; - You feele their _twinges_, make your heartstrings crack; - And, sometime, lye imprison’d, and halfe dead, - With _Age_, or with _Diseases_, on your bed: - Yet you deferre your ends; and, still contrive, - For temp’rall things; as if you thought to live - Sixe _Ages_ longer: or, had quite forgot, - That, you, and others, draw one _common-Lot_. - But, that, you might not, still, the same forget, - This _Emblem_, and this _Motto_, here were set. - - _Finis Libri tertij._ - - - - -[Illustration: Decoration] - -THE THIRD LOTTERIE. - - -1 - - The _Wreathes_ of GLORY, you affect, - But, _meanes_ to gaine them, you neglect; - And, (though in _doing_, you delight) - You _doe_ not, alwayes, what is _right_: - Nor are you growne, as yet, so wise, - To know, to whom the richest _Prize_ - Doth appertaine; nor what it is. - But, now, you are inform’d of _This_. - -See, _Emblem_ I. - - -2 - - Though you are _weake_, you much may doe, - If you will set your _Wits_ thereto. - For, meaner _Powres_, than you have had, - And, meaner _Wits_, good shift have made, - Both to contrive, and compasse that, - Which abler men have wondred at. - Your _Strength_, and _Wit_, unite, therefore, - And, both shall grow improov’d the more. - -See, _Emb._ II. - - -3 - - Perhaps, thou mayst be one of them, - Who, Civill _Magistrates_ contemne; - And sleighteth, or else, flouteth at - The _Ceremonies_ of Estate. - That, thou maist, therefore, learne to get, - Both better _Manners_, and more _Wit_, - The _Sword_, and _Mace_, (by some despiz’d) - Is, for thy sake, now _moralliz’d_. - -See, _Emb._ III. - - -4 - - By this thy _Lot_, wee may misdoubt, - Thou look’st not warily about; - But, hudlest onward, without heed, - What went _before_, or may _succeed_; - Procuring losse, or discontent, - Which, _Circumspection_, might prevent. - Therefore, with gratefulnesse, receive - Those counsells, which our _Moralls_ give. - -See, _Emb._ IV. - - -5 - - Thou hast, unworthily, repin’d, - Or, been displeased in thy mind, - Because, thy _Fortunes_ doe not seeme - To fit thy _Worth_ (in thy esteeme:) - And loe, to check thy discontent, - Thy _Lot_, a _Morall_, doth present; - And shewes, that, if thou _vertuous_ bee, - _Good-Fortune_, will attend on thee. - -See, _Emb._ V. - - -6 - - When thy Desires have good successe, - Thine owne _Endeavors_, thou dost blesse; - But, seldome unto _God_ thou giv’st - Due thanks, for that, which thou receiv’st. - Thine _Emblem_, therefore, tells from whom - The fruits of good _Endeavours_, come: - And, shewes (if thou to thrive intend) - On whom, thou, alwayes, must depend. - -See, _Emb._ VI. - - -7 - - It may bee, thou art one of those, - Whose _Faith_, more _bold_, than _fruitfull_ growes; - And (building on some false _Decree_) - Disheartnest those, that _Workers_ be - To gaine (with _awfull-joy_) that _PriZe_, - Which, unto no man, _God_ denies, - That workes in _Hope_; and, lives by _Faith_. - Marke, therefore, what thine _Emblem_ saith. - -See, _Emb._ VII. - - -8 - - Thou hast been willing, that thy _Name_, - Should live the life of _Honest-Fame_; - And, that, thy _labours_ (to thy praise) - Continue might, in future dayes. - Behold; the _Lot_, thou hapnest on, - Hath showne, how this may well bee done. - Pursue the _Course_, which there is taught, - And, thy desires to passe are brought. - -See, _Emb._ VIII. - - -9 - - Thou, many things, hast well begun; - But, little, to good purpose, done: - Because, thou hast a fickle _braine_, - And, _hands_ that love to take no paine. - Therefore, it chanceth not amisse, - That, thou hast such a _Chance_, as this: - For, if thou want not _Grace_, or _Wit_, - Thou maist, in time, have good of it. - -See, _Emb._ IX. - - -10 - - Whatev’r you seeme to others, now, - It was the _Harrow_, and the _Plough_, - By which, your _Predecessors_ got, - The fairest portion of your _Lot_: - And, (that, it may encrease your _Wit_) - They haunt you, in an _Emblem_, yet. - Peruse our _Morall_; and, perchance, - Your _Profit_, it will much advance. - -See, _Emb._ X. - - -11 - - Much labour, and much time you spend, - To get an able-constant _Friend_: - But, you have ever sought him, there, - Where, no such precious _Iewells_ are: - For, you, _without_ have searching bin, - To finde, what must be found _within_. - This _Friend_, is mention’d by this _Lot_, - But, _God_ knowes where he may be got. - -See, _Emb._ XI. - - -12 - - Thou seek’st for _Fame_; and, now art showne, - For what, her _Trumpet_ shall be blowne. - Thine _Emblem_, also, doth declare, - What _Fame_ they get, who _vertuous_ are, - For _Praise_ alone; and, what _Reward_, - For such like _Studies_, is prepar’d. - Peruse it; And, this _Counsell_ take; - _Bee vertuous, for meere Vertues sake_. - -See, _Emb._ XII - - -13 - - This _Lot_, those persons, alwayes finds, - That have high _thoughts_, and loftie _minds_; - Or, such as have an itch to learne, - That, which doth nothing them concerne; - Or, love to peepe, with daring eyes, - Into forbidden _Mysteries_. - If any one of these thou bee, - Thine _Emblem_, lessons hath for thee. - -See, _Emb._ XIII. - - -14 - - If all be true, these _Lots_ doe tell us, - Thou shouldst be of those _Fidling-fellowes_, - Who, better practised are growne, - In _others_ matters, than their _owne_: - Or, one, that covets to be thought, - A man, that’s ignorant of nought. - If it be so, thy _Morall_ showes - Thy _Folly_, and what from it flowes. - -See, _Emb._ XIV. - - -15 - - Thou hast some _Charge_, (who e’re thou be) - Which, _Tendance_ may expect from thee. - And, well, perhaps, it may be fear’d, - Tis often left, without regard: - Or, that, thou dost securely sleep, - When, thou should’st watch, more strictly, keep. - Thou knowest best, if it be so: - Take therefore heed, what is to doe. - -See, _Emb._ XV. - - -16 - - In secret, thou dost oft complaine, - That, thou hast _hop’d_, and _wrought_ in vaine; - And, think’st thy _Lot_, is farre more hard, - Than what for others is prepar’d. - An _Emblem_, therefore, thou hast got, - To shew, it is our _common-Lot_, - To _worke_ and _hope_; and, that, thou hast - A _Blessing_ by it, at the last. - -See, _Emb._ XVI. - - -17 - - That thou hast _Honestie_, we grant; - But, _Prudence_, thou dost often want: - And, therefore, some have injur’d thee, - Who farre more _Wise_, than _honest_ bee. - That, now, _Discretion_ thou mayst add, - To those _good-meanings_ thou hast had; - The _Morall_ of thine _Emblem_, view; - And, what it counsels, that, pursue. - -See, _Emb._ XVII. - - -18 - - To your _Long-home_, you nearer are, - Than you (it may bee) are aware: - Yea, and more easie is the _Way_, - Than you, perchance, conceive it may. - Lest, therefore, _Death_, should grim appeare, - And, put you in a causelesse feare; - (Or out of minding wholly passe) - This _Chance_, to you allotted was. - -See, _Emb._ XVIII. - - -19 - - In slippery _Paths_, you are to goe; - Yea, they are full of danger too: - And, if you heedfull should not grow, - They’l hazzard much, your overthrow. - But, you the mischiefe may eschew, - If wholsome Counsell, you pursue. - Looke, therefore, what you may be taught, - By that, which this your _chance_ hath brought. - -See, _Emb._ XIX. - - -20 - - This present _Lot_, concernes full neere, - Not you alone, but all men here; - For, all of us, too little heed - His _love_, who for our sakes, did _bleed_. - Tis true, that _meanes_, hee left behind him, - Which better teacheth how to minde him: - Yet, if wee both by _that_, and _this_, - Remember him, 'tis not amisse. - -See, _Emb._ XX. - - -21 - - Tis hop’d, you just, and pious are, - More out of _Conscience_, than for feare; - And, that you’l vertuous courses take, - For _Goodnesse_, and for _Vertue-sake_. - Yet, since the best men, sometimes may - Have need of helpes, in _Vertues_ way, - Those usefull _Moralls_, sleight you not, - Which are presented by this _Lot_. - -See, _Emb._ XXI. - - -22 - - This _Lot_ pertaineth unto those, - (And who they bee, _God_ onely knowes) - Who, to the world, have no desire; - But, up to heav’nly things aspire. - No doubt, but you, in some degree, - Indow’d with such _affections_ bee; - And, had this _Emblem_, that you might - Encourag’d bee, in such a _Flight_. - -See, _Emb._ XXII. - - -23 - - The state of _Temp’rall_ things to shew, - Yee have them, still, within your view; - For, ev’ry object that wee see, - An _Emblem_, of them, serves to bee. - But, wee from few things, helps doe finde, - To keepe _Eternitie_ in minde. - This _Lot_, an _Emblem_ brings, therefore, - To make you thinke upon it more. - -See, _Emb._ XXIII. - - -24 - - Vnlesse you better looke thereto, - _Dis-use_, and _Sloth_, will you undoe. - That, which of you despayred was, - With ease, might have bin brought to passe; - Had but so much bin done, as may - Bee equall’d with _One Line a day_. - Consider this; and, to that end, - The _Morall_ of your _Lot_ attend. - -See, _Emb._ XXIV. - - -_M_ 25 - - If wee mistake not, thou art one, - Who loves to court the _Rising-Sunne_; - And, if this _Lot_, thy nature finde, - Thou to _Preferment_ hast a minde: - If so; learne hence, by whose respect - (Next God) thou mayst thy hopes effect: - Then, seeke to winn his grace to thee, - Of what estate soe’re thou bee. - -See, _Emb._ XXV. - - -26 - - Thou to a _double-path_ art come; - And, peradventure, troublesome, - Thou findest it; for thee to know, - On whether hand thou oughtst to goe. - To put thee out of all suspect, - Of _Courses_ that are indirect; - Thy _Morall_ points thee to a path, - Which _hardship_, but, no perill hath. - -See, _Emb._ XXVI. - - -27 - - You warned are of taking heede, - That, never, you your _Bounds_ exceed; - And, also, that you be not found, - To come within your Neighbours _Bound_. - There may be some concealed Cause, - That, none but you, this _Emblem_ drawes. - Examine it; And, If you see - A fault, let it amended be. - -See, _Emb._ XXVII. - - -28 - - Your _Emblems_ morall doth declare, - When, _Lovers_ fitly matched are; - And, what the chiefest cause may be, - Why, _Friends_ and _Lovers_ disagree. - Perhaps, you somewhat thence may learne, - Which your _Affection_ doth concerne. - But, if it _Counsell_ you too late, - Then, preach it at your _Neighbours_ gate. - -See, _Emb._ XXVIII. - - -_M_ 29 - - Some, vrge their _Princes_ on to _Warre_, - And weary of sweet _Peace_, they are. - Some, seeke to make them, dote on _Peace_, - (Till publike Danger more encrease) - As if the World were kept in awe, - By nothing else but preaching _Law_. - Thy _Morall_ (if of those thou art) - Doth act a _Moderators_ part. - -See, _Emb._ XXIX. - - -30 - - Tis feared, thou dost lesse esteeme, - _Vpright_ to _bee_, than so to _seeme_; - And, if thine actions, faire _appeare_, - Thou carest not how foule they _are_. - Though this bee not thy fault alone, - Yet have a care of mending _One_: - And, study thou, _Vpright_ to grow, - As well in _Essence_, as in _Show_. - -See, _Emb._ XXX. - - -31 - - Some, all their _time_, and _wealth_ have spent, - In giving other men content; - And, would not grudge to waste their _Blood_, - To helpe advance the _Common-good_. - To such as these, you have been thought, - Not halfe so friendly as you ought. - This _Lot_ therefore befalls, to shew, - How great _respects_, to such, are due. - -See, _Emb._ XXXI. - - -32 - - You have been tempted (by your leave) - In hope of _Lucre_, to deceive: - But, much, as yet, you have not swerv’d - From _Faith_, which ought to be observ’d. - If well, hereafter, you would speed, - In _dealing-honestly_, proceed: - For, by your _Emblem_, you shall see, - That, _Honest-men_, the _richest_ bee. - -See, _Emb._ XXXII. - - -33 - - We hope, no person, here, beleeves, - That, you are of those wealthy _Theeves_, - Who, _Chaines_ of gold, and pearle doe weare. - And, of those _Theeves_, that, none you are, - Which weares a _Rope_, wee, plainly see; - For, you, as yet _unhanged_ bee: - But, unto God, for _Mercie_ crie, - Else _hang’d_ you may bee, e’re you die. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIII. - - -34 - - You, willing are, to put away, - The thinking on your _latter-day_: - You count the mention of it, _Folly_; - A meanes of breeding _Melancholly_; - And, newes unfit for men to heare, - Before they come to _sixtie-yeare_. - But, minde what Counsels now are sent, - And, mend, lest you too late repent. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIV. - - -35 - - Your _Wits_, your _Wishes_, and your _Tongue_, - Have run the _Wild goose-chase_, too long; - And (lest all Reason, you exceed) - Of _Rules_, and _Reines_, you now have need. - A _Bridle_, therefore, and a _Square_, - Prime _Figures_, in your _Emblem_, are. - Observe their _Morall_, and I pray, - Be _Wise_, and _Sober_, if you may. - -See, _Emb._ XXXV. - - -36 - - Because her _Ayd_ makes goodly showes, - You, on the _World_, your trust repose; - And, his _dependance_, you despise, - Who, meerly, on _God’s_ helpe, relies. - That, therefore, you may come to see, - How pleas’d, and safe, those men may bee, - Who have no ayd, but _God_, alone; - This _Emblem_, you have lighted on. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVI. - - -37 - - Some, thinke your _Vertue_ very much; - And, there is cause to thinke it such: - For, many wayes it hath been tride; - And, well the _Triall_ doth abide. - Yet, think not, but some _brunts_ there are, - Which, your owne _strength_ shall never beare. - And, by the _Morall_ of your _Lot_, - Learne, where, _Assistance_ may bee got. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVII. - - -38 - - Thou hast been grieved, and complain’d, - Because, the _Truth_ hath wrong sustain’d. - But, that, dismayd thou shouldst not be, - Thine _Emblem_ will declare to thee, - That, though the _Truth_ may suffer spite, - It shall not bee depressed quite; - But, by opposing, spread the more, - And, grow more pow’rfull than before. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVIII. - - -39 - - By _Rashnesse_, thou hast often err’d, - Or, else, thou hadst been more preferr’d. - But, future errours, to prevent, - Thou to the slow-pac’d _Oxe_ art sent, - To learne more _Staydnesse_; and, to doe - Thy _Workes_, with _Perseverance_, too. - Hee that this creatures _Vertue_ scornes, - May want it all, except his _Hornes_. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIX. - - -40 - - Dame _Fortunes_ favour seemes to bee - Much lov’d, and longed for, of thee; - As if, in what, her hand bestowes, - Thou mightst thy confidence repose. - But, that, her _manners_ may bee knowne, - This _Chance_, upon thee, was bestowne. - Consider well, what thou hast got, - And, on her flattrings, dote thou not. - -See, _Emb._ XL. - - -41 - - The _Steele_ and _Flint_, declare, in part, - The Temper of a _Stony-heart_; - And, shewe, that thence, no _Vertue_ flowes, - Till it be forced out, with blowes. - Some other, _Moralls_ thou maist learne, - Thereby, which will thy _good_, concerne: - Marke, therefore, what they doe declare, - And, minde it, as occasions are. - -See, _Emb._ XLI. - - -42 - - Thou thinkst thy _Witt_, had made thee great, - Had _Povertie_ not beene some _let_: - But, had thy _Wealth_ as ample beene, - As, thou thy _Witt_, didst overweene; - Insteed of thy desired _Height_, - Perhaps, thou hadst beene ruin’d quite. - Hereafter, therefore, be content, - With whatsoever _God_ hath sent. - -See, _Emb._ XLII. - - -43 - - To _Discord_, thou art somewhat prone, - And, thinkst thou mayst subsist alone; - Regarding not how safe they bide, - Who, fast, in _Concords_ bands are tide. - But, that thou mayst the better heed, - What _Good_, from _Vnion_ doth proceed, - An _Emblem_ is become thy _Lot_, - From which, good _Caveats_ may be got. - -See, _Emb._ XLIII. - - -44 - - Thou wouldst be lov’d; and, to that end, - Thou dost both _Time_, and _Labour_ spend: - But, thou expect’st (as wee beleeve) - More _Love_, than thou dost meane to give. - If so thou then, art much to blame: - For, _Love_ affects a _muturall-flame_; - Which, if it faile on either side, - Will never, long time, true abide. - -See, _Emb._ XLIV. - - -45 - - If all your _pow’rs_, you should unite, - Prevaile in your Desires, you might: - And, sooner should effect your ends, - If you should muster up your _Friends_. - But, since your _Genius_ doth suspect, - That, you such _Policie_ neglect, - Your _Lot_ presenteth to your view - An _Emblem_, which instructeth you. - -See, _Emb._ XLV. - - -46 - - Because, thou mayst be one of them, - Who dare the deeds of _Kings_ condemne; - (As if such eyes as theirs and yours - Could view the depth of _Sov’raigne pow’rs_; - Or, see, how in each _Time_, and _Place_, - _God_ rules their hearts, in ev’ry case.) - To check thy sawcinesse, in this, - An _Emblem_ comes not much amisse. - -See, _Emb._ XLVI. - - -47 - - Of many goodly parts thou vauntst; - And, much thou hast, though much thou wantst: - But, well it were, that, lesse, thou hadst, - Vnlesse more use thereof thou mad’st. - That, therefore, thou mightst come to see, - How vaine _unpractiz’d-vertues_ bee, - Peruse thine _Emblem_; and, from thence, - Take usefull heed of thy _Offence_. - -See, _Emb._ XLVII. - - -48 - - By this thy _Lot_, it may appeare, - Decayd thy _Hopes_, or _Fortunes_ are. - But, that, thou mayst no courage lose, - Thine _Emblem_, by example, showes, - That, as the _Moone_ doth from the _Waine_ - Returne, and fill her _Orbe_ againe: - So, thou thy _Fortunes_ mayst renew, - If, honest _Hopes_, thou shalt pursue. - -See, _Emb._ XLVIII. - - -49 - - Some _Foes_, for thee, doe lie in wait, - Where thou suspectest no _Deceit_; - Yea, many a one, thy harme intends, - Whom thou dost hope will be thy _Friends_: - Be, therefore, heedfull, whom to _trust_; - What _walke_ thou tak’st, and what thou _dost_; - For, by thine _Emblem_, thou shalt see, - That, _warinesse_, will needfull bee. - -See, _Emb._ XLIX. - - -50 - - It seemes, by drawing of this _Lot_, - The day of _Death_, is much forgot; - And, that, thou needst a faithfull _Friend_, - To minde thee of thy _latter-end_. - Vnheeded, therefore, passe not by, - What now thine _Emblem_ doth imply; - So, thou shalt heare (without affright) - _Death’s_ message, though it were to night. - -See, _Emb._ L. - - -51 - - Thou seek’st by fickle _Chance_, to gaine, - What thou by _Vertue_ might’st attaine. - Endeavour well, and, nothing shall - To thee, unfortunately fall: - For, ev’ry variable _Chance_, - Thy firme contentment, shall advance. - But, if thou, yet, remaine in doubt, - Turne _Fortunes-wheele_, once more, about. - - -52 - - Thy _Lot_, no Answere will bestow, - To that, which thou desir’st to know; - Nor canst thou, here, an _Emblem_ find, - Which to thy purpose is inclinde. - Perhaps, it is too late to crave, - What thou desirest, now, to have: - Or, but in vaine, to mention that, - Which thy _Ambition_ aymeth at. - Then, take it not in evill part, - That, with a _Blanck_, thou answer’d art. - - -53 - - Although you now refused not, - To trie the _Fortune_ of your _Lot_; - Yet, you, perhaps, unwilling are, - This company the same should heare, - Lest, some harsh _Morall_ should unfold - Such tricks, as you could wish untold. - But, loe, you need not stand in awe; - For, 'tis a _Blanck_, which now you draw. - - -54 - - It proves a _Blanck_; for, to what end, - Should wee a serious _Morall_ spend, - Where, _teachings_, _warnings_, and _advise_, - Esteemed are of little price? - Your onely purpose, is to looke - Upon the _Pictures_ of this _Booke_; - When, more discretion you have got, - An _Emblem_ shall attend your _Lot_. - - -55 - - You might have drawne an _Emblem_, here, - In which your _manners_ pictur’d were: - But, some will vexe, when they shall see - Themselves, so painted out to bee, - And, blame this _Booke_, as if it had - By some unlawfull _Art_ been made: - (Or, was contriv’d, that, to their shame, - Men, on themselves, might _Libels_ frame) - And, lest you may bee so unwise, - Your _Lot_, an _Emblem_, now, denies. - - -56 - - Because, _Good Chances_, others drew, - To trie these _Lots_, it pleased you. - But, had you such an _Emblem_ found, - As fits you rightly, you had froun’d; - Or, _inwardly_, you would have _chast_, - Although you _outwardly_ had laugh’d. - You, therefore, very glad may bee, - This proves a _Blanck_; and, so may wee. - - _FINIS._ - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - - - - A - COLLECTION - OF - EMBLEMES, - ANCIENT AND - MODERNE: - - Quickened - With METRICALL ILLVSTRATIONS, both - _Morall_ and _Divine_: And disposed into - LOTTERIES, - - That _Jnstruction_, and _Good Counsell_, may bee furthered - by an Honest and Pleasant _Recreation_. - - - _By_ GEORGE WITHER. - - _The fourth Booke._ - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - LONDON, - Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEWES. - MDCXXXIV. - - - - - _=TO - THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE= - PHILLIP, _Earle of_ PEMBROOKE, and - MOVNTGOMERIE, &c. Lord =Chamberlaine= of the - Houshould, =Knight= of the most honourable Order of - the =Garter=, and one of his =Majesties= most Honourable - =Privie-Councell=._ - - -_My Honourable_ LORD, - - Though, _Worthlesse_ in my owne repute I am; - And, (though my _Fortune_, so obscures my Name - Beneath my _Hopes_; that, now, it makes me seeme - As little worth, in other mens esteeme, - As in mine owne;) yet, when my _Merits_ were - No better, than, to most, they now appeare, - It pleased some, ev’n some of those that had - The _Noblest Names_, (and, those of whom was made - The best Account) so lowly to descend, - As, my well-meaning _Studies_, to befriend. - Among those WORTHIES, I may both bemone - (My selfe in HIM) and memorize, for _One_, - Your much renowned BROTHER, as a _Chiefe_ - In bringing to my waned _Hopes_, reliefe; - And, in my _Faculties_, were I as able - To honour _Him_, as he was honourable, - I would have showne, how, all this _Emperie_ - Hath lost a _Friend_, in HIM, as much as I. - To MEE, so freely, of his owne accord - It pleased HIM, his _Favours_, to afford; - That, when our learned, and late _Sov’raigne-Prince_, - (By others mis-informed) tooke offence - At my Free _Lines_; HEE, foun’d such _Meanes_ and _Place_ - To bring, and reconcile mee to his _Grace_; - That, therewithall, his _Majestie_ bestow’d - A Gift upon mee, which his _Bountie_ show’d: - And, had inrich’d mee; if, what was intended, - Had not, by othersome, beene ill befriended. - But, as I long time, suffred have by those - Who labour’d much, my thrivings, to oppose: - So, _I my selfe_, (although not out of pride, - As many thinke it) have so much relide - Vpon the _Royall-Gift_, neglecting so - To fortifie the same, as others do - By making Friends; that my estate grew lesse - (By more than twice five hundred Marks decrease) - Through that, which for, my profit was bestowne. - And, I, ere this, had wholly been undone; - But, that the _Wealth_, which I relie on, most, - Consists in things, which never can be lost. - Yet, by his _Losse_, I have _Occasions_ had - To feele, why other men are often sad. - And, I, (who blushed, to be troublesome - To any Friend) therby, almost am come - To such a passe; that, what I wish to have, - I should grow impudent enough to _Crave_, - Had not impartiall _Death_, and wasting _Time_, - Of all my Friends quite worne away the _Prime_; - And, left mee none, to whom I dare present - The meanest suite without encouragement: - Although, the greatest _Boone_, I would implore, - Should cost them, but a _Word_, or little more. - Yet, some there are, no doubt, for whose respect - I might endeavour, with no vaine effect; - Had I but cause, to have as high esteeme, - Of mine owne _Merits_, as I have of them. - And, if your _Honour_ should be so inclin’d, - As I desire; I, now am sure to finde - Another _Pembrooke_, by whose ayde sustain’d, - I may preserve, what by the _Last_ I gain’d. - To make adventure, how it will succeed, - I now am come. And lo, my LORD, insteed - Of better _Advocates_, I first begin, - Mine EMBLEMS, by these _Lines_, to Vsher in; - That, _they_, by these admittance may effect - For _Mee_, and for _themselves_, your kinde respect. - That, which in _them_, best Worthy you shall find, - Is this; that, they are Symptomes of a _Minde_, - Affecting honestie: and of a _Heart_, - So truly honouring a true desert, - That, I am hopefull made, they will acquire - As much respect as I can well desire: - And, SIR, your _Candor_, your knowne _Courtesies_, - With other praisefull _Vertues_, make mee rise - To this Beliefe; that, YOV by fav’ring mee - Hereafter, may as highly honour’d be, - As by some former Bounties; and encrease - My Future _Merit_, by your _Worthinesse_. - However, what I _am_ or shall be knowne - To _Bee_, by _Your Deservings_, or mine _owne_, - You may command it; and, be sure to finde - (Though false my _Fortunes_ prove) a Faithfull _Mind_. - -_Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ - - _Your Honours_ - - _truest Honourer_, - - GEO: WITHER. - - - TO - THE RIGHT HONORABLE, - _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c. - _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre - of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases - =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order - of the Garter, and one of his Majesties - most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ - -_Right Noble SIR_, - - _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke - That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke - My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= - Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, - (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, - A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, - I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) - Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ - _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, - How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; - I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW - I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow - The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought - =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought - What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, - But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; - Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, - According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ - _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, - Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, - With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, - Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=. - Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had - Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made - That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, - To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee. - For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes - The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ - _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: - It is no great _Adventure_, if I try - Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, - I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_. - His honourable FATHER, deem’d mee worth - So much respecting as to seeke me forth, - When, I was more _obscure_: And, MEE, for nought - But, onely to _Befriend mee_, forth HEE sought. - Then, wherefore, of his SONNE, should I suspect - That (feeling =Him=) hee can my love reject? - Since, _Courtesie_ doth alwaies, there, abound, - Where such a lovely _Personage_ is found? - _My LORD, these were my =Fancies=: But I take them - To be of no more worth, than, you shall make them - By your =Acceptance=: Nor, is’t my intent - To Court you, with fruitlesse =Complement=: - But, to attempt your =Favour= with a mind, - As readily, and really, inclinde - To =serve= you, when my services may steed; - As to expect your Favours, in my need. - For, had my =Fates= enabled me so much, - I should more willingly have sought out such - On whom I Courtesies might have bestowne, - Than, seeke to cure =Misfortunes= of mine =owne=. - No doubt, but, every day, your =Lordship= heares - =Inventions=, which may better please your eares - Than these I now present; And, yet you might - (For ought I knew) finde profit, or delight, - By our plaine EMBLEMS, or, some =uses= in them, - Which from your =Honour=, some respects may win them; - Ev’n for that good =Moralitie=, which they - To Vulgar Vnderstandings will convay. - But, Truth to speake, the chiefest cause which drew - My minde, to make them PRESENTS, for your view, - Was, but to take =Occasion= to professe, - That, I am =Servant=, to your WORTHINESSE. - In which, if YOV are pleased; All is got, - At which I aym’d: And, though you like it not, - It shall but teach Mee (for the time to come) - To take more heed, where I am troublesome._ - -And, I shall be, neverthelesse, - - your Honours to be commanded, - - as becommeth your Servant, - - GEO: WITHER. - - - - - _Whil’st I, the =Sunne’s= bright Face may view, - I will no meaner =Light= pursue._ - -[Illustration: NON INFERIORA SECUTUS. - -ILLVSTR. I. _Book. 4_] - - When, with a serious musing, I behold - The gratefull, and obsequious _Marigold_, - How duely, ev’ry morning, she displayes - Her open brest, when _Titan_ spreads his Rayes; - How she observes him in his daily walke, - Still bending towards him, her tender stalke; - How, when he downe declines, she droopes and mournes, - Bedew’d (as 'twere) with teares, till he returnes; - And, how she vailes her _Flow’rs_, when he is gone, - As if she scorned to be looked on - By an inferiour _Eye_; or, did contemne - To wayt upon a meaner _Light_, then _Him_. - When this I meditate, me-thinkes, the _Flowers_ - Have _spirits_, farre more generous, then ours; - And, give us faire Examples, to despise - The servile Fawnings, and Idolatries, - Wherewith, we court these earthly things below, - Which merit not the service we bestow. - But, oh my God! though groveling I appeare - Vpon the Ground, (and have a rooting here, - Which hales me downward) yet in my desire, - To that, which is above mee, I aspire: - And, all my best _Affections_ I professe - To _Him_, that is the _Sunne of Righteousnesse_. - Oh! keepe the _Morning_ of his _Incarnation_, - The burning _Noone-tide_ of his bitter _Passion_, - The _Night_ of his _Descending_, and the _Height_ - Of his _Ascension_, ever in my sight: - That imitating him, in what I may, - I never follow an inferiour _Way_. - - - _The =Earth= is God’s, and in his Hands - Are all the =Corners= of the Lands._ - -[Illustration: IN MANU DOMINI OMNES SUNT FINES TERRÆ. - -ILLVSTR. II. _Book. 4_] - - Long since, the sacred _Hebrew Lyrick_ sayd, - (A Truth, which never justly was denayd) - That, _All the world is God’s_; and that his _hands_ - Enclose the limits of the farthest _Lands_. - The selfe same _Truth_ affirmes, that likewise, there, - By him, their _clodds_, and _furrowes_ warred are, - And, that with _dewes_ and _showres_, he doth so blesse - The dwellings of the barren _Wildernesse_, - That, those Inhabitants (whom some conceiv’d, - Of usefull, and all pleasant things bereav’d) - Their labors, with advantage, doe employ, - And, fetch their yearely _Harvests_ home, with joy. - Why then should wee, that in God’s _Vineyard_ live, - Distrust that all things needfull hee will give? - Why should his _Garden_ doubt of what it needs, - Since hee oft waters barren _Rocks_ and _Weeds_? - Why should his _Children_, live in slavish feare, - Since hee is kind to those that strangers are? - Or, whither from his presence, can we flie, - To whom the furthest _hiding-place_ is nigh. - And, if I may, from lower objects clime, - (To questioning, in matters more sublime) - Why should I thinke, the _Soule_ shall not bee fed, - Where God affoords, to _Flesh_, her _daily Bread_? - Or, dreame, that hee, for some, provided none, - Because, on us, much _Mercie_ is bestowne? - 'Tis true enough, that _Hell_ devoureth all, - Who shall be found without the _Churches_ pale; - But, how farre that extends, no Eye can see, - Since, _in Gods hands, Earth’s farthest Corners bee_. - - - _By seeming other than thou art, - Thou dost performe a foolish part._ - -[Illustration: QUOD NON ES NE VIDEARE CAVE. - -ILLVSTR. III. _Book. 4_] - - The World is much for _Shewes_, and few there are - So diligent to _bee_, as to _appeare_; - Although a little travaile more, would make them - Those men, for which, the _lookers-on_ mistake them. - Some, have so toyled, and consum’d so much, - To get a false repute of being _Rich_, - That, they have spent farre more, than would have bought, - The _substance_ of the _shadow_, they have sought; - And, caused those, who deem’d them rich before, - To know them, to bee miserably _poore_. - Some others, would so faine be counted _Wise_, - That, they consume in _Curiosities_, - In _Sophistries_, and superficiall _showes_, - More pretious Time, than would have made them those, - They long to seeme, (had halfe that meanes been spent, - In seeking _Wisdome_, with a pure intent) - Whereas, the glorioust purchases of such, - (Though by their Peeres they seeme applauded much) - Are still so vaine, that little they possesse, - But fruitlesse _leaves_, of _learned foolishnesse_: - Yea, by affecting more than is their due, - They lose ev’n both the _substance_, and the _shew_; - And, so, instead of honours _Crowne_, have worne - The _Coxcombes_, of a well-deserved scorne. - But, of all _Fooleries_, the grossest _Folly_ - Is theirs, who weare those _garbes_ of _seeming-holy_, - Which paine them sore, yet make them still appeare, - To _God_ and _Men_, as wicked as they are. - Be, therefore, what, to be thou hast profest; - But, bee not of this last, of all the rest. - - - _Pursue thy =Workes=, without delay, - For, thy short =houres= runne fast away._ - -[Illustration: FESTINAT DECURRERE. - -ILLVSTR. IIII. _Book. 4_] - - Though this bee but the picture of that _Glasse_, - By which thou measur’st how thine _houres_ doe passe, - Yet, sleight it not; for, much 'twill profit thee, - To ponder what the _Morals_ of it bee. - And, 'tis an _Emblem_, whence the _Wise_ may learne, - That, which their persons, neerely doth concerne. - The brittle _Glasse_, serves fitly to expresse - The _Bodie’s_ frailtie, and much crasinesse. - Foure _Pillars_, which the glassie worke empale, - Instruct thee, that the _Vertues_ Cardinall, - To guard the _Manhood_, should bee still employ’d, - Lest else the feeble fabrick bee destroy’d. - The _Sand_, still running forth, without delay, - Doth shew, that _Life-time_, passeth fast away, - And, makes no stop: yea, and the _Motto_ too, - (Lest thou forgetfull prove) informes thee so. - By viewing this, Occasion, therefore, take, - Of thy fast-flying _Houres_, more use to make; - And, heedfull bee, to shunne their common crime, - Who take much care to trifle out the time; - As if it merited their utmost paine, - To lose the gemme, which most they seeke to gaine. - _Time-past_ is lost already: _Time-to-come_, - Belongs, as yet, thou knowst not unto whom. - The _present-houres_ are thine, and, onely those, - Of which thou hast _Commission_ to dispose; - And, they from thee, doe flye away so fast, - That, they are scarcely knowne, till they are past. - _Lord, give mee grace, to minde, and use =Time= so, - That, I may doe thy =worke=, before I goe._ - - - _Repent, or God will breake the thread, - By which, thy =doome= hangs o’re thy head._ - -[Illustration: ABRUMPAM. - -ILLVSTR. V. _Book. 4_] - - Marke well this _Emblem_; and, (when in a _thread_, - You see the _Globe_, there, hang above their head, - Who in securitie, beneath it sit) - Observe likewise, the _Knife_, that threatens it; - The smallnesse of the _Twine_; and, what a death - Would follow, should it fall on those beneath: - And (having well observ’d it) mind, I pray, - That, which the word about it, there, doth say: - For, it includes a _Caveat_, which wee need - To entertaine, with a continuall heed. - Though few consider it, wee finde it thus - (Throughout our lives) with ev’ry one of us. - _Destruction_ hangeth in a _single thread_, - Directly over every _Sinner’s_ head. - That _Sentence_ is gone forth, by which wee stand - Condemn’d to suffer death. The dreadfull hand, - Of God’s impartiall _Iustice_, holds a _Knife_, - Still ready, to cut off our _thread of life_; - And, 'tis his _mercie_, that keepes up the _Ball_ - From falling, to the ruine of us all. - Oh! let us minde, how often wee have bin, - Ev’n in the very act of _Deadly-sinne_, - Whilst this hung over us; and, let us praise, - And love him, who hath yet prolong’d our dayes: - Yea, let our thankfulnesse, bring forth such fruit, - As, to the benefit may somewhat suit: - For, though a _sudden-Death_ may not ensue, - Yet, (since _Times_ Axe, doth every minute hew - The _Root of Life_) the Tree, e’re long, must fall; - And, then perhaps, too late, repent wee shall. - - - _When =woe= is in our selves begun, - Then, whither from it, can wee run?_ - -[Illustration: HINC DOLOR INDE FUGA. - -ILLVSTR. VI. _Book. 4_] - - Poore _Hart_, why dost thou run so fast? and why, - Behind thee dost thou looke, when thou dost fly? - As if thou seem’dst in thy swift flight, to heare - Those _dangers_ following thee, w^{ch} thou dost feare? - Alas! thou labour’st, and thou runn’st in vaine, - To shunne, by _flight_, thy _terrors_, or thy _paine_; - For, loe, thy _Death_, which thou hast dreaded so, - Clings fast unto thee, wheresoere thou goe: - And while thou toyl’st, an _outward-ease_ to win, - Thou draw’st thine owne _destruction_ further _in_; - Making that _Arrow_, which but prickes thy hide, - To pierce thy tender entrailes, through thy side. - And, well I may this wounded _Hart_ bemoane; - For, here, me thinkes, I’m taught to looke upon - Mine owne condition; and, in him, to see - Those deadly wounds, my _Sinnes_ have made in mee. - I greatly feare the _World_, may unawares - Intangle mee, by her alluring snares: - I am afraid, the _Devill_ may inject - Some poys’nous fume, my _Spirit_ to infect, - With ghostly _Pestilence_; and, I assay, - To flie from these, with all the pow’rs I may. - But, oh my Flesh! this very _Flesh_ I weare, - Is worse to mee, than _Worlds_, and _Devils_ are: - For, without this, no pow’r on mee, they had. - This is that _Shirt_, which made _Alcides_ mad. - It is a _griefe_, which I shall never cure, - Nor flie from, whilst my life-time doth endure: - From thence, oh _Lord_, my greatest _sorrowes_ bee; - And, therefore, from my _Selfe_, I flie to _Thee_. - - - _When =Magistrates= confined are, - They revell, who were kept in feare._ - -[Illustration: CAPTIVUM IMPUNE LACESSUNT. - -ILLVSTR. VII. _Book. 4_] - - A Tyrannous, or wicked _Magistrat_, - Is fitly represented by a _Catt_: - For, though the _Mice_ a harmfull vermine bee, - And, _Cats_ the remedie; yet, oft wee see, - That, by the _Mice_, far lesse, some house-wives leese, - Then when they set the _Catt_ to keepe the _Cheese_. - A ravenous _Cat_, will punish in the _Mouse_, - The very same Offences, in the house, - Which hee himselfe commits; yea, for that _Vice_, - Which was his owne (with praise) he kills the _Mice_; - And, spoyleth not anothers life alone, - Ev’n for that very _fault_ which was his _owne_, - But _feeds_, and _fattens_, in the spoyle of them, - Whom hee, without compassion did condemne. - Nay, worse than so; hee cannot bee content, - To slaughter them, who are as innocent, - As hee _himselfe_; but, hee must also play, - And sport his wofull _Pris’ners_ lives away; - More torturing them, 'twixt fruitlesse _hopes_ and _feares_, - Than when their bowels, with his teeth he teares: - For, by much terrour, and much crueltie, - Hee kills them, ten times over, e’re they die. - When, such like _Magistrates_ have rule obtain’d, - The best men wish their powre might be restrain’d: - But, they who shun enormities, through _Feare_, - Are glad when _good-men_ out of Office are. - Yea, whether _Governours_ bee good or bad, - Of their displacings _wicked-men_ are glad; - And, when they see them brought into disgraces, - They boldly play the _Knaves_ before their faces. - - - _Loe, heere is all, that bee possest, - Which once was =Victor= of the =East=._ - -[Illustration: RESTAT DE VICTORE ORIENTIS. - -ILLVSTR. VIII. _Book. 4_] - - When hee, who by his conquering Arme, possest - The rich, and spacious Empires of the _East_, - Felt his approaching end; he bade them beare - A _Shirt_ throughout his _Armie_, on a _Speare_, - Proclaiming, that of all his large estate, - No more was left him, then, but only that: - Perhaps intending, thereby, to expresse, - A sorrow for his wilde _Ambitiousnesse_; - Or, hoping, by that _Spectacle_, to give - Some good _Instructions_ unto those that live. - However, let it serve us, to declare, - How vaine their toylings, and ambitions are, - Who rob themselves, and other men of rest, - For things that are so little while possest. - And, if that powerfull King, could nothing have, - That was of use, to carry to his _Grave_, - (Of all his conquered _Kingdomes_) but, one _Shirt_, - Or, _Winding sheet_, to hide his Royall durt; - Why should we pinch, and scrape, and vext become, - To heap up Riches, for we know not whom? - Or, macerate the _Flesh_, by raising strife, - For more, than will bee usefull during life? - Nay, ev’n for that, which sometimes shortens _breath_, - And makes us, also, wretched after _Death_. - _Let mee, oh God! my labour so employ, - That, I, a competencie may enjoy. - I aske no more, than may =Lifes= want supply, - And, leave their due to others, when I =die=. - If this thou grant, (which nothing doubt I can) - None ever liv’d, or dy’d a richer man._ - - - _When =Hopes=, quite frustrate were become, - The =Wither’d-branch= did freshly bloome._ - -[Illustration: INSPERATA FLORUIT. - -ILLVSTR. IX. _Book. 4_] - - T’is true, a _wither’d-branch_ I am, and seeme - To some, as voyd of _Hopes_, as of esteeme; - For, in their judgements, I appeare to be - A saplesse _Bough_, quite broken from the Tree, - (Ev’n such as that, in this our _Emblem_, here) - And, yet, I neither feele _Despaire_, nor _Feare_; - For, I have seene (e’re now) a little _Spray_, - (Rent from her _Stemme_) lye trodden by the way, - Three moneths together; which, when _Spring_ drew on, - To take an unexpected Root begun; - (Yea, grew to bee a Tree) and, growing, stood, - When those great _Groves_, were fell’d for firing-wood, - Which once had high esteeme; and sprung unhurt, - While that poore _Branch_, lay sleighted in the durt. - Nay, I have seene such _twiggs_, afford them shade, - By whom they were the meanest shrippings made, - Of all the _Wood_; And, you may live to see, - (For ought yet knowne) some such event in mee. - And, what if all who know mee, see me dead, - Before those _hopes_ begin to spring and spread? - Have therefore they that hate me, cause to boast, - As if mine expectations I had lost? - No sure: For, I, who by _Faith’s_ eyes have seene, - Old _Aarons_ wither’d _Rod_ grow fresh and greene; - And also viewed (by the selfe-same _Eyes_) - _Him_, whom that _Rod_, most rightly typifies, - _Fall_ by a shamefull _Death_, and _rise_, in spight - Of _Death_, and _Shame_, unto the glorioust _height_. - Ev’n I, beleeve my _Hope_ shall bee possest, - And, therefore, (ev’n in _Death_) in _Hope_ I’le rest. - - - _True =Vertue=, whatsoere betides, - In all =extreames=, unmoov’d abides._ - -[Illustration: NESCIT LABI VIRTUS. - -ILLVSTR. X. _Book. 4_] - - When, in this _Emblem_, here, you have espide, - The shape of a triangled _Pyramide_, - And, have observed well, those mightie _Rockes_, - Whose firme foundation bides the dreadfull shockes - Of angry _Neptune_; you may thereby see, - How firmly setled, _Vertues_ reall bee. - For, as the raging _Seas_, although they roare, - Can make no breach upon the Rockie shore; - And, as a true triangled _Pyramide_, - Stands fast, and shewes alike, on ev’ry side: - So, howsoever _Fortune_, turnes or winds, - Those men, which are indow’d with vertuous minds, - It is impossible, to drive them from - Those _Formes_, or _Stations_, which those minds become. - And, as the raging _Sea_, with foming threats, - Against the _Rockie-shore_, but vainely beats; - So, _Envie_ shall in vaine, loud blustrings make, - When vertuous resolutions they would shake. - For, _Vertue_, which receives an overthrow, - Was _Vertue_, not _indeed_, but in the _show_. - So farre am I, oh _Lord_! from laying claime - To have this _Vertue_, that, I doe but ayme - At such _perfection_; and, can come no nigher - As yet, than to obtaine it in _desire_. - But, fixe thou so, this weake desire of mine, - Vpon the _Vertues_ of thy _Rocke_ divine, - That _I_, and that invaluable _Stone_, - May bee incorporated into _One_: - And, then, it will bee neither shame, nor pride, - To say, my _Vertues_, will unmov’d abide. - - - _The =motion= of the =World=, this day, - Is mov’d the quite contrarie way._ - -[Illustration: HODIE SIC VERTITVR ORBIS. - -ILLVSTR. XI. _Book. 4_] - - What was this _Figures_ meaning, but to show, - That, as these kinde of _Shell-fish_ backward goe, - So now the _World_, (which here doth seeme to take - An arseward Iourney on the _Cancer’s_ backe) - Moves counterwise; as if delight it had, - To runne a race, in _Courses retrograde_: - And, that, is very likely to be true, - Which, this our _Emblem_, purposeth to shew. - For, I have now, of late, not onely seene, - What backward motions, in my _Friends_ have beene; - And, that my outward _Fortunes_ and _Affaires_, - Doe of themselves, come tumbling downe the staires: - But, I have also found, that other things, - Have got a wheeling in contrary _Rings_; - Which _Regresse_, holding on, 'tis like that wee, - To _Iewes_, or _Ethnicks_, backe shall turned bee. - Some punie _Clerkes_, presume that they can teach - The ancient holy _Doctors_, how to preach. - Some _Laicks_, learne their _Pastors_ how to pray. - Some _Parents_, are compelled to obay - Their _Sonnes_; and, so their Dignitie to lose, - As to be fed and cloth’d, at their dispose. - Nay, wee have some, who have assay’d to draw, - All backward, to the _Bondage_ of the _Law_; - Ev’n to those abrogated _Rites_ and _Dayes_, - By which, the wandring _Iew_ markes out his wayes. - And, to pursue this _Round_, they are so heady, - That, they have made themselves, and others giddy. - _Doe then, these froward =Motions=, LORD, restraine, - And, set the =World= in her due course againe._ - - - _=Invincibilitie= is there, - Where =Order=, =Strength=, and =Vnion= are._ - -[Illustration: VIS NESCIA VINCI. - -ILLVSTR. XII. _Book. 4_] - - From these well-order’d _Arrowes_, and the _Snake_, - This usefull Observation you may make; - That, where an able _Prudence_, doth combine - _Vnited-forces_, by good _Discipline_, - It maketh up a pow’r, exempted from - The feare, or perill, to be _overcome_: - And, if you covet _safetie_, you will seeke - To know this _Ward_, and to acquire the like. - For, doubtlesse, neither is it in the force, - Of iron _Charets_, or of armed _Horse_, - In which, the _King_, securitie may finde, - Unlesse the Riders bee well _Disciplinde_. - Nor, lyes it in the Souldiers common _Skill_ - In warlike _Postures_; nor in theirs, who drill - The _Rankes_ and _Fyles_, to order them aright, - According as _Occasion_ makes the _Fight_. - But, men must use a further _Prudence_ too, - Or else, those _vulgar-Arts_ will all undoe. - For, these, are onely _Sciences_ injoynd, - To order well the _Body_, not the _Mind_: - And, men best train’d in these (oft times) we see, - The _Hare-brain’dst-fooles_, in all our _Armies_ bee. - To _strength_, and _skill_, unite we must, therefore, - A manly _Prudence_, comprehending more, - Than all these _Powr’s_: ev’n such, as when shee please, - To all her ends, can use and mannage these; - And, shew us how to cure, or to prevent - All _HaZards_; or, withall to bee content. - Hee that’s thus arm’d, and trusts in _God_ alone, - May bee _oppos’d_, but, _conquered_ of none. - - - _When thou art shipwrackt in Estate, - Submit with patience, unto =Fate=._ - -[Illustration: QUO FATA TRAHUNT. - -ILLVSTR. XIII. _Book. 4_] - - When I beheld this Picture of a _Boat_, - (Which on the raging _Waves_ doth seeme to float) - Forc’d onward, by the current of the Tide, - Without the helpe of _Anchor_, _Oare_ or _Guide_, - And, saw the _Motto_ there, which doth imply, - That shee commits her selfe to _Destinie_; - Me thinkes, this _Emblem_ sets out their estate, - Who have ascribed ev’ry thing to _Fate_; - And dreame, that howsoe’re the businesse goe, - Their _Worke_, nor hinders, neither helpes thereto. - The leaking _Ship_, they value as the sound: - Hee that’s to hanging borne, shall ne’re bee drown’d; - And, men to happinesse ordain’d (say these) - May set their _Ship_ to float, as _Fate_ shall please. - This _Fancie_, springing from a mis-beleeving - Of God’s _Decrees_; and, many men deceiving, - With shewes of _Truth_, both causeth much offence - Against God’s _Mercies_, and his _Providence_; - And brings to passe, that some to ruine runne, - By their neglect of what they might have done. - For, _Meanes_ is to bee us’d, (if wee desire, - The blessing of our safetie to acquire) - Whose naturall effects, if God deny, - Vpon his _Providence_ wee must relye, - Still practising what naturall aydes may bee, - Vntill no likely ayd untride wee see. - And, when this _Non plus_ wee are forc’d unto, - _Stand still_, wee may, and wayt what God will do. - Hee that shall thus to _Fate_, his fortunes leave, - Let mee bee ruin’d, if Shee him deceive. - - - _The best, and fairest =House=, to mee, - Is that, where best I love to bee._ - -[Illustration: ΟΙΚΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΣ - -ILLVSTR. XIV. _Book. 4_] - - They are not _Houses_ builded large and high, - Seel’d all with _Gold_, and pav’d with _Porphyrie_, - Hung round with _Arras_, glaz’d with _Christall-glasse_, - And cover’d o’re with plates of shining _Brasse_, - Which are the best; but, rather, those where wee - In _safetie_, _health_, and best _content_, may bee; - And, where wee finde, though in a meane Estate, - That portion, which maintaines a quiet _Fate_. - Here, in a homely _Cottage_, thatcht with reed, - The _Peasant_ seemes as pleasedly to feed, - As hee, that in his _Hall_ or _Parlour_ dines, - Which Fret-worke Roofes, or costly Cedar Lines: - And, with the very same affections too, - Both to, and from it, hee doth come and goe. - The _Tortois_, doubtlesse, doth no house-roome lack, - Although his _House_ will cover but his back; - And, of his _Tub_, the _Cynicke_ seem’d as glad, - As _Alexander_ was of all hee had. - When I am setled in a place I love, - A shrubby _hedge-row_, seemes a goodly _Grove_. - My liking maketh _Palaces_ of _Sheds_, - And, of plaine _Couches_, carved Ivory _Beds_: - Yea, ev’ry _path_, and pathlesse _walke_, which lies - Contemn’d, as rude, or wilde, in others eyes, - To mee is pleasant; not alone in show, - But, truly such: For, liking makes them so. - As pleas’d in theirs, the _Snailes_, and _Cocles_ dwell, - As doth a _Scallop_ in his pearly shell: - For, that commends the _House_, which makes it fit, - To serve their turnes, who should have use of it. - - - _The =King=, his pow’r from God receives: - For, hee alone the =Scepter= gives._ - -[Illustration: DEUS DAT CUI VULT. - -ILLVSTR. XV. _Book. 4_] - - The Gift of _Kingdomes_, _Children_, and _good-Wives_, - Are three of God’s most choice _Prerogatives_, - In temp’rall Blessings; and, of all these three, - The gifts of _Kingdomes_, his rar’st Favours bee: - For, in five hundred Millions, there’s not one, - Whom this high _Honour_ is conferr’d upon; - Nor is there any knowne _Estate_ on earth, - (Whereto wee come, by _Merit_, or by _Birth_) - Which can, to any man assurance bring, - That, hee shall either _live_, or _die_ a _King_. - The _Morning-Starre_, that’s Heire unto a _Crowne_, - Oft sets, before the _shining-Sunne_ is downe; - And, some, that once a glorious _Empire_ swayd, - Did lose their _Kingdomes_, e’re their heads were layd. - The greatest earthly _Monarch_ hath no powre, - To keepe his Throne one minute of an houre, - (Vse all the meanes, and policies hee can) - If God will give it to another man. - _Hee_, when _Belshazzar_ was in high’st estate, - His _Kingdome_ to the _Persians_ did translate. - King _Saul_, and _Rehoboam_, could not stay - The _Royalties_, which God would give away; - And, _Hee_ that was the proudest of the rest, - God, changed from a _King_, into a Beast. - Nor is there any man so meane, but hee, - When God shall please, an _Emperour_ may bee. - Some, from the _Pot-kilne_, from the _Sheep-cote_, some, - Hee raised hath, great _Princes_ to become: - Yea, hee o’re heav’n and earth, hath rear’d his _Throne_, - That was on earth, the most _despised-one_. - - - _Her favours, =Fortune=, oft imparts, - To those that are of no deserts._ - -[Illustration: INDIGNUM FORTUNA FOVET. - -ILLVSTR. XVI. _Book. 4_] - - Would you not laugh, and thinke it beastly fine, - To see a durtie, and ill-favour’d _Swine_, - Weare on her snout, a _Diamond_, or a _Pearle_, - That might become the _Ladie_ of an _Earle_? - And hold it head, as if it meant to show - It were the _Pigg_ of some well-nurtur’d _Sow_? - Perhaps, you thinke there be not any where - Such _Antickes_, but in this our _Emblem_ here. - But, if you take these _Charmes_, and then goe forth - Among some troupes, which passe for folkes of worth, - You shall discover, quickly, if you please, - A thousand sights, as mimicall as these. - Here, you shall see a noble _Title_ worne, - (That had not mis-beseem’d one better borne) - By him, whose vertues are of little price, - And, whose estate, was gotten by his _Vice_. - You shall behold another _Mushrome_, there, - Walke with our _Lords_, as if hee were their _Peere_, - That was well knowne, to be but tother day, - No fit companion for such men as they; - And, had no other meanes to climbe this height, - But _Gaming_, or to play the _Parasite_. - Yet (though he neither hath his _Trade_, nor _Lands_, - Nor any honest _In-come_, by his _hands_) - Hee, oft consumes at once, in _Games_ or _Cheare_, - More than would keepe his _Better_ all the yeare. - Yea, many such as these, thou shouldst behold, - Which would bee vext, if I describe them should: - For, thus, unworthily, blind _Fortune_ flings, - To _Crowes_, and _Geese_, and _Swine_, her precious things. - - - _The best =good-turnes= that =Fooles= can doe us, - Proove disadvantages unto us._ - -[Illustration: STULTORUM ADIUMENTA NOCUMENTA. - -ILLVSTR. XVII. _Book. 4_] - - A _Foole_, sent forth to fetch the _Goslings_ home, - When they unto a Rivers brinck were come, - (Through which their passage lay) conceiv’d a feare - His Dames best _Brood_, might have been drowned there; - Which, to avoyd, hee thus did shew his wit, - And his good nature, in preventing it. - Hee, underneath his _girdle_, thrusts their heads, - And, then the Coxcombe through the water wades. - Here learne, that when a _Foole_ his helpe intends, - It rather doth a mischiefe, then befriends; - And, thinke, if there be danger in his _love_, - How harmefull his _Maliciousnesse_ may prove: - For, from his _kindenesse_, though no profit rise - To doe thee spight, his _Malice_ may suffise. - I could not from a _Prince_ beseech a boone - By suing to his _Iester_ or _Buffoone_: - Nor, any Fooles vaine humor, sooth or serve, - To get my bread, though I were like to starve. - For, to be _poore_, I should not blush so much, - As if a _Foole_ should raise me to be _rich_. - Lord, though of such a kinde my faults may be, - That sharpe _Affliction_ still must tutor mee, - (And give me due _Correction_ in her Schooles) - Yet, oh preserve me from the scorne of _Fooles_. - Those wicked _Fooles_, that in their hearts have sed - There is no God; and, rather give me _Bread_ - By _Ravens_, LORD, or in a _Lions_ Den, - Then by the Favours of such foolish men: - Lest, if their _dainties_ I should swallow downe, - Their smile might more undoe, me, than their _frowne_. - - - _Though =weaknesse= unto me belong, - In my =Supporter=, I am strong._ - -[Illustration: TE STANTE VIREBO. - -ILLVSTR. XVIII. _Book. 4_] - - Although there bee no Timber in the _Vine_, - Nor strength to raise the climbing _Ivie-twine_, - Yet, when they have a helper by their side, - Or, prop to stay them, like this _Pyramide_, - One roote sometime, so many _Sprayes_ will beare, - That, you might thinke, some goodly _Grove_ it were: - Their tender stalkes, to climbe aloft, are seene; - Their boughs are cover’d with a pleasant greene; - And, that, which else, had crept upon the ground, - Hath tops of loftie trees, and turrets crown’d. - This _Emblem_, fitly shadowes out the Natures - Of us, that are the _Reasonable-creatures_: - For, wee are truely by our _nat’rall-birth_, - Like _Vines_ undrest, and creeping on the earth; - Nor free from spoyling, nor in case to beare - Good _fruits_, or _leaves_, while we are groveling there. - But, if _new-borne_ by _Grace_, streight borne are wee, - From earthly creepings, by that _Living-tree_, - Which, here, was planted, meerely to this end, - That, by his _pow’r_, our _weaknesse_ might ascend. - And, hee our _frailtie_ to himselfe so takes, - So, of his _might_, the partners us hee makes; - That, hee, in us, doth seeme to hide his _pow’rs_, - And, make the _strength_ hee gives, appeare as ours. - Continue, _Lord_, this _Grace_, and grant wee may, - Firme hold, on our _Supporter_, alwayes lay: - So climbing, that wee nor neglect, nor hide - His _Love_; nor over-climbe it, by our _Pride_. - Thus, our yet staggering _weaknesse_, shall at length, - Bee fully changed into perfect _Strength_. - - - _Be wary, whosoe’re thou be, - For, from =Loves= arrowes, none are free._ - -[Illustration: FERIO. - -ILLVSTR. XIX. _Book. 4_] - - Good Folkes, take heede; for, here’s a wanton _Wagge_, - Who, having _Bowes_ and _Arrowes_, makes his bragg - That, he hath some unhappy trick to play; - And, vowes to shoot at all he meets to day. - Pray be not carelesse; for, the _Boy_ is blinde, - And, sometimes strikes, where most he seemeth kinde. - This rambling _Archer_ spares nor one, nor other: - Yea, otherwhile, the _Monkey_ shoots his Mother. - Though you be little _Children_, come not neere; - For, I remember (though’t be many a yeare - Now gone and past,) that, when I was a _Lad_, - My Heart, a pricke, by this young Wanton had, - That, pain’d me seven yeares after: nor had I - The grace (thus warn’d) to scape his waggery; - But many times, ev’n since I was a man, - He shot me, oftner then I tell you can: - And, if I had not bene the stronger-hearted, - I, for my over-daring, might have smarted. - You laugh now, as if this were nothing so; - But, if you meet this _Blinkard_ with his Bow, - You may, unlesse you take the better care, - Receive a _wound_, before you be aware. - I feare him not; for, I have learned how - To keepe my heart-strings from his Arrowes now: - And, so might you, and so might ev’ry one - That vaine _Occasions_, truely seekes to shunn. - But, if you sleight my Counsells, you may chance - To blame at last, your willfull ignorance: - For, some, who thought, at first, his wounds but small - Have dyed by them, in an _Hospitall_. - - - _On whether side soe’re I am, - I, still, appeare to bee the same._ - -[Illustration: QUOCUNQUE FERAR. - -ILLVSTR. XX. _Book. 4_] - - This _Cube_, which is an equall-sided-square, - Doth very well, in _Emblem_-wise, declare - The temper of that vertuous minded man, - Whose resolutions nothing alter can. - For, as the _Cube_, which way soever plac’t, - Stands ever in one _posture_, firmely fast, - And, still, appeares the same in forme and size, - Vpon what side or part soe’re it lyes: - So, men well formed by the _Word_ divine, - And, truly squar’d by vertuous _Discipline_, - Will keepe (though _changes_ them shall turne & wind) - The _forme_ and _firmnesse_ of an _honest-minde_. - If, digging deepe, his _Fortunes_ lay him, there, - Where he his owne, and others weights must beare, - (There, many yeares compelling him to lie, - Opprest with dis-respect or povertie) - Hee keepes the place to which hee stands enjoyn’d, - And brooks his chances with a constant mind. - If shee remoove him thence, and set him up - On temporall _Prosperities_ high top, - The _Squarenesse_ of _Plaine dealing_ hee retaines, - And, in the same integritie remaines: - Nor coveting vaine _Wealth_, or false _esteemes_; - Nor, being any other than he seemes. - Although by Nature, wee are wondrous hard, - _Lord_, let us into such like _Stones_ be squar’d: - Then, place us in thy spirituall _Temple_, so, - That, into one firme _Structure_, we may grow; - And, when we, by thy _Grace_, are fitted thus, - Dwell _Thou thy selfe_, for evermore, in us. - - - _=Deformitie=, within may bee, - Where outward =Beauties= we doe see._ - -[Illustration: BELLA IN VISTA DENTRO TRISTA. - -ILLVSTR. XXI. _Book. 4_] - - Looke well, I pray, upon this _Beldame_, here, - For, in her _habit_, though shee gay appeare, - You, through her youthfull _vizard_, may espy - Shee’s of an old _Edition_, by her _Eye_: - And, by her wainscot face, it may bee seene, - Shee might your _Grandams_ first _dry nurse_ have been. - This is an _Emblem_, fitly shaddowing those, - Who making faire, and honest outward showes, - Are inwardly deform’d; and, nothing such, - As they to bee suppos’d, have strived much. - They chuse their _words_, and play well-acted _parts_, - But, hide most loathsome projects in their hearts; - And, when you think sweet _Friendship_ to embrace, - Some ugly _Treason_, meets you in the face. - I hate a painted _Brow_; I much dislike - A Mayden-blush, dawb’d on a furrowed _Cheeke_: - And, I abhorre to see old _Wantons_ play, - And, suite themselves, like _Ladies of the May_. - But, more (yea, most of all) my soule despiseth - A _Heart_, that in _Religious formes_, disguiseth - Prophane intentions; and arrayes in white, - The coale-blacke conscience of an _Hypocrite_. - Take heed of such as these; and, (if you may) - Before you trust them, tract them in their way. - Observe their footsteps, in their private _path_: - For, these (as 'tis beleev’d, the _Devill_ hath) - Have _cloven feet_; that is, _two wayes_ they goe; - One for their _ends_, and tother for a _show_. - Now, you thus warned are, advise embrace; - And, trust nor gawdy _Clothes_, nor painted _Face_. - - - _My =Hand= and =Heart=, in one agree, - What can you more desire of mee?_ - -[Illustration: EN DEXTRA FIDESQUE. - -ILLVSTR. XXII. _Book. 4_] - - A _Heart_ with _Hand-in-hand_, united thus, - Makes here an _Emblem_ not unknowne to us; - And, 'tis not hard for any Vulgar wit, - Without a _Comment_, to interpret it. - But, though of ev’ry man confest it be, - That _Hand_ and _Heart_ together should agree; - And, that, what we in _outward-shew_ expresse, - Perform’d should be, with _inward-heartinesse_. - (Since, now the World, to such a passe is growne, - That, all is not consider’d, which is knowne) - I cannot thinke it altogether vaine, - To speake of that, which may appeare so plaine. - When thou dost reach thy _hand_ unto thy friend, - Take order, that thy _heart_ the same intend: - For, otherwise in _Hand_, or _Heart_, thou lyest, - And, cuttest off a _Member_, e’re thou dyest. - Some, give their _Hearts_ (as many _Lovers_ do) - Yet, are afraid, to set their _hands_ thereto. - Some give their _Hands_; and, then by many a deed, - To ratifie the _gift_, they dare proceede; - Yet, keep their _tongues_ from saying what they meant, - To helpe excuse their _hearts_, when they repent. - Yea, some can very cunningly expresse, - In outward shew, a winning heartinesse, - And, steale the deare _affections_ they have sought, - From those, to whom they meant, nor promis’d ought. - Then, will they, if _advantage_ come thereby, - Make all their _Deeds_, for want of _Words_, a ly. - Among _Dissemblers_, in things temporall, - These _Raskalls_ are the ver’est _Knaves_ of all. - - - _No =Emblem=, can at full declare, - How fickle, =Minds-unconstant= are._ - -[Illustration: VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER. - -ILLVSTR. XXIII. _Book. 4_] - - Some, thinke this _Emblem_ serveth to expresse - No more, but onely _Womens_ ficklenesse; - And, they will most desire to have it so, - Who, like those best, that most inconstant grow. - Although my _Fortunes_ were, in some things, bad, - I never in my life, experience had - Of an _inconstant woman_: Wherefore, then, - Should I condemne the _Females_, more than men? - I heare some talke, that _Women_ fickle be: - And so I thinke; and so I know are wee. - And (being put together) say I dare, - That, they and wee, in equall manner, share - A _giddinesse_, and _ficklenesse_ of minde, - More wavering, than a _Feather_, or the _Winde_. - The _Woman_, heere, is plac’d, to typifie - A minde distracted with much levitie: - Not, that the womans _Wav’rings_ are the more; - But, for this cause: Most _Vices_, heretofore, - And _Vertues_ too, our _Ancestors_ did render, - By words declined in the _female-gender_. - The _winged Ball_, (whose tottering Foundation, - Augments the causes of our _variation_) - Meanes, here, those uselesse, and vaine _temp’rall things_, - That come and goe, with never-staying _wings_; - And, which (if thereupon our hearts we set) - Make _Men_ and _Women_, the _Vertigo_ get. - Hereafter, then, let neither _Sexe_ accuse - Each other; but, their best endeavours use, - To cure this _Maladie_ in one another, - By living well, and lovingly together. - - - _Hee that enjoyes a =patient Minde=, - Can =Pleasures= in =Afflictions= finde._ - -[Illustration: GAUDET PATIENTIA DURIS. - -ILLVSTR. XXIV. _Book. 4_] - - What meanes this _Countrey-peasant_, skipping here - Through prickling _Thistles_ w^{th} such gamesom cheere? - And, plucking off their tops, as though for _Posies_, - He gather’d Violets, or toothlesse Roses? - What meaneth it, but onely to expresse - How great a joy, well-grounded _Patientnesse_ - Retaines in Suff’rings? and, what sport she makes, - When she her Iourney through _Affliction_ takes? - I, oft have sayd (and, have as oft, beene thought - To speake a _Paradox_, that favours nought - Of likely truth) that, some _Afflictions_ bring - A _Honey bag_, which cureth ev’ry Sting - (That wounds the _Flesh_) by giving to the _Mind_, - A pleasing taste of _Sweetnesses_ refin’d. - Nor can it other be, except in those, - Whose Better part, quite stupifyed growes, - By being Cauterized in the Fires - Of childish _Feares_, or temporall _Desires_. - For, as the _Valiant_ (when the _Coward_ swounds) - With gladnesse lets the _Surgion_ search his Wounds; - And, though they smart, yet cheerefully indures - The Plaisters, and, the Probe, in hope of Cures: - So, Men, assured that _Afflictions_ paine - Comes not for vengeance to them, nor in vaine; - But, to prepare, and fit them for the place, - To which, they willingly direct their pace; - In Troubles, are so farre from being sad, - That, of their _Suffring_, they are truely glad. - What ever others thinke, I thus beleeve; - And, therefore, _joy_, when they suppose I _grieve_. - - - _All is not =Gold=, which makes a show; - But, what the =Touchstone= findeth so._ - -[Illustration:SIC SPECTANDA FIDES. - -ILLVSTR. XXV. _Book. 4_] - - When Silver _Medalls_, or some coynes of _Gold_, - Are by the _Gold-smith_ either bought or sold, - Hee doth not only search them with his _Eye_, - But, by the _Scale_, their _weight_ will also trie; - Or, by the _Touchstone_, or the _Test_, assay - The truenesse of them, and their just _Alay_. - Now, by their warinesse, who thus proceed, - Wee fairely are admonished, to heed - The faithfulnesse of him wee make our _Friend_; - And, on whose love wee purpose to depend: - Or else, when wee a _Iewell_ thinke to get, - Wee may bee cheated by a _Counterfet_. - All is not _Gold_ that glisters: Otherwhile, - The _Tincture_ is so good, it may beguile - The cunningst eye: But, bring it to the _Touch_, - And, then, you find the value not so much. - Some, keepe the _Tincture_, brooking, likewise, well - An ordinarie _Touch_; but, yeeld a _Smell_, - Which will discover it, if you apply - Vnto your _Nose_, that piece of _Chymistrie_. - Sometime, when there’s enough to give content, - In _Colour_, in the _Touch_, and in the _Scent_; - The _Bulke_, is more than answers _Gold_ in _weight_, - And, proves it a sophisticall deceit. - Nay, some, is fully that which you desire, - In all these _Properties_; and, till the fire - Hath made _assayes_, you’l thinke you might be bold - To pawne your life, it had been _Ophir-gold_: - But, to bee false, the _Metall’s_ then descride; - And, such are many _Friends_, when they are tride. - - - _=Apollo= shoots not ev’ry day, - But, sometime on his =Harpe= doth play._ - -[Illustration: NON SEMPER ARCUM TENDIT. - -ILLVSTR. XXVI. _Book. 4_] - - There are a sort of people so severe, - That, _foolish_, and _injurious_ too, they are; - And, if the world were to bee rul’d by these, - Nor _Soule_, nor _Bodie_, ever should have ease. - The _Sixe dayes_, (as their wisdomes understand) - Are to bee spent in _Labour_, by command, - With such a strictnesse, that they quite condemne - All _Recreations_ which are us’d in them. - That, which is call’d the _Sabbath_, they confine - To _Prayers_, and all _Offices-divine_, - So wholly, that a little _Recreation_, - That _Day_, is made a marke of _Reprobation_: - And, (by this meanes) the reason is to seeke, - When their poore _Servants_ labour all the _weeke_, - (Of which, they’l bate them nothing) how it tyes - Them, to observe the sixe-fold _Sacrifice_ - By some injoyn’d; and gives them such due _Rest_, - As _God_ allowed, both to _Man_ and _Beast_. - Hee, gave the _Woods_, the _Fields_, and _Meddowes_, here, - A time to _rest_, as well as times to _beare_. - The _Forrest Beasts_, and _Heards_, have howres for _play_, - As well as time to _graze_, and hunt their prey: - And, ev’ry _Bird_ some leasure hath to sing, - Or, in the Aire, to _sport_ it on her wing. - And, sure, to _him_, for whom all these were made, - Lesse kindnesse was not meant, then these have had. - The _Flesh_ will faint, if pleasure none it knowes; - The Man growes madd, that alway muzing goes. - The _Wisest men_, will _sometimes merry_ bee: - And, this is that, this _Emblem_ teacheth me. - - - _=Live=, ever mindfull of thy =dying=; - For, =Time= is alwayes from thee flying._ - -[Illustration: VIVE MEMOR LETHI FUGIT HORA. - -ILLVSTR. XXVII. _Book. 4_] - - This vulgar _Figure_ of a _winged glasse_, - Doth signifie, how swiftly _Time_ doth passe. - By that leane _Scull_, which to this _houre-glasse_ clings, - We are informed what effect it brings; - And, by the _Words_ about it, wee are taught - _To keepe our latter ending still in thought_. - The common _houre-glasse_, of the _Life_ of _Man_, - Exceedeth not the largenesse of a _span_. - The _Sand_-like _Minutes_, flye away so fast, - That, _yeares_ are out, e’re wee thinke _months_ are past: - Yea, many times, our _nat’rall-day_ is gone, - Before wee look’d for _twelve a clocke at Noone_; - And, where wee sought for _Beautie, at the Full_, - Wee finde the _Flesh_ quite rotted from the _Skull_. - Let these Expressions of _Times_ passage, bee - _Remembrancers_ for ever, _Lord_, to mee; - That, I may still bee guiltlesse of their crime, - Who fruitlesly consume their precious _Time_: - And, minde my _Death_; not with a slavish feare, - But, with a thankfull use, of _life-time_, here: - Not grieving, that my _dayes_ away doe post; - But, caring rather, that they bee not lost, - And, lab’ring with Discretion, how I may - Redeeme the _Time_, that’s vainely slipt away. - So, when that _moment_ comes, which others dread, - I, undismay’d, shall climbe my _dying bed_; - With joyfull _Hopes_, my _Flesh_ to dust commend; - In _Spirit_, with a stedfast _Faith_ ascend; - And, whilst I _living_ am, to _sinne_ so _dye_, - That _dying_, I may live eternally. - - - _In ev’ry =Storme=, hee standeth fast, - Whose dwelling, on the =Rocke= is plac’d._ - -[Illustration: MEDIIS TRANQUILLUS IN UNDIS. - -ILLVSTR. XXVIII. _Book. 4_] - - What thing soever some will have exprest, - As typified by this _Halcyons-nest_, - I shall not thinke this _Emblem_ ill-appli’d, - If, by the same, the _Church_ bee signifi’d. - For, as it is (by some) affirm’d of these, - That, whilst they breed, the fury of the seas - Is through the world alayd; and, that their _Brood_ - Remaines in safetie, then, amidst the flood: - So, when the Christian _Church_ was in her birth, - There was a generall _Peace_ throughout the earth; - And, those tumultuous _Waves_, which after that - Began to rise, and bee enrag’d thereat, - Were calmed so, that _Hee_ was borne in peace, - From whom, the faithfull _Off-spring_ did encrease. - They, likewise, on a _Rocke_, their dwellings have, - As here you see; and, though the raging _Wave_, - Of dreadfull _Seas_, hath beaten, ever since, - Against the _Fortresse_ of their strong defence, - Yet, still it stands; and, safe, it shall abide, - Ev’n in the midst of all their foming pride. - Vpon this _Rocke_ so place me, oh my God! - That, whatsoever _Tempests_ bee abroad, - I may not feare the fury of my Foe; - Nor bee in danger of an overthrow. - My life is full of _Stormes_; the _Waters_ roule, - As if they meant to swallow up my soule. - The _Tides_ oppose; the furious winds doe roare; - My _Cable’s_ weake, my _tacklings_, Lord, are poore, - And, my fraile _vessell_ cannot long endure; - Yet, reach to mee thy hand, and I’m secure. - - - _That’s =Friendship=, and =true-love=, indeed, - Which firme abides, in time of need._ - -[Illustration: BONA FIDE. - -ILLVSTR. XXIX. _Book. 4_] - - That’s _Love in earnest_, which is constant found, - When Friends are in _Affliction_, or in _Bands_; - And, their _Affection_ merits to be _crown’d_, - Whose _hearts_ are fastned where they joyne their _hands_. - Tis easie to be friendly, where wee see - A _Complement_ or two will serve the turne; - Or, where the _kindnesse_ may required bee; - Or, when the charge is with a trifle borne. - It is as easie too, for him to spend - At once, the full Revenues of a yeare, - In Cates, for entertainment of his _Friend_, - Who thinkes his _glorie_, is _expensive-cheere_: - For, 'tis his pleasure; and, if none should come - Like _fashionable-Friends_, for him to court, - Hee would with _Rogues_, and _Canters_, fill the Roome, - Or, such as should abuse, and flout him for’t. - But, hard it is, to suffer, or to spend - For him (though worthy) that’s of meane estate, - Unlikely our occasions to befriend, - Or, one unable to remunerate. - Few men are liberall, whom neither _Lust_, - _Vaine glorie_, _Prodigalitie_, nor _Pride_, - Doth forward into foolish _Bountie_ thrust; - As may, by Observation bee espide. - For, when a slender _Bountie_ would relieve - Their vertuous _Friend_, whose wants to them are knowne, - To their _Buffoone_, a Knights estate they’l give, - And, thinke on t’other trifles ill-bestowne. - Yet, this Ile say; and, give the _Devill_ his due; - These _Friends_, are to their _lusts_, and _humours_, true. - - - _The =Sword= hath place, till =War= doth cease; - And, usefull is, in time of =Peace=._ - -[Illustration: PACISQUE BONUS BELLIQUE MINISTER. - -ILLVSTR. XXX. _Book. 4_] - - The _Sword_, to bee an _Emblem_, here, we draw, - Of that Authoritie, which keeps in awe - Our _Countries_ Enemies; and, those that are - The Foes of _Peace_, as well as those of _Warre_; - That, _Peace_ may give the _Law of Armes_ her due, - And, _Warre_, to _Civill-pow’rs_, respect may shew. - For, _Kingdomes_, nor in _Warre_ nor _Peace_, can stand, - Except the _Sword_ have alway some command: - Yea, that, for which our forraine _Spoylers_ come, - _Domesticke Foes_, will else devoure at home; - And, _stranger-drones_ the peacefull _Bees_ will harme, - Vnlesse with warlike stings, themselves they arme. - Considering this, let none bee so unwise, - The _Swords_ well-us’d protection to despise: - Or, thinke the practice of this _double-guard_, - In any place, or age, may well bee spar’d. - Let not the _Sword-man_ sleight the pow’rfull _Gowne_; - Nor _Gowne-men_ cast the _Sword_ out of their Towne, - Because it terrifies, or draweth Blood; - For, otherwhile Phlebotomy is good: - And, though to kill a Lowse, the _Banians_ feare; - (Though _Anabaptists_ love no _Sword_ to weare) - Yet, being drawne, to fright, or cut off _Sinne_, - It may bee brandish’d by a Cherubin. - However, from the _Sword_ divide not you - (In any case) the peacefull _Olive-bough_: - That is, let _Peace_, at all times, be that _End_, - For which, to draw the _Sword_ you doe intend; - And, for _well-doing_, bee as ready, still, - To give _rewards_, as _blowes_, for _doing-ill_. - - - _A =Fortune= is ordain’d for thee, - According as thy =Labours= bee._ - -[Illustration: PAR SIT FORTUNA LABORI. - -ILLVSTR. XXXI. _Book. 4_] - - The _Spade_, for _Labour_ stands. The _Ball with wings_, - Intendeth _flitting-rowling-wordly-things_. - This _Altar-stone_, may serve in setting foorth, - Things firmer, sollid, and of greater worth: - In which, and by the _words_ inclosing these, - You, there may read, your _Fortune_, if you please. - If you, your _labour_, on those things bestow, - Which _rowle_, and _flutter_, alwaies, to and fro; - It cannot be, but, that which you obtaine, - Must prove a _wavering_, and unconstant gaine: - For, he that soweth _Vanitie_, shall finde, - At _reaping-time_, no better fruit then _Winde_. - Your houres, in serions matters, if you spend, - Or, such, as to a lasting purpose tend, - The purchase of your paines will ever last; - And, bring you _Pleasure_, when the _Labour’s_ past. - Yea, though in teares, your _Seed-time_, you imploy, - Your _Harvest_ shall be fetched home, with ioy. - If _much_ be wrought, much profit will ensue; - If _little_, but a little meede is due. - Of _nothing_, nothing comes: On _evill deedes_ - An evill conscience, and, ill fame succeedes: - An _honest-life_, still findes prepared for’t, - Sweet _Hopes_ in Death; and, after, _good-report_. - Of _Sexe_, or of _Degree_, there’s no regard: - But, as the _Labour_, such is the _reward_. - To _worke-aright_, oh _Lord_, instruct thou mee; - And, ground my _Workes_, and _buildings_ all on thee: - That, by the fiery _Test_, when they are tride, - My _Worke_ may stand, and I may _safe_ abide. - - - _Let none in troublous times repine; - For, after =Stormes=, the =Sun= will shine._ - -[Illustration: POST NUBILA PHŒBUS. - -ILLVSTR. XXXII. _Book. 4_] - - Discourage not your selves, although you see - The weather blacke, and _stormes_ prolonged be. - What though it fiercely _raines_, and thunders loud? - Behold, there is a _Raine-bow_ in the _Cloud_, - Wherein, a trustfull promise may be found, - That, quite, your _little-worlds_, shall not be drown’d. - The _Sun-shine_, through the foggy mists appeare, - The lowring _Skie_, begins againe to cleare; - And, though the _Tempest_, yet, your eyes affright, - Faire weather may befall you, long ere night. - Such comfort speakes our _Emblem_, unto those, - Whom stormie _Persecution_ doth enclose; - And, comforts him, that’s for the present sad, - With hopes, that better seasons may bee had. - There is nor trouble, sorrow, nor distresse, - But mitigation hath, or some release. - Long _use_, or _time_, the storme away will turne, - Else, _Patience_ makes it better to be borne. - Yea, _sorrowes_ lowring dayes, will come and goe, - As well as prosp’rous houres of _Sunshine_ doe; - And, when 'tis past, the _paine_ that went before, - Will make the following pleasure seeme the more. - For, hee, hath promis’d, whom we may beleeve, - His blessing, unto those that _mourne_ and _grieve_; - And, that, though sorrow much dejects their head, - In ev’ry need, wee shall be comforted. - This promise I beleeve; in ev’ry griefe, - Performe it, _Lord_, and helpe my unbeliefe: - So, others viewing how thou cheerest mee, - Shall, in all _sorrows_, put their trust in thee. - - - _For whatsoever, =Man= doth strive, - The Conquest, =God= alone, doth give._ - -[Illustration: OMNIS VICTORIA A DOMINO. - -ILLVSTR. XXXIII. _Book. 4_] - - When on the _Sword_, the _Olive-branch_ attends, - (That is, when bloody _Warres_, have peacefull _Ends_) - And, whensoever _Victories_ are gained; - This _Emblem_ shewes, by whom they are obtained: - For, that all _Victorie_, doth onely from - The pow’rfull hand of _God-Almightie_, come, - The Boughes of _Bayes_ and _Olives_, doe declare, - Which round the _Tetragrammaton_ appeare. - Nor must we thinke, that God bestowes, alone, - The _Victories_ of Warre, on any one; - But, that, when we contend in other things, - From him, th’event that’s wisht for, also springs. - This being so, how dare wee, by the _Lawes_, - Or, by the _Sword_, pursue a wicked Cause? - How dare wee bring a matter that’s unjust, - Where hee (though few perceive him) judge it must? - Or, prosecute with fury, or despite, - Against the person of his _Favourite_? - What Fooles are they, who seeke the _Conquest_, by - Oppression, Fraud, or hellish Perjurie? - How mad are those, who to the _Warres_ prepare, - For nothing, but to spoyle and murther there? - Who, nor ingag’d by Faith to their _Alies_, - Nor urg’d by any private injuries, - (Nor sent, nor tolerated, by their _Prince_, - Nor caring whether side hath giv’n offence) - Run rambling through the World, to kill and slay, - Like needie Butchers, for two groats a day? - These men may side, where _Conquests_, God bestowes; - Yet, when the _Field_ is wonne, these men doe lose. - - - _Since overmuch, will over-fill, - Powre am enough; but =doe not spill=._ - -[Illustration: NE QUID NIMIS. - -ILLVSTR. XXXIV. _Book. 4_] - - It is this _Emblems_ meaning, to advance - The love and practise, of true _Temperance_. - For, by this _Figure_ (which doth seeme to fill, - Vntill the liquor overflow, and spill) - Wee are, as by example, taught to see - How fruitlesse our _Intemperancies_ bee: - Thus by the _Rule of Contrarieties_, - Some _Vertues_, best are showne to vulgar eyes. - To see a nastie _Drunkard_, reele and spew, - More moves to _Sobernesse_, than can the view - Of twentie civill men; and, to behold - One _Prodigall_, (that goodly lands hath sold) - Stand torne and louzie, begging at the dore, - Would make _Intemperance_ abhorred more, - (And, manly _Sobernesse_, much better, teach) - Than all that sixe _Philosophers_ can preach: - So, by the _Vessels_ overflowing, here, - True _Moderation_ doth more prais’d appeare, - Than by the _meane_ it selfe: And, without sinne, - That’s _pictur’d_, which to _doe_, had wicked bin, - For, though to vertuous ends; wee doe deny - The _Doing-ill_, that _Good_ may come thereby. - From hence, let us be taught, that carefull heed, - Whereby wee should both _Minde_ and _Bodie_, feed. - Let us, of our owne selves, observe the size; - How much wee want, how little will suffize; - And, our owne _longings_, rather leave unfill’d, - Than suffer any portion to bee spill’d: - For, what we _marre_, shall to account be layd, - And, what wee wisely _spend_, shall be repayd. - - - _They passe through many =stormes=, and =streights=, - Who rise to any glorious =heights=._ - -[Illustration: PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA. - -ILLVSTR. XXXV. _Book. 4_] - - This _Tree_, which here doth largely seeme to grow, - (And spreads _above_, though streightned in _below_) - Through adverse _Winds_, and many a Winters blast, - Hath gain’d a faire proportion at the last; - And, from a lowly _shrub_, is growne to bee - A well-esteemed, and a goodly _Tree_. - Thus, hath it chanced unto many a man: - And, he that first in misery began, - (So poore and meane, that very few or none - Have judg’d him to be worth the looking on) - Ev’n he, through scornes, through wrongs, and povertie, - Hath crept, and screw’d, and rais’d himselfe so high, - That, he hath placed been among the prime, - Of those, who seem’d the _Worthies_ of the time; - Yea, overtopt and aw’d, the best of those, - Who sought to curbe him, when he first arose. - This, I have seene; And, as wee seldome find - A _Tree_ grow faire, that cannot brooke the _Wind_, - Or, must be hous’d at Winter; or, on whom - The _Gardners_ pruning-knife, did never come: - So, I have rarely knowne those men to rise - To any good, or noble qualities, - Who feele not, first some _hardship_, or some _storme_, - To prune, to discipline, and to reforme - Their wits and manners. For, prosperitie, - Ease, plentie, and too large a libertie, - Doth often blast them; and, somtime bereave them, - Of what their _Predecessors_ worth’s, did leave them. - Let, therefore, no man, feare when this he knowes, - Although in _tempests_, and through _streights_ he goes. - - - _=God=, ever will bee present, there, - Where, of one =Faith=, and =Mind= they are._ - -[Illustration: FIDUCIA CONCORS. - -ILLVSTR. XXXVI. _Book. 4_] - - A Fixed _Palme_, (whose _Fingers_ doe appeare, - As if displayed, and advanc’d they were) - Intended by our _Author_, here, wee see, - To shaddow out _agreeing-Minds_, that bee - Establish’d in one _Trust_. And, well it may, - That _Vertue_, of the holy _Church_ display. - For, as our _hands_, the better meanes can make, - To _gaine_, as well as to _retaine_, or _take_, - The _benefits_ we seeke; when wee intend, - Our differing _Fingers_, all, to worke one end: - So, when the _Church_ of _Christ_ (wherein wee finde - A diff’rence of _Degrees_) shall with one _minde_, - Pursue a faithfull hope; they’l soone obtaine, - That wished benefit, they seeke to gaine: - For, when but two or three shall in _Gods_ name, - Request a _blessing_, he will grant the same. - Let all thy sev’rall _Churches_, LORD (that stand - Like many _Fingers_, members of one _Hand_) - Thy _Will-Essentiall_ with joynt love obay, - Though circumstantially, they differ may. - Some have the larger _Circuit_, some are _stronger_, - Some are of short _continuance_, some of longer; - But, though their _Guifts_ may differ, yet provide, - That, still, on one _Foundation_, they may bide; - And, that, all those, who in one _Faith_ agree, - May, in one _Band_ of _Love_, united bee: - Till our confined _Wisdome_ comes to know, - That, many things, for which wee wrangle so, - Would further that, whose hindrance wee doe feare, - If more our _Faith_, and lesse our _Discord_ were. - - - _=Protect= mee, if I worthy bee; - If I =demerit=, punish mee._ - -[Illustration: PRO ME SI MEREOR IN ME. - -ILLVSTR. XXXVII. _Book. 4_] - - This _Emblem_, forth unto your view hath set, - A _Sword_, together with a _Coronet_; - To shew the prudent _Reader_, what Reward - For _ill_, and for _well doing_, is prepar’d; - That they, who heretofore, amisse have done, - May learne, their threatned punishments to shun: - That they, whose _Actions_ warrantable were, - May, in their honest _Courses_, persevere: - And, that those men, who great and pow’rfull bee, - Should punish and reward, as cause they see. - Men are of diff’ring tempers: Some, are wonne - By promises, and gentle meanes alone: - Some, moved are by shame; and, some through dread, - To bee in purse, or bodie punished. - And, some, their duties are allur’d to doe, - No way, but by a mixture of these two. - They, therefore, neither _Wise_, nor _Honest_ bee, - Who dandle all Offenders on their knee; - Or, punish onely with a _God-forbid_; - Or, _Doe not so, my sonnes_, as _Ely_ did. - Nor wiser ought, are they, nor honester, - Who alwayes fright, and threaten those that erre; - No mercie joyning, to the chastisement - Of them, whose faults are worthy to bee shent. - Nor are they lesse to blame, who carry _Swords_, - To punish errors; but, nor lookes, nor words, - To cherish well deservings: And, in this, - Most men, that punish others, doe amisse. - Sure, if the _Sword misdoing_, may pursue, - For _doing-well_, the _Coronet_ is due. - - - _The =Tongue=, which every secret speakes, - Is like a =Barrell= full of leakes._ - -[Illustration: HAC ATQUE ILLAC PERFLUIT. - -ILLVSTR. XXXVIII. _Book. 4_] - - The _Barrell_, from whose bottome, sides, and bung, - The liquor (as in this our _Emblem_) flowes, - May fitly typifie the babling _Tongue_, - Of him that utters ev’ry thing hee knowes. - For, such as are their taskes, who strive to fill - An ever-leaking _Vessell_, to the brim; - Ev’n such are his, who laboureth to still - A _tatlers_ tougue; for, paines are lost on him. - This _Figure_, also, serveth to expresse, - The trustlesse nature of a _whorish woman_; - For, shee to all displayes her wantonnesse, - And, cares to keepe her secresies, from no man. - Within her bosome, nothing long shee keeps, - But, whatsoever shee conceives or knowes, - Streight, from the heart, up to her tongue, it creeps; - And, round about the _Citie_, then, it goes. - Bee warned therefore, and commit thou not - Thy person, state, or fame, to such as these; - Lest, they thy _Reputation_ doe bespot, - Consume thy _Substance_, or thy _Minde_ disease. - But, most of all, bee wary, lest the crime, - Which here wee doe reproove, thy mind infect: - For, _Vice_, like _weeds_, will grow in little time, - And, out-grow _Vertues_, if Wee them neglect. - The surest way to keepe such errors out, - And, in our selves true _Vertnes_ to maintaine; - Is, to bee _hoopt_ with _Temp’rance_, round about, - And, our out-flowing humors to restraine. - If thus we practise, 'twill prevent the wrongs - Of our owne errors, and of others tongues. - - - _How ever thou the =Viper= take, - A dang’rous hazzard thou dost make._ - -[Illustration: UTCUNQUE. - -ILLVSTR. XXXIX. _Book. 4_] - - This _Figure_ warnes us, that wee meddle not - With matters, whereby nothing may bee got, - Save _harme_ or _losse_; and, such as once begun, - Wee may, nor safely _doe_, nor leave _undone_. - I should bee loath to meddle in the strife - Arising 'twixt a _Husband_, and his _Wife_; - For, _Truth_ conceal’d, or spoke, on either side, - May one or th’other grieve, or both divide. - I would not with my most familiar _Mate_, - Be _Partner_ in the whole of my estate; - Lest I, by others errors, might offend, - Or, wrong my Family, or, lose my _Friend_. - I would not, willingly, in my distresse, - From an unworthy hand, receive redresse; - Nor, when I need a _Suretie_, would I call - An _Vnthrift_, or a roaring _Prodigall_: - For, either these I thanklesly must shun, - Or, humour them, and be perhaps undone. - I would not heare my _Friend_ unwisely prate - Those things, of which I must informe the _State_: - And, seeme unfriendly; or, else leave to doe, - That, which a stronger _Band_ obligeth to. - Nor would I, for the world, my heart should bee - Enthrald by one, that might not _marry_ mee; - Or, such like _passions_, bee perplexed in, - As hang betwixt a _Vertue_, and a _Sinne_; - Or, such, as whether way soe’re I went, - Occasion’d guilt, or shame, or discontent: - For, howsoe’re wee mannage such like things, - Wee handle winding _Vipers_, that have stings. - - - _The gaining of a rich Estate, - Seemes, many times, restrain’d by =Fate=._ - -[Illustration: FATA OBSTANT. - -ILLVSTR. XL. _Book. 4_] - - Observe this _Wheele_, and you shall see how _Fate_ - Doth limit out to each man, that Estate - Which hee obtaines; Then, how hee doth aspire - To such a height; and, why hee mounts no higher: - For, whatsoere their _Authors_ understood, - These _Emblems_, now, shall speake as I thinke good. - The _Cornucopias_ fastned to a _Round_, - Thus fixt, may shew, that Riches have their _bound_; - And, can be raised, by mans pow’r or wits, - No higher than _Gods_ Providence permits. - The placing of them on that _Wheele_, doth show, - That, some waxe _Poore_, as others _Wealthy_ grow: - For, looke how much the higher, one doth rise, - So much the lower, still, the other lies; - And, when the height of one is at an end, - Hee sinkes againe, that others may ascend. - The many stops, which on this _Wheele_ you spie, - Those many _obstacles_ may typifie, - Which barre all those that unto _Wealth_ aspire, - From compassing the _Round_ of their desire. - The want of _Wit_, from _Riches_, barreth some; - Some, cannot rich, because of _Sloth_, become. - Some, that are _wise_, and _painefull_, are deny’d - Encrease of wealth, through _Pleasure_, or through _Pride_. - Some, lose much profit, which they else might make, - Because of _Conscience_, or for _Credit_ sake. - If none of these did hinder, wee have store, - That might bee _Rich_, who, yet, are very _Poore_. - And, these, indeed, doe come to be those _Fates_, - Which keepe most men, from getting large _Estates_. - - - _In all thine =Actions=, have a care, - That no =unseemlinesse appeare=._ - -[Illustration: VT NE QUID DEDECEAT. - -ILLVSTR. XLI. _Book. 4_] - - The _Virgine_, or the _Wife_, that much desires, - To please her _Lovers_, or her _Husband’s_ Eyes, - In all her costl’est _Robes_, her selfe attires; - And, seekes the coml’est _Dresse_, shee can devise. - Then, to her trustie _Looking-glasse_, shee goes, - (Where, often, shee her person turnes and winds) - To view, how seemely her attiring showes; - Or, whether ought amisse therein she finds. - Which praisefull _Diligence_, is figur’d thus - In this our _Emblem_; that, it may be made - A documentall signe, remembring us, - What care of all our _Actions_, must bee had. - For, hee that in _God’s_ presence would appeare - An acceptable _Soule_; or, gracious grow - With men, that of approv’d conditions are, - Must by some faithfull _Glasse_, be trimmed so. - The good Examples of those pious men, - Who liv’d in elder times, may much availe: - Yea, and by others evills, now and then, - Men see how grossely, they themselves, doe faile. - A wise Companion, and, a loving Friend, - Stands nearer, than those ancient glasses doe; - And, serveth well to such an usefull end: - For, hee may bee thy _Glasse_, and _Fountaine_ too. - His good _Example_, shewes thee what is fit; - His _Admonition_, checks what is awry; - Hee, by his _Good-advise_, reformeth it; - And, by his _Love_, thou mend’st it pleasedly. - But, if thou doe desire the perfect’st _Glasse_, - Ioyne to the _Morall-Law_, the _Law of Grace_. - - - _Wee, bring the _Hony_ to the _Hive_; - But, others, by our labours thrive._ - -[Illustration: NON NOBIS. - -ILLVSTR. XLII. _Book. 4_] - - The prettie _Bees_, with daily paines contrive - Their curious _Combes_, and from the flowry Fields, - Doe bring that pleasant sweetnesse to their Hive, - Which _Nectar_, and _Ambrosiack_ dainties, yeelds, - Yet, when themselves with labours they have tir’d, - The following Winters famine to prevent, - For their good service, either they are fir’d, - Or, forth into an emptie _Hive_ are sent: - And, there, with slender diet they are served, - To leave another _Summers_ worke, to those - Who take no care, though all the swarme be starved, - If weake, and quite past labour once it growes. - As with such _Bees_, it fares with many a one, - That, spends his youthfull time in honest thrift; - And, by the _Waspe_, the _Hornet_, or the _Drone_, - Of all their labours, they are soone bereft. - Sometime, the bordring _Flies_, much wrong this _brood_, - Through idle _visitings_; or, them despoyle, - By making friendly shewes of _neighbourhood_; - When, all their Complements, are nought but guile. - Sometime, their powerfull Foes do rob them quite; - Sometime, their _Lords_, or _Landlords_, with pretence, - Of claiming only what is just and right, - Oppresse them without _mercie_, or _defence_. - Thus, by one course or other, daily, some - (That are laborious in an honest way) - The prey of Pride, or Idlenesse become: - And, such as these, may therefore truely say, - That, whatsoever they to passe have brought, - _Not for themselves, but others, they have wrought_. - - - _=God=, by their Names, the =Stars= doth cal; - And, hee is =Ruler= of them all._ - -[Illustration: ASTRA DEUS REGIT. - -ILLVSTR. XLIII. _Book. 4_] - - Some say, (and many men doe these commend) - That, all our _deeds_, and _Fortunes_ doe depend - Vpon the motions of celestiall _Spheres_; - And, on the constellations of the _Starres_. - If this were true, the _Starres_, alone, have bin - Prime cause of all that’s _good_, and of all _sinne_. - And, 'twere (me thinkes) injustice to _condemne_, - Or, give rewards to any, but to _them_. - For, if they made mee _sinne_, why for that ill, - Should I be damn’d, and they shine brightly, still? - If they inforc’d my _goodnesse_, why should I - Bee glorified for their _Pietie_? - And, If they neither _good_ nor _ill_ constraine, - Why then, should wee of _Destinie_ complaine? - For, if it bee (as tis) absurd to say, - The starres enforce us (since they still obay - Their just _Commander_) 'twere absurder, farre, - To say, or thinke, that God’s _Decree_ it were, - Which did _necessitate_ the very same, - For which, we thinke the _starres_ might merit blame. - Hee made the _starres_ to bee an ayd unto us, - Not (as is fondly dream’d) to helpe undoe us: - (Much lesse, without our fault, to ruinate, - By doome of irrecoverable _Fate_) - And, if our good Endeavors, use wee will, - Those glorious creatures will be helpfull still - In all our honest wayes: For, they doe stand - To helpe, not hinder us, in God’s command; - And, hee not onely rules them by his pow’rs, - But, makes their Glory, servant unto ours. - - - _Who, =Patience= tempts, beyond her strength, - Will make it =Fury=, at the length._ - -[Illustration: FUROR FIT LÆSA SÆPIUS PATIENTIA. - -ILLVSTR. XLIIII. _Book. 4_] - - Although wee know not a more patient creature, - Than is the _Lambe_, (or, of lesse harmfull nature) - Yet, as this _Emblem_ shewes, when childish wrong, - Hath troubled, and provok’d him overlong, - Hee growes enrag’d; and makes the wanton _Boyes_, - Bee glad to leave their sports, and run their wayes. - Thus have I seene it with some Children fare, - Who, when their _Parents_ too indulgent were, - Have urg’d them, till their _Doting_ grew to _Rage_, - And, shut them wholly from their Heritage. - Thus, many times, a foolish man doth lose - His faithfull Friends, and justly makes them foes. - Thus, froward _Husbands_; and, thus, peevish _Wives_, - Doe foole away the comfort of their lives; - And, by abusing of a _patient-Mate_, - Turne dearest _Love_, into the deadliest _Hate_: - For, any wrong may better bee excused, - Than, _Kindnesse_, long and wilfully abused. - But, as an injur’d _Lambe_, provoked, thus, - Well typifies how much it moveth us, - To finde our _Patience_ wrong’d: So, let us make - An _Emblem_ of our selves, thereby to take - More heed, how God is moved towards them, - That, his _long suffring_, and his _Love_ contemne. - For, as wee somewhat have of every _Creature_, - So, wee in us, have somewhat of his _Nature_: - Or, if it bee not sayd _the same_ to bee, - His _Pictures_, and his _Images_ are wee. - Let, therefore, his _long-suffring_, well be weigh’d, - And, keepe us, to _provoke him_, still afraid. - - - _Hee that is =blind=, will nothing =see=, - What =light= soe’re about him bee._ - -[Illustration: CŒCUS NIL LUCE IUVATUR. - -ILLVSTR. XLV. _Book. 4_] - - It is by some supposed, that our _Owles_, - By Day-time, are no perfect-sighted _Fowles_; - And, that, the more you doe augment the _light_, - The more you shall deprive them of their _sight_. - Nor _Candles_, _Torches_, nor the _Sunne at noone_, - Nor _Spectacles_, nor all of these in one - Can make an _Owlet_ in the day-time see, - Though none, by _night_, hath better eyes than shee. - This _Emblem_, therefore, sets their _blindnesse_ forth, - Who cannot see, when an apparant _worth_ - Illustrates vertuous Men; yet, seeme to spie - Those faults, wherewith ill-willers them belie. - The _blindnesse_, also, well it may declare, - Of _Heretikes_, who Eagle-sighted are, - In _Sophistries_, and in the cloudie-night, - Of those darke _Errors_, which delude the _sight_; - Yet, cannot see the Rayes of _Truth_ divine, - Though, brighter than the _Day-light_, shee doth shine. - It, likewise, very fitly typifies, - Those, in our dayes, who spie out mysteries, - Beyond the _Moone_; yet, cannot gain the view - Of that, which common _Reason_ proveth true: - And, therefore, onely, crie it (madly) downe, - Because, by _Reasons_ light, it may be knowne. - These, when 'twas offred, first, the light refused; - And, they have now the darknesse which they chused. - Till, therefore, God shall offer _Grace_ againe, - Man strives to set up _Lights_, to these, in vaine: - For, what are _Lights_ to those who _blinded_ bee? - Or, who so _blinde_, as they that will not see? - - - _None knowes, untill the =Fight= be past, - Who shall bee =Victor=, at the last._ - -[Illustration: INTER UTRUMQUE VOLAT. - -ILLVSTR. XLVI. _Book. 4_] - - While, these two _Champions_ for the _Conquest_ fight, - Betwixt them both _Victoria_ takes her flight, - On doubtfull wings; and, till the _fray_ bee past, - None knowe, to whether, shee the _Wreath_ will cast. - Which _Emblem_ serves, not onely, to expresse - The danger, and the issues doubtfulnesse, - In all _Contentions_; but, may warne us too, - That, wee no strivings rashly undergoe; - Since they, who long with painfull skill have striv’d, - Of likely _Conquests_, are at length depriv’d. - _Force_, much prevailes; but _Sleight_ and _Wit_ hath pow’r, - Sometime, to hurle downe _Strength_ upon the floore. - Sometimes againe, our _Ingineeres_ doe faile; - And, _Blowes_, doe more than _Stratagems_, prevaile. - Though, I, upon mine _honest-Cause_ depend, - Another may o’rethrow it, by his _Friend_: - And, hee that boasteth of his _Patrons_ grace, - May lose his hopes, if Bribing come in place. - To say the Truth, in whatsoever Cause, - Wee by the _Sword_ contend, or by the _Lawes_, - There’s no event or issue more assured, - Than this, that, losse to both shall bee procured: - And, that, sometime, as well an _innocent_, - As _guilty-cause_, may finde an ill event. - Let, therefore, our endeavours be, to strive, - Who, shall hereafter, least occasion give - Of those _contentions_, and of those _debates_, - Which hurt our honor, safetie, or estates: - That, we, a _Conquest_, may be sure to gaine, - And, none repine, at that which we obtaine. - - - _Why should I feare the want of =Bread=? - If =God= so please, I shall bee =fed=._ - -[Illustration: SI DEUS VOLUERIT. - -ILLVSTR. XLVII. _Book. 4_] - - The faithlesse _Iewe’s_ repining currishnesse, - The blessed _Psalmist_, fitly did expresse, - By _grinning-dogs_, which howling roame by night, - To satisfie their grudging appetite. - Here, therefore, by an _Emblem_, wee are showne, - That, _God_, (who as hee lists, bestowes his owne) - Providing so, that none may bee unfed, - Doth offer to the _Dogges_, the _Childrens_ bread. - And, by this _Emblem_, wee advised are, - Of their presumptuous boldnesse to beware, - Who bound God’s _Mercie_; and, have shut out some - From hope of _Grace_, before the _Night_ is come: - Since, to the _Dogs_, his meat is not denide, - If they _returne_, (though not till _Evening-tide_.) - Moreover, wee, some notice hence may take, - That, if provision, _God_, vouchsafes to make, - For _Lyons_, _Dogs_, and _Ravens_, in their need, - Hee will his _Lambes_, and harmlesse _Turtles_ feed: - And, so provide, that they shall alwayes have - Sufficient, to maintaine the _Life_ hee gave. - I must confesse, I never merit shall, - The _Crummes_, which from thy _Childrens_ table fall: - Yet, thou hast oft, and freely fed mee, _Lord_, - Among thy _Children_, at thy _Holy-board_: - Nor have I, there, been fill’d with _Bread_ alone; - But, on the blessed _Bodie_ of thy _Sonne_, - My _Soule_ hath feasted. And, if thou dost grant - Such favours, _Lord_! what can I feare to want? - For, doubtlesse, if thy _Sonne_ thou please to give, - All other things, with him, I shall receive. - - - _All =Flesh=, is like the wither’d =Hay=, - And, so it springs, and fades away._ - -[Illustration: OMNIS CARO FŒNUM. - -ILLVSTR. XLVIII. _Book. 4_] - - This _Infant_, and this little Trusse of _Hay_, - When they are moralized, seeme to say, - That, _Flesh_ is but a tuft of Morning-_Grasse_, - Both greene, and wither’d, ere the day-light passe. - And, such we truly finde it; for, behold, - Assoone as Man is borne, hee waxeth old, - In Griefes, in Sorrowes, or Necessities; - And, withers ev’ry houre, untill hee dyes: - Now, flourishing, as _Grasse_, when it is growne, - Straight perishing, as _Grasse_, when it is mowne. - If, wee with other things, mans _Age_ compare, - His _Life_ is but a _Day_ (For, equall’d are - His _Yeares_ with _Houres_: His _Months_, with _Minutes_ bee - Fit parallels; and, ev’ry _breathing_, wee - May tearme a _Day_) yet, some, ev’n at the _Night_ - Of that short _Day_, are dead, and witherd quite. - Before the _Morning_ of our lives bee done, - The _Flesh_ oft fades: Sometime, it growes till _Noone_: - But, there’s no mortall _Flesh_, that will abide - Vnparched longer, than till _Evening-tide_. - For, in it selfe, it alwayes carries that, - Which helpeth so, it selfe to ruinate; - That, though it feele, nor _storme_, nor scorching _flame_, - An inbred _Canker_, will consume the same. - Considering well, and well remembring this, - Account the _Flesh_ no better than it is: - Wrong not thine everlasting _Soule_, to cherish - A _Gourd_, which in a moments time will perish. - Give it the tendance, fit for fading _Crops_; - But, for _Hay-harvest_, lose not better hopes. - - - _Make use of =Time=, that’s =comming on=; - For, that is perish’d, which is =gone=._ - -[Illustration: PERIT QUOD ELAPSUM EST. - -ILLVSTR. XLIX. _Book. 4_] - - This _Glasse_ declares, how _Time_ doth passe away; - And, if the _Words_, about it, rightly say, - Thy _Time that’s gone, is lost_: and, proofe will shew, - That, many find both _Words_, and _Emblem_, true. - How fast their _Time_ departs, they best perceive, - From whom it steales, before they take their leave, - Of what they love; and, whose last _houre_ is gone, - Before their chiefest businesses are done. - How fast it slides, ev’n they are also taught, - (Too late, perhaps) who never kept in thought - Their _ending-day_; but, alwayes did presume, - Or, largely hope upon the _Time to come_; - The _present-howres_, nor thankfully enjoying, - Nor, honestly, nor usefully employing. - That, _yeares expir’d, are lost_, they likewise find: - For, when their understanding brings to mind, - How fondly (or, how ill perchance) they spent - Their _passed age_; they see, with discontent, - The _Time_, not onely _lost_, but, worse than so; - _Lost_, with a thousand other Losses moe: - And, that, when they shall need it, _wealth_ nor _pow’r_, - Can purchase them, one _minute_ of an _howre_. - Consider this, all ye that spend the _prime_, - The _noone tide_, and the _twilight_ of your _Time_, - In childish play-games, or meere worldly things; - As if you could, at pleasure, clip _Times_ wings, - Or turne his _Glasse_, or, had a _Life_, or twaine - To live, when you had fool’d out _this_ in vaine. - Short is the _present_; lost _Times-passed_ bee; - And, _Time to come_, wee may not live to see. - - - _The =Garland=, He alone shall weare, - Who, to the =Goale=, doth persevere._ - -[Illustration: PERSEVERANTI DABITUR. - -ILLVSTR. L. _Book. 4_] - - An _Arme_ is with a _Garland_ here extended; - And, as the _Motto_ saith, it is intended, - _To all that persevere_. This being so; - Let none be faint in heart, though they be _slow_: - For, he that _creepes_, untill his _Race_ be done, - Shall gaine a _Wreath_, aswell as they that _runne_. - This being so; let no man walke in doubt, - As if Gods _Arme_ of _Grace_ were stretched out - To some small number: For, whoe’re _begins_ - And _perseueres_, the profer’d _Garland_ winns: - And, God respects no persons; neither layes - A stumbling blocke in any of our Waies. - This being so, let no man think’t enough - To set his hand, a little, to the Plough, - And, then desist; but, let him still pursue, - To doe that _Worke_, to which that _Wreath_ is due: - For, nor on _Good-beginners_, nor on those - That, _walke halfe-way_, (much lesse on him, that goes - No stepp at all) will God this _gift_ conferre; - But, onely, unto those that _persevere_. - LORD, by thy _Grace_, an entrance I have made - In honest _Pathes_; and, thy assistance had, - To make in them, some slow _proceedings_ too. - Oh grant me, full abilitie, to doe - Thy sacred _Will_; and, to _beginn_, and _end_ - Such _Workes_, as to thy _glory_, still, may tend. - That (_Walking_, and _continuing_ in the _Path_, - Which evermore, thine approbation hath) - I may that _Garland_, by thy _grace_, obtaine, - Which, by mine owne _desert_, I cannot gaine. - _Glory be to God._ - - - - -[Illustration: Decoration] - -THE FOVRTH LOTTERIE. - - -1 - - Thou, of a noble minde, art thought, - Which, heav’nly things, hath chiefly sought. - And, scorn’st thy vertue to debase, - By loving those of lower place. - If so, thine _Emblom_ doth expresse - Thy _Wisdome_, and thy _worthynesse_. - But, if to earthward thou incline; - Thence, learne _Affections_ more Divine. - -See, _Emb._ I. - - -2 - - Some _words_ or _thoughts_, perhaps, of your - Have wrong’d Gods _providence_, or _Pow’re_: - Els, you (it may be) to some _place_, - Confine his unconfined _Grace_; - Or, thinke, he never taketh care, - Of any _Realme_, but where you are. - Your _Lot_, now, therefore, doth provide, - To have your _Iudgement_ rectifide. - -See, _Emb._ II. - - -3 - - Thou maist be _wise_, but, there is, yet, - Some crack, or, failing in thy _wit_: - For, thou dost _personate_ a _part_, - That, showes thee other, then thou _art_. - Thine _Emblem_, therefore, doth declare, - What _Habit_, such deserve to weare; - And, that, he merits _Asses_ eares, - Who _is not_, that, which he _appeares_. - -See, _Emb._ III. - - -4 - - You have, as yet, much _worke_ to doe, - But, yoo have _little time_ thereto: - That, _little_, flyes away with speed, - And, you the _Losse_, as little heed. - Lest, therefore, all your time be gone, - Before you duely thinke thereon, - A _memorandum_ you have got, - By drawing, of this luckie _Lot_. - -See, _Emb._ IV. - - -5 - - Though you, perhaps, no _perill_ dread, - A _mischiefe_ hangs above your head; - By which, you (taking little care) - May perish ere you be aware. - To minde you, therefore, to eschew - Such Miseries as may ensue; - Your L_ot_, this warning _Emblem_ sent; - Observe it, and your _harmes_ prevent. - -See, _Emb._ V. - - -6 - - Thou _fly’st_, in hope, to shun thy griefe; - Thou _changest place_, to seeke releefe; - And, many blamelesse things are shent - As, causers of thy discontent. - But trouble, now, no more thy minde, - The root of thy disease to finde; - For, by thine _Emblem_, thou shalt see, - The _Fountaine_, whence thy torments bee. - -See, _Emb._ VI. - - -_M_ 7 - - Thou art, or els thou wert, of late, - Some great, or petty, _Magistrate_; - Or, _Fortune_ thereunto, perchance, - In time to come, will thee advance. - But, by thine _Emblem_, thou shalt see, - That, when restrein’d, thy _pow’r_ shall be, - Offenders, thereof will be glad, - And skoffe the pow’re which thou hast had; - Observe it; and be so _upright_, - That, thou maist laugh at their _despight_. - -See, _Emb._ VII. - - -8 - - _Promotion_ thou dost much desire, - And, spacious _Fortunes_ to acquire; - As, if thou thoughtst, thou mightst attaine, - True _Blessednesse_, by such a _gaine_: - To shew thee, therefore, what event, - What _happinesse_, and what _content_, - Such things, will bring vs, at the last, - An usefull _Object_, now, thou hast. - -See, _Emb._ VIII. - - -9 - - Disheartned be not, though thou see, - Thy _Hopes_, quite frustrate seeme to be; - For, many _Hopes_, appearing past, - Have, beene renew’d againe, at last; - And, grew far greater, then before, - When, they seem’d lost, for evermore. - _Examples_, therefore, now are brought, - That, still, to _Hope_, thou mayst be taught. - -See, _Emb._ IX. - - -_M_ 10 - - Most men desire to gaine the _Fate_, - Which keepes them safe, in ev’ry state; - And, you, no doubt, would faine provide, - A _Station_, which might firme abide. - If so you meane; your _Lot_ hath brought, - Some newes of that, which you have sought: - For, by your _Emblem_, you may see, - What men shall most unmooved be. - -See, _Emb._ X. - - -11 - - You seeme, to wonder, much of late, - That, some goe _backward_ in _Estate_, - Who seeme to thrive; and, why, we finde, - Those _Friends_, who seemed very kinde, - (And, forward good respects to show) - Doe now unkinde, and froward grow. - But, when your _Emblem_ you shall see, - No wonder, then, such things will be. - -See, _Emb._ XI. - - -12 - - Thou seek’st a _Conquest_; or, (at least) - Of such a Pow’re to be possest, - As none can conquer; And, bohold, - Thou, in an _Emblem_, shalt be told - The meanes to get thy hearts desire. - Yet, know, that if thou come no nigher, - Then but to _know_ the meanes of _blisse_, - The farther off, the _blessing_ is. - -See, _Emb._ XII. - - -13 - - Thou liv’st, as one who thinks, that, _Fate_ - All Actions did _nesessitate_; - And, that to _doe_, or leave _undone_, - Thy Businesses, came all to one. - If, thus thou thinke, perhaps, this _Chance_; - May helpe to cure thine _Ignorance_; - And, show, when 'twill be, wholly, fit - To _Fate_, our matters, to commit. - -See, _Emb._ XIII. - - -14 - - Thy Neighbors _house_ when thou dost view, - _Welfurnisht_, _pleasant_, _large_, or _new_, - Thou thinkst good LARES, alwaies dwell, - In Lodgings that are trimm’d so well. - But, by thine _Emblem_, thou art showne, - That (if thou lov’dst what is thine _owne_) - _Thatcht Roofes_, as true Contentments yeeld, - As those, that are with _Cedar_ seeld. - Vaine _Fancies_, therefore, from thee cast; - And, be content with what thou hast. - -See, _Emb._ XIV. - - -15 - - Thou seek’st _Preferment_, as a thing, - Which _East_, or _Westerne-winds_ might bring; - And, thinkst to gaine a temp’rall _Crowne_, - By _Powres_ and _Vertues_ of thine owne: - But, now, thy _Lot_ informes from whom, - The _Scepter_, and _preferments_ come; - Seeke, thence, thy lawfull _hopes_ fruition, - And, cherish not a vaine _ambition_. - -See, _Emb._ XV. - - -16 - - This _Lot_, though rich, or poore, thou bee, - Presents an _Emblem_, fitt for thee. - If _Rich_, it warnes, not to be _proud_; - Since, _Fortunes_ favours are allow’d - To _Swinish-men_: If thou be _poore_, - Deject thou not thy selfe, the more; - For, many worthy men, there are, - Who, doe not _Fortunes_ Iewels weare. - -See, _Emb._ XVI. - - -17 - - Thou, dost not greatly care, by whom - Thy _wealth_, or thy _Preferments_, come: - So, thou maist get them, _Foole_ or _Knave_, - Thy _prayers_, and thy _praise_ may have; - Because, thou dost nor feare, nor dreame, - What disadvantage comes by them: - But, by thine _Emblem_, thou shalt see, - That, _Mischieves_, in their _favours_ bee. - -See, _Emb._ XVII. - - -18 - - You boast, as if it were, unknowne - The power you have were not your owne: - But, had you not an able _Prop_, - You could not beare so high a _Top_; - And, if that _Ayde_ forsake you shall, - Downe to the ground, you soone will fall. - Acknowledge this; and, humble grow, - You may be, still, supported so. - -See, _Emb._ XVIII. - - -19 - - This _Lot_ of yours doth plainely show, - That, in some danger now you go. - But, _wounds_ by _Steele_, yet, feare you not; - Nor _Pistoling_, nor _Cannon-shot_; - But, rather, dread the _shafts_ that fly, - From some deepe-wounding _wantons_ eye. - Your greatest perills are from thence; - Get therefore, Armour of defence. - -See, _Emb._ XIX. - - -20 - - Thy Vertues, often, have beene tride, - To finde what proofes they will abide: - Yet, thinke not all thy _Trialls_ past, - Till thou on ev’ry side art cast; - Nor, feare thou, what may chance to thee, - If truely, square, thy dealings be: - For, then, what ever doth befall, - Nor _harme_, nor _shame_, betide thee shall. - -See, _Emb._ XX. - - -21 - - Fine _Clothes_, faire _Words_, entising _Face_, - With _Maskes_ of _Pietie_ and _Grace_, - Oft, cheat you, with an outward show, - Of that, which prooveth nothing so. - Therefore, your _Emblems_ Morall read; - And, ere too farre you doe proceed, - Thinke, whom you deale withall, to day, - Who, by faire shewes, deceive you may. - -See, _Emb._ XXI. - - -22 - - You, are accus’d of no man, here, - As, if to any, false, you were - In _word_, or _Deed_; and, wish, we doe, - Your _Conscience_ may acquit you too, - But, if your selfe you guilty finde, - (As, unto such a fault inclin’d) - The crime, already _past_, repent; - And, what is yet _undone_, prevent. - -See, _Emb._ XXII. - - -23 - - You haue delighted much, of late, - Gainst _Womens_ ficklenesse, to prate; - As if this frailety you did find, - Entail’d, alone, on _Womankind_: - But, in your selfe, ther’s now and then, - Great proofes, of wav’ring minds, in men: - Then, jugde not faults which are unknown; - But, rather learne to mend your owne. - -See, _Emb._ XXIII. - - -24 - - At your _Afflictions_, you repine, - And, in all troubles, cry, and whine; - As if, to _suffer_, brought no _Ioy_; - But, quite, did all contents destroy. - That, you might, therefore, _patient_ grow, - And, learne, that Vertues pow’re, to know, - This _Lot_, unto your view, is brought: - Peruse, and practise what is taught. - -See, _Emb._ XXIV. - - -25 - - On out side _Friends_, thou much reli’st, - And, _trustest_, oft, before thou try’st; - By which, if _Cousnage_ thou escape, - Thy _Wit_ wee praise not, but thy _Hap_: - But, lest by _trust_, (e’re _triall due_) - Thou, overlate, thy _Trusting_ rue; - Observe the _Morall_ of thy _Lot_, - And, looke that thou forget it not. - -See, _Emb._ XXV. - - -26 - - By this your _Lot_, it should appeare, - That, you your selfe are too severe; - Or, have, by some, perswaded bin, - That, ev’ry _Pleasure_ is a _sinne_. - That, wiser therefore, you may grow, - You have an _Emblem_, now, to show, - That, _Hee_, whose wisdome all men praise, - Sometime, layes downe his _Bow_, and _playes_. - -See, _Emb._ XXVI. - - -27 - - Thou little heedst how _Time_ is lost, - Or, how thine _Howres_ away doe post; - Nor art thou mindfull of the day, - In which thy life, will breath away. - To thee this _Lot_, now, therefore, came, - To make thee heedfull of the same. - So, of thy Dutie, let it mind thee, - That, thou maist _live_, when _Death_ shall finde thee. - -See, _Emb._ XXVII. - - -28 - - A safe-abiding, wouldst thou know, - When _Seas_ doe rage, and _winds_ doe blow? - If so; thine _Emblem_ shewes thee, where - Such _Priviledges_ gained are. - Observe it well; then, doe thy best, - To bee a _Yongling_, in that nest - There _Moraliz’d_; and, mocke thou not - At what is taught thee, by this _Lot_. - -See, _Emb._ XVIII. - - -29 - - Beleeve not, alwayes, as thy _Creed_, - That, _Love-profest_, is _Love-indeed_; - But, their _Affections_ entertaine, - Who in thy _need_, firme _Friends_ remaine. - Perhaps, it much may thee concerne, - This _Lesson_, perfectly, to learne. - Thine _Emblems_ morall, therefore, view, - And, get true _Friends_, by being, _true_. - -See, _Emb._ XXIX. - - -30 - - The _Consciences_, of some, afford - No Lawfull use unto the _Sword_: - Some dreame, that, in the time of peace, - The practise of all _Armes_ may cease; - And, you, perhaps, among the rest, - With such like fancies are possest. - However, what your _Morall_ sayes - Observe; and, walke in blamelesse _waves_. - -See, _Emb._ XXX. - - -31 - - A better _Fortune_ you might gaine, - If you, could take a little _paine_: - If you have _Wealth_, you should have more, - And, should be Rich, (though you are _poore_) - If to the _longings_ you have had, - A true _endevour_ you would adde: - For, by your _Emblem_, you may see, - Such, as your _Paines_, your _Gaines_ will be. - -See, _Emb._ XXXI. - - -32 - - When any troublous Time appeares, - Your _Hope_ is ouercome, with _feares_, - As, if with every _Floud_ of _Raine_, - The _World_ would quite be drownd againe. - But, by your _Emblem_, you shall see, - That, _Sunshine_, after _Stormes_ may be: - And, you this _Lot_, (it may be) drew, - In times of neede, to comfort _you_. - -See, _Emb._ XXXII. - - -33 - - When, you to ought, pretend a right, - You thinke to winne it by your _might_. - Yea, by your strength, your purse or friends, - You boast to gaine your wished _Endes_. - But, such _Presumptions_ to prevent - You to an _Emblem_ now are sent - That, showes, by whom he _Victor_ growes, - That winnes, by giving overthrowes. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIII. - - -34 - - If, truely _temperate_, thou be, - Why should this _Lot_, be drawne by thee? - Perhaps, thou either dost exceed, - In costly Robes; or, drinke, or feede, - Beyond the _meane_. If this thou finde, - Or, know’st, in any other kinde, - How thou offendest by _excesse_, - Now, leave off, that _intemp’ratnesse_. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIV. - - -35 - - Thou hop’st, to climbe, to honor’d _heights_, - Yet, wouldst not passe through stormes or _streights_; - But, shun’st them so, as if there were - No way to _blisse_, where _troubles_ are. - Lest, then, thou lose thy hop’d-for praise, - By, seeking wide, and easie wayes; - See what thine _Emblem_ doth disclose. - And, feare not ev’ry _winde_ that blowes. - -See, _Emb._ XXXV. - - -36 - - Sometimes, it may be, thou dost finde, - That, God, thy _prayers_, doth not minde, - Nor, heede, of those _Petitions_ take, - Which, men and _Congregations_ make. - Now, why they take so ill effect, - Thou, by our _Morall_, maist collect: - And, by the same, shalt also see, - When, all thy _suits_ will granted be. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVI. - - -37 - - Thou, hast been very forward, still, - To _punish_ those, that merit ill; - But, thou didst never, yet, regard - To give _Desert_, her due _Reward_. - That, therefore, thou maist now have care, - Of such _Injustice_, to beware, - Thine _Emblem_, doth to thee present, - As well _Reward_, as _punishment_. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVII. - - -38 - - Thou, either hast a _babling tongue_, - Which, cannot keepe a _secret_, long; - Or, shalt, perhaps, indanger’d growe, - By such, as utter all they know. - In one, or other, of the twaine, - Thou maist be harm’d; and, to thy gaine, - It may redound, when thou shalt see, - What, now, thine _Emblem_, counsels thee. - -See, _Emb._ XXXVIII. - - -39 - - By this, thy _Lot_, we understand, - That, somewhat, thou hast tooke in hand, - Which, (whether, further, thou _Proceed_ - Or quite _desist_) will danger breed. - Consider, then, what thou hast done, - And, since the _hazzard_ is begun, - Advised be to take the _Course_, - Whrch may not make the danger worse. - -See, _Emb._ XXXIX. - - -40 - - The _Destinies_, thou blamest, much, - Because, thou canst not be so rich, - As others are: But, blame no more. - The _Destinies_, as heretofore; - For, if it please thee to behold, - What, by thine _Embleme_, shall be told, - Thou, there, shalt find, which be those _Fates_, - That, keepe men low, in their _estates_. - -See, _Emb._ XL. - - -41 - - Thou thinkst, that thou from _faults_ art free; - And, here, unblamed thou shalt be. - But, if to all men, thou wilt seeme - As faire, as in thine owne esteeme, - Presume thou not abroad to passe, - Vntill, by ev’ry _Looking-Glasse_, - Which, in thy _Morall_, is exprest, - Thou hast, both _Minde_, and _Body_ drest. - -See, _Emb._ XLI. - - -42 - - Some, _labour_ hardly, all their daies, - In painefull-profitable wayes; - And, others taste the sweetest _gaine_, - Of that, for which these tooke the _paine_: - Yet, these, they not alone undo, - But, having _robd_, they _murther_ too. - The wrongs of such, this _Emblem_ showes, - That, thou mayst helpe, or pitty those. - -See, _Emb._ XLII. - - -43 - - Thou, often hast observ’d with feares, - Th’_aspects_, and _motions_ of the _Starres_, - As if, they threatned _Fates_ to some, - Which, _God_ could never save them from. - If this, thy dreaming Error be, - Thine _Emblems_ Morall shewes to thee, - That, _God_ restraines the _Starry-Fates_, - And, no mans harme, _necessitates_. - -See, _Emb._ XLIII. - - -44 - - Thou, hast provoked, over long, - Their _patience_, who neglect the wrong; - And, thou dost little seeme to heede, - What _harme_ it threats, if thou proceed. - To thee, an _Emblem_, therefore, showes, - To what, _abused-Patience_ growes. - Observe it well; and, make thy _Peace_, - Before to _Fury_, _Wrath_ increase. - -See, _Emb._ XLIV. - - -45 - - Thou hast the helps of _Natures_ light; - _Experience_ too, doth ayde thy sight: - Nay more, the _Sun_ of _Grace-divine_, - Doth round about thee daylie shine; - Yet, _Reasons_ eye is blind in thee, - And, clearest _Objects_ cannot see. - Now, from what cause, this _Blindnesse_ growes - The _Morall_ of thine _Emblem_ showes. - -See, _Emb._ XLV. - - -46 - - Thy _cause_, thy _Money_, or thy _Friend_, - May make thee forward to _contend_; - And, give thee Hopes, that thy intents, - Shall bring thee prosperous events. - But view thy _Lot_; then, marke thou there, - That _Victories_ uncertaine are; - And rashly venture not on that - Whose End may be, _thou knowest not what_. - -See, _Emb._ XLVI. - - -47 - - To them who grudgingly repine, - Assoone as their estates decline, - This _Lot_ pertaines; or, unto those, - Who, when their neighbour needy growes, - Contemne him; as if he were left, - Of God; and, of all hopes bereft. - If this, or that, be found in thee, - Thou, by thy _Morall_, taught shalt be, - That, there is none so ill besped; - But may have hope, he shall be fed. - -See, _Emb._ XLVII. - - -48 - - Thy _Flesh_ thou lov’st, as if it were, - The chiefest _Object_, of thy _Care_; - And of such value, as may seeme, - Well meriting, thy best esteeme. - But, now, to banish that conceit, - Thy _Lot_ an _Emblem_ brings to sight, - Which, without flattery, shewes to thee - Of what regard it ought to be. - -See, _Emb._ XLVIII. - - -49 - - It may suspected be, thou hast, - Mispent the _Time_, that’s gone and past; - For, to an _Emblem_ thou art sent, - That’s made, such folly to prevent: - The _morall_ heed; Repent thy _Crime_; - And, Labour, to _Redeeme the Time_. - -See, _Emb._ XLIX. - - -50 - - With good applause thou hast begunne, - And, well, as yet, proceedest on: - But, e’re the _Lawrell_, thou canst weare, - Thou to the End must _persevere_. - And, lest this dutie, be so got, - Thou hast a Caveat, by this _Lot_. - -See, _Emb._ L. - - -51 - - Although, this time, you drew it not, - _Good Fortune_, for you, may be got. - Perhaps, the _planets_ ruling now, - Have cast no good _Aspects_ on you. - For, many say, that, now and then, - The _Starres_ looke angerly on men: - Then, try your Chance againe, anon; - For, their displeasure soone is gone. - - -52 - - If, by your _Lot_ you had beene prais’d - Your minde, perchance, it would have rais’d, - Above the _meane_. Should you receive - Some check, thereby, It would bereave - Your _Patience_: For, but few can beare, - _Reproofes_, which unexpected are. - But, now prepared you have beene, - To draw your _Lot_ once more begin; - And, if another _Blancke_ you get, - Attempt your _chance_, no more, as yet. - - -53 - - To crosse your hopes, _Misfortune_ sought; - And, by your _Lot_, a _Blanck_ hath brought: - But, he who knew her ill intent, - Hath made this _Blanke_ her spight prevent; - For, if that _Number_ you shall take, - Which these two _fignres_, backward, make, - And view the place to which they guide; - An _Emblem_, for you, they provide. - - -54 - - These _Lots_ are almost _Ten_ to _One_ - Above the _Blankes_; yet, thou hast none. - If thus thy _Fortune_ still proceed, - Tis _Ten_ to _One_ if well thou speed. - Yet, if thou doe not much neglect, - To doe, as _Wisdome_ shall direct, - It is a _Thousand_ unto _ten_ - But all thy Hopes will prosper, then. - - -55 - - It seemes, Dame _Fortune_, doth not know, - What _Lot_, on thee, she should bestow; - Nor, canst thou tell, (if thou mightst have - The choice) what _Fortune_, thou shouldst crave. - For, _one thing_, now, thy minde requires; - Anon, _another_ it desires. - When Resolution thou hast got, - Then, come againe, and draw thy _Lot_. - - -56 - - The _Chance_, which thou obtained hast, - Of all our _Chances_, is the last; - And, casting up the totall _summes_, - We finde thy _Gaine_, to _Nothing_ comes. - Yet if it well be understood, - This _Chance_ may chance to doe thee good; - For, it inferres what _Portion_ shall, - To ev’ry one, (at last) befall; - And warnes, while _something_, is enjoyd, - That, well it (alwaies) be imployd. - - _FINIS._ - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - - - -[Illustration: Decoration] - -_A Table for the better finding out of the principall things and -matters, mentioned in these Foure Bookes._ - - -_A._ - -Adversitie. pag. 16. 17. 26. 30. 240. 243 - -Ægle. 6. 3. 111. - -Affection. 7. 33. 34. 83. 162. - -Affliction. 16. 17. 44. 47. 70. 81. 108. 240. - -Agreement in Desire. 34. - -Age. 44. - -Ambitions emptines. 216. - -Ambition. 69. - -Anchor. 39. 72. - -Annuall revolutions. 157. - -Anvils and Hammer. 17. - -Appearances deceive. 175. - -Apollo. 234. - -Archer. 25. - -Armour. 111. - -Arrs. 1. 80. - -Action. 9. - -Armes. 3. 32. 80. - -Authoritie. 137. - - -_B._ - -Ball. 7. - -Beginning. 102. - -Best men not best favour’d. 224. - -Bear. 23. - -Bees. 23. 90. 250. - -Beautie. 40. - -Blabs. 246. - -Blessings long enjoyed. 70. - -Bounds. 161. - -A Bore. 110. - -Borrowed worth. 14. - -A Bowe bended. 39. - -Bridle. 169. - -A Broken-heart 77. - -Busy-bodies. 148. - -Butterfly and Spider. 18. - - -_C._ - -Candle and Flie. 40. - -Carnal affections. 43. - -Caduceus. 9. 88. - -Ceremonies of estate. 137. - -Centaure. 103. - -A Childe. 45. - -Christian confidence. 81. - -Church. 111. 136. - -Christ the true Pellican. 154. - -The Circular motion of things. 45. - -Circumspection. 138. - -Clamor. 63. - -Cleargie-men. 149. - -Constancie. 2. 81. 143. - -Cock. 71. - -Comlinesse. 249. - -Good Companions. 249. - -Constant resolution 24. - -Consideration. 9. - -Contempt of earthly things. 12. - -Contention. 34. 71. - -Contention hazzardous. 254. - -Contemplation. 45. 105. 156. - -Corcord. 63. - -Consolation. vid. Comfort. - -Comfort. 70. - -Comfort sweetned by troubles. ibid. - -Constellations. 31. 74. 251. - -Contentment. 86. - -Cornerstone. 161. - -Coronet. 255. - -Cornucopia 9 88. 166. 248. - -Corporeall vertues. 80. - -Covetousnesse. 216. - -Crocadile. 112. - -Craft. 136. - -Crowne. 47. 78. 81. - -Crosse. 47 75 81 - -Crosses 47. - -Curiositie 147. - -Cupid 227. - -Cynthia 24. - - -_D._ - -Danger hangs over all 213 - -Death 1. 21. 45. 48. 94. 168. 184. 235. - -Deaths head 21 - -Deliberation 72 - -Delay 18 - -Degrees. 29. 49 117. - -Deceit in all places. 180. - -Despaire is not to be admitted. 217. 221. 240. - -Destinie. vid. Fate. - -Decrees of God. 95. - -Our Destruction is of our selves. 214. - -Desires best object. 209. - -Devotion. 41. - -Diamond. 171. - -Diana. 24. - -Divine assistance. 170. - -Dissimulation, 211, 228, 230 - -Discord. 177. - -Discretion. 151. - -Doggs. 255. - -Dolphin. 72. - -Dove. 150. - -Drowsinesse. 9. - -Drones. 250. - - -_E._ - -Earthly things. 85. - -Endurance 23. 26. - -Endeavour continued. 29. - -Envy 97. - -End. 102. - -Equalitie. 34. 48. - -Equivocation. 38. - -Estridge. 36. - -Eternitie. 102. 157. - -Everlasting. 102. - -Excesse. 68. - -Externall Blessings. 88. - - -_F._ - -Faith 13. 66 - -Faith infringed. 38. 99. - -Fate 74. 95. 221. 251 - -Fatall necessity 251 - -Falshood 99 - -Fame 146. - -Faire shewes deceitfull 233. 229 - -Face 39 - -Fighters 71 - -Ficklenesse vid. Inconstancy - -Filial pietie 155. - -Fire on an Altar 15. - -Fierie-triall 30 - -Flesh is hay 256 - -Flying-Ball 71. 101 - -Flie and the Candle 40 - -Flower of the Sunne 159. - -Fooles, who the greatest 211 - -Fooles favours mischievous 225 - -Fortune 6. 88. 101. 109. 139 174. 224 - -Fraud in all professions 183 - -Friendship 75. 99. 162. 237. - -Friends 75, 145 - -Frequencie 45 - -Fullnesse 64. - -Furie begotten by abused patience 252. - - -_G._ - -Ganimed 156. - -Light Gaines 50. - -Glory 5. 92. - -God 140, 152, 170, 210, 223 255 - -Gods prerogatives 223 - -Gods decrees 95. 141 - -Gospell preached 89 - -Good works 135 - -Governours 37 - -Government 238 - -Goblins about Graves 43 - -Grace 31, 74, 104, 226 - -Grave 21 - -Greefe 26 - -Groves 35 - -Great things from small beginnings 46. 50 - -Gryphon 139 - -Guile vid. Fraud and Deceit - -Guiltinesse 66, 69. - - -_H._ - -Hast 19, 49 153 - -Hammer and Anvile, 17 - -Halter 66, Halcyon, vid. Kings Fisher - -Harvest 44 - -Harlots 27, 246 - -Harmlesnes vid. Innocency - -Hazzardous enterprises 247 - -Harmony vid. Musick - -Hard-hearted men 175 - -Hardship 243 - -Heed 19. 49, 153 - -Heliotrope 159 - -Heaven 152 - -Hellen 27 - -Hyppocrisy 20, 77, 211, 229 - -Hyppocrite 229 - -Honour 5, 153 - -Hope 13, 16, 39, , 44, 73. 106 150, 217 - -Houses which are best 222 - -Hony 23 - -Howreglasse 21, 212 - -Hunger 64 - -Husbands 162 - -Humility 147 - -Hyppotamus 155 - - -_I._ - -Ianus 138 - -Idlenesse 5. 92 - -Innocence 9. 111, 151 - -Infant 45 - -Incroachments 161 - -Invincibility 220 - -Inconstancy 231 - -Intemperance 242 - -Industry 5 - -Impiety. 155 - -Imprsonmēt better than a worse mischiefe 96 - -Ioys sweetned by afflictions 70 - -Iteration 29 - -Iustice 66. 69, 155 - -Iust dealing. 100 - -Ixion 69 - - -_K._ - -Kingsfisher 236 - -Kings 32, 37, 78, 137, 159 163, 180 - -Kingdomes 67 - -A Kingdomes glorie 78 - -Knowledge 1, 79, 103 - - -_L._ - -Labour 5, 29, 143, 150, 229, - -Labour in vaine 11. - -Lambe 252. - -Lawe 3. 163. 169 - -Leasure and heed 19. 49 107 - -Learne to die 94 - -Learning 87 - -A Line a day. 158 - -Liking makes indifferent things excellent 222 - -A Little and little makes a mickle 50. 158 - -Life 21. 45 - -Love the best Musitian, 82 - -Love 7, 33. 34. 38. - -Losses 50. - -Losses may be recovered 182 - -Looking-glasses 241. - - -_M._ - -Malefactors 66 - -Mars 80. - -Marriages. 83. - -Magistrates out of office 215. - -A Mace. 137 - -Man his owne enemie 214 - -Mercy, offred to all 255 - -Merit 139 - -Measures 100 - -Medlers, _vid._ Busie-bodies. - -Meditation best in the night 9 - -Meanes, not to be neglected 221 - -Meanes, not the onely ground of Hope 13 - -Mercurie 9 - -The Meane 169 - -Military exercise 32 - -Mis-fortune may be profitable. 96 - -Mortalitie 8 45 - -Moone 111. 182 - -Monuments 142 - -Mutuall affection. 34. 163. 781. - -Musicke 65 - - -_N._ - -Nature and Grace 104. 144 - -Nature needes a supporter. 226 - -Necessitie 64 - -Night helpfull to Meditation 9 - - -_O._ - -Oathes 38 - -Obscuritie profitable 73 - -Occasion 4 - -Offenders 215 - -Old men may learne 87 - -Opportunitie 4 - -Oppression 28 - -Opposition 63 - -Order 220 - -Outward appearances 175 - -Owle 9. 63. 79. 168 - -Oxe 173 - - -_P._ - -Paine 23 - -Palmetree 172 - -Patience 28. 63. 252 - -Patriots 165 - -Pallas 9. 80 - -Parents 15 - -A Pastorall charge 149 - -Peace 9 238 - -Perjurie 38 - -Pegasus 105 - -Perseverance 19. 143. 175. 258 - -Pelican 154 - -Pietie 8. 41. 155 - -Pigmey Spirits 14 - -Planets 31 - -Planting 35 - -Pleasure 22. 23. 38. 68 - -Plenty 64 - -Plaine-dealing 228 - -Poeticall Libertie 148 - -Poets Horse, _vid._ Pegasus - -Power 103. 179 - -Power divine 210. - -Policie 80 - -Posterity 35 - -Poore Theeves 167. - -Povertie 176 - -Cause of povertie. 248 - -Praise 146 - -Practise 66. 158 - -Preaching 89 - -Preferment 68 - -Prelats 41 - -Priests. ibid. - -Pride to be avoyed 8 - -Princes 155 - -Profit causeth contention 71. - -Processions 165. - -Prosperitie 12. 16 - -Protection divine 245 - -Promotion is of God 223. - -Prudence 74. 142. 151 - -Puritie 41 - -Punishment and reward 245 - -Pyramus 33. - - -_Q._ - -Qvarrellers 71. - - -_R._ - -Rashnesse 9. 19 - -Redeeme the time 23. 257 - -Recreation 234 - -A well Resolved man 228 - -Restraints from being Rich 248 - -Resolute constancy 24 - -Repine not at misfortunes 96 - -Reputation 140 - -Repentance to be hastned 213 - -Retirednesse 73. 79 - -Revolutions of things 45 - -Reward 135. 139 141. 229. 258 - -Reward and punishment 243 - -Riches 1. 98 - -Rich Theeves 197 - -Rod. 93. - -Royall favour. 159. - - -_S._ - -Sacred callings 41 - -The best Sacrifice 77. - -Salamander 30 - -Scepter 79 - -Scepter and Spade 48 - -Sea-horse 155. - -Selfe perdition 68. 214 - -Selfe love 35 - -Shepherds crooke 149 - -Ship 13. 37 - -Sisyphus 11 - -Sinne 66. 69. - -Silence 73 - -Simplicity 151 - -Sincerity 228, 230 - -Sive 20 - -A Skeleton 8 - -Sloath 9. 181. - -Slownesse 19 - -Slow pace goes farre 173 - -Small beginnings 46. 50 - -Snake 5. 9. 45. 47. 74. 101. 102 142. - -Snaile 19 - -Sophisters 38 - -Sober knowledge 147 - -Sorrow 24 79 - -Soveraigntie is of God, 21. 22 - -Spade 5 - -Spider 18 - -Squirrell 26. 136 - -Staiednesse 72 153 - -Starrs 31. 74. 251 - -States-men 15 - -Steresman 37 - -Stedfastnesse. _vid._ Constancy. - -Stewes 27 - -Storke 149 155 - -Strength 80. 103. 136 - -Students 15 - -Studiousnesse 146 - -Suffering 23. 47. 81. 171. 232 - -Sufficiencie 86 - -Sunnshine after stormes 240 - -Swearing. 38. - -Swine 38. 110. - -Sword 66. 137. 163. 238. 245 - - -_T._ - -Talents hidden 76. 181 - -A Tatler, 246. - -Tennis-ball, 16 - -Terrene pompe 98 - -Temperance 169. 242 - -Terminus 161 - -Theeves 167 - -Thisbe 33 - -Time. 4. 102. 157. 212. 235 257 - -Titles, ill placed 224. - -Tongue 42 - -Tortois 86 - -Touchstone 229 - -Transitorie things 85 - -Triall 30 - -Trie e’re thou trust. 84. 233 - -Truth 172 - -Turtle. _vid._ Dove. - - -_V._ - -Vanitie of earthly things 98 - -Vaine hopes. 69 - -Vaine shewes 20 - -Vengeance 66 - -Vertue. 1. 5. 6. 22. 30. 88. 97. 101. 109. 111. 139. 171. 218. - -Vice 22. 104. 224. - -Victorie vncertaine 252 - -Victorie is of God 241. - -Viper 247 - -Vnanymitie 67 - -Vnchastitie 15 - -Vnitie 67. 177 - -Vnitie of faith 244 - -Vniversall Grace 210. 258 - -Vnprofitable gifts 76 - -Vprightnesse of heart 91 - - -_W._ - -Wanton women 7 - -Warre 90, 238 - -Wast 35 - -Wearinesse 9 84 153 - -Watchfulnesse 79 - -Watchmen 149 - -Way of Uertue 160 - -Weapons 111 - -Wealth 68. 166. - -Weights 110. - -Welldoing 135 - -Weaknesse needes a suporter 222 - -Wisedome 1. 2, 31. 103. 142. 145. - -Witt 1. 64. 136. 167 - -Wives 172 - -Whoredome. 27 - -Whore. _vid._ Harlot - -Woods decayed 35 - -Woman 93. 231 - -World goes backeward 219. - - -_Y._ - -Youth. 22. 44. - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - - - - A _Supersedeas_ to all them, whose custome - it is, without any deserving, to importune - _Authors_ to give unto them their - _Bookes_. - - - It merits nor your Anger, nor my Blame, - That, thus I have inscrib’d this _Epigram_: - For, they who know me, know, that, _Bookes_ thus large, - And, fraught with _Emblems_, do augment the Charge - Too much above my _Fortunes_, to afford - A _Gift_ so costly, for an _Aierie-word_: - And, I have prov’d, your _Begging-Qualitie_, - So forward, to oppresse my _Modestie_; - That, for my future ease, it seemeth fit, - To take some Order, for preventing it. - And, peradventure, other Authors may, - Find Cause to thanke me for’t, another day. - These many years, it hath your _Custom_ bin, - That, when in my possession, you have seene - A _Volume_, of mine owne, you did no more, - But, _Aske_ and _Take_; As if you thought my store - Encreast, without my Cost; And, that, by _Giving_, - (Both _Paines_ and Charges too) I got my living; - Or, that, I find the _Paper_ and the _Printing_, - As easie to me, as the _Bookes_ Inventing. - If, of my _Studies_, no esteeme you have, - You, then abuse the _Courtesies_ you crave; - And, are _Vnthankfull_. If you prize them ought, - Why should my _Labour_, not enough be thought, - Vnlesse, I adde _Expenses_ to my paines? - The _Stationer_, affoords for little Gaines, - The _Bookes_ you crave: And, He, as well as I - Might give away, what you repine to buy: - For, what hee _Gives_, doth onely _Mony_ Cost, - In mine, both _Mony_, _Time_, and _Wit_ is lost. - What I shall Give, and what I have bestow’d - On Friends, to whom, I _Love_, or _Service_ ow’d, - I grudge not; And, I thinke it is from them, - Sufficient, that such _Gifts_ they do esteeme: - Yea, and, it is a _Favour_ too, when they - Will take these _Triflles_, my large _Dues_ to pay; - (Or, Aske them at my hands, when I forget, - That, I am to their _Love_, so much in debt.) - But, this inferres not, that, I should bestow - The like on all men, who, my _Name_ do know; - Or, have the Face to aske: For, then, I might, - Of _Wit_ and _Mony_, soone be begger’d, quite. - So much, already, hath beene _Beg’d_ away, - (For which, I neither had, nor looke for pay) - As being valu’d at the common Rate, - Had rais’d, _Five hundred Crownes_, in my Estate. - Which, (if I may confesse it) signifies, - That, I was farre more _Liberall_, than _Wise_. - But, for the time to come, resolv’d I am, - That, till without denyall (or just blame) - I may of those, who _Cloth_ and _Clothes_ do make, - (As oft as I shall need them) _Aske_, and _Take_; - You shall no more befoole me. Therfore, _Pray_ - _Be Answer’d_; And, henceforward, keepe away. - -[Illustration: Decoration] - - - - - A _Direction_, shewing how they who are so - _disposed_, _shall find out their =Chance=, in the - =Lotteries= aforegoing_. - - -Turne about one of the _Indexes_ in the Figures, which are in the -following Page, without casting your eyes thereupon, so observe where -it stayeth untill your hand ceaseth to give it motion. If it be the -upper _Figure_, whose _Index_ you moved; than, that _Number_ whereupon -it resteth, is the number of your _Lot_, or Blancke. - -This being knowne, move the other _Index_ in like manner, and that -_Quarter_ of the said _Figure_ whereon the same standeth (when -your hand is taken away) sheweth in which of the foure Bookes, or -_Lotteries_, that _Chance_ is to be expected, whereunto your _Number_ -doth send you, whether it be _Lot_, or _Blancke_. If it be any Number -above Fifty, it is a _Blancke Chance_, and you are to looke no further. -If it be any of the other _Numbers_, it sends you to the _Emblem_ -answering to the same _Number_, in the _Booke_ next before the same -_Lotterie_. - -If the letter _M._ be placed before the alotted _Number_; then, that -Lot is proper onely to a _Man_: If _W._ stand before it, it is proper -onely to a _Woman_: if there be no letter, it is indifferent to both -_Sexes_: And, therefore, when a _Man_ or _Woman_ happneth on a _Chance_ -impertinent to their proper _Sexe_, they are then, to take the next -_Chance_ which pertaineth properly to their _Sexe_, whether it be -_Blancke_ or _Lot_; the triall whereof, I have thus contrived, without -the use of _Dice_; lest by bringing them into sight, they might, -sometimes, occasion worse _Gaming_. - - _If =King=, =Queene=, =Prince=, or any one that springs - From Persons, knowne to be deriv’d from =Kings=, - Shall seeke, for =Sport sake=, hence to draw their =Lot=; - Our =Author= sayes; that, hee provided not - For such as =those=: Because, it were too much - For him, to find out =Fortunes=, fit for such, - Who, (as hee thinkes) should, rather, =Ayde= supply - For him, to mend his evill =Fortunes= by. - To =them=, hee, therefore pleased is to give - This noble, and this large =Prerogative=; - That, they shall chuse from hence, what =Lots= they please, - And make them better, if they like not =these=. - All other =Personages=, of =High degree=, - That, will professe our Authors friends to be, - This =Freedome=, likewise, have; that till, they find - A =Lot=, which is agreeing to their mind, - They shall have libertie, anewe, to try - Their fought-for Chance: And, ev’rytime-apply - The =Morrals= they disliked, unto those, - Which are, ill-quallifide, among their =Foes=. - All others, who this =Game=, adventure will, - Must beare their =Fortunes=, be they Good, or Ill._ - -[Illustration: Lottery Wheels] - - - - -Transcriber's notes: - -In the text version italics are represented with _underscore_ and small -caps with ALL CAPS. Upright text in italic sections, has been marked -with =equals=. - -As noted at the start of the text, inconsistencies and apparent errors -in the text have been left. The only changes that have been made are to -unclear or missing punctuation marks (e.g. where a gap in the text is -seen). In these cases, consistent punctuation has been used. - -A list of inconsistencies and problems found in the text:-- - - -Introduction - -Sheet 6 "A Writ of Prevention". STRVCTVRFS should probably read -STRVCTVRES. - -Sheet 13 "To The Reader". A closing bracket should be added after -"Graver" (whether hee were the Versifier or the Graver. - -Sheet 14 "To The Reader". A closing bracket should be added after -Hieroglyphicks (as in the Tetragrammaton; in the Figure of Arîon; and -in the Proprieties due to some other Hieroglyphicks. - - -Book I - -In Book 1, The first illustration is labelled "Illvstratio", subsequent -ones are labelled "Illvstr." - -Embleme 21. "And by our Death, our Life is new-begnnne", should -probably read "new-begunne." - -Embleme 27. "Some, I have knowne, by Harlots Wiles undone", the italic -"n" seems out of place. - -Embleme 30. "And shine like purest Gold, and Pretious-Stones", Pretious -and Precious are both found in the text. - -Embleme 45. "Made entrance to it owne Destruction, hath", it could be -its. - -The First Lotterie, No. 19. "Of much more Warinesse, then Speed", "more -then" is used throughout the text. - - -Book 2. - -Illvstr. 2. "The Crowe, when deepe within a close-mouth'd-Pot.", should -end with a comma. - -"Illvstr. IIII.", IV is used in Book 1. IIII used in Book 4. XIIII, -XXIIII and are used in Books 1 and 2. XLIIII in B4 - -Illvstr. XLV. "And, view the well-grown Trees, the wel-trimm'd Bowers", -perhaps "wel" should be "well". - -The Second Lotterie. Verses after 54 are labelled 5 and 6, but should -be 55 and 56. - -p.120 has been mislabelled as 118 and corrected by hand. - -Book 2 ends at page 124, book 3 starts at page 135. - - -Book 3. - -Illvstr XIII. "But, with Sobrietie, be wise," should end with period. - -Illvstr. XV. "But, when one Foote, thus grasp'd a Peple-stone", -"Peble-stone" is used a few lines down. - -Illvstr. XVI. "The stubstance of it, still, in God, remaines", -"stubstance" should probably be "substance". - -Illvstr. XX. "Of those deare Mercies, and that bloudy Passion", "and" -may be italicised in error. - -Illvstr. XXIV. "By long nelect of time, will burthensome", "nelect" -should probably be "neglect" - -Illvstr. XXIV. "As much as makes, at least, One Line a Day," should end -with period. - -Illvstr. XXVI. "It brings (us when we passe the common sight)", Opening -bracket should be placed after "us". - -Illvstr. XXX. "Delight not Archers; tyet, such uselesse Toyes", "tyet" -should probably be "yet". - - -Book 4. - -Book 3 ends with page 196, Book 4 starts with page 109. The next page -is 210 so 109 should be 209 - -Illvstr. XXXI. "Your houres, in serions matters, if you spend", -"serions" should probably be "serious" - -Illvstr. XXXVIII. "A tatlers tougue; for, paines are lost on him", -"tougue" should probably be "tongue". "And, in our selves true Vertnes -to maintaine;", "Vertnes" should probably be "Vertues". - -The Fourth Lotterie. Verse 1. "If so, thine Emblom doth expresse", -"Emblom" should probably be Emblem". - -Verse 12. "As none can conquer; And, bohold", "bohold" should probably -be "behold". - -Verse 39. "Whrch may not make the danger worse", "Whrch" should -probably be "Which". - -Verse 53. "Which these two fignres, backward, make", "fignres" should -probably be "figures". - - -Index. (Punctuation has been left as printed). - -"Christ the true Pellican. 154." is spelt Pelican on p.154. - -"Ganimed 156." Ganymed is used on p.156. - -"Greefe 26." Griefe is used on p26 - -"Halter 66, Halcyon, vid. Kings Fisher." Requires a line break between -the two entries. - -"Mutuall affection 34. 163. 781." p.781 doesn't exist, a link has been -made to p.178. - -"Rich Theeves 197" p.197 doesn't exist, a link has been made to p.191. - - - - -=Transcriber's Addendum= - - -Transcriptions and translations of the mottoes engraved around each -emblem are provided as a convenience to the reader. Each transcription -is shown as written (with any notes), followed by the text normalised -to modern standards of punctuation and spelling (u/v, æ/ae, --cunque/-cumque, oe/ae etc.) and its translation. - - Portrait EFFIGIES GEORGII WITHERI POETÆ. - Effigies Georgii Witheri poetae - Portrait of the poet George Wither - - Ill 1 Bk 1 - VIVITVR INGENIO CÆTERA MORTIS ERṼT - Vivitur ingenio; caetera mortis erunt - We live by our genius; the rest will belong to death - - Ill 2 Bk 1 - SAPIENTIA CONSTANS - Sapientia constans - Wisdom is constant - - Ill 3 Bk 1 - LEX REGIT ET ARMA TVENTVR. - Lex regit et arma tuentur - Law directs and arms protect - - Ill 4 Bk 1 - NE TENEAR - Ne tenear - Lest I be held back - - Ill 5 Bk 1 - LABORE VIRTVS, VIRTVTE GLORIA PARATVR - Labore virtus, virtute gloria paratur - Virtue is acquired through labour, glory through virtue - - Ill 6 Bk 1 - NON OBEST VIRTVTI SORS. - Non obest virtuti sors - Chance is no hindrance to virtue - - Ill 7 Bk 1 - NON SCEPTRO SED PLECTRO DVCITVR - Non sceptro sed plectro ducitur - She is led by the plectrum, not by the sceptre - - Ill 8 Bk 1 - IN HVNC INTVENS PIVS ESTO - In hunc intuens pius esto - Look on this and be pious - - Ill 9 Bk 1 - IN NOCTE CONSILIṼ - In nocte consilium - Deliberation at night - - Ill 10 Bk 1 - SPERNIT PERICVLA VIRT[VS] - Spernit pericula virtus - Virtue scorns danger - - Ill 11 Bk 1 - AD SCOPVM LICET ÆGRE ET FRVSTRA - Ad scopum licet aegre et frustra - Towards the goal, but painfully and unsuccessfully - - Ill 12 Bk 1 - ΠΑΝΤΑ ΛΕΛΟΙΠΑ - πάντα λέλοιπα - I have left all things - - Ill 13 Bk 1 - REMIGIO VENTISQ[VE] SECVNDIS - Remigio ventisque secundis - By rowing and favourable winds - - Ill 14 Bk 1 - QVID SI SIC - Quid si sic - What if so? - - Ill 15 Bk 1 - DVM NVTRIO CONSVMOR - Dum nutrio consumor - As I nourish I am consumed - - Ill 16 Bk 1 - CONCVSSVS SVRGO - Concussus surgo - When struck I rise - - Ill 17 Bk 1 - DVM EXTENDAR - Dum extendar - Until I am stretched - - Ill 18 Bk 1 - MATVRA - Matura - Hurry! - - Ill 19 Bk 1 - LENTE SED ATTENTE - Lente sed attente - Slowly but carefully - - Ill 20 Bk 1 - TRANSEAT - Transeat - Let it pass - - Ill 21 Bk 1 - MORS VITÆ INITIVM. - Mors vitae initium - Death is the beginning of life - - Ill 22 Bk 1 - QVO ME VERTĀ NESCIO - Quo me vertam nescio - I know not where to turn - - Ill 23 Bk 1 - PATIOR VT POTIAR - Patior ut potiar - I suffer to obtain - - Ill 24 Bk 1 - CONSEQVITVR QVODCVNQ[VE] PETIT - Consequitur quodcumque petit - She attains whatever she aims at - - Ill 25 Bk 1 - NON QVAM CREBRO SED QVĀ BĒE - Non quam crebro sed quam bene - Not how often, but how well - - Ill 26 Bk 1 - DVRABO - Durabo - I shall endure - - Ill 27 Bk 1 - VBI HELENA IBI TROIA - Ubi Helena, ibi Troia - Where Helen is, there is Troy - - Ill 28 Bk 1 - VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI. - Victrix patientia duri - Patience victorious over hardship - - Ill 29 Bk 1 - NON VNO STERNITVR ICTV. - Non uno sternitur ictu - It is not felled with one blow - - Ill 30 Bk 1 - NVDRISCO IL BVONO ET SPENGO IL REO - Nudrisco il buono et spengo il reo - I nourish the good and destroy the malefactor - - Ill 31 Bk 1 - SAPIENS DOMINABITVR ASTRIS. - Sapiens dominabitur astris - The wise man shall rule over the stars - - Ill 32 Bk 1 - EX VTROQVE CÆSAR - Ex utroque Caesar - A Caesar either way - - Ill 33 Bk 1 - PERSEQVAR EXSTINCTṼ - Persequar exstinctum - I will follow him into death - - Ill 34 Bk 1 - FLAMMESCIT VTERQVE - Flammescit uterque - Each catches fire - - Ill 35 Bk 1 - POSTERITATI - Posteritati - For posterity - - Ill 36 Bk 1 - NIL PENNA, SED VSVS - Nil penna, sed usus - Not the plume, but its use - - Ill 37 Bk 1 - DVM CLAVVM RECTAM TENEAM - Dum clavum rectam teneam - As long as I hold the tiller steady - - Ill 38 Bk 1 - SI SCIENS FALLO. - Si sciens fallo - If I knowingly deceive - - Ill 39 Bk 1 - SPEQVE METVQVE PAVET - Speque metuque pavet - It trembles with hope and fear - - Ill 40 Bk 1 - COSI VIVO PIACER CONDVCE A MORTE - Così vivo piacer conduce a morte - So lively pleasure leads to death - - Ill 41 Bk 1 - PVRIS MANIBVS. - Puris manibus - With clean hands - - Ill 42 Bk 1 - LINGVA QVO TENDIS - Lingua, quo tendis? - Tongue, where are you going? - - Ill 43 Bk 1 - original reads "ΟΥΜE ΒΛLΨΟΝ ΑΝΩ" - which has been corrected to "ΘΥΜΕ ΒΛΕΨΟΝ ΑΝΩ" - θυμέ, βλέψον ἄνω - Look up, my soul - - Ill 44 Bk 1 - FLAVESCENT - Flavescent - They shall turn golden - - Ill 45 Bk 1 - FINIS AB ORIGINE PĒDET - Finis ab origine pendet - The end depends on the beginning - - Ill 46 Bk 1 - TANDEM FIT ARBOR - Tandem fit arbor - At last it becomes a tree - - Ill 47 Bk 1 - SVPERATA CRVCE CORONOR - Superata cruce coronor - I rise above the cross and am crowned - - Ill 48 Bk 1 - MORS SCEPTRA LIGONIB[VS] ÆQVAT - Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat - Death levels sceptres and spades - - Ill 49 Bk 1 - PAVLATIM NON IMPETV. - Paulatim non impetu - Gradually, not by force - - Ill 50 Bk 1 - DE PARVIS GRANDIS ACERVVS ERIT. - De parvis grandis acervus erit - From small things a great heap will grow - - Ill 1 Bk 2 - NEQVEO COMPESCERE MVLTOS - Nequeo compescere multos - I cannot restrain so many - - Ill 2 Bk 2 - INGENII LARGITOR VENTER. - Ingenii largitor venter - The belly is the bestower of genius - - Ill 3 Bk 2 - MVSICA SERVA DEI - Musica serva dei - Music is the handmaid of God - - Ill 4 Bk 2 - DISCITE IVSTICIAM. - Discite iusticiam - Learn justice - - Ill 5 Bk 2 - CONSENSV POPVLI REGNṼ SVBSISTIT. - Consensu populi regnum subsistit - The kingdom is sustained by the consent of the people - - Ill 6 Bk 2 - QVI ME ALIT ME EXTINGVIT. - Qui me alit me extinguit - He who feeds me extinguishes me - - Ill 7 Bk 2 - SEQVITVR SVA PŒNA NOCENTEM - Sequitur sua poena nocentem - His punishment follows the evildoer - - Ill 8 Bk 2 - POST TENTATIONEM CONSOLATIO. - Post tentationem consolatio - After temptation, consolation - - Ill 9 Bk 2 - PRO GALLINIS - Pro gallinis - For the hens - - Ill 10 Bk 2 - TVTIVS VT POSSIT FIGI. - Tutius ut possit figi - To be fixed more securely - - Ill 11 Bk 2 - IN SILENTIO ET SPE. - In silentio et spe - In silence and hope - - Ill 12 Bk 2 - FATO PRVDENTIA MAIOR. - Fato prudentia maior - Prudence is greater than fate - - Ill 13 Bk 2 - CONIVNCTIS VOTIS - Coniunctis votis - Joined in prayer - - Ill 14 Bk 2 - CVI BONO? - Cui bono? - For whose benefit? (This is what the phrase usually means. But our - author understands it as: For what benefit?) - - Ill 15 Bk 2 - SACRIFICIVM DEO COR CONTRIBVLATIM - Sacrificium deo cor contribulatum - A contrite heart is a sacrifice to God - - Ill 16 Bk 2 - REGNI CORONA REX - Regni corona rex - The king is the crown of the kingdom - - Ill 17 Bk 2 - STVDIO ET VIGILANTIA. - Studio et vigilantia - By study and watchfulness - - Ill 18 Bk 2 - ARTE ET MARTE - Arte et marte - By art and by arms - - Ill 19 Bk 2 - CONSTANTE FIDVCIA - Constante fiducia - By art and by arms - - Ill 20 Bk 2 - AMOR DOCET MVSICAM - Amor docet musicam - Love teaches music - - Ill 21 Bk 2 - NON TE SED NVMMOS - Non te sed nummos - Not you but your money - - Ill 22 Bk 2 - FIDE SED CVI VIDE - Fide sed cui vide - Trust, but be careful whom - - Ill 23 Bk 2 - HVMANA FVMVS - Humana fumus - All things human are smoke - - Ill 24 Bk 2 - OMNIA MEA MECVM PORTO - Omnia mea mecum porto - All that is mine I carry with me - - Ill 25 Bk 2 - TAMEN DISCAM. - Tamen discam - Yet I shall learn - - Ill 26 Bk 2 - VIRTVTI FORTVNA COMES. - Virtuti fortuna comes - Fortune is the companion of virtue - - Ill 27 Bk 2 - DEVS NOBIS HÆC OTIA FECIT. - Deus nobis haec otia fecit - God has granted us this ease - - Ill 28 Bk 2 - EX BELLO PAX - Ex bello pax - From war, peace - - Ill 29 Bk 2 - COR RECTṼ INQVIRIT SCIENTIĀ. - Cor rectum inquirit scientiam - An upright heart seeks knowledge - - Ill 30 Bk 2 - ΕΚ ΠΟΝΟΥ ΚΛΕΟΣ. - ἐκ πόνου κλέος - From labour, glory - - Ill 31 Bk 2 - PVEROS CASTIGO VIROSQ[VE] - Pueros castigo virosque - I chastise boys and men - - Ill 32 Bk 2 - VITA MORTALIVM VIGILIA. - Vita mortalium vigilia - The life of mortals is watchfulness - - Ill 33 Bk 2 - MANET IMMVTABILE FATVM. - Manet immutabile fatum - Fate remains unalterable - - Ill 34 Bk 2 - DETERIVS FORMIDO. - Deterius formido - I fear something worse - - Ill 35 Bk 2 - ADVERSIS CLARIVS ARDET. - Adversis clarius ardet - It burns brighter in adversity - - Ill 36 Bk 2 - SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MVNDI. - Sic transit gloria mundi - So passes the world's glory - - Ill 37 Bk 2 - IVSQVE A LA MORT - Jusqu'à la mort - Until death - - Ill 38 Bk 2 - SVVM CVIQVE TRIBVE - Suum cuique tribue - Allow each his own - - Ill 39 Bk 2 - IN VIRTVTE ET FORTVNA. - In virtute et fortuna - In virtue and fortune - - Ill 40 Bk 2 - ΑΙΩΝΙΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΣΚΑΙΡΟΝ. - αἰώνιον καὶ πρόσκαιρον - Eternal and temporal - - Ill 41 Bk 2 - VIRIBVS IVNGENDA SAPIENTIA. - Viribus iungenda sapientia - Wisdom should be joined to strength - - Ill 42 Bk 2 - SOLVM A SOLE - Solum a sole - The soil from the sun - - Ill 43 Bk 2 - RECTO CVRSV - Recto cursu - On a steady course - - Ill 44 Bk 2 - SPES ALIT AGRICOLAS:· - Spes alit agricolas - Hope nourishes farmers - - Ill 45 Bk 2 - POCO A POCO. - Poco a poco - Little by little - - Ill 46 Bk 2 - TRIBVLATIO DITAT. - Tribulatio ditat - Affliction enriches - - Ill 47 Bk 2 - VICTRIX FORTVNÆ SAPIENTIA. - Victrix fortunae sapientia - Wisdom victorious over fortune - - Ill 48 Bk 2 - AVT MORS AVT VITA DECORA - Aut mors aut vita decora - Either death or life with honour - - Ill 49 Bk 2 - DONEC TOTṼ IMPLEAT ORBĒ. - Donec totum impleat orbem - Until it fills the whole world - - Ill 50 Bk 2 - VIRTVS LORICA FIDELIS - Virtus lorica fidelis - Virtue is a trusty coat of mail - - Ill 1 Bk 3 - SI RECTE FACIES. - Si recte facies - If you act rightly - - Ill 2 Bk 3 - SUPERAT SOLERTIA VIRES. - Superat solertia vires - Cleverness outdoes strength - - Ill 3 Bk 3 - NON SINE CAUSA. - Non sine causa - Not without cause - - Ill 4 Bk 3 - PANDO RECONDITA. - Pando recondita - I disclose what is hidden - - Ill 5 Bk 3 - VIRTUTE DUCE COMITE FORTUNA - Virtute duce comite fortuna - With virtue as guide and fortune as companion - - Ill 6 Bk 3 - FLOREBO PROSPICIENTE DEO. - Florebo prospiciente deo - Under God's gaze I shall flourish - - Ill 7 Bk 3 - FAC ET SPERA. - Fac et spera - Do and hope - - Ill 8 Bk 3 - RERUM SAPIENTIA CUSTOS. - Rerum sapientia custos - Wisdom is the guardian of all things - - Ill 9 Bk 3 - LABORE ET CONSTANTIA. - Labore et constantia - By labour and constancy - - Ill 10 Bk 3 - EVERTIT ET AEQUAT. - Evertit et aequat - He overturns and levels - - Ill 11 Bk 3 - SCIENTIA IMMUTABILIS. - Scientia immutabilis - Knowledge is immutable - - Ill 12 Bk 3 - VIRTUTE AC STUDIO PER ORBEM FAMA PERPETUA COMPARATUR. - Virtute ac studio per orbem fama perpetua comparatur - By virtue and zeal everlasting worldwide fame is obtained - - Ill 13 Bk 3 - NOLI ALTUM SAPERE. - Noli altum sapere - Be not over-wise - - Ill 14 Bk 3 - TRACTANT FABRILIA FABRI. - Tractant fabrilia fabri - Workmen wield their own tools - - Ill 15 Bk 3 - NON DORMIT QUI CUSTODIT. - Non dormit qui custodit - He who is on guard does not sleep - - Ill 16 Bk 3 - IN SPE ET LABORE TRANSIGO VITAM. - In spe et labore transigo vitam - I spend my life in hope and labour - - Ill 17 Bk 3 - PRUDENTE SIMPLICITATE. - Prudente simplicitate - In prudent simplicity - - Ill 18 Bk 3 - TRANSITUS CELER EST ET AVOLAMUS. - Transitus celer est et avolamus - The passage is swift, then we fly away - - Ill 19 Bk 3 - PEDETENTIM. - Pedetentim - Step by step - - Ill 20 Bk 3 - PRO LEGE ET PRO GREGE. - Pro lege et pro grege - For the law and for the flock - - Ill 21 Bk 3 - DISCITE IUSTITIAM. - Discite iustitiam - Learn justice - - Ill 22 Bk 3 - NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO. - Non est mortale quod opto - What I choose is no mortal thing - - Ill 23 Bk 3 - IN SE SUA PER UESTIGIA UOLUITUR. - In se sua per vestigia volvitur - It rolls round on its own tracks onto itself - - Ill 24 Bk 3 - NULLA DIES SINE LINEA. - Nulla dies sine linea - No day without a line - - Ill 25 Bk 3 - AD REGIS NUTUS. - Ad regis nutus - At the king's pleasure - - Ill 26 Bk 3 - HAC VIRTUTIS ITER. - Hac virtutis iter - This way is the path of virtue - - Ill 27 Bk 3 - CONCEDO NULLI. - Concedo nulli - I yield to no-one - - Ill 28 Bk 3 - MANUS MANUM LAUAT. - Manus manum lavat - One hand washes another - - Ill 29 Bk 3 - LEGIBUS ET ARMIS. - Legibus et armis - By laws and arms - - Ill 30 Bk 3 - NON QUAM FORMOSA SED QUAM RECTA. - Non quam formosa sed quam recta - Not how beautiful, but how straight - - Ill 31 Bk 3 - ALIIS INSERVIENDO CONSUMOR. - Aliis inserviendo consumor - I am consumed in the service of others - - Ill 32 Bk 3 - DITAT SERVATA FIDES. - Ditat servata fides - Keeping faith brings riches - - Ill 33 Bk 3 - FVRES PRIVATI IN NERVO PVBLICI IN AVRO - Fures privati in nervo, publici in auro - Private thieves in fetters, public thieves in gold - - Ill 34 Bk 3 - MEMENTO MORI - Memento mori - Remember you will die - - Ill 35 Bk 3 - SERVA MODVM. - Serva modum - Observe due measure - - Ill 36 Bk 3 - FVLCRVM TVTISSIMVM - Fulcrum tutissimum - The safest support - - Ill 37 Bk 3 - VIRTUS INEXPUGNABILIS. - Virtus inexpugnabilis - Impregnable virtue - - Ill 38 Bk 3 - VERITAS PREMITUR NON OPPRIMITUR. - Veritas premitur non opprimitur - Truth is oppressed but not suppressed - - Ill 39 Bk 3 - PAS A PAS. - Pas a pas - Step by step - - Ill 40 Bk 3 - FORTUNA UT LUNA. - Fortuna ut luna - Fortune like the moon - - Ill 41 Bk 3 - ANTÈ FERIT QUÀM FLAMMA MICET. - Ante ferit quam flamma micet - It strikes before the flame kindles - - Ill 42 Bk 3 - PAUPERTATE PREMOR SUBLEUOR INGENIO. - Paupertate premor sublevor ingenio - I am borne down by poverty, and uplifted by genius - - Ill 43 Bk 3 - VIRTUS UNITA FORTIOR. - Virtus unita fortior - Virtue is stronger when united - - Ill 44 Bk 3 - AMORE MUTUO. - Amore mutuo - By mutual love - - Ill 45 Bk 3 - CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS. - Concordia insuperabilis - Unconquerable harmony - - Ill 46 Bk 3 - IN MANU DEI COR REGIS. - In manu dei cor regis - The heart of the king is in God's hand - - Ill 47 Bk 3 - CELATA VIRTUS IGNAVIA EST. - Celata virtus ignavia est - Virtue concealed is worthlessness - - Ill 48 Bk 3 - REDIBO PLENIOR. - Redibo plenior - I shall return more full - - Ill 49 Bk 3 - NUSQUAM TUTA FIDES. - Nusquam tuta fides - Nowhere is trust secure - - Ill 50 Bk 3 - HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI: - Hodie mihi cras tibi - Today for me, tomorrow for you - - Ill 1 Bk 4 - NON INFERIORA SECUTUS. - Non inferiora secutus - Following no lesser things - - Ill 2 Bk 4 - IN MANU DOMINI OMNES SUNT FINES TERRÆ. - In manu domini omnes sunt fines terrae - All the ends of the earth are in the hand of the Lord - - Ill 3 Bk 4 - QUOD NON ES NE VIDEARE CAVE. - Quod non es ne videare cave - Take care lest you seem what you are not - - Ill 4 Bk 4 - FESTINAT DECURRERE. - Festinat decurrere - Swiftly it runs through - - Ill 5 Bk 4 - ABRUMPAM. - Abrumpam - I will break it off - - Ill 6 Bk 4 - HINC DOLOR INDE FUGA. - Hinc dolor inde fuga - Hence my pain; thence my flight - - Ill 7 Bk 4 - CAPTIVUM IMPUNE LACESSUNT. - Captivum impune lacessunt - They provoke the prisoner without fear of harm - - Ill 8 Bk 4 - RESTAT DE VICTORE ORIENTIS. - Restat de victore orientis - This remains of the conqueror of the east - - Ill 9 Bk 4 - INSPERATA FLORUIT. - Insperata floruit - It flourished unhoped-for - - Ill 10 Bk 4 - NESCIT LABI VIRTUS. - Nescit labi virtus - Virtue knows no failure - - Ill 11 Bk 4 - HODIE SIC VERTITVR ORBIS. - Hodie sic vertitur orbis - So the world turns today - - Ill 12 Bk 4 - VIS NESCIA VINCI. - Vis nescia vinci - A power that knows no defeat - - Ill 13 Bk 4 - QUO FATA TRAHUNT. - Quo fata trahunt - Where the fates lead - - Ill 14 Bk 4 - ΟΙΚΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΣ - οἴκος φίλος οἴκος ἄριστος - The best house is the house you love - - Ill 15 Bk 4 - DEUS DAT CUI VULT. - Deus dat cui vult - God gives to whom he wishes - - Ill 16 Bk 4 - INDIGNUM FORTUNA FOVET. - Indignum fortuna fovet - Fortune cherishes the unworthy - - Ill 17 Bk 4 - STULTORUM ADIUMENTA NOCUMENTA. - Stultorum adiumenta nocumenta - The assistance of fools is a hindrance - - Ill 18 Bk 4 - TE STANTE VIREBO. - Te stante virebo - While you stand I shall flourish - - Ill 19 Bk 4 - FERIO. - Ferio - I hit - - Ill 20 Bk 4 - QUOCUNQUE FERAR. - Quocumque ferar - Wherever I am carried - - Ill 21 Bk 4 - BELLA IN VISTA DENTRO TRISTA. - Bella in vista dentro trista - Fair without, foul within - - Ill 22 Bk 4 - EN DEXTRA FIDESQUE. - En dextra fidesque - See, the right hand and the pledged faith - - Ill 23 Bk 4 - VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER. - Varium et mutabile semper - Always inconstant and changeable - - Ill 24 Bk 4 - GAUDET PATIENTIA DURIS. - Gaudet patientia duris - Patience rejoices in hardships - - Ill 25 Bk 4 - SIC SPECTANDA FIDES. - Sic spectanda fides - So good faith should be examined - - Ill 26 Bk 4 - NON SEMPER ARCUM TENDIT. - Non semper arcum tendit - He does not always draw the bow - - Ill 27 Bk 4 - VIVE MEMOR LETHI FUGIT HORA. - Vive memor leti; fugit hora - Live mindful of death; time flies - - Ill 28 Bk 4 - MEDIIS TRANQUILLUS IN UNDIS. - Mediis tranquillus in undis - Calm amid the waves - - Ill 29 Bk 4 - BONA FIDE. - Bona fide - In good faith - - Ill 30 Bk 4 - PACISQUE BONUS BELLIQUE MINISTER. - Pacisque bonus bellique minister - A good servant in peace and in war - - Ill 31 Bk 4 - PAR SIT FORTUNA LABORI. - Par sit fortuna labori - Let fortune be a match for labour - - Ill 32 Bk 4 - POST NUBILA PHŒBUS. - Post nubila Phoebus - After clouds, the sun - - Ill 33 Bk 4 - OMNIS VICTORIA A DOMINO. - Omnis victoria a domino - All victory is from the Lord - - Ill 34 Bk 4 - NE QUID NIMIS. - Ne quid nimis - Nothing to excess - - Ill 35 Bk 4 - PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA. - Per angusta ad augusta - Through difficulties to greatness - - Ill 36 Bk 4 - FIDUCIA CONCORS. - Fiducia concors - United in faith - - Ill 37 Bk 4 - PRO ME SI MEREOR IN ME. - Pro me; si mereor, in me - For me, or if I deserve it, against me - - Ill 38 Bk 4 - HAC ATQUE ILLAC PERFLUIT. - Hac atque illac perfluit - It leaks in all directions - - Ill 39 Bk 4 - UTCUNQUE. - Utcumque - However - - Ill 40 Bk 4 - FATA OBSTANT. - Fata obstant - The fates oppose - - Ill 41 Bk 4 - VT NE QUID DEDECEAT. - Ut ne quid dedeceat - So there may be nothing unseemly - - Ill 42 Bk 4 - NON NOBIS. - Non nobis - Not for us - - Ill 43 Bk 4 - ASTRA DEUS REGIT. - Astra deus regit - God rules the stars - - Ill 44 Bk 4 - FUROR FIT LÆSA SÆPIUS PATIENTIA. - Furor fit laesa saepius patientia - Patience too often offended turns to fury - - Ill 45 Bk 4 - CŒCUS NIL LUCE IUVATUR. - Caecus nil luce iuvatur - A blind man is not helped by light - - Ill 46 Bk 4 - INTER UTRUMQUE VOLAT. - Inter utrumque volat - She flies between the two - - Ill 47 Bk 4 - SI DEUS VOLUERIT. - Si deus voluerit - If God wishes - - Ill 48 Bk 4 - OMNIS CARO FŒNUM. - Omnis caro faenum - All flesh is grass - - Ill 49 Bk 4 - PERIT QUOD ELAPSUM EST. - Perit quod elapsum est - That which has gone by is lost - - Ill 50 Bk 4 - PERSEVERANTI DABITUR. - Perseveranti dabitur - It will be given to the persevering - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and -Moderne, by George Wither - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMES *** - -***** This file should be named 50143-0.txt or 50143-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/1/4/50143/ - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Chris Jordan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net with -transcriptions from Stephen Rowland and Louise Hope - 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne - Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, both Morall and Divine, Etc - -Author: George Wither - -Release Date: October 6, 2015 [EBook #50143] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMES *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Chris Jordan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net with -transcriptions from Stephen Rowland and Louise Hope - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<h1 class="faux">A Collection of Emblemes - Ancient and Moderne, by George Withers</h1> -<div class="transnote"> -<p><b>Transcriber's notes:</b></p> -<p>In the section "To The Reader" our author writes:</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>There be, no doubt, some faults committed by the <em class="upright">Printer</em>, both -Literall and Materiall, and some Errors of the <em class="upright">Gravers</em> in the -<em class="upright">Figures</em>, (as in the <em class="upright">Tetragrammaton</em>; in the Figure of <em class="upright">Arîon</em>; -and in the <em class="upright">Proprieties</em> due to some other <em class="upright">Hieroglyphicks</em>); but, -for the most part, they are such, as <em class="upright">Common-Readers</em> will never -perceive; and I thinke, that they who are <em class="upright">Judicious</em> will so -plainly finde them to be no faults of mine; that, leaving them to -be amended by those, to whom they appertaine; and, <em class="upright">You</em>, to -accept of these <em class="upright">Play-games</em> as you please: I bid you <em class="upright">Farewell</em>.</i> -</p></blockquote> - -<p>Therefore all oddities and inconsistencies have been left unchanged. They have -been noted at the end of the transcription.</p> - -<p>An addendum of transcriptions and translations of the mottoes engraved around each emblem -has been added to the final note as a convenience to the reader.</p> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2>A PREPOSITION<br /> -to this <span class="smcap">Frontispiece</span>.</h2> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse drop-capt">THis <span class="smcap">Booke</span> contayning <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>, 'twas thought fit,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Title-page</i> should stand to usher it,</div> -<div class="verse">That's Emblematicall: And, for that end,</div> -<div class="verse">Our <span class="smcap">Avthor</span>, to the <i>Graver</i> did commend</div> -<div class="verse">A plaine Invention; that it might be wrought,</div> -<div class="verse">According as his Fancie had forethought.</div> -<div class="verse">Insteed thereof, the <i>Workeman</i> brought to light,</div> -<div class="verse">What, here, you see; therein, mistaking quite</div> -<div class="verse">The true <i>Designe</i>: And, so (with paines, and cost)</div> -<div class="verse">The first intended <span class="smcap">Frontispiece</span>, is lost.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">The <span class="smcap">Avthor</span>, was as much displeas'd, as Hee</div> -<div class="verse">In such Adventures, is inclin'd to bee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, halfe resolv'd, to cast this <span class="smcap">Piece</span> aside,</div> -<div class="verse">As nothing worth: but, having better ey'd</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Errors</i>, and <i>Confusions</i>, which may, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Blame-worthy (at the first aspect) appeare;</div> -<div class="verse">Hee saw, they fitted many Fantasies</div> -<div class="verse">Much better, then what <i>Reason</i> can devise;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, the <i>Graver</i> (by meere <i>Chance</i>) had hit</div> -<div class="verse">On what, so much transcends the reach of <i>Wit</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As made it seeme, an Object of <i>Delight</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To looke on what, <span class="smcap">Misfortvne</span> brought to light:</div> -<div class="verse">And, here it stands, to try his <i>Wit</i>, who lists</div> -<div class="verse">To pumpe the secrets, out of <i>Cabalists</i>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">If any thinke this <i>Page</i> will, now, declare</div> -<div class="verse">The meaning of those <i>Figures</i>, which are there,</div> -<div class="verse">They are deceiv'd. For, <i>Destinie</i> denyes</div> -<div class="verse">The utt'ring of such hidden <i>Mysteries</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In these respects: First, <i>This</i> contayneth nought</div> -<div class="verse">Which (in a proper sense) concerneth, ought,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>present-Age</i>: Moreover, tis ordain'd,</div> -<div class="verse">That, none must know the <i>Secrecies</i> contain'd</div> -<div class="verse">Within this <span class="smcap">Piece</span>; but, they who are so wise</div> -<div class="verse">To finde them out, by their owne <i>prudencies</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, hee that can unriddle them, to us,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall stiled be, the second <span class="smcap">Oedipvs</span>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Tis, likewise, thought expedient, now and then,</div> -<div class="verse">To make some <i>Worke</i>, for those <i>All-knowing men</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(To exercise upon) who thinke they see</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>secret-meanings</i>, of all things that bee.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">And, lastly, since we finde, that, some there are,</div> -<div class="verse">Who best affect <i>Inuentions</i>, which appeare</div> -<div class="verse">Beyond their understandings; <i>This</i>, we knew</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Representment</i>, worthy of their view;</div> -<div class="verse indent2">And, here, wee placed it, to be, to these,</div> -<div class="verse indent2">A <span class="smcap">Frontispiece</span>, in any sense they please.</div> -</div></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;"> -<img src="images/i_x_frontis.jpg" width="358" height="600" alt="EMBLEMES. Illustrated by Geo: Wither." /> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p class="ph1"> -<span class="f75">A</span><br /> -COLLECTION<br /> -<span class="f75">OF</span><br /> -EMBLEMES,<br /> -<span class="f90"> ANCIENT AND<br /> -MODERNE:</span></p> - -<p class="ph2"> -Quickened<br /> -With <span class="smcap">Metricall Illvstrations</span>, both<br /> -<i>Morall</i> and <i>Divine</i>: And disposed into<br /> -<span class="smcap">Lotteries</span>,</p> - -<p class="center ph3"> -That <i>Jnstruction</i>, and <i>Good Counsell</i>, may bee furthered<br /> -by an Honest and Pleasant <i>Recreation</i>.</p> - -<p class="center"> -<i>By</i> <span class="smcap">George Wither</span>.</p> - -<h2><span class="f75"><i>The First Booke.</i></span></h2> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/i_a_001.jpg" width="200" height="194" alt="NON PLVS" /> -</div> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<p class="center"> -<span class="smcap">London</span>,<br /> -Printed by <i>A.M.</i> for <i>Richard Royston</i>, and<br /> -are to be sold at his Shop in <i>Ivie</i>-Lane.<br /> -MDCXXXV. -</p> -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="drop-capt"><i>REcensui hoc Poëma, cui titulus est <em class="upright">(A Collection -and Illustration of Emblems Ancient and Moderne)</em> -in quo nihil reperio, quò minus cum utilitate -imprimatur, ita tamen, ut si non intra septem menses -proximè sequentes Typis mandetur, hæc licentia sit omninò -irrita.</i></p> - -<p> -Ex ædibus Lambithanis<br /> -<span class="in2"><i>Iul. 2. 1634.</i></span><br /> -<span class="smcap in6">Gvil. Bray.</span></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_I1" id="Page_I1">[1]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2 class="mb2">A<br /> -WRIT OF PREVENTION<br /> -<span class="f90">Concerning the <span class="smcap">Avthors</span> <i>Dedication</i></span><br /> -<span class="f90">of the foure following <span class="smcap">Bookes</span>, to those</span><br /> -<span class="f75"><i>Royall</i>, <i>Princely</i>, and <i>Illustrious</i> <span class="smcap">Personages</span>,</span><br /> -<span class="f75">whose Names are mentioned</span><br /> -<span class="f75">in this <i>Leafe</i></span>. -</h2> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse drop-capt">I Have not often us'd, with <i>Epigrames</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, with <i>Inscriptions</i> unto many <span class="smcap">Names</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">To charge my <i>Bookes</i>: Nor, had I done it, now,</div> -<div class="verse">If I, to pay the <i>Duties</i> which I owe,</div> -<div class="verse">Had other <i>meanes</i>; Or, any better Wayes</div> -<div class="verse">To honour them, whose <i>Vertue</i> merits praise.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">In <i>ARCHITECT</i>, it giveth good content,</div> -<div class="verse">(And passeth for a praisefull <i>Ornament</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">If, to adorne the <i>FORE-FRONTS</i>, <i>Builders</i> reare</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Statues</i> of their <i>Soveraigne-Princes</i>, there;</div> -<div class="verse">And, trimme the <i>Outsides</i>, of the other <span class="smcap">Sqvares</span></div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Portraitures</i> of some Heroicke PEERES.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">If, therefore, I (the more to beautifie</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Portion</i> of my <span class="smcap">Mvses</span> <i>Gallerie</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Doe, here, presume to place, the <i>NAMES</i> of those</div> -<div class="verse">To whose <i>Deserts</i>, my <span class="smcap">Love</span> remembrance owes,</div> -<div class="verse">I hope 'twill none offend. For, most, who see</div> -<div class="verse">Their worthy <i>mention</i>, in this <span class="smcap">Booke</span>, to bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Will thinke them honor'd: And, perhaps, it may</div> -<div class="verse">(To their high praise) be found, another day,</div> -<div class="verse">That, in these <span class="smcap">Leaves</span> their <i>Names</i> wil stand unrac'd,</div> -<div class="verse">When many fairer <i>STRVCTVRFS</i>, are defac'd.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<blockquote> - -<p><i>In this <em class="upright">Hope</em>, I have placed on the <span class="smcap">Fore-Front</span> -(or before the <em class="upright">First Booke</em> of -these <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>) a <em class="upright">Ioint-Inscription</em> -to the <span class="smcap">King</span> and <span class="smcap">Qveenes</span> most -excellent <span class="smcap">Maiestie</span>.</i></p> - -<p><i>Upon the <em class="upright">Right-Side-Front</em> of this <em class="upright">Building</em> -(or before the <em class="upright">Second Booke</em>) One -<em class="upright">Inscription</em> to the most hopefull <em class="upright">Prince</em>, -<span class="smcap">Charles</span>, Prince of <em class="upright">Wales</em>; And, -another to his deere <em class="upright">Brother</em>, <span class="smcap">Iames</span>, -Duke of</i> <em class="upright">Yorke</em>, <em class="upright">&c.</em></p> - -<p><i>On the other <em class="upright">Side-Front</em>, (or before the -<em class="upright">Third Booke</em>) One <em class="upright">Inscription</em> to the -gratious Princesse, <span class="smcap">Frances</span> Dutchesse-Dowager -of <span class="smcap">Richmond</span> and -<span class="smcap">Lenox</span>; And, another to her most noble -Nephew, <span class="smcap">Iames</span> Duke of Lenox, -&c.</i></p> - -<p><i>On the <em class="upright">Fourth Front</em> of our <em class="upright">Square</em>, (Or -before the <em class="upright">Fourth Booke</em>) One <em class="upright">Inscription</em> -to the right Honourable <span class="smcap">Philip</span> -Earle of <em class="upright">Pembrooke</em> and <em class="upright">Montgomery</em>, -&c. And another to the right Honourable, -<span class="smcap">Henry</span> Earle of <em class="upright">Holland</em>, &c.</i></p> -</blockquote> -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_I2" id="Page_I2">[2]</a></span></p> - -<h2 class="mb2"><span class="f90">To the <span class="smcap">Majestie</span> of Great</span><br /> -<span class="f75"><i>Britaine</i>, <i>France</i>, and <i>Ireland</i>, the<br /> -Most Illustrious King,</span><br /> - -CHARLES;<br /> - -<span class="f75">And his excellently beloved, the most<br /> -gratious <i>Queene</i> MARY.</span></h2> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="drop-cap"> - <img src="images/i_a_005.jpg" alt="S" width="75" height="79" /> -</div> -<p class="verse drop-cap">SEv'n yeares are full expired, Royall <span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p> -<p class="verse">Since last I kneel'd, an offring to preferre</p> -<p class="verse">Before your feete; where, now, my selfe I throw</p> -<p class="verse">To pay once more, the <i>Tributes</i> which I owe.</p> -<p class="verse indent2"><i>As many yeares are past, most beauteous <span class="smcap">Qveene</span>,</i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>Since witnesses, mine eares and eyes, have beene</i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>Of those Perfections; which the generall <em class="upright">Fame</em></i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>Hath sounded forth, in honour of your <em class="upright">Name</em>.</i></p> -<p class="verse indent2">And, both your <i>beaming-splendors</i> (oh yee faire,</p> -<p class="verse">Thrice blessed, and most fitly-matched <span class="smcap">Paire</span>)</p> -<p class="verse">Vpon each other, make such bright reflections;</p> -<p class="verse">And have so sweetly mingled your <i>affections</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">Your <i>Praise</i>, your <i>Pow're</i>, your <i>Vertues</i>, and your <i>Beautie</i>:</p> -<p class="verse">That, (if preserving of my <i>Soveraigne dutie</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">This may be said) you doe appeare, to me,</p> -<p class="verse"><span class="smcap">Two Persons</span>, in One <span class="smcap">Maiesty</span>, to be;</p> -<p class="verse">To whom, there, appertaines (in veneration</p> -<p class="verse">Of your large <i>Worth</i>) the right of some <i>Oblation</i></p> -<p class="verse">And, best, I thought, my <i>Homage</i> would be done,</p> -<p class="verse">If, thus, the tender were to <span class="smcap">Both</span>-in-<span class="smcap">One</span>.</p> -<p class="verse">Which, in this humble <span class="smcap">Gvift</span>, my <i>Love</i> presents;</p> -<p class="verse">And, wisheth it may adde to your Contents.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">Perhaps it shall: For, though I dare not shew</p> -<p class="verse">These <i>Figures</i>, as well meriting your view;</p> -<p class="verse">Nor boast, as if their <i>Moralls</i> couched ought,</p> -<p class="verse">By which your sacred <i>Wisdomes</i> may be taught:</p> -<p class="verse">Yet, I have humble <i>Hopings</i>, that, they might</p> -<p class="verse">Prove, some way, an occasion of delight;</p> -<p class="verse">Since, meane and common <i>Objects</i>, now and then,</p> -<p class="verse">Beget contentments in the <i>greatest-men</i>.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">But, that before this <i>Booke</i>, I should propose</p> -<p class="verse">Your praisefull <span class="smcap">Names</span>, there is (as I suppose)</p> -<p class="verse">A faire inducement: For, considering these</p> -<p class="verse">Are <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>, whose intention is to please</p> -<p class="verse">And profit vulgar Iudgements (by the view,</p> -<p class="verse">Of what they ought to follow, or eschew.)</p> -<p class="verse">And, I well knowing, that your <span class="smcap">Maiesties</span></p> -<p class="verse">Set foorth before my <i>Booke</i>, in <i>Emblem-wise</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">Throughout your Lands, more <i>Vertues</i> might convay,</p> -<p class="verse">Than many <i>Volumes</i>, of these <i>Emblems</i>, may;</p> -<p class="verse">It seemed <i>Petty-treason</i>, to omit</p> -<p class="verse">This good occasion of endeavouring it.</p> -<p class="verse">For, (if your <span class="smcap">Maiesties</span>, well heeded, were)</p> -<p class="verse"><span class="smcap">Yov</span>, double-treble-foure-fold <i>Emblems</i> are;</p> -<p class="verse">Which, fully to illustrate, would require</p> -<p class="verse">The <i>Wit</i> I want; or, meanes to raise, that, higher</p> -<p class="verse">Which I have gain'd; (and, which, as yet, hath flowne</p> -<p class="verse">By no incouragements, but by her owne.)</p> -<p class="verse indent2">Of all the <i>Vertues</i> <span class="smcap">Oeconomical</span>,</p> -<p class="verse">Of <i>Duties</i> <span class="smcap">Moral</span> and <span class="smcap">Politicall</span>,</p> -<p class="verse">Your <i>Lives</i> are <i>Patternes</i>, and faire <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>; whether</p> -<p class="verse">Considered apart, or both together.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">Your <span class="smcap">Childhoods</span> were bright <i>Mirrours</i>, which did show</p> -<p class="verse">What Duties, <i>Children</i>, to their <i>Parents</i> owe:</p> -<p class="verse">And, by the sequele, we now understand,</p> -<p class="verse">That, they who best <i>obay'd</i>, can best command.</p> -<p class="verse">The glorious <i>Vertues</i> of your <span class="smcap">Nvptiall</span>-<i>state</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">Your <i>Courtiers</i>, find so hard to imitate,</p> -<p class="verse">That, they admire them, rather; and would sweare,</p> -<p class="verse">(Had others told, what, now they see and heare)</p> -<p class="verse">That, all the former Times, were not acquainted,</p> -<p class="verse">With such a <i>Paire</i>, when <i>Kings</i> and <i>Queenes</i> were <i>Sainted</i>.</p> -<p class="verse">The chastest <i>Cupids</i>, and the gamesom'st <i>Graces</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">Are alwaies mingled in your <i>Deare-embraces</i>.</p> -<p class="verse">The mutuall enterchanges of your <i>Loves</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">May teach affection to the <i>Turtle-doves</i>:</p> -<p class="verse">And, such as are, with goodly sights, delighted,</p> -<p class="verse">May see in <i>You</i>, all <i>Excellence</i> united.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">You, <span class="smcap">Sir</span>, who beare <i>Ioves</i> Thunders in your Fist,</p> -<p class="verse">And, (shake this <i>Ilands</i> <span class="smcap">Empire</span>, when You list)</p> -<p class="verse">Did never in your <i>Orbe</i>, a <i>Tempest</i> move,</p> -<p class="verse">But, by the Beautious <i>Mistresse</i> of your <i>Love</i></p> -<p class="verse">It might be calm'd. <i>And, in your lofty <em class="upright">Spheare</em>,</i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>Most lovely <span class="smcap">Qveene</span>, Your Motions ever, were</i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>So smoath, and, so direct; that, none can say,</i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>They have withdrawne his Royall-heart away</i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>From Iust <em class="upright">Designes</em>; Which, loudly speakes your <em class="upright">Praise</em>,</i></p> -<p class="verse"><i>And, intimates much more, than, yet, it saies.</i></p> -<p class="verse indent2">Yea, both Your <i>Splendors</i> doe so glorious growe,</p> -<p class="verse">And, You, each other have out-vyed so,</p> -<p class="verse">In these, and other <i>Vertues</i>; that, on You,</p> -<p class="verse">Should I conferre what praise, I thinke, is due,</p> -<p class="verse">My <i>Lines</i>, (which from that staine have, yet, beene cleare)</p> -<p class="verse">Would Flatt'ry seeme, unto an envious eare.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">But, what needs <i>Flatt'ry</i>, where the <i>Truth</i> may teach</p> -<p class="verse">To praise, beyond immodest <i>Flatt'ries</i> reach?</p> -<p class="verse">Or, what needs he to feare a <i>sland'rous-mouth</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">Who seekes no <i>meed</i>, nor utters more than Truth?</p> -<p class="verse indent2">Your Princely <i>Vertues</i>, what can better show,</p> -<p class="verse">Than <i>Peace</i>, and <i>Plenty</i>, which have thrived so,</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_I3" id="Page_I3">[3]</a></span> -<p class="verse">Whilst You have raign'd that, yet, no people see,</p> -<p class="verse">A <i>Richer</i>, or more <i>Peacefull</i> time, than wee?</p> -<p class="verse">Your <i>Civill Actions</i> (to the publike eye)</p> -<p class="verse">Are faire <i>examples</i> of <i>Moralitie</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">So manifest; That, if he Truth did sing,</p> -<p class="verse">Who said, <i>The World doth imitate the King</i>;</p> -<p class="verse">My <i>Muses</i> dare, with boldnesse to presage,</p> -<p class="verse">A Chast, a Pious, and a Prosperous <i>Age</i>:</p> -<p class="verse">And, that, the stormes which, late, these Realmes deterr'd,</p> -<p class="verse">Shall all be quite removed, or deferr'd</p> -<p class="verse">Till you Ascend; And, future times have seene,</p> -<p class="verse">That, your Examples have not followed beene.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">Thus, you are living <i>Emblems</i>, to this <i>Nation</i>:</p> -<p class="verse">Which being mark'd with heedefull speculation,</p> -<p class="verse">May serve, as well, to helpe us how to see</p> -<p class="verse">Our <i>Happinesse</i>, As, what our <i>Duties</i> be.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">And, if I might unlocke all <i>Mysteries</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">Which doe declare, how in a <i>foure-fold-wise</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">Your Lives are usefull <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>; I, perchance,</p> -<p class="verse">Should vexe blind <i>Zeale</i>, or anger <i>Ignorance</i>;</p> -<p class="verse">And, teach well-temper'd <i>Spirits</i>, how to see,</p> -<p class="verse">That, we, for Blessings, oft, Vnthankefull be.</p> -<p class="verse">For, as you, <i>Both</i>, Prime <i>Children</i> are of those</p> -<p class="verse">Two <i>Sister-Churches</i>, betwixt whom, yet, growes</p> -<p class="verse">Vnseemely <i>strife</i>; So, <i>You</i>, perhaps, may be</p> -<p class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, how those <span class="smcap">Mothers</span> may agree.</p> -<p class="verse">And, not by your <i>Example</i>, onely, show,</p> -<p class="verse">How wrought it may be; but, effect it so.</p> -<p class="verse">Yea, peradventure, <span class="smcap">God</span>, united <i>You</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">That, such a blessed <span class="smcap">Vnion</span> might ensue:</p> -<p class="verse">And, that, Your <i>living-lovingly</i>, together;</p> -<p class="verse">Your Christian <i>hopefullnesse</i>, of one another;</p> -<p class="verse">Your milde <i>forbearance</i>, harsh attempts to proove;</p> -<p class="verse">Your <i>mutuall-waiting</i>, untill <i>God</i> shall move</p> -<p class="verse">By some <i>calme-voice</i>, or peacefull <i>inspiration</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">That <i>Heart</i> Which needeth better <i>Information</i>;</p> -<p class="verse">And, that, your <i>Charities</i>, might give a <i>signe</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">How, all the <i>Daughters</i>, of the <span class="smcap">Spovse</span> <i>Divine</i></p> -<p class="verse">Might reconciled be; And, shew, that, <i>Swords</i>,</p> -<p class="verse"><i>Flames</i>, <i>Threats</i>, and <i>Furie</i>, make no true <i>Accords</i>.</p> -<p class="verse indent2"><span class="smcap">God</span> grant a better <span class="smcap">Vnion</span> may appeare:</p> -<p class="verse">Yet, wish I not the <i>tollerating</i>, here,</p> -<p class="verse">Of <i>Politicke-Agreements</i>; (further than</p> -<p class="verse">Our wholsome <i>Lawes</i>, and, <i>Civill-vowes</i> to man,</p> -<p class="verse">With <i>Piety</i>, approve) but, such, as may</p> -<p class="verse">Make up a blessed <span class="smcap">Concord</span>, every way:</p> -<p class="verse">Might it be so; your <i>Vertues</i>, would become</p> -<p class="verse">A Glorious <i>Blessing</i>, to all <span class="smcap">Christendome</span>:</p> -<p class="verse">Your <span class="smcap">Emblem</span> should, by future <i>Generations</i>;</p> -<p class="verse">Be plac'd among the famous <i>Constellations</i>,</p> -<p class="verse">And, <i>after-times</i> (though, Mee, this <i>Age</i> despise)</p> -<p class="verse">Would thinke, these <i>Verses</i>, had beene <i>Prophecies</i>.</p> -<p class="verse indent2">What ever may succeed, my <i>Pray'rs</i> and <i>Powr's</i></p> -<p class="verse">Are this way bent; with <i>Hope</i>, that <i>You</i> or <i>Yours</i></p> -<p class="verse">Shall <i>Helps</i> (at least) become, that <i>Breach</i> to close,</p> -<p class="verse">Which, in the <span class="smcap">Seamles-Robe</span>, yet, wider growes.</p> -<p class="verse indent2"><span class="smcap">So Be It</span>: And, let bright your <i>Glories</i> bee,</p> -<p class="verse indent2">For ever, though <i>You</i> never shine on <span class="smcap">Mee</span>.</p> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="in6"><i>Your</i> <span class="smcap">Maiesties</span></p> - -<p class="in8"><i>most Loyall Subject</i>,</p> - -<p class="in12"><span class="smcap"><b>Geo: Wither</b></span>.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_I4" id="Page_I4">[4]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="TO_THE_READER" id="TO_THE_READER"></a>TO THE READER.</h2> - - -<div class="drop-cap2"> - <img src="images/i_a_009.jpg" alt="I" width="75" height="71" /> -</div> -<p class="drop-cap2"><i>IF there had not beene some <em class="upright">Bookes</em> conceitedly -composed, and sutable to meane capacities, -I am doubtfull, whether I had ever -beene so delighted in reading, as thereby to -attaine to the little Knowledge I have: -For, I doe yet remember, that, things <em class="upright">honestly -pleasant</em>, brought mee by degrees, to -love that which is <em class="upright">truely profitable</em>. And -as <em class="upright">David</em> said, His <em class="upright">Heart shewed him the wickednesse of the -Vngodly</em>; (meaning perhaps, that hee felt in himselfe, some <em class="upright">Experiments</em>, -of the same naturall Corruption, by which they are -overcome, who resist not evill suggestions at their first motions:) -Even so, I may truly acknowledge, that mine owne <em class="upright">Experience</em> -hath showne mee so much of the common <em class="upright">Ignorance</em> and <em class="upright">Infirmitie</em> -in mine owne person, that it hath taught mee, how those things -may be wrought upon in others, to their best advantage.</i></p> - -<p><i>Therefore, though I can say no more to disswade from <em class="upright">Vice</em>, or -to incourage men to <em class="upright">Vertue</em>, than hath already beene said in many -learned <em class="upright">Authors</em>; yet I may be an occasion by these <em class="upright">Endeavours</em>, -to bring that, the oftner into remembrance, which they -have, more learnedly, expressed; and perhaps, by such circumstances, -as they would not descend unto, may insinuate further -also with some Capacities, than more applauded <em class="upright">Meanes</em>. <em class="upright">Viniger</em>, -<em class="upright">Salt</em>, or common <em class="upright">Water</em>, (which are very meane <em class="upright">Ingredients</em>) -make Sawces more pleasing to some tastes, than <em class="upright">Sugar</em>, and -<em class="upright">Spices</em>. In like manner, plaine and vulgar notions, seasoned with -a little <em class="upright">Pleasantnesse</em>, and relished with a moderate <em class="upright">Sharpnesse</em>, -worke that, otherwhile, which the most admired <em class="upright">Compositions</em> -could never effect in many <em class="upright">Readers</em>; yea, wee have had frequent -proofes, that a blunt <em class="upright">Iest</em> hath moved to more consideration, than -a judicious <em class="upright">Discourse</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>I take little pleasures in <em class="upright">Rymes</em>, <em class="upright">Fictions</em>, or conceited <em class="upright">Compositions</em>, -for their owne sakes; neither could I ever take so -much paines, as to spend time to put my meanings into other words -than such as flowed forth, without <em class="upright">Studie</em>; partly because I delight -more in Matter, than in <em class="upright">Wordy Flourishes</em>, But, -chiefely, because those <em class="upright">Verball Conceites</em>, which by some, are -accounted most <em class="upright">Elegant</em>, are not onely (for the greater part) <em class="upright">Emptie -Sounds</em> and Impertinent <em class="upright">Clinches</em>, in themselves; but, such -<em class="upright">Inventions</em>, as do sometime, also, obscure the <em class="upright">Sense</em>, to common -<em class="upright">Readers</em>; and, serve to little other purpose, but for <em class="upright">Wittie men</em> -to shew <em class="upright">Tricks</em> one to another: For, the <em class="upright">Ignorant</em> understand -them not; and the <em class="upright">Wise</em> need them not.</i></p> - -<p><i>So much of them, as (without darkning the matter, to them -who most need instruction) may be made use of, to stirre up the -<em class="upright">Affections</em>, winne <em class="upright">Attention</em>, or help the <em class="upright">Memory</em>, I approve -and make use of, to those good purposes, according as my leisure, -and the measure of my <em class="upright">Facultie</em> will permit; that, <em class="upright">Vanitie</em> -might not, to worse ends, get them wholly into her <em class="upright">Possession</em>. -For, I know that the meanest of such conceites are as pertinent to -some, as <em class="upright">Rattles</em>, and <em class="upright">Hobby-horses</em> to Children; or as the -<em class="upright">A. B. C.</em> and <em class="upright">Spelling</em>, were at first to those <em class="upright">Readers</em>, who are -now past them. And, indeed, to despise <em class="upright">Meane Inventions</em>, <em class="upright">Pleasant -Compositions</em>, and <em class="upright">Verball Elegancies</em>, (being qualified -as is aforesaid) or to banish them out of the world, because -there be other things of more excellencie, were as absurd, as to -neglect and root out all <em class="upright">Herbes</em>, which will not make <em class="upright">Pottage</em>; -Or, to destroy all <em class="upright">Flowers</em>, which are lesse beautifull than the -<em class="upright">Tulip</em>, or lesse sweet than the <em class="upright">Rose</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>I (that was never so sullenly wise) have alwaies intermingled -<em class="upright">Sports</em> with <em class="upright">Seriousnesse</em> in my <em class="upright">Inventions</em>; and, taken in -<em class="upright">Verball-conceites</em>, as they came to hand, without <em class="upright">Affectation</em>; -But, having, ever aymed, rather to profit my <em class="upright">Readers</em>, than to -gaine their praise, I never pumpe for those things; and am, otherwhile, -contented to seeme <em class="upright">Foolish</em>, (yea, and perhaps, more foolish -than I am) to the <em class="upright">Overweening-Wise</em>; that, I may make others -<em class="upright">Wiser than they were</em>: And, (as I now doe) am not ashamed -to set forth a <em class="upright">Game at Lots</em>, or (as it were) a <em class="upright">Puppet-play</em> in -<em class="upright">Pictures</em>, to allure men to the more serious observation of the -profitable <em class="upright">Morals</em>, couched in these <em class="upright">Emblems</em>. Neverthelesse, (if -some have sayd, and thought truly) my <em class="upright">Poems</em> have instructed, -and rectified many People in the Course of <em class="upright">Honest-living</em>, (which -is the best <em class="upright">Wisedome</em>) much more than the <em class="upright">Austerer Volumes</em> -of some criticall <em class="upright">Authors</em>; who, are by the <em class="upright">Common-sort</em>, -therefore onely, judged Wise, because they composed <em class="upright">Books</em>, which -few understand, save they who need them not.</i></p> - -<p><i>In these <em class="upright">Lots</em> and <em class="upright">Emblems</em>, I have the same ayme which I -had in my other <em class="upright">Writings</em>: and, though I have not dressed them -sutably to curious <em class="upright">Fancies</em>, yet, they yield wholsome nourishment -to strengthen the constitution of a <em class="upright">Good-life</em>; and, have solidity -enough for a <em class="upright">Play game</em>, which was but Accidentally composed; -and, by this <em class="upright">Occasion</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>These <em class="upright">Emblems</em>, graven in Copper by <em class="upright">Crispinus Passæus</em> (with -a <em class="upright">Motto</em> in Greeke, Latine, or Italian, round about every <em class="upright">Figure</em>; -and with two <em class="upright">Lines</em> (or <em class="upright">Verses</em>) in one of the same <em class="upright">Languages</em>, -periphrasing those <em class="upright">Motto's</em>) came to my hands, almost twentie -yeares past. The <em class="upright">Verses</em> were so meane, that, they were afterward -cut off from the <em class="upright">Plates</em>; And, the <em class="upright">Collector</em> of the said -Emblems, (whether hee were the <em class="upright">Versifier</em> or the <em class="upright">Graver</em>, was -neither so well advised in the <em class="upright">Choice</em> of them, nor so exact in -observing the true <em class="upright">Proprieties</em> belonging to every <em class="upright">Figure</em>, as hee -might have beene.</i></p> - -<p><i>Yet, the <em class="upright">Workman-ship</em> being judged very good, for the most -part; and the rest excusable; some of my Friends were so much -delighted in the <em class="upright">Gravers</em> art, and, in those <em class="upright">Illustrations</em>, which -for mine owne pleasure, I had made upon some few of them, that, -they requested mee to <em class="upright">Moralize</em> the rest. Which I condiscended -unto: And, they had beene brought to view many yeares agoe, but -that the <em class="upright">Copper Prints</em> (which are now gotten) could not be procured -out of <em class="upright">Holland</em>, upon any reasonable Conditions.</i></p> - -<p><i>If they were worthy of the <em class="upright">Gravers</em> and <em class="upright">Printers</em> cost, being -onely dumbe <em class="upright">Figures</em>, little usefull to any but to young <em class="upright">Gravers</em> or -<em class="upright">Painters</em>, and as little delightfull, except, to <em class="upright">Children</em>, and -<em class="upright">Childish-gazers</em>: they may now be much more worthy; seeing -the life of <em class="upright">Speach</em> being added unto them, may make them <em class="upright">Teachers</em> -and <em class="upright">Remembrancers</em> of profitable things.</i></p> - -<p><i>I doe not arrogate so much unto my <em class="upright">Illustrations</em>, as to thinke, -they will be able to teach any thing to the <em class="upright">Learned</em>; yet if they -cast their eyes upon them, perhaps, these <em class="upright">Emblems</em>, and their -<em class="upright">Morals</em>, may remember them, either of some <em class="upright">Dutie</em>, which they -might else forget, or minde them to beware of some <em class="upright">Danger</em>, -which they might otherwise be unheedfull to prevent. But, sure -I am, the <em class="upright">Vulgar Capacities</em>, may from them, be many waies -both <em class="upright">Instructed</em>, and <em class="upright">Remembred</em>; yea, they that have most -need to be <em class="upright">Instructed</em>, and <em class="upright">Remembred</em>, (and they who are most -backward to listen to <em class="upright">Instructions</em>, and <em class="upright">Remembrances</em>, by the -common Course of <em class="upright">Teaching</em>, and <em class="upright">Admonishing</em>) shall be, hereby, -informed of their <em class="upright">Dangers</em>, or <em class="upright">Duties</em>, by the way of an honest <em class="upright">Recreation</em>, -before they be aware.</i></p> - -<p><i>For, when levitie, or a childish delight in trifling Objects, -hath allured them to looke on the <em class="upright">Pictures</em>; Curiositie may urge -them to peepe further, that they might seeke out also their <em class="upright">Meanings</em>, -in our annexed <em class="upright">Illustrations</em>; In which, may lurke some -<em class="upright">Sentence</em>, or <em class="upright">Expression</em>, so evidently pertinent to their <em class="upright">Estates</em>, -<em class="upright">Persons</em>, or <em class="upright">Affections</em>, as will (at that instant or afterward) -make way for those <em class="upright">Considerations</em>, which will, at last, -wholly change them, or much better them, in their <em class="upright">Conversation</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>To seeke out the <em class="upright">Author</em> of every particular <em class="upright">Emblem</em>, were a -labour without profit; and, I have beene so far from endeavouring -it, that, I have not so much as cared to find out their meanings in any -of these <em class="upright">Figures</em>; but, applied them, rather, to such purposes, as -I could thinke of, at first sight; which, upon a second view, I found -might have beene much betterd, if I could have spared time from -other imployments. Something, also, I was <em class="upright">Confined</em>, by obliging -my selfe to observe the same number of <em class="upright">lines</em> in every <em class="upright">Illustration</em>; -and, otherwhile, I was thereby constrained to conclude, when my -best <em class="upright">Meditations</em> were but new begunne: which (though it hath -pleased Some, by the more comely Vniformitie, in the Pages) yet, -it hath much injured the libertie of my <em class="upright">Muse</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>There be, no doubt, some faults committed by the <em class="upright">Printer</em>, both -Literall and Materiall, and some Errors of the <em class="upright">Gravers</em> in the -<em class="upright">Figures</em>, (as in the <em class="upright">Tetragrammaton</em>; in the Figure of <em class="upright">Arîon</em>; -and in the <em class="upright">Proprieties</em> due to some other <em class="upright">Hieroglyphicks</em>); but, -for the most part, they are such, as <em class="upright">Common-Readers</em> will never -perceive; and I thinke, that they who are <em class="upright">Judicious</em> will so -plainly finde them to be no faults of mine; that, leaving them to -be amended by those, to whom they appertaine; and, <em class="upright">You</em>, to -accept of these <em class="upright">Play-games</em> as you please: I bid you <em class="upright">Farewell</em>.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_I5" id="Page_I5">[5]</a></span></p> - - -<h3>The Occasion, <i>Intention</i>, and use of the Foure<br /> -<i>Lotteries</i> adjoyned to these foure Books<br /> -of <i>Emblems</i>.</h3> - -<p class="drop-capt">STultorum plena sunt omnia. <i>The world is growne so in Love -with <em class="upright">Follie</em>, that the Imprinting of over-solid and serious <em class="upright">treatises</em> -would undoe the Book-sellers; especially, being so chargeable -as the many costly <em class="upright">Sculptures</em> have made this Booke: therefore, -(to advance their <em class="upright">Profits</em>, rather than to satisfie my owne <em class="upright">Iudgement</em>) -I was moved to invent somewhat, which might be likely -to please the vulgar Capacitie, without hindrance to my chiefe -<em class="upright">End</em>. And, though that which I resolved on, be not so <em class="upright">Plausible</em> -to Criticall understandings, yet I am contented to hazzard among -them, so much of my Reputation as that comes to.</i></p> - -<p><i>I have often observed, that where the <em class="upright">Summer-bowers</em> of -Recreation are placed neare the <em class="upright">Church</em>, it drawes thither more -people from the remote <em class="upright">Hamlets</em>, than would else be there. Now, -though I praise not their <em class="upright">Devotion</em>, yet I am glad if any thing -(which is not evill in it selfe) may be made an occasion of <em class="upright">Good</em>: -(because, those things may, perhaps, be continued, at last, for -Conscience sake, which were at first begunne upon vaine <em class="upright">occasions</em>) -and, have therefore added <em class="upright">Lotteries</em> to these <em class="upright">Emblems</em>, to occasion -the more frequent notice of the <em class="upright">Morals</em>, and good <em class="upright">Counsels</em> -tendred in their <em class="upright">Illustrations</em>; hoping that, at one time or other, -some shall draw those <em class="upright">Lots</em>, which will make them the better, -and the happier, whilest they live. I confesse that this Devise may -probably be censured, as unsutable to the gravitie expected in my -ripe yeares: and be reputed as great an Indecorum, as erecting an -<em class="upright">Ale-house</em> at the <em class="upright">Church-stile</em>; yet, the same having had beginning -in my younger dayes, I do now resolve not to be ashamed of -it, for the Reasons aforementioned. To such as I was, it will be -someway avayleable: and perhaps, if the <em class="upright">Wisest</em> did otherwhile, -when they walke abroad, to <em class="upright">Vncertaine purposes</em>, take up this -<em class="upright">Booke</em>, and (without <em class="upright">Superstitious Conceites</em>) make tryall what -their <em class="upright">Lots</em> would remember, or give them cause to thinke on; it -might, now and then, either occasion better <em class="upright">Proceedings</em>, or prevent -<em class="upright">Mischieves</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>Some <em class="upright">Games</em> were ever in use; ever, I thinke, will be, and -for ought I know, ever may be without exception. And, I believe, -this <em class="upright">Recreation</em>, will be as harmlesse as any, if it be used according -to my Intentions. For, my meaning is not, that any should -use it as an <em class="upright">Oracle</em>, which could signifie, infallibly, what is divinely -alloted; but, to serve onely for a <em class="upright">Morall Pastime</em>. And, that I -may no way encourage the secret entertaining of such a <em class="upright">Fantasie</em>, -I doe before hand affirme unto them, that none but <em class="upright">Children</em>, or -<em class="upright">Ideots</em> may be tollerated to be so foolish, without laughing at.</i></p> - -<p><i>Yet, if any one shall draw that <em class="upright">Lot</em> wherein his <em class="upright">Secret vices</em> -are reproved; or some good Counsels proposed, which in his owne -understanding are pertinent to his welfare, let not such as <em class="upright">those</em>, -passe them over as meere <em class="upright">Casualties</em> to them; for, whatsoever -these <em class="upright">Lots</em> are to <em class="upright">others</em>, or in <em class="upright">themselves</em>, they are to all <em class="upright">these</em>,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_I6" id="Page_I6">[6]</a></span> -made pertinent in such cases, both by their particular <em class="upright">Knowledges</em> -and <em class="upright">Occasions</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>Some will thinke perhaps, that I have purposely invented this -<em class="upright">Game</em>, that I might finde meanes to reprove mens <em class="upright">vices</em>, without -being suspected, (as I have hitherto unjustly beene) to ayme at particular -persons: For, if any who are <em class="upright">notoriously Guiltie</em>, shall by -drawing their <em class="upright">Chances</em>, among other Companions, be so fitted with -<em class="upright">Lots</em>, (which may now and then happen) that those <em class="upright">Vices</em> be therby -intimated to the by-standers, of which the world knowes them -guilty; they do therin make their owne <em class="upright">Libels</em>; and, may (I hope) -bee laughed at without my blame. If not; I doe here warne all -such as are worthily suspected of <em class="upright">Haynous crimes</em>, and <em class="upright">Scandalous -conversations</em>, either to forbeare these <em class="upright">Lotteries</em>; or to excuse -me if they be justly shamed by their own <em class="upright">Act</em>.</i></p> - -<p><i>Having thus declared the Reason of this <em class="upright">Invention</em>, and made -these Anticipations; every man hath his choice, whether hee will -make use of those <em class="upright">Lotteries</em> or no; hee that will, is left to his -<em class="upright">Chance</em>, of which, how hee shall make tryall, direction is given in -the two last Pages of this <em class="upright">Booke</em>.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">This <i>Game</i> occasions not the frequent crime,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Swearing</i>, or mispending of our <i>Time</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor losse of money: For, the <i>Play</i> is <i>short</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, ev'ry <i>Gamester</i> winneth by the sport.</div> -<div class="verse">Wee, therefore, know it may aswell become</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Hall</i>, the <i>Parlor</i>, or the <i>Dining-roome</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Chesse</i>, or <i>Tables</i>; and, we thinke the <i>Price</i></div> -<div class="verse">Will be as low; because, it needs no <i>Dice</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_a_013.jpg" width="500" height="249" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<a name="png17" id="png17"></a> -<a href="#png17_t"><img src="images/i_a_014.jpg" width="600" height="715" alt="" /></a> -<div class="caption"> - <div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">What <i>I</i> <em class="upright">WAS</em>, is passed-by;</div> - <div class="verse">What <i>I</i> <em class="upright">AM</em>, away doth flie;</div> - <div class="verse">What <i>I</i> <em class="upright">SHAL BEE</em>, none do see;</div> - <div class="verse"><i>Yet, in <em class="upright">that</em>, my <em class="upright">Beauties</em> bee.</i></div> -</div></div></div> -</div> - - -<h2>The <span class="smcap">Avthors</span> Meditation upon<br /> -sight of his <span class="smcap">Pictvre</span>.</h2> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza italic"> -<div class="verse drop-capt2">WHen I behold my <em class="upright">Picture</em>, and perceive,</div> -<div class="verse">How vaine it is, our <em class="upright">Portraitures</em> to leave</div> -<div class="verse">In <em class="upright">Lines</em>, and <em class="upright">Shadowes</em>, (which make shewes, to day,</div> -<div class="verse">Of that which will, to morrow, fade away)</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_I7" id="Page_I7">[7]</a></span> -<div class="verse">And, thinke, what meane <em class="upright">Resemblances</em> at best,</div> -<div class="verse">Are by <em class="upright">Mechanike Instruments</em> exprest;</div> -<div class="verse">I thought it better, much, to leave behind me,</div> -<div class="verse">Some <em class="upright">Draught</em>, in which, my living friends might find me</div> -<div class="verse">The same I <em class="upright">am</em>; in <em class="upright">that</em>, which will remaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Till all is ruin'd, and repair'd againe:</div> -<div class="verse">And, which, in absence, will more truely show me,</div> -<div class="verse">Than, <em class="upright">outward Formes</em>, to those, who think they know me.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">For, though my gratious <span class="smcap">Maker</span> made me such,</div> -<div class="verse">That, where I love, belov'd I am, as much</div> -<div class="verse">As J desire; yet, <em class="upright">Forme</em>, nor <em class="upright">Features</em> are,</div> -<div class="verse">Those <em class="upright">Ornaments</em>, in which J would appeare</div> -<div class="verse">To <em class="upright">future Times</em>; Though they were found in me,</div> -<div class="verse">Farre better, than I can beleeve they be.</div> -<div class="verse">Much lesse, affect I <em class="upright">that</em>, which each man knowes,</div> -<div class="verse">To be no more, but Counterfeits of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Wherein, the <em class="upright">Painters</em>, or the <em class="upright">Gravers</em> toole,</div> -<div class="verse">Befriends alike, the <em class="upright">Wiseman</em>, and the <em class="upright">Foole</em>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, (when they please) can give him, by their <em class="upright">Art</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <em class="upright">fairest-Face</em>, that had the <em class="upright">falsest-Heart</em>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">A <span class="smcap">Pictvre</span>, though with most exactnesse made,</div> -<div class="verse">Is nothing, but the <em class="upright">Shadow</em> of a <span class="smcap">Shade</span>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, ev'n our <em class="upright">living Bodies</em>, (though they seeme</div> -<div class="verse">To others more, or more in our esteeme)</div> -<div class="verse">Are but the <em class="upright">shadowes</em> of that <em class="upright">Reall-being</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which doth extend beyond the <em class="upright">Fleshly-seeing</em>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, cannot be discerned, till we rise</div> -<div class="verse"><em class="upright">Immortall-Objects</em>, for <em class="upright">Immortall-eyes</em>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Our <em class="upright">Everlasting-Substance</em> lies unseene,</div> -<div class="verse">Behinde the Fouldings, of a <em class="upright">Carnall-Screene</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which is, but, <em class="upright">Vapours</em> thickned into <em class="upright">Blood</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">(By due concoction of our daily food)</div> -<div class="verse">And, still supplied, out of other <em class="upright">Creatures</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe us <em class="upright">living</em>, by their wasted natures:</div> -<div class="verse">Renewing, and decaying, ev'ry Day,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill that <em class="upright">Vaile</em> must be remov'd away.</div> -<div class="verse">For, this lov'd <em class="upright">Flesh</em>, wherewith, yet cloth'd we go,</div> -<div class="verse">Is not the same, wee had sev'n yeares ago;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather, something which is taken-in,</div> -<div class="verse">To serve insteed of what hath wasted bin,</div> -<div class="verse">In <em class="upright">Wounds</em>, in <em class="upright">Sicknesses</em>, in <em class="upright">Colds</em>, and <em class="upright">Heates</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">In all <em class="upright">Excrescions</em>, and in <em class="upright">Fumes</em>, and <em class="upright">Sweates</em>.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor shall, this present <em class="upright">Flesh</em>, long stay with us:</div> -<div class="verse">And, wee may well be pleas'd, it should be <em class="upright">Thus</em>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">For, as I view, those Townes, and Fields, that be</div> -<div class="verse">In Landskip drawne; Even so, me thinks, I see</div> -<div class="verse">A Glimpes, farre off, (through <span class="smcap">Faith's</span> <em class="upright">Prospective glasse</em>)</div> -<div class="verse">Of that, which after <em class="upright">Death</em>, will come to passe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, likewise, gained have, such meanes of seeing,</div> -<div class="verse">Some things, which were, before my <em class="upright">Life</em> had being,</div> -<div class="verse">That, in my <em class="upright">Soule</em>, I should be discontent,</div> -<div class="verse">If, this my <em class="upright">Body</em> were, more permanent;</div> -<div class="verse">Since, <em class="upright">Wee</em>, and all <em class="upright">God's</em> other <em class="upright">Creatures</em>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Are but the <em class="upright">Pictures</em>, of what shall appeare.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Yet, whilst they <em class="upright">are</em>, I thankfully would make</div> -<div class="verse">That use of them, for their <span class="smcap">Creator's</span> sake,</div> -<div class="verse">To which hee made them; and, preserve the <em class="upright">Table</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Still, <em class="upright">Faire</em> and <em class="upright">Full</em>, as much as I were able,</div> -<div class="verse">By finishing, (in my alotted place)</div> -<div class="verse">Those <em class="upright">Workes</em>, for which, hee fits me by his Grace.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if a <em class="upright">Wrenne</em>, a <em class="upright">Wrenn's</em> just height shall soare,</div> -<div class="verse">No <em class="upright">Ægle</em>, for an <em class="upright">Ægle</em>, can doe more.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">If therefore, of my <em class="upright">Labours</em>, or of <span class="smcap">Mee</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">Ought shall remaine, when I remov'd, must be,</div> -<div class="verse">Let it be that, wherein it may be view'd,</div> -<div class="verse">My <span class="smcap">Makers</span> <em class="upright">Image</em>, was in me renew'd:</div> -<div class="verse">And, so declare, a dutifull intent,</div> -<div class="verse">To doe the <em class="upright">Worke</em> I came for, e're I went;</div> -<div class="verse">That, I to others, may some <em class="upright">Patterne</em> be,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <em class="upright">Doing-well</em>, as other men to mee,</div> -<div class="verse">Have beene, whilst I had life: And, let my daies</div> -<div class="verse">Be summed up, to my <em class="upright">Redeemer's</em> praise.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">So this be gained, I regard it not,</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Though, all that I am else, be quite forgot.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - - - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">Knowledge</em> onely, <em class="upright">Life</em> wee gaine,<br /> -All other things to <em class="upright">Death</em> pertaine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_1_1" id="Ill_1_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_1_1t"><img src="images/i_b_001.jpg" width="500" height="487" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstratio I.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> - <img src="images/i_b_001c.jpg" alt="H" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">H</span>Ow Fond are they, who spend their pretious Time</div> -<div class="verse">In still pursuing their deceiving <i>Pleasures</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">And they, that unto ayery <i>Titles</i> clime</div> -<div class="verse">Or tyre themselves in hoording up of <i>Treasures</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">For, these are <i>Death's</i>, who, when with wearinesse</div> -<div class="verse">They have acquired most, sweepes all away;</div> -<div class="verse">And leaves them, for their Labors, to possesse</div> -<div class="verse">Nought but a raw-bon'd <i>Carcasse</i> lapt in clay.</div> -<div class="verse">Of twenty hundred thousands, who, this houre</div> -<div class="verse">Vaunt much, of those <i>Possessions</i> they have got;</div> -<div class="verse">Of their new purchac'd <i>Honours</i>, or, the <i>Power</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, they seeme to have advanc't their <i>Lott</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Of this great <i>Multitude</i>, there shall not <i>Three</i></div> -<div class="verse">Remaine, for any <i>Future-age</i> to know;</div> -<div class="verse">But perish quite, and quite forgotten bee,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Beasts</i>, devoured twice ten yeares agoe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thou, therefore, who desir'st for aye to live,</div> -<div class="verse">And to possesse thy <i>Labors</i> maugre <i>Death</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To needfull <i>Arts</i> and honest <i>Actions</i>, give</div> -<div class="verse">Thy Spanne of <i>Time</i>, and thy short blast of <i>Breath</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">In holy <i>Studies</i>, exercise thy <i>Mind</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">In workes of <i>Charity</i>, thy <i>Hands</i> imploy;</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Knowledge</i>, and that <i>Treasure</i>, seeke to find,</div> -<div class="verse">Which may enrich thy <i>Heart</i> with perfect <i>Ioy</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">So, though obscured thou appeare, awhile,</div> -<div class="verse">Despised, poore, or borne to Fortunes low,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Vertue</i> shall acquire a nobler stile,</div> -<div class="verse">Then greatest <i>Kings</i> are able to bestow:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, gaine thee those <i>Possessions</i>, which, nor <i>They</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Nor <i>Time</i>, nor <i>Death</i>, have power to take away.</div> -</div></div></div> - - - - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The Man that hath true <em class="upright">Wisdome</em> got,<br /> -Continues <em class="upright">firme</em>, and <em class="upright">wavers</em> not.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_2_1" id="Ill_2_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_2_1t"><img src="images/i_b_002.jpg" width="500" height="487" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. II.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width:75px;"> - <img src="images/i_b_002c.jpg" width="75" height="68" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Till fixt, and with triumphant <i>Laurell</i> crown'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Is truest <i>Wisdome</i>; whom, expressed thus,</div> -<div class="verse">Among the old <i>Impresa's</i>, we have found;</div> -<div class="verse">And, much, this <i>Emblem</i> hath instructed us.</div> -<div class="verse">For, hence we learne; that, <i>Wisdome</i> doth not flow</div> -<div class="verse">From those unconstant men, whom ev'ry <i>Blast</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or small <i>Occasion</i>, turneth to and fro;</div> -<div class="verse">But, from a <i>Settled head</i> that standeth <i>fast</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Who'ever shoulders, him, he gives no place;</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Storme</i> soe're, his <i>Times</i> or <i>Fortunes</i>, breath,</div> -<div class="verse">He neither hides his <i>Brow</i>, nor turnes his <i>Face</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, keepes his Lookes undaunted, ev'n in <i>Death</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Laureat head</i>, upon the <i>Pillar</i> set,</div> -<div class="verse">Thus signifies; And that <i>Bay-wreath</i> doth show</div> -<div class="verse">That constant <i>Wisdome</i> will the conquest get,</div> -<div class="verse">When giddy <i>Policie</i> prevailes not so.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If, therefore, thou desirest to be taught,</div> -<div class="verse">Propose good <i>Ends</i> with honest <i>Meanes</i> thereto,</div> -<div class="verse">And therein <i>Constant</i> be, till thou hast brought</div> -<div class="verse">To perfect <i>end</i>, that <i>Worke</i>, thou hast to doe.</div> -<div class="verse">Let neither flatt'ring <i>Pleasures</i>, nor <i>Disgrace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor scoffing <i>Censures</i>, nor the cunning <i>Sleights</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of glozing <i>Sycophants</i>, divert that <i>Race</i></div> -<div class="verse">To which, a harmelesse <i>Prudence</i>, thee invites.</div> -<div class="verse">Though others plot, conspire, and undermine,</div> -<div class="verse">Keepe thou a plaine right <i>Path</i>; and let their <i>Course</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">For no advantage, make thee change from <i>thine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Although it (for the present) seemes the worse.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">He, thus that workes, puts <i>Policie</i> to Schoole,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And makes the <i>Machavilian</i> prove a foole.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Law</em> is given to <em class="upright">direct</em>;<br /> -The <em class="upright">Sword</em>, to <em class="upright">punish</em> and <em class="upright">protect</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_3_1" id="Ill_3_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_3_1t"><img src="images/i_b_003.jpg" width="500" height="494" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. III.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> - <div class="poetry-img" style="width:75px;"> - <img src="images/i_b_003c.jpg" alt="W" /> - </div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen <i>God-Almighty</i> first engrav'd in stone</div> -<div class="verse">His holy <i>Law</i>; He did not give the same</div> -<div class="verse">As if some common Act had then beene done;</div> -<div class="verse">For, arm'd with <i>Fires</i> and <i>Thunders</i>, forth it came.</div> -<div class="verse">By which, that great <i>Law-maker</i>, might inferre</div> -<div class="verse">What dreadfull <i>Vengeance</i> would on those attend,</div> -<div class="verse">Who did against those holy <i>Precepts</i> erre;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, his <i>Power</i>, well-doers could defend.</div> -<div class="verse">Thereto, this <i>Emblem</i>, also doth agree;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, loe, before the <i>Tables</i> of the <i>Lawe</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">A naked <i>Sword</i> is borne, whose use may bee</div> -<div class="verse">As well to keepe in <i>Safety</i>, as in <i>Awe</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Whence, <i>Princes</i> (if they please) this note may take,</div> -<div class="verse">(And it shall make them happily to raigne)</div> -<div class="verse">That, many good and wholsome <i>Lawes</i> to make</div> -<div class="verse">Without an <i>Executioner</i>, is vaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It likewise intimates, that such as are</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Soveraigne place</i>, as well obliged be</div> -<div class="verse">Their zeale for true <i>Religion</i> to declare,</div> -<div class="verse">As, what concerneth <i>Manners</i>, to foresee.</div> -<div class="verse">It, lastly, showes that <i>Princes</i> should affect</div> -<div class="verse">Not onely, over others to <i>Command</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But <i>Swords</i> to weare, their <i>Subjects</i> to protect;</div> -<div class="verse">And, for their <i>Guard</i>, extend a willing hand.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Lawes</i>, or <i>Peace</i> to boast of; and, the whiles,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Publique-weale</i>, to weaken or disarme,</div> -<div class="verse">Is nor the way to hinder <i>Civill-Broyles</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor to secure it from a <i>Forraigne-harme</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, As by <i>Lawes</i> a Land is kept in frame;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, <i>Armes</i> is that, which must protect the same.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Occasions-past</em> are sought in vaine;<br /> -But, oft, they <em class="upright">wheele-about</em> again.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_4_1" id="Ill_4_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_4_1t"><img src="images/i_b_004.jpg" width="500" height="496" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IV.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width:75px"> - <img src="images/i_b_004c.jpg" alt="U" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">U</span>Nwise are they that spend their youthfull <i>Prime</i></div> -<div class="verse">In Vanities; as if they did suppose</div> -<div class="verse">That men, at pleasure, might redeeme the <i>Time</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, they a faire advantage fondly lose.</div> -<div class="verse">As ill-advis'd be those, who having lost</div> -<div class="verse">The first <i>Occasions</i>, to <i>Despairing</i> runne:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Time</i> hath <i>Revolutions</i>; and, the most,</div> -<div class="verse">For their Affaires, have <i>Seasons</i> more, then one.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor is their Folly small, who much depend</div> -<div class="verse">On <i>Transitorie things</i>, as if their Powre</div> -<div class="verse">Could bring to passe what should not have an <i>End</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or compasse that, which <i>Time</i> will not devoure.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The first <i>Occasions</i>, therefore, see thou take</div> -<div class="verse">(Which offred are) to bring thy hopes about;</div> -<div class="verse">And, minde thou, still, what <i>Haste</i> away they make,</div> -<div class="verse">Before thy swift-pac't houres are quite runne out.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, if an <i>Opportunity</i> be past,</div> -<div class="verse">Despaire not thou, as they that hopelesse be;</div> -<div class="verse">Since, <i>Time</i> may so revolve againe, at last,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>New-Occasions</i> may be offred thee.</div> -<div class="verse">And see, thou trust not on those fading things,</div> -<div class="verse">Which by thine owne <i>Endeavours</i> thou acquir'st:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Time</i> (which her owne <i>Births</i> to ruine brings)</div> -<div class="verse">Will spare, not <i>thee</i>, nor ought which thou desir'st.</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Properties</i>, and <i>Vses</i>, what they are,</div> -<div class="verse">In-vaine observ'd will be, when he is fled:</div> -<div class="verse">That, they in season, therefore, may appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Emblem</i>, thus, hath him deciphered;</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Balde</i> save before, and standing on a <i>Wheele</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Razor</i> in his Hand, a <i>Winged-Heele</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">Labour</em>, <em class="upright">Vertue</em> may be gain'd;<br /> -By <em class="upright">Vertue</em>, <em class="upright">Glorie</em> is attain'd.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_5_1" id="Ill_5_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_5_1t"><img src="images/i_b_005.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. V.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_005c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Vppose you <i>Sirs</i>, those mimicke <i>Apes</i> you meet</div> -<div class="verse">In strange fantasticke habits? or the Rabble,</div> -<div class="verse">That in gay clothes embroyder out the street,</div> -<div class="verse">Are truely of <i>Worshipfull</i> or <i>Honorable</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Or can you thinke, that, To be borne the Sonne</div> -<div class="verse">Of some rich <i>Alderman</i>, or ancient <i>Peere</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or that the <i>Fame</i> our Predecessors wonne</div> -<div class="verse">May claime those <i>Wreathes</i> which true <i>Deserving</i> weare?</div> -<div class="verse">Is <i>Honour</i> due to those, who spend their dayes</div> -<div class="verse">In courting one another? or consuming</div> -<div class="verse">Their Fortunes and themselves, on Drabbs and Playes?</div> -<div class="verse">In sleeping, drinking, and Tobacco-fuming?</div> -<div class="verse">Not so. For, (though such <i>Fooles</i>, like children, place</div> -<div class="verse">Gay <i>Titles</i> on each other) <i>Wise-men</i> know</div> -<div class="verse">What slaves they be; how miserably-base;</div> -<div class="verse">And, where such <i>Attributes</i> would better show.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">An idle <i>Body</i> clothes a vitious <i>Minde</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what (at best) is purchac'd by the same,</div> -<div class="verse">Is nothing else, but stinking <i>Smoke</i> and <i>Winde</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or frothie <i>Bubbles</i> of an empty <i>Fame</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">True <i>Glory</i>, none did ever purchase, yet,</div> -<div class="verse">Till, to be <i>Vertuous</i> they could first attaine;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor shall those men faire <i>Vertues</i> favour get,</div> -<div class="verse">Who <i>labour</i> not, such <i>Dignities</i> to gaine.</div> -<div class="verse">And, this <i>Impresa</i> doth inferre no lesse:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by the <i>Spade</i>, is <i>Labour</i> here implide;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Snake</i>, a vertuous <i>Prudence</i>, doth expresse;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Glorie</i>, by the <i>Wreath</i> is Typifide.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, where a vertuous <i>Industry</i> is found,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">She, shall with Wreaths of <i>Glory</i>, thus be crown'd.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Though <em class="upright">Fortune</em> prove true <em class="upright">Vertues</em> Foe,<br /> -It cannot worke her Overthrowe.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_6_1" id="Ill_6_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_6_1t"><img src="images/i_b_006.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width:75px;"> - <img src="images/i_b_006c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="U" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">U</span>Nhappy men are they, whose Ignorance</div> -<div class="verse">So slaves them to the <i>Fortunes</i> of the Time,</div> -<div class="verse">That they (attending on the Lot of <i>Chance</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Neglect by <i>Vertue</i>, and <i>Deserts</i>, to clime.</div> -<div class="verse">Poore <i>Heights</i> they be which <i>Fortune</i> reares unto;</div> -<div class="verse">And, fickle is the <i>Favour</i> she bestowes:</div> -<div class="verse">To-day, she makes; to-morrow, doth undoe;</div> -<div class="verse">Builds up, and in an instant overthrowes.</div> -<div class="verse">On easie <i>Wheeles</i>, to Wealth, and Honours high,</div> -<div class="verse">She windes men oft, before they be aware;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when they dreame of most <i>Prosperitie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Downe, headlong, throwes them lower then they were.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">You, then, that seeke a more assur'd estate,</div> -<div class="verse">On good, and honest <i>Objects</i>, fixe your <i>Minde</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And follow <i>Vertue</i>, that you may a <i>Fate</i></div> -<div class="verse">Exempt from feare of Change, or Dangers, finde.</div> -<div class="verse">For, he that's <i>Vertuous</i>, whether high or low</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Fortune</i> seemes (or whether foule or faire</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Path</i> he findes) or whether friend, or foe,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>World</i> doth prove; regards it not a haire.</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Losse</i> is <i>Gaine</i>; his <i>Poverty</i> is <i>Wealth</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">The Worlds <i>Contempt</i>, he makes his <i>Diadem</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Sicknesse</i>, he rejoyceth, as in <i>Health</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, <i>Death</i> it selfe, becommeth <i>Life</i>, to him.</div> -<div class="verse">He feares no disrespect, no bitter scorne,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor subtile plottings, nor Oppressions force;</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, though the World should topsie-turvie turne,</div> -<div class="verse">It cannot fright him, nor divert his Course.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Above all Earthly powres his <i>Vertue</i> reares him;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, up with <i>Eglets</i> wings, to Heav'n it beares him.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A fickle <em class="upright">Woman</em> wanton growne,<br /> -Preferres a <em class="upright">Crowd</em>, before a <em class="upright">Crowne</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_7_1" id="Ill_7_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_7_1t"><img src="images/i_b_007.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_007c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="F" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><i><span class="hidden">F</span>Oole!</i> Dost thou hope, thine <i>Honours</i>, or thy <i>Gold</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall gaine thee <i>Love</i>? Or, that thou hast her heart</div> -<div class="verse">Whose hand upon thy tempting <i>Bayt</i> layes hold?</div> -<div class="verse">Alas! fond <i>Lover</i>, thou deceived art.</div> -<div class="verse">She that with <i>Wealth</i>, and <i>Titles</i>, can be wonne,</div> -<div class="verse">Or woo'd with <i>Vanities</i>, will wavring bee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when her Love, thou most dependest on,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Fiddle-sticke</i> shall winne her heart from thee.</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Youth</i> and <i>Musicke</i>, <i>Venus</i> leaneth most;</div> -<div class="verse">And (though her hand she on the <i>Scepter</i> lay)</div> -<div class="verse">Let <i>Greatnesse</i>, of her Favours never boast:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Heart</i> and <i>Eye</i>, are bent another way.</div> -<div class="verse">And lo, no glorious Purchace that Man gets,</div> -<div class="verse">Who hath with such poore <i>Trifles</i>, woo'd, and wonne:</div> -<div class="verse">Her footing, on a <i>Ball</i>, his <i>Mistresse</i> sets,</div> -<div class="verse">Which in a moment slips, and she is gone.</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Woman</i>, meerely with an <i>Out side</i> caught,</div> -<div class="verse">Or tempted with a <i>Galliard</i>, or a <i>Song</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Will him forsake (whom she most lovely thought)</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Players</i> and for <i>Tumblers</i>, ere't be long.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">You, then, that wish your <i>Love</i> should ever last,</div> -<div class="verse">(And would enjoy <i>Affection</i> without changing)</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Love</i> where your <i>Loves</i> may worthily be plac't;</div> -<div class="verse">And, keepe your owne <i>Affection</i>, still from ranging.</div> -<div class="verse">Vse noble <i>Meanes</i>, your Longings to attaine;</div> -<div class="verse">Seeke equall <i>Mindes</i>, and well beseeming <i>Yeares</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">They are (at best) vaine <i>Fooles</i>, whom <i>Follie</i> gaine;</div> -<div class="verse">But, there is <i>Blisse</i>, where, <i>Vertue</i> most endeares:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, wheresoe're, Affection <i>shee</i> procures,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">In spight of all <i>Temptations</i>, it endures.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -This Ragge of <em class="upright">Death</em>, which thou shalt see,<br /> -Consider it; And <em class="upright">Pious</em> bee.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_8_1" id="Ill_8_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_8_1t"><img src="images/i_b_008.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VIII.</span> <i>Book 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_008c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hy, silly Man! so much admirest thou</div> -<div class="verse">Thy present <i>Fortune</i>? overvaluing so</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Person</i>, or the beauty of thy <i>Brow</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">And <i>Cloth'd</i>, so proudly, wherefore dost thou goe?</div> -<div class="verse">Why dost thou live in riotous <i>Excesse</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">And <i>Boast</i>, as if thy Flesh immortall were?</div> -<div class="verse">Why dost thou gather so? Why so oppresse?</div> -<div class="verse">And, o're thy Fellow-creatures, <i>Domineere</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Behold this <i>Emblem</i>; such a thing was hee</div> -<div class="verse">Whom this doth represent as now thou art;</div> -<div class="verse">And, such a Fleshlesse <i>Raw-bone</i> shalt thou bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Though, yet, thou seeme to act a comelier part.</div> -<div class="verse">Observe it well; and marke what <i>Vglinesse</i></div> -<div class="verse">Stares through the sightlesse <i>Eye-holes</i>, from within:</div> -<div class="verse">Note those leane <i>Craggs</i>, and with what <i>Gastlinesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That horrid <i>Countenance</i> doth seeme to grin.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, view it well; and having seene the same</div> -<div class="verse">Plucke downe that <i>Pride</i> which puffs thy heart so high;</div> -<div class="verse">Of thy <i>Proportion</i> boast not, and (for shame)</div> -<div class="verse">Repent thee of thy sinfull <i>Vanity</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, having learn'd, that, all men must become</div> -<div class="verse">Such bare <i>Anatomies</i>; and, how this <i>Fate</i></div> -<div class="verse">No mortall <i>Powre</i>, nor <i>Wit</i>, can keepe thee from;</div> -<div class="verse">Live so, that <i>Death</i> may better thy estate.</div> -<div class="verse">Consider who created thee; and why:</div> -<div class="verse">Renew thy <i>Spirit</i>, ere thy <i>Flesh</i> decayes:</div> -<div class="verse">More <i>Pious</i> grow; Affect more <i>Honestie</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And seeke hereafter thy <i>Creatours</i> praise.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So though of <i>Breath</i> and <i>Beauty</i> Time deprive thee,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">New <i>Life</i>, with endlesse <i>Glorie</i>, <i>God</i> will give thee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Before thou bring thy <em class="upright">Workes</em> to Light,<br /> -Consider on them, in the <em class="upright">Night</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_9_1" id="Ill_9_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_9_1t"><img src="images/i_b_009.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IX.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_009c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span>N <i>Owle</i> (the <i>Hieroglyphicke</i> us'd for <i>Night</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Twixt <i>Mercury</i> and <i>Pallas</i>, here takes place,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon a crown'd <i>Caduceus</i> fixt upright;</div> -<div class="verse">And, each a <i>Cornucopia</i> doth imbrace.</div> -<div class="verse">Through which darke <i>Emblem</i>, I this Light perceive;</div> -<div class="verse">That, such as would the <i>Wit</i> and <i>Wealth</i> acquire,</div> -<div class="verse">Which may the <i>Crowne</i> of approbation have,</div> -<div class="verse">Must <i>wake by Night</i>, to compasse their desire.</div> -<div class="verse">For, this <i>Mercurian-Wand</i>, doth <i>Wit</i> expresse;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Cornu-copia</i>, <i>Wealthinesse</i> implies;</div> -<div class="verse">Both gained by a studious <i>Watchfulnesse</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, here, the <i>Bird of Athens</i> signifies.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, by this <i>Emblem</i>, are we taught alone,</div> -<div class="verse">That, (when great <i>Vndertakings</i> are intended)</div> -<div class="verse">We <i>Sloth</i>, and lumpish <i>Drowsinesse</i> must shunne;</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>Rashnesse</i>, also, here is reprehended.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Take Counsell of thy Pillow</i>, (saith our <i>Sawe</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">And, ere in waighty Matters thou proceede,</div> -<div class="verse">Consider well upon them; lest they draw</div> -<div class="verse">Some Afterclap, which may thy Mischiefe breede.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I, for my seriou'st <i>Muses</i>, chuse the <i>Night</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">(More friend to <i>Meditation</i>, then the <i>Day</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">That neither Noyse, nor Objects of the <i>Sight</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor bus'nesses, withdraw my <i>Thoughts</i> away,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Night</i>, we best may ruminate upon</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Purposes</i>; Then, best, we may enquire</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Actions</i> wee amisse, or well, have done;</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, may best into our <i>Selves</i> retire:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, of the <i>World-without</i>, when most we see,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then, blindest to the <i>World-within</i>, are wee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -An <em class="upright">Innocent</em> no <em class="upright">Danger</em> feares,<br /> -How great soever it appeares.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_10_1" id="Ill_10_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_10_1t"><img src="images/i_b_010.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. X.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_010c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen some did seeke <i>Arion</i> to have drown'd,</div> -<div class="verse">He, with a dreadlesse heart his Temples crown'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when to drench him in the Seas they meant,</div> -<div class="verse">He playd on his melodious <i>Instrument</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">To shew, that <i>Innocence</i> disdayned Feare,</div> -<div class="verse">Though to be swallow'd in the <i>Deeps</i> it were.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor did it perish: For, upon her Backe</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Dolphin</i> tooke him, for his <i>Musick's</i> sake:</div> -<div class="verse">To intimate, that <i>Vertue</i> shall prevaile</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Bruitish</i> Creatures, if with <i>Men</i> it faile.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Most vaine is then their Hope, who dreame they can</div> -<div class="verse">Make wretched, or undoe, an <i>Honest-Man</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, he whom Vertuous <i>Innocence</i> adornes,</div> -<div class="verse">Insults o're <i>Cruelties</i>; and, <i>Perill</i> scornes.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, that, by which, Men purpose to <i>undoe</i> him,</div> -<div class="verse">(In their despight) shall bring great <i>Honours</i> to him.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Arion</i>-like, the Malice of the <i>World</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath into <i>Seas</i> of <i>Troubles</i> often hurl'd</div> -<div class="verse">Deserving Men, although no Cause they had,</div> -<div class="verse">But that their <i>Words</i> and <i>Workes</i> sweet <i>Musicke</i> made.</div> -<div class="verse">Of all their outward Helps it hath bereft them;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor meanes, nor hopes of Comfort have beene left them;</div> -<div class="verse">But such, as in the House of <i>Mourning</i> are,</div> -<div class="verse">And, what <i>Good-Conscience</i> can afford them there.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>Dolphin-like</i>, their <i>Innocence</i> hath rear'd</div> -<div class="verse">Their Heads above those <i>Dangers</i> that appear'd.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>God</i> hath vouchsaf'd their harmelesse <i>Cause</i> to heed,</div> -<div class="verse">And, ev'n in Thraldome, so their Hearts hath freed,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, whil'st they seem'd oppressed and forlorne;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They <i>Ioyd</i>, and <i>Sung</i>, and <i>Laugh'd the World to scorne</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Foole</em>, in <em class="upright">Folly</em> taketh Paine,<br /> -Although he labour still in vaine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_11_1" id="Ill_11_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_11_1t"><img src="images/i_b_011.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_011c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> Massie <i>Mil-stone</i> up a tedious Hill,</div> -<div class="verse">With mighty Labour, <i>Sisyphus</i> doth roll;</div> -<div class="verse">Which being rais'd-aloft, downe-tumbleth, still,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe imployed his afflicted <i>Soule</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">On him, this tedious Labour is impos'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And (though in vaine) it must be still assayd:</div> -<div class="verse">But, some, by no Necessity inclos'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon themselves, such needlesse Taskes have layd.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, knowing not (or caring not to know)</div> -<div class="verse">That they are worne and weary'd out in vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">They madly toyle to plunge themselves in Woe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, seeke uncertaine <i>Ease</i>, in certaine <i>Paine</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such <i>Fooles</i> are they, who dreame they can acquire</div> -<div class="verse">A Minde-content, by <i>Lab'ring still for more</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Wealth</i> encreasing, doth encrease <i>Desire</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And makes <i>Contentment</i> lesser then before.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such <i>Fooles</i> are they, whose <i>Hopes</i> doe vainely stretch</div> -<div class="verse">To climbe by <i>Titles</i>, to a happy Height:</div> -<div class="verse">For, having gotten one <i>Ambitious-Reach</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Another comes perpetually in sight.</div> -<div class="verse">And, their stupidity is nothing lesse,</div> -<div class="verse">Who dreame that <i>Flesh</i> and <i>Blood</i> may raysed be</div> -<div class="verse">Vp to the <i>Mount of perfect-Holinesse</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For (at our best) corrupt and vile are we.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, we are bound by <i>Faith</i>, with <i>Love</i> and <i>Hope</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To roll the Stone of <i>Good-Endeavour</i>, still,</div> -<div class="verse">As neere as may be, to <i>Perfections top</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Though backe againe it tumble downe the <i>Hill</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So; What our <i>Workes</i> had never power to doe,</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>God's</i> Grace, at last, shall freely bring us to.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -As, to the <em class="upright">World</em> I <em class="upright">naked</em> came,<br /> -So, <em class="upright">naked</em>-stript I leave the same.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_12_1" id="Ill_12_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_12_1t"><img src="images/i_b_012.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_012c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hrice happy is that Man whose <i>Thoughts</i> doe reare</div> -<div class="verse">His Minde above that pitch the <i>Worldling</i> flies,</div> -<div class="verse">And by his <i>Contemplations</i>, hovers where</div> -<div class="verse">He viewes things mortall, with unbleared eyes.</div> -<div class="verse">What Trifles then doe <i>Villages</i> and <i>Townes</i></div> -<div class="verse">Large <i>Fields</i> or <i>Flockes</i> of fruitfull <i>Cattell</i> seeme?</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, what poore things are <i>Miters</i>, <i>Scepters</i>, <i>Crownes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And all those <i>Glories</i> which Men most esteeme?</div> -<div class="verse">Though he that hath among them, his Delight,</div> -<div class="verse">Brave things imagines them (because they blinde</div> -<div class="verse">With some false Lustre his beguiled sight)</div> -<div class="verse">He that's above them, their meane-Worth may finde.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Lord</i>, to that <i>Blessed-Station</i> me convey</div> -<div class="verse">Where I may view the <i>World</i>, and view her so,</div> -<div class="verse">That I her true Condition may survey;</div> -<div class="verse">And all her Imperfections rightly know.</div> -<div class="verse">Remember me, that once there was a Day</div> -<div class="verse">When thou didst weane me from them with content,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n when shut up within those <i>Gates</i> I lay</div> -<div class="verse">Through which the <i>Plague-inflicting Angel</i> went.</div> -<div class="verse">And, let me still remember, that an Houre</div> -<div class="verse">Is hourely comming on, wherein I shall</div> -<div class="verse">(Though I had all the <i>World</i> within my powre)</div> -<div class="verse">Be naked stript, and turned out of all.</div> -<div class="verse">But minde me, chiefely, that I never cleave</div> -<div class="verse">Too closely to my <i>Selfe</i>; and cause thou me,</div> -<div class="verse">Not other Earthly things alone to leave,</div> -<div class="verse">But to forsake my <i>Selfe</i> for love of <i>Thee</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That I may say, now <i>I have all things left</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Before that I of all things, am bereft.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -To him a happy <em class="upright">Lot</em> befalls<br /> -That hath a <em class="upright">Ship</em>, and <em class="upright">prosp'rous Gales</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_13_1" id="Ill_13_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_13_1t"><img src="images/i_b_013.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_013c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="N" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">N</span>O wonder he a prosp'rous <i>Voyage</i> findes</div> -<div class="verse">That hath both <i>Sailes</i> and <i>Oares</i> to serve his turne,</div> -<div class="verse">And, still, through meanes of some propitious <i>Winds</i></div> -<div class="verse">Is to his wished <i>Harbour</i>, swiftly borne.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor is it much admir'd, if they that lacke</div> -<div class="verse">Those aydes (on which the <i>Common-faith</i> depends)</div> -<div class="verse">Are from their hoped aymes repelled backe,</div> -<div class="verse">Or made to labour for unfruitfull ends.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet neither in the <i>Ship</i>, <i>Wind</i>, <i>Oares</i>, or <i>Sailes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor in the want of <i>Outward meanes</i>, alone,</div> -<div class="verse">Consists it, that our <i>Hope</i> succeedes or failes;</div> -<div class="verse">But, most in that, which Men least thinke upon.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>some</i> endeavour, and their Paines are blest</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Gales</i> which are so fortunate, that they</div> -<div class="verse">Fly safe, and swiftly on, among the best,</div> -<div class="verse">Whil'st others labour, and are cast away.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Some</i> others, on this <i>Worlds</i> wide <i>Ocean</i> floate,</div> -<div class="verse">And neither <i>Wind</i>, nor <i>Tide</i> assistant have,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Saile</i>, nor <i>Oare</i>, nor <i>Anchor</i>, nor sound <i>Boate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor take so much as heede themselves to save;</div> -<div class="verse">And yet are safe: A third sort, then, there are</div> -<div class="verse">Who neither want fit <i>Meanes</i>, nor yet neglect,</div> -<div class="verse">The painefull-<i>Industrie</i>, or honest <i>Care</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Need</i> requires; yet find small good effect.</div> -<div class="verse">Therefore, let that which you propose, be <i>Iust</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Then, use the fairest <i>Meanes</i>, to compasse it:</div> -<div class="verse">And, though <i>Meanes</i> faile, yet foster no mistrust;</div> -<div class="verse">But fearelesly, to <i>God</i>, your <i>Course</i> commit:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, <i>Hee</i>, to <i>Faithfull-Hearts</i>, and <i>Honest-Mindes</i></div> -<div class="verse eindent">Turnes <i>Losse</i> to <i>Gaine</i>; and <i>Stormes</i>, to <i>prosp'rous Windes</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Though he endeavour all he can,<br /> -An <em class="upright">Ape</em>, will never be a <em class="upright">Man</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_14_1" id="Ill_14_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_14_1t"><img src="images/i_b_014.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_014c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hat though an <i>Apish-Pigmie</i>, in attire,</div> -<div class="verse">His Dwarfish Body <i>Gyant-lyke</i>, array?</div> -<div class="verse">Turne <i>Brave</i>, and get him <i>Stilts</i> to seem the higher?</div> -<div class="verse">What would so doing, handsome him I pray?</div> -<div class="verse">Now, surely, such a Mimicke sight as that,</div> -<div class="verse">Would with excessive Laughter move your Spleene,</div> -<div class="verse">Till you had made the little <i>Dandiprat</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To lye within some Auger-hole, unseene.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I must confesse I cannot chuse but smile,</div> -<div class="verse">When I perceive, how Men that worthlesse are,</div> -<div class="verse">Piece out their <i>Imperfections</i>, to beguile,</div> -<div class="verse">By making showes, of what they never were.</div> -<div class="verse">For, in their <i>borrow'd-Shapes</i>, I know those Men,</div> -<div class="verse">And (through their <i>Maskes</i>) such insight of them have;</div> -<div class="verse">That I can oftentimes disclose (ev'n then)</div> -<div class="verse">How much they savour of the <i>Foole</i> or <i>Knave</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Pigmey-spirit</i>, and an <i>Earthly-Minde</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose looke is onely fixt on Objects vaine;</div> -<div class="verse">In my esteeme, so meane a place doth finde,</div> -<div class="verse">That ev'ry such a one, I much refraine.</div> -<div class="verse">But, when in honour'd <i>Robes</i> I see it put,</div> -<div class="verse">Betrimm'd, as if some thing of <i>Worth</i> it were,</div> -<div class="verse">Looke big, and on the <i>Stilts</i> of <i>Greatnesse</i>, strut;</div> -<div class="verse">From scorning it, I cannot then forbeare.</div> -<div class="verse">For, when to grosse <i>Vnworthinesse</i>, Men adde</div> -<div class="verse">Those Dues, which to the <i>Truest-worth</i> pertaine;</div> -<div class="verse">Tis like an <i>Ape</i>, in <i>Humane-Vestments</i> clad,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, when most fine, deserveth most disdaine:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, more absurd, those Men appeare to me,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then this <i>Fantasticke-Monkey</i> seemes to thee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -I <em class="upright">pine</em>, that others may not perish,<br /> -And <em class="upright">waste</em> my <em class="upright">Selfe</em>, their <em class="upright">Life</em> to cherish.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_15_1" id="Ill_15_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_15_1t"><img src="images/i_b_015.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XV.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_015c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="O" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">O</span>Bserve I pray you, how the greedy <i>Flame</i></div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Fewell</i>, on an <i>Altar</i> doth consume.</div> -<div class="verse">How it destroyeth that which feedes the same,</div> -<div class="verse">And how the <i>Nourisher</i> away doth fume.</div> -<div class="verse">For, so it fares with <i>Parents</i> that uphold</div> -<div class="verse">Their thriftlesse <i>Children</i> in unlawfull <i>Pleasures</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Cares</i>, it weares them out, ere they are old;</div> -<div class="verse">And ere their Lives consume, consumes their Treasures.</div> -<div class="verse">So fares it with such <i>Wantons</i> as doe feede</div> -<div class="verse">Vnchast Desires; for, ev'ry day they grow</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill their <i>Longings</i>, their <i>Supplies</i> exceede,</div> -<div class="verse">And, quite devoure those men that fed them so.</div> -<div class="verse">So fares it with all those that spend their <i>Youth</i></div> -<div class="verse">In lab'ring to enrich ungratefull Men,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, growing <i>Great</i>, and <i>Wealthy</i>, by their Truth,</div> -<div class="verse">Returne them <i>Smoke</i> and <i>Ashes</i> backe agen.</div> -<div class="verse">So fares it with good <i>States-men</i>, who to keepe</div> -<div class="verse">A thankelesse <i>Common-wealth</i> in happy Peace,</div> -<div class="verse">Deprive their <i>Mindes</i> of Rest, their <i>Eyes</i> of Sleepe,</div> -<div class="verse">And, waste themselves, that others may encrease.</div> -<div class="verse">And, so it fares with Men that passe away</div> -<div class="verse">Their time in <i>Studies</i>, (and their Healths impaire)</div> -<div class="verse">That helps to other men become they may,</div> -<div class="verse">And, their defective Knowledges, repaire.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, let my <i>Flesh</i>, my <i>Time</i>, and my <i>Estate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Be so consum'd; so spent; so wasted bee,</div> -<div class="verse">That they may nourish <i>Grace</i>, and perfit that</div> -<div class="verse">For which all these were first bestowd'd on me:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So when I quite am vanish'd out of seeing,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I shall enjoy my <i>Now-concealed-Being</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When to <em class="upright">suppresse</em> us, Men intend,<br /> -They make us higher to <em class="upright">ascend</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_16_1" id="Ill_16_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_16_1t"><img src="images/i_b_016.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_016c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen we observe the <i>Ball</i>, how to and fro</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Gamesters</i> force it; we may ponder thus:</div> -<div class="verse">That whil'st we live we shall be playd with so,</div> -<div class="verse">And that the <i>World</i> will make her <i>Game</i> of us.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Adversities</i>, one while our hearts constraine</div> -<div class="verse">To stoope, and knock the Pavements of <i>Despaire</i>;</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Hope</i>, like a Whirle-wind mounts us up againe,</div> -<div class="verse">Till oft it lose us in the empty ayre.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometimes, above the <i>Battlements</i> we looke;</div> -<div class="verse">Sometimes, we quite below the <i>Line</i> are tost:</div> -<div class="verse">Another-while, against the <i>Hazard</i> strooke,</div> -<div class="verse">We, but a little want, of being lost.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Detraction</i>, <i>Envie</i>, <i>Mischief</i>, and <i>Despight</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">One Partie make, and watchfully attend</div> -<div class="verse">To catch us when we rise to any <i>Height</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest we above their hatred should ascend.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Good-Fortune</i>, <i>Praises</i>, <i>Hopes</i>, and <i>Industries</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe side-together, and make <i>Play</i> to please us;</div> -<div class="verse">But, when by them we thinke more high to rise,</div> -<div class="verse">More great they make our <i>Fall</i>, and more disease us.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, they that seeke our <i>Losse</i>, advance our <i>Gaine</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And to our <i>Wishes</i>, bring us oft the nigher:</div> -<div class="verse">For, we that else upon the Ground had laine,</div> -<div class="verse">Are, by their striking of us lifted higher.</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Balls</i> against the Stones are hardest throwne,</div> -<div class="verse">Then highest up into the Aire they fly;</div> -<div class="verse">So, when men hurle us (with most fury) downe,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee hopefull are to be advanc'd thereby:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when they smite us quite unto the Ground,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then, up to Heav'n, we trust, we shall rebound.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Till <em class="upright">God</em> hath wrought us to his Will,<br /> -The <em class="upright">Hammer</em> we shall suffer still.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_17_1" id="Ill_17_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_17_1t"><img src="images/i_b_017.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_017c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hy should the foolish <i>World</i> discourage Men,</div> -<div class="verse">In just endurances? or bid them shunne</div> -<div class="verse">Good <i>Actions</i>, 'cause they suffer now and then,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Doing well</i>, as if some <i>Ill</i> were done?</div> -<div class="verse">Ere <i>Plates</i> extended are, they must abide</div> -<div class="verse">A thousand hamm'rings; And, then that which fill'd</div> -<div class="verse">So little roome, it scarce your Hand could hide,</div> -<div class="verse">Will serve a goodly <i>Monument</i> to gild.</div> -<div class="verse">So, he that hopes to winne an honest <i>Name</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Must many blowes of <i>Fortune</i> undergoe,</div> -<div class="verse">And hazard, oft, the blast of <i>Evill-Fame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Before a <i>Good-Report</i> her Trumpe will blow.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A thousand <i>Worthies</i> had unworthily</div> -<div class="verse">Been raked up in Ashes and in Clay,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnknowne and bury'd in <i>Obscurity</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">If Malice had not fil'd their Rust away.</div> -<div class="verse">But, lo; their lasting prayses now are spread,</div> -<div class="verse">And rais'd, by <i>Adverse-Chance</i>, to such a height,</div> -<div class="verse">That they most glorious are, now they are dead;</div> -<div class="verse">And live in <i>Injuries</i>, and <i>Deaths</i>, despight.</div> -<div class="verse">For, by <i>Afflictions</i>, man refined growes,</div> -<div class="verse">And, (as the <i>Gold</i> prepared in the <i>Fire</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Receiveth such a <i>Forme</i> by wrongs and blowes,</div> -<div class="verse">That hee becomes the <i>Iewell</i> we desire.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To thee therefore, <i>Oh God</i>! My Prayers are</div> -<div class="verse">Not to be freed from Griefes and Troubles quite:</div> -<div class="verse">But, that they may be such as I can beare;</div> -<div class="verse">And, serve to make me precious in thy Sight.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This please me shall, though all my Life time, I</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Betweene thine <i>Anvill</i> and the <i>Hammer</i>, lie.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -From thence, where <em class="upright">Nets</em> and <em class="upright">Snares</em> are layd,<br /> -<em class="upright">Make-hast</em>; lest els you be betray'd.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_18_1" id="Ill_18_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_18_1t"><img src="images/i_b_018.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_018c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He nimble <i>Spider</i> from his Entrailes drawes</div> -<div class="verse">A suttle Thread, and curious art doth show</div> -<div class="verse">In weaving <i>Nets</i>, not much unlike those <i>Lawes</i></div> -<div class="verse">Which catch <i>Small-Thieves</i>, and let the <i>Great-ones</i> goe.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as the <i>Cob-web</i> takes the lesser <i>Flyes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">When those of larger size breake through their <i>Snares</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>Poore-men</i> smart for little Injuries,</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Rich-men</i> scape, whose Guilt is more then theirs.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Spider</i>, also representeth such</div> -<div class="verse">Who very curious are in Trifling-things,</div> -<div class="verse">And neither Cost, nor Time, nor Labour grutch,</div> -<div class="verse">In that which neither <i>Gaine</i> nor <i>Pleasure</i> brings.</div> -<div class="verse">But those whom here that <i>Creature</i> doth implye</div> -<div class="verse">Are chiefely such, who under cunning shewes</div> -<div class="verse">Of simple-Meanings (or of Curtesie)</div> -<div class="verse">Doe silly Men unwarily abuse.</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, it meanes those greedy-<i>Cormorants</i></div> -<div class="verse">Who without touch, of Conscience or Compassion,</div> -<div class="verse">Seeke how to be enricht by others wants,</div> -<div class="verse">And bring the <i>Poore</i> to utter Desolation.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Avoyd them therefore, though compell'd by need;</div> -<div class="verse">Or if a <i>Storme</i> inforce, (yee lab'ring <i>Bees</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">That yee must fall among them; Flie with speed</div> -<div class="verse">From their Commerce, when <i>Calmes</i> your passage frees.</div> -<div class="verse">Much more, let wastfull <i>Gallants</i> haste from these;</div> -<div class="verse">Else, when those Idling-painted-<i>Butterflies</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Have flutter'd-out their <i>Summer-time</i>, in ease,</div> -<div class="verse">(And spent their Wealth in foolish Vanities)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The Blasts of <i>Want</i> may force them to be brought</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For shelter thither, where they shall be caught.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When thou a <em class="upright">Dangerous-Way</em> dost goe,<br /> -Walke <em class="upright">surely</em>, though thy pace be <em class="upright">slowe</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_19_1" id="Ill_19_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_19_1t"><img src="images/i_b_019.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIX.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_019c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="E" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><i><span class="hidden">E</span>Xperience</i> proves, that Men who trust upon</div> -<div class="verse">Their Nat'rall parts, too much, oft lose the <i>Day</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, faile in that which els they might have done,</div> -<div class="verse">By vainely trifling pretious <i>Time</i> away.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It also shewes, that many Men have sought</div> -<div class="verse">With so much <i>Rashnesse</i>, those things they desir'd,</div> -<div class="verse">That they have brought most likely <i>Hopes</i> to nought;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in the middle of their <i>Courses</i>, tir'd.</div> -<div class="verse">And, not a few, are found who so much wrong</div> -<div class="verse">Gods <i>Gratiousnesse</i>, as if their thinkings were,</div> -<div class="verse">That (seeing he deferres his <i>Iudgements</i> long)</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Vengeance</i>, he, for ever, would forbeare:</div> -<div class="verse">But, such as these may see wherein they faile,</div> -<div class="verse">And, what would fitter be for them to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">If they would contemplate the slow-pac'd <i>Snaile</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, this our <i>Hieroglyphicke</i> looke into:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, thence we learne, that <i>Perseverance</i> brings</div> -<div class="verse">Large Workes to end, though slowly they creepe on;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that <i>Continuance</i> perfects many things,</div> -<div class="verse">Which seeme, at first, unlikely to be done.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It warnes, likewise, that some <i>Affaires</i> require</div> -<div class="verse">More <i>Heed</i> then <i>Haste</i>: And that the <i>Course</i> we take,</div> -<div class="verse">Should suite as well our <i>Strength</i>, as our <i>Desire</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Else (as our <i>Proverbe</i> saith) <i>Haste, Waste may make</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, in a <i>Mysticke-sense</i>, it seemes to preach</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Repentance</i> and <i>Amendment</i>, unto those</div> -<div class="verse">Who live, as if they liv'd beyond <i>Gods</i> reach;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, he long deferres deserved Blowes:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, though <i>Iust-Vengeance</i> moveth like a <i>Snaile</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And slowly comes; her comming will not faile.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Sive</em>, of shelter maketh show;<br /> -But ev'ry <em class="upright">Storme</em> will through it goe.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_20_1" id="Ill_20_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_20_1t"><img src="images/i_b_020.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XX.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_020c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome Men, when for their Actions they procure</div> -<div class="verse">A likely colour, (be it nere so vaine)</div> -<div class="verse">Proceede as if their <i>Projects</i> were as sure,</div> -<div class="verse">As when <i>Sound Reason</i> did their Course maintayne:</div> -<div class="verse">And these not much unlike those <i>Children</i> are,</div> -<div class="verse">Who through a <i>Storme</i> advent'ring desp'rately,</div> -<div class="verse">Had rather on their Heads, a <i>Sive</i> to beare,</div> -<div class="verse">Then <i>Cov'rings</i>, that may serve to keepe them drye.</div> -<div class="verse">For, at a distance that perchance is thought</div> -<div class="verse">A helpfull <i>Shelter</i>; and, yet, proves to those</div> -<div class="verse">Who neede the same, a <i>Toy</i>, which profits nought;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, each drop of Raine quite through it, goes.</div> -<div class="verse">So, they, whose foolish <i>Projects</i>, for a while,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe promise their <i>Projectors</i> hopefull ends,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall finde them, in the <i>Tryall</i>, to beguile;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that both <i>Shame</i> and <i>Want</i>, on them attends.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such like is their estate, who, (to appeare</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Rich-men</i> to others) doe, with Inward-payne,</div> -<div class="verse">A gladsome out-ward <i>Port</i> desire to beare;</div> -<div class="verse">Though they at last nor <i>Wealth</i> nor <i>Credit</i> gaine.</div> -<div class="verse">And, such are all those <i>Hypocrites</i>, who strive</div> -<div class="verse">False <i>Hearts</i> beneath <i>Faire-spoken Words</i> to hyde:</div> -<div class="verse">For, they o'revaile themselves but with a <i>Sive</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Through which, their purposes at length are spyde.</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, they either woefully-lament</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Brutish-folly</i>, or so hardned grow</div> -<div class="verse">In Sinning, that they never can repent,</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, jest and scoffe at their owne Overthrow.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But no false <i>Vaile</i> can serve (when <i>God</i> will smite)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To save a <i>Scorner</i>, or an <i>Hypocrite</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Death</em> no <em class="upright">Losse</em>, but rather, <em class="upright">Gaine</em>;<br /> -For wee by <em class="upright">Dying</em>, <em class="upright">Life</em> attaine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_21_1" id="Ill_21_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_21_1t"><img src="images/i_b_021.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_021c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">I</span> Will not blame those grieved Hearts that shed</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Becoming-teares</i>, for their departed Friends;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor those who sigh out <i>Passions</i> for the <i>Dead</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Since, on <i>Good-natures</i>, this Disease attends.</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Sorrow</i> is conceiv'd, it must have Vent</div> -<div class="verse">(In Sighes or Moysture) or the Heart will breake;</div> -<div class="verse">And, much they aggravate our Discontent,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, out of <i>Season</i>, <i>Reason</i> seeme to speake.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, since our Frailty may require we should</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Remembrances</i> admit to keepe us from</div> -<div class="verse">Excesse in <i>Griefe</i>: this <i>Emblem</i> here behold,</div> -<div class="verse">And take such <i>Hope</i> as may our <i>Teares</i> become.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Wheat</i> although a while it lyes in Earth,</div> -<div class="verse">(And seemeth lost) consumes not quite away;</div> -<div class="verse">But, from that <i>Wombe</i> receives another <i>Birth</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, with <i>Additions</i>, riseth from the Clay.</div> -<div class="verse">Much more shall <i>Man</i> revive, whose worth is more:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Death</i>, who from our Drosse will us refine,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnto that other <i>Life</i>, becomes the <i>Doore</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Where, we in <i>Immortalitie</i> shall shine.</div> -<div class="verse">When once our <i>Glasse</i> is runne, we presently</div> -<div class="verse">Give up our <i>Soules</i> to <i>Death</i>; So <i>Death</i> must give</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Bodies</i> backe againe, that we, thereby,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Light</i> of <i>Life eternall</i>, may receive.</div> -<div class="verse">The Venom'd <i>Sting</i> of <i>Death</i> is tooke away;</div> -<div class="verse">And, now, the <i>Grave</i>, that was a Place of <i>Feare</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Is made a <i>Bed of Rest</i>, wherein we may</div> -<div class="verse">Lye downe in <i>Hope</i>, and bide in safety, there.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">When we are <i>Borne</i>, to <i>Death</i>-ward straight we runne;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And by our <i>Death</i>, our <i>Life</i> is new-begnnne.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When <em class="upright">Vice</em> and <em class="upright">Vertue</em> Youth shall wooe,<br /> -Tis hard to say, which way 'twill goe.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_22_1" id="Ill_22_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_22_1t"><img src="images/i_b_022.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_022c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="M" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">M</span>Y hopefull <i>Friends</i> at thrice five yeares and three,</div> -<div class="verse">Without a <i>Guide</i> (into the World alone)</div> -<div class="verse">To seeke my <i>Fortune</i>, did adventure mee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, many hazards, I alighted on.</div> -<div class="verse">First, <i>Englands</i> greatest <i>Rendevouz</i> I sought,</div> -<div class="verse">Where <span class="smcap">Vice</span> and <span class="smcap">Vertve</span> at the highest sit;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thither, both a <i>Minde</i> and <i>Bodie</i> brought,</div> -<div class="verse">For neither of their Services unfit.</div> -<div class="verse">Both, woo'd my <i>Youth</i>: And, both perswaded so,</div> -<div class="verse">That (like the <i>Young man</i> in our <i>Emblem</i> here)</div> -<div class="verse">I stood, and cry'd, <i>Ah! which way shall I goe?</i></div> -<div class="verse">To me so pleasing both their Offers were.</div> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">Vice</span>, <i>Pleasures</i> best Contentments promist mee,</div> -<div class="verse">And what the wanton <i>Flesh</i> desires to have:</div> -<div class="verse italic"><em class="upright">Quoth <span class="smcap">Vertve</span></em>, I will Wisdome give to thee,</div> -<div class="verse italic">And those brave things, which noblest Mindes doe crave.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Serve me <em class="upright">said <span class="smcap">Vice</span></em>, and thou shalt soone acquire</div> -<div class="verse italic">All those Atchievements which my Service brings:</div> -<div class="verse italic">Serve me <em class="upright">said <span class="smcap">Vertve</span></em>, and Ile raise thee higher,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Then <span class="smcap">Vices</span> can, and teach thee better things.</div> -<div class="verse">Whil'st thus they strove to gaine me, I espyde</div> -<div class="verse">Grim <i>Death</i> attending <span class="smcap">Vice</span>; and, that her Face</div> -<div class="verse">Was but a painted <i>Vizard</i>, which did hide</div> -<div class="verse">The foul'st Deformity that ever was.</div> -<div class="verse italic"><span class="smcap">Lord</span>, grant me grace for evermore to view</div> -<div class="verse italic">Her Vglinesse: And, that I viewing it,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Her Falsehoods and allurements may eschew;</div> -<div class="verse italic">And on faire <span class="smcap">Vertve</span> my Affection set;</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Her Beauties contemplate, her Love embrace,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">And by her safe Direction, runne my Race.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">Paine</em>, on <em class="upright">Pleasures</em> we doe seize;<br /> -And, we by <em class="upright">Suff'rance</em>, purchase <em class="upright">Ease</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_23_1" id="Ill_23_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_23_1t"><img src="images/i_b_023.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_023c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He lick'rish <i>Beare</i> to rob the <i>Honey-Bees</i></div> -<div class="verse">Among their stinging-Swarms thrusts in his pawes;</div> -<div class="verse">Adventureth to climbe up hollow Trees,</div> -<div class="verse">And from their <i>Cells</i>, the well fill'd <i>Combes</i> he drawes:</div> -<div class="verse">Right so, the <i>Sensuall-Man</i> that he may gaine</div> -<div class="verse">His bruitish <i>Lust</i>, a thousand perills dares;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that his <i>Lawlesse-will</i> he may attaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Conscience</i>, <i>Credit</i>, <i>Cost</i>, nor <i>Labour</i> spares.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">'Twere shamefull basenesse, therefore, if that he</div> -<div class="verse">Who knoweth <i>Vertue</i>, and is thought her <i>Lover</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Should so by any Perills frighted bee,</div> -<div class="verse">To make him such <i>Affections</i> to give-over.</div> -<div class="verse">For, why should that <i>Vaine-Crew</i> whose Valour springs</div> -<div class="verse">From beastly <i>Fury</i>, or inflamed-<i>Passion</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Enabled be to compasse bolder things,</div> -<div class="verse">Then <i>Sober-Wit</i>, and <i>Grave Consideration</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, why should lisping-<i>Wantons</i>, for their <i>Lust</i></div> -<div class="verse">So much adventure as one finger, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Where we our Lives in hazard would not thrust</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Vertues</i> Glory, if it needfull were?</div> -<div class="verse">For, though her <i>Sweetnesse</i> fast is closed in</div> -<div class="verse">With many <i>Thornes</i>, and such a Prickling-guard,</div> -<div class="verse">That we must smart, before that <i>Prize</i> we winne,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Paine</i> is follow'd, with a <i>Rich Reward</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Suff'ring</i>, I have more <i>Contentment</i> had,</div> -<div class="verse">Then ever I acquir'd by <i>Slothfull Ease</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, I by <i>Griefe</i>, so joyfull have beene made,</div> -<div class="verse">That I will beare my <i>Crosse</i>, while <i>God</i> shall please.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, so at last my <i>Soule</i> may <i>Ioy</i> procure,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I care not, in my <i>Flesh</i> what I endure.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Who by good <em class="upright">Meanes</em>, good things would gaine,<br /> -Shall never <em class="upright">seeke</em>, nor <em class="upright">aske</em> in vaine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_24_1" id="Ill_24_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_24_1t"><img src="images/i_b_024.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_024c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>N vaine faire <i>Cynthia</i> never taketh paines,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor faints in foll'wing her desired <i>Game</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when at any Marke her Bowe she straines,</div> -<div class="verse">The winged Arrow surely hits the same.</div> -<div class="verse">Her <i>Picture</i>, therefore, in this place doth shew</div> -<div class="verse">The Nature of their <i>Mindes</i> who <i>Cynthia</i>-like,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Constancie</i> their <i>Purposes</i> pursue,</div> -<div class="verse">And faint not till they compasse what they seeke.</div> -<div class="verse">For, nought more <i>God-like</i> in this World is found,</div> -<div class="verse">Then so <i>Resolv'd a man</i>, that nothing may</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Resolution</i> alter or confound,</div> -<div class="verse">When any taske of <i>Worth</i>, he doth assay.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, is there greater Basenesse, then those <i>Mindes</i></div> -<div class="verse">That from an <i>Honest-purpose</i>, can be wrought</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Threatnings</i>, <i>Bribes</i>, <i>Smooth-Gales</i> or <i>Boyst'rous-Windes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">What ever colour or excuse be brought.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">You then, that would, with <i>Pleasure</i>, <i>Glory</i> gaine,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Diana</i> like, those modest things require,</div> -<div class="verse">Which truely may beseeme you to attaine;</div> -<div class="verse">And stoutly follow that which you desire:</div> -<div class="verse">For, changing though the <i>Moone</i> to us appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">She holds a firme Dependence on the <i>Sunne</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by a <i>Constant-Motion</i>, in her <i>Sphære</i></div> -<div class="verse">With him, doth in <i>Conjunction</i> often runne:</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>Constant-men</i>, still move their hopes to winne;</div> -<div class="verse">But, never by a <i>Motion-indirect</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, will they stop the Course that they are in,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill they bring their purpose to effect.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, whosoever <i>Honest-things</i> requires,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Promise</i> hath of all that he desires.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Oft <em class="upright">Shooting</em>, doth not <em class="upright">Archers</em> make;<br /> -But, hitting right the <em class="upright">Marke</em> they take.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_25_1" id="Ill_25_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_25_1t"><img src="images/i_b_025.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXV.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_025c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen to the Fields we walke to looke upon</div> -<div class="verse">Some skilfull <i>Mark-man</i>; so much heede we not</div> -<div class="verse">How many <i>Arrowes</i> from his Bowe are gone,</div> -<div class="verse">As we observe how nigh the <i>Marke</i> he shot:</div> -<div class="verse">And, justly we deride that Man who spends</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Time</i> and <i>Shafts</i>, but never ayme doth take</div> -<div class="verse">To hit the <i>White</i>; or foolishly pretends,</div> -<div class="verse">The number of the Shots, doth <i>Archers</i> make.</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>God</i>, who marketh our Endeavours, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth not by <i>tale</i>, account of them receive;</div> -<div class="verse">But, heedeth rather how <i>well meant</i> they were,</div> -<div class="verse">And, at his <i>Will</i> how rightly aym'd we have.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It is not mumbling over thrice a day</div> -<div class="verse">A Set of <i>Ave Maries</i>, or of <i>Creeds</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or many houres formally to <i>pray</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">When from a dull <i>Devotion</i> it proceedes:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor is it, up and downe the Land to seeke</div> -<div class="verse">To finde those well breath'd <i>Lecturers</i>, that can</div> -<div class="verse">Preach thrice a <i>Sabbath</i>, and sixe times a weeke,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet be as fresh, as when they first beganne:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, is it, such like things perform'd by <i>Number</i></div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>God</i> respects: Nor doth his <i>Wisdome</i> crave</div> -<div class="verse">Those many <i>Vanities</i>, wherewith some cumber</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Bodies</i>, as if those their <i>Soules</i> could save.</div> -<div class="verse">For, not <i>Much-doing</i>, but <i>Well-doing</i>, that</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>God</i> commands, the <i>Doer</i>, justifies.</div> -<div class="verse">To pray without <i>Devotion</i>, is to <i>Prate</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Hearing</i> is but halfe our <i>Exercise</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">We ought not, therefore, to regard, alone,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">How <i>often</i>, but how <i>Well</i>, the <i>Worke</i> be done.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -With <em class="upright">Patience</em>, I the <em class="upright">Storme</em> sustaine;<br /> -For, <em class="upright">Sun-shine</em> still doth follow <em class="upright">Raine</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_26_1" id="Ill_26_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_26_1t"><img src="images/i_b_026.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_026c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He little <i>Squirrell</i>, hath no other Food</div> -<div class="verse">Then that which <i>Natures</i> thrifty hand provides;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in purveying up and downe the Wood,</div> -<div class="verse">She many cold wet Stormes, for that, abides.</div> -<div class="verse">She lyes not heartlesse in her Mossie <i>Dray</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor feareth to adventure through the <i>Raine</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But skippeth out, and beares it as she may,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill the Season waxeth calme againe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Right thus, have I and others, often far'd;</div> -<div class="verse">For, when we first into the World were brought,</div> -<div class="verse">We found but little, for our Vse prepar'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Save that, which by <i>Hard-Labour</i>, must be sought.</div> -<div class="verse">In many <i>Stormes</i>, unheeded, we are faine</div> -<div class="verse">To seeke out needfull things; and, smilingly</div> -<div class="verse">To jest, at what some others would complaine:</div> -<div class="verse">That, none might laugh at our <i>Necessity</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, some have liv'd on <i>Huskes</i>, whil'st others fed</div> -<div class="verse">On that which was their <i>Labours</i> due Reward;</div> -<div class="verse">And, were pursu'd (till they almost were dead)</div> -<div class="verse">Without the Worlds Compassion or Regard.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, by <i>Enduring</i>, they out liv'd the Blast</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Adverse-Fortune</i>; and, with good successe,</div> -<div class="verse">(Expecting calmer Seasons) at the last,</div> -<div class="verse">Arrived at the Port of <i>Happinesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Their <i>Suffring-much</i>, hath made their <i>Suffrings</i> none;</div> -<div class="verse">And brought forth <i>Hopes</i>, by which, perceive they may,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Nights</i> have but their Turnes; and (they once gone)</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Darkenesse</i>, makes much welcomer, the <i>Day</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">All <i>Griefe</i> shall have an ending, I am sure;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, therefore, I with <i>Patience</i>, will <i>Endure</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Where <em class="upright">Hellen</em> is, there, will be <em class="upright">Warre</em>;<br /> -For, <em class="upright">Death</em> and <em class="upright">Lust</em>, Companions are.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_27_1" id="Ill_27_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_27_1t"><img src="images/i_b_027.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_027c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Heir foolish Guise, I never could affect,</div> -<div class="verse">Who dare, for any cause, the <i>Stewes</i> frequent:</div> -<div class="verse">And, thither, where I justly might suspect</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Strumpet</i> liv'd, as yet, I never went.</div> -<div class="verse">For, when (as <i>Fooles</i> pretend) they goe to seeke</div> -<div class="verse">Experience, where more <i>Ill</i> then <i>Good</i>, they see;</div> -<div class="verse">They venture for their <i>Knowledge</i>, <i>Adam</i>-like;</div> -<div class="verse">And, such as his, will their <i>Atchievements</i> bee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let, therefore, those that would loose <i>Trulls</i> detest,</div> -<div class="verse">Converse with none, but those that modest are;</div> -<div class="verse">For, they that can of <i>Whoredome</i> make a Iest,</div> -<div class="verse">Will entertaine it, ere they be aware.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Chast-Company</i>, and <i>Chast-Discourse</i>, doth make</div> -<div class="verse">The Minde more pleased with it, ev'ry day;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Frequent viewes of Wantonnesse</i>, will take</div> -<div class="verse">The Sense and Hatred, of the <i>Vice</i> away.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Some, I have k<i>n</i>owne, by <i>Harlots</i> Wiles undone,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, but <i>to see their Fashions</i> first pretended;</div> -<div class="verse">And, they that went <i>for Company</i>, alone,</div> -<div class="verse">By suddaine Quarrells, there, their Dayes have ended.</div> -<div class="verse">For, in the Lodgings of a <i>Lustfull-Woman</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Immodest <i>Impudence</i> hath still her Being;</div> -<div class="verse">There, <i>Furie</i>, <i>Fraud</i>, and <i>Cruelties</i> are common:</div> -<div class="verse">And, there, is <i>Want</i>, and <i>Shame</i>, and <i>Disagreeing</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n <i>Beauty</i>, of it selfe, stirres loose Desires,</div> -<div class="verse">Occasioning both <i>Iealousies</i>, and <i>Feares</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">It kindleth in the Brest, concealed <i>Fires</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which burne the Heart, before the <i>Flame</i> appeares:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, ev'ry day, experienced are wee;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, there, where <i>Hellen</i> is, <i>Troyes</i> Fate will bee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -No Inward <em class="upright">Griefe</em>, nor outward <em class="upright">Smart</em>,<br /> -Can overcome a <em class="upright">Patient-Heart</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_28_1" id="Ill_28_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_28_1t"><img src="images/i_b_028.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_028c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome <i>Trees</i>, when Men oppresse their Aged Heads,</div> -<div class="verse">(With waighty Stones) they fructifie the more;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when upon some <i>Herbs</i>, the <i>Gard'ner</i> treads,</div> -<div class="verse">They thrive and prosper, better then before:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, when the Kings of <i>Ægypt</i> did oppresse</div> -<div class="verse">The Sonnes of <i>Iacob</i>, through their Tyrannies;</div> -<div class="verse">Their Numbers, every day, did more encrease,</div> -<div class="verse">Till they grew greater then their Enemies.</div> -<div class="verse">So, when the <i>Iewes</i> and <i>Gentiles</i>, joyn'd their Powre</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Lord</i>, and his <i>Annoynted</i>, to withstand;</div> -<div class="verse">(With raging <i>Furie</i>, lab'ring to devoure</div> -<div class="verse">And roote the <i>Gospel</i>, out of ev'ry Land)</div> -<div class="verse">The more they rag'd, conspired, and envy'd,</div> -<div class="verse">The more they slander'd, scorn'd, and murthered;</div> -<div class="verse">The more, the <i>Faithfull</i>, still, were multiply'd:</div> -<div class="verse">And, still, the further, their <i>Profession</i> spred.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, so it spred, that quite it overthrew</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n <i>Tyranny</i> it selfe; that, at the last,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Patience of the Saints</i>, most pow'rfull grew,</div> -<div class="verse">And <i>Persecutions</i> force, to ground was cast.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The selfe-same Pow'r, true <i>Patience</i>, yet retaines,</div> -<div class="verse">And (though a thousand <i>Suff'rings</i> wound the same)</div> -<div class="verse">She still hath <i>Hope</i> enough to ease her paynes;</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Hope</i>, which keepeth off, all <i>Feare</i> and <i>Shame</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, 'tis not <i>Hunger</i>, <i>Cold</i>, nor <i>Fire</i>, nor <i>Steele</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor all the <i>Scornes</i> or <i>Slanders</i>, we can heare,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor any <i>Torment</i>, which our <i>Flesh</i> can feele,</div> -<div class="verse">That conquers us; but, our owne Trayt'rous <i>Feare</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Where, <i>Honest Mindes</i>, and <i>Patient</i> Hearts, are Mates</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They grow victorious, in their <i>Hardest-Fates</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">many Strokes</em>, that Worke is done,<br /> -Which cannot be perform'd at <em class="upright">One</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_29_1" id="Ill_29_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_29_1t"><img src="images/i_b_029.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIX.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_029c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="D" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">D</span>Espaire not <i>Man</i>, in what thou oughtst to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">Although thou faile when one <i>Attempt</i> is made;</div> -<div class="verse">But, adde a <i>New-Endeavour</i> thereunto,</div> -<div class="verse">And, then another, and another, adde:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, till thy Pow'r and Life shall quite be spent,</div> -<div class="verse">Persist in seeking what thou shouldst desire;</div> -<div class="verse">For, he that falleth from a good <i>Intent</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Deserves not that, to which he did aspire.</div> -<div class="verse">Rich <i>Treasures</i>, are by <i>Nature</i>, placed deepe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, ere we gaine them, we must pierce the <i>Rockes</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Perills</i>, also, them, as <i>Guardians</i> keepe,</div> -<div class="verse">That, none can winne them without wounds and knockes.</div> -<div class="verse">Moreover, <i>Glories</i>, <i>Thrones</i> are so sublime,</div> -<div class="verse">That, whosoever thinkes their Top to gaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Till many thousand weary steps he clime,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth foole himselfe, by Musings which are vaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, yet, there is a <i>Path-way</i>, which doth leade</div> -<div class="verse">Above the highest things that Man can see;</div> -<div class="verse">And (though it be not knowne to all who tread</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Common-Tract</i>) it may ascended be.</div> -<div class="verse">As, therefore, none should greater things presume</div> -<div class="verse">Then well becomes their strength; So, none should feare</div> -<div class="verse">(Through <i>Folly</i>, <i>Sloth</i>, or <i>Basenesse</i>) to assume</div> -<div class="verse">Those things upon them, which beseeming are.</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Time</i>, and by <i>Degrees</i> may things be wrought,</div> -<div class="verse">That seem'd impossible to have beene done,</div> -<div class="verse">When they were first conceived in the thought;</div> -<div class="verse">And, such as these, we may adventure on.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Mine <i>Arme</i>, I know, in time will fell an <i>Oke</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, I will nev'r attempt it, at a <i>Stroke</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Afflictions Fire</em> consumeth <em class="upright">Sinne</em>;<br /> -But, <em class="upright">Vertue</em> taketh <em class="upright">Life</em> therein.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_30_1" id="Ill_30_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_30_1t"><img src="images/i_b_030.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXX.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_030c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hether the <i>Salamander</i> be a <i>Beast</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or <i>Precious-Stone</i>, which overcomes the <i>Flame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">It skills not; Since, by either is exprest</div> -<div class="verse">The Meaning which we purpose by the same:</div> -<div class="verse">Both brooke the <i>Fire</i> unhurt; And (more then so)</div> -<div class="verse">The fiercer and the longer <i>Heats</i> there are,</div> -<div class="verse">The livelyer in the same the <i>Beast</i> will grow;</div> -<div class="verse">And, much the brighter, will the <i>Stone</i> appeare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Crowned-Salamander</i> in the <i>Fire</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May, therefore, not unfitly, signifie</div> -<div class="verse">Those, who in <i>Fiery Charriots</i>, doe aspire</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Elijah</i>-like, to <i>Immortality</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Or, those <i>Heroicke-spirits</i>, who unharm'd</div> -<div class="verse">Have through the <i>Fires</i> of <i>Troubles</i>, and <i>Affliction</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(With <i>Vertue</i>, and with <i>Innocencie</i> arm'd)</div> -<div class="verse">Walkt onward, in the <i>Path-way</i>, of <i>Perfection</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Fiery-Tryall</i>, which like <i>Wood</i> and <i>Hay</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Consumes the Workes of ev'ry <i>Wicked-one</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">(And maketh all their <i>Hopes</i> to fume away)</div> -<div class="verse">Doth purifie what <i>Faithfull-men</i> have done.</div> -<div class="verse">They triumph in the <i>Flames</i>, and shall obtaine</div> -<div class="verse">The glorious <i>Crowne</i> of <i>Endless-Happinesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">When all that show of <i>Blisse</i> appeareth vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Worldly men</i> have seemed to possesse.</div> -<div class="verse">For, though some <i>Sinnes</i> and <i>Follies</i>, gilded are,</div> -<div class="verse">And shine like purest <i>Gold</i>, and <i>Pretious-Stones</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Test</i>, will finde of what <i>Allay</i> they were,</div> -<div class="verse">And, make them knowne but <i>Counterfeited Ones</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, in this <i>Fornace</i>, all such <i>Wormes</i> expire;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, none but <i>Vertue</i> liveth in this <i>Fire</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Hee, over all the <em class="upright">Starres</em> doth raigne,<br /> -That unto <em class="upright">Wisdome</em> can attaine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_31_1" id="Ill_31_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_31_1t"><img src="images/i_b_031.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_031c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">I</span> Am not of their Minde, who thinke the <i>Sun</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Moone</i>, the <i>Planets</i>, and those glorious <i>Lights</i></div> -<div class="verse">Which trim the <i>Sphæres</i>, doe in their <i>Motions</i> run</div> -<div class="verse">To no more purpose, then to please our <i>Sights</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor for distinguishment of <i>Nights</i>, and <i>Dayes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or of the <i>Seasons</i>, and the <i>Times</i>, alone,</div> -<div class="verse">Can I suppose the Hand of <i>God</i> displayes</div> -<div class="verse">Those many <i>Starres</i>, we nightly gaze upon:</div> -<div class="verse">For, both by <i>Reason</i>, and by <i>Common-sense</i></div> -<div class="verse">We know (and often feele) that from above</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Planets</i> have, on us, an <i>Influence</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that our <i>Bodies</i> varie, as they move.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Moreover, <i>Holy Writ</i> inferres, that these</div> -<div class="verse">Have some such pow'r; ev'n in those Places, where</div> -<div class="verse">It names <i>Orion</i>, and the <i>Pleiades</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, <i>Starres</i> of much inferiour Nature are.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, hence conclude not, therefore, that the <i>Minde</i></div> -<div class="verse">Is by the <i>Starres</i> constrained to obey</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Influence</i>; or, so by them inclin'd,</div> -<div class="verse">That, by no meanes resist the same we may.</div> -<div class="verse">For, though they forme the <i>Bodies</i> temp'rature,</div> -<div class="verse">(And though the <i>Minde</i> inclineth after that)</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Grace</i> another <i>Temper</i> we procure,</div> -<div class="verse">Which guides the <i>Motions</i> of <i>Supposed Fate</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Soule</i> of <i>Man</i> is nobler then the <i>Sphæres</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if it gaine the Place which may be had,</div> -<div class="verse">Not here alone on Earth, the Rule it beares,</div> -<div class="verse">But, is the <i>Lord</i>, of all that <i>God</i> hath made.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Be <i>wise in him</i>; and, if just cause there bee,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Sunne</i> and <i>Moone</i>, shall stand and wayt on thee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Princes</em> most ennobling Parts,<br /> -Are Skill in <em class="upright">Armes</em>, and Love to <em class="upright">Arts</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_32_1" id="Ill_32_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_32_1t"><img src="images/i_b_032.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_032c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="R" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">R</span>Ight blest are they on whom <i>God</i> hath bestowne</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>King</i>, whose <i>Vertues</i> have approved him</div> -<div class="verse">To be an Ornament unto his <i>Throne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And as a Lustre to his <i>Diadem</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Hee seekes not onely how to keepe in awe</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>People</i>, by those meanes that rightfull are;</div> -<div class="verse">But, doth unto himselfe, become a <i>Law</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, by <i>Example</i>, Pious <i>Wayes</i> declare.</div> -<div class="verse">He, loveth <i>Peace</i>, and after it pursues;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, if of <i>Warre</i> a just occasion come,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth nor <i>Bellona's</i> Challenges refuse,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor feare, to beat <i>Defyance</i> on his <i>Drum</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">He is as ready, also, to advance</div> -<div class="verse">The Lib'rall <i>Arts</i>, and from his Lands to drive</div> -<div class="verse">All false <i>Religion</i>, <i>Schisme</i>, and <i>Ignorance</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As other publike profits to contrive.</div> -<div class="verse">And, such a <i>Prince</i> is not a <i>Casuall-thing</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The Glories of a <i>Throne</i>, by <i>Chance</i>, possessing;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor meerely from his <i>Parents</i>, doth he spring,</div> -<div class="verse">But, he is rather <i>Gods</i> immediate <i>Blessing</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If thou desirest such a <i>Prince</i> to be,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, to acquire that Worth which may allure</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Princes</i> to vouchsafe some <i>Grace</i> to thee;</div> -<div class="verse">Their Kingly <i>Vertues</i>, labour to procure.</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Military</i> Practices delight,</div> -<div class="verse">Not for a wicked, or vaine-glorious end;</div> -<div class="verse">But, to maintaine the Cause that is upright,</div> -<div class="verse">Or thy distressed <i>Countrey</i> to defend.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, strive that thou, as excellent mayst bee</div> -<div class="verse eindent">In <i>Knowledge</i>, as, thou art in thy <i>Degree</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">True-Lovers</em> Lives, in one Heart lye,<br /> -Both <em class="upright">Live</em>, or both together <em class="upright">Dye</em></h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_33_1" id="Ill_33_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_33_1t"><img src="images/i_b_033.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_033c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="H" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">H</span>Ee that shall say he <i>Loves</i>, and was againe</div> -<div class="verse">So well-belov'd, that neither <i>Hee</i> nor <i>Shee</i></div> -<div class="verse">Suspects each other, neither needs to gaine</div> -<div class="verse">New proofes, that they in all Desires agree;</div> -<div class="verse">And, yet, shall coole againe in their <i>Affection</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(And leave to Love) or live till they are <i>Lovers</i></div> -<div class="verse">The second-time; It some grosse Imperfection</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>One</i> (if not in <i>Both</i>) of them discovers.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It was not <i>Love</i> which did between them grow;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather, somewhat like unto the same;</div> -<div class="verse">Which (having made a faire deceiving <i>Show</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Obtain'd, a while, that honorable Name.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>False-Affections</i> will together play</div> -<div class="verse">So lovingly; and, oft, so act those Parts</div> -<div class="verse">Which reall seeme; that, for a time, they may</div> -<div class="verse">Appeare the <i>Children</i> of <i>Vnfeigned-Hearts</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, Many-times, true <i>Turtles</i> are deceiv'd</div> -<div class="verse">By counterfeited <i>Passions</i>, till their <i>Love</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of her true <i>Object</i> findes her selfe bereav'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, after it, is forced to remove:</div> -<div class="verse">But, where <i>True-Love</i> begetteth, and enjoyes</div> -<div class="verse">The proper <i>Object</i>, which shee doth desire,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Time</i>, nor <i>Injury</i> the same destroyes;</div> -<div class="verse">But, it continues a <i>Perpetuall Fire</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Like am'rous <i>Thisbe</i> to her <i>Pyramus</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">On all occasions, it continues true:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Night</i>, nor <i>Danger</i>, makes it timorous;</div> -<div class="verse">But, through all Perills, it will him pursue.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus, both in <i>Life</i>, in <i>Death</i>, in all estates,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">True-<i>Lovers</i> will be true-<i>Associates</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When <em class="upright">Two</em> agree in their <em class="upright">Desire</em>,<br /> -One <em class="upright">Sparke</em> will set them <em class="upright">both</em> on <em class="upright">Fire</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_34_1" id="Ill_34_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_34_1t"><img src="images/i_b_034.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIV.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_034c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Westerne-Indians</i>, when they want a Fire</div> -<div class="verse">To warme their naked limbs, or dresse their Food,</div> -<div class="verse">At ev'ry need, accomplish their Desire,</div> -<div class="verse">By often rubbing of two <i>Stickes of Wood</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From whence, these <i>Observations</i> we may take;</div> -<div class="verse">First, that in them whose Natures gentlest are,</div> -<div class="verse">A long <i>Contention</i> such a Change may make,</div> -<div class="verse">As did, before, scarce possible appeare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Next, that when <i>Two</i> in <i>Opposition</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose power and strength and Malice is the same,</div> -<div class="verse">Their strugling Hearts but seldome doe agree,</div> -<div class="verse">Till they beget, a <i>Selfe-devouring-Flame</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, thirdly, it informes, that those chast <i>Fires</i></div> -<div class="verse">Which on <i>Loves Altars</i> keepe a Lasting-Heat;</div> -<div class="verse">Are those, which in two Hearts, two <i>Like-Desires</i></div> -<div class="verse">Vpon each other, mutually beget.</div> -<div class="verse">Hence, therefore, learne thou, first, not to contemne</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Mildnesse</i>, who to anger are not prone;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, many wrongs doe stirre up <i>Fires</i> in them,</div> -<div class="verse">And worke thee Mischiefe, when thou look'st for none.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Be wary, next, though thou thy selfe be strong,</div> -<div class="verse">How with a pow'rfull Foe thou dost contend;</div> -<div class="verse">For, they that wrastle in <i>Contention</i>, long,</div> -<div class="verse">Will, sure, beshrew their Madnesse, in the end.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, if to warme thee by <i>Loves</i> Fires thou seeke,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Peere</i> in <i>Yeares</i>, and <i>Manners</i>, pray to finde;</div> -<div class="verse">Let both your <i>Aymes</i>, and <i>Longings</i>, be alike;</div> -<div class="verse">Be one in <i>Faith</i>, and <i>Will</i>; and, one in <i>Minde</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, you shall reape the fruits of your Desire,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And warme each other with a kindly <i>Fire</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -He that delights to <em class="upright">Plant</em> and <em class="upright">Set</em>,<br /> -Makes <em class="upright">After-Ages</em> in his <em class="upright">Debt</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_35_1" id="Ill_35_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_35_1t"><img src="images/i_b_035.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXV.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_035c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen I behold the Havocke and the Spoyle,</div> -<div class="verse">Which (ev'n within the compasse of my Dayes)</div> -<div class="verse">Is made through every quarter of this <i>Ile</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Woods</i> and <i>Groves</i> (which were this Kingdomes praise)</div> -<div class="verse">And, when I minde with how much greedinesse,</div> -<div class="verse">We seeke the present Gaine, in every thing;</div> -<div class="verse">Not caring (so our <i>Lust</i> we may possesse)</div> -<div class="verse">What Dammage to <i>Posterity</i> we bring:</div> -<div class="verse">They doe, me-thinkes, as if they did foresee,</div> -<div class="verse">That, some of those, whom they have cause to hate,</div> -<div class="verse">Should come in <i>Future-times</i>, their Heires to be:</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, why should they such things perpetrate?</div> -<div class="verse">For, if they thinke their <i>Children</i> shall succeed;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, can believe, that they begot their <i>Heires</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">They could not, surely, doe so foule a Deed,</div> -<div class="verse">As to deface the <i>Land</i>, that should be theirs.</div> -<div class="verse">What our <i>Forefathers</i> planted, we destroy:</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, all Mens labours, living heretofore,</div> -<div class="verse">And all our owne, we lavishly imploy</div> -<div class="verse">To serve our present <i>Lusts</i>; and, for no more.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, let these carelesse <i>Wasters</i> learne to know,</div> -<div class="verse">That, as <i>Vaine-Spoyle</i> is open <i>Injury</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>Planting</i> is a <i>Debt</i>, they truely owe,</div> -<div class="verse">And ought to pay to their <i>Posterity</i>.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Selfe-love</i>, for none, but for it selfe, doth care;</div> -<div class="verse">And, onely, for the present, taketh paine:</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>Charity</i> for others doth prepare;</div> -<div class="verse">And, joyes in that, which <i>Future-Time</i> shall gaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If, <i>After-Ages</i> may my <i>Labours</i> blesse;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I care not, <i>much</i>, how <i>Litle</i> I possesse.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -To <em class="upright">Have</em>, and not to <em class="upright">Vse</em> the same;<br /> -Is not our <em class="upright">Glory</em>, but our <em class="upright">Shame</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_36_1" id="Ill_36_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_36_1t"><img src="images/i_b_036.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_036c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Estridge</i> (though with many <i>Feathers</i> trimm'd,</div> -<div class="verse">And deckt with goodly <i>Plumes</i> of no meane size)</div> -<div class="verse">Is so unwieldy, and so largely limb'd,</div> -<div class="verse">That, up into the Aire he cannot rise.</div> -<div class="verse">And, though in Wings and Feathers, he appeares</div> -<div class="verse">A goodly <i>Fowle</i>, and beares his Head so high,</div> -<div class="verse">As if he could oretop the lower <i>Sphæres</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, farre above the towring <i>Eagles</i> flie;</div> -<div class="verse">So uselesse are those <i>Feathers</i>, and those <i>Wings</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To gaine him <i>Name</i> among their aiery Race;</div> -<div class="verse">That, he must walke with such Inferiour things,</div> -<div class="verse">As in this <i>Common-Region</i>, have their place.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such <i>Fowles</i> as these, are that <i>Gay-plumed-Crew</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which (to high place and Fortunes being borne)</div> -<div class="verse">Are men of goodly worth, in outward view;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in themselves, deserve nought els but scorne.</div> -<div class="verse">For, though their <i>Trappings</i>, their <i>high-lifted Eyes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Lofty Words</i>, and their <i>Much-feared Pow'rs</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe make them seeme <i>Heroicke</i>, <i>Stout</i>, and <i>Wise</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Their Hearts are oft as <i>fond</i>, and <i>faint</i> as ours.</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Animals</i> as these, are also those</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Wise</i>, and <i>Grave</i>, and <i>Learned Men</i> doe seeme</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Title</i>, <i>Habit</i>, and all <i>Formall showes</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, have nor <i>Wit</i>, nor <i>Knowledge</i>, worth esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, lastly, such are they; that, having got</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Wealth</i>, <i>Knowledge</i>, and those other <i>Gifts</i>, which may</div> -<div class="verse">Advance the <i>Publike-Good</i>, yet, use them not;</div> -<div class="verse">but <i>Feede</i>, and <i>Sleepe</i>, and <i>laze their time away</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">He, may be but a <i>Goose</i>, which weares the <i>Quill</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, him we praise, that useth it with <i>Skill</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -He, that his <em class="upright">Course</em> directly Steeres,<br /> -Nor <em class="upright">Stormes</em>, nor <em class="upright">Windy-Censures</em> feares.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_37_1" id="Ill_37_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_37_1t"><img src="images/i_b_037.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_037c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Ee to the <i>Sea</i>, this <i>World</i> may well compare;</div> -<div class="verse">For, ev'ry Man which liveth in the same,</div> -<div class="verse">Is as a <i>Pilot</i>, to some <i>Vessell</i> there,</div> -<div class="verse">Of little size, or else of larger frame.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Some, have the <i>Boats</i> of their owne <i>Life</i> to guide,</div> -<div class="verse">Some, of whole <i>Families</i> doe row the <i>Barge</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Some, governe <i>petty Towneships</i> too, beside,</div> -<div class="verse">(To those compar'd, which of small <i>Barkes</i> have charge)</div> -<div class="verse">Some others, rule great <i>Provinces</i>; and, they</div> -<div class="verse">Resemble <i>Captaines</i> of huge <i>Argoses</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, when of <i>Kingdomes</i>, any gayne the Sway,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Generalls of Fleets</i>, we liken these.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Each hath his proper <i>Course</i> to him assign'd,</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Card</i>, his <i>Compasse</i>, his due <i>Tacklings</i>, too;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if their Businesse, as they ought, they mind,</div> -<div class="verse">They may accomplish all they have to doe.</div> -<div class="verse">But, most Men leave the Care of their owne <i>Course</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To judge or follow others, in their wayes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when their Follies make their Fortunes worse,</div> -<div class="verse">They curse the <i>Destiny</i>, which they should prayse.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Waves</i>, and <i>Windes</i>, and that oft-changing <i>Weather</i></div> -<div class="verse">Which many blame, as cause of all their <i>Losses</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Though they observe it not) helpes bring together</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Hopes</i>, which their owne <i>Wisedome</i>, often crosses.</div> -<div class="verse">Regard not, therefore much, what those things be,</div> -<div class="verse">Which come, without thy fault, to thwart thy <i>Way</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, how, <i>Rash-Lookers-on</i> will censure thee;</div> -<div class="verse">But, faithfully, to doe thy part, assay:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, if thou shalt not from this <i>Counsell</i> vary,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let my <i>Hopes</i> faile me, if thy <i>Hopes</i> miscarry.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A sudden <em class="upright">Death</em>, with <em class="upright">Shame</em>, is due<br /> -To him, that, sweares <em class="upright">What is untrue</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_38_1" id="Ill_38_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_38_1t"><img src="images/i_b_038.jpg" width="500" height="498" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_038c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen th' <i>Ancients</i> made a solemne <i>League</i> or <i>Vow</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Their Custome was to ratifie it, thus;</div> -<div class="verse">Before their <i>Idoll-God</i>, they slew a <i>Sow</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And sayd aloud; <i>So be it unto us</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Implying, that, if otherwise they did</div> -<div class="verse">Then had been vow'd; or, if within their Brest</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Fraudulent-Intention</i> had beene hid,</div> -<div class="verse">They merited such Vsage, as that <i>Beast</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, by the <i>Swine</i> that they had slaughtred so,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which, during Life, was helpefull unto none)</div> -<div class="verse">Of Life deprived by a sudden blow,</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, cast out, that none might feed thereon;</div> -<div class="verse">They, mystically did inferre; that, he</div> -<div class="verse">Who falsify'd that <i>Oath</i> which he had sworne,</div> -<div class="verse">Deserv'd, by <i>Sudden-Death</i>, cut off to be;</div> -<div class="verse">And, as a Beast uncleane, to lye forlorne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That Heathenish <i>Hieroglyphicke</i>, doth implye</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Christian-Doctrine</i>; that, we should in <i>Vowes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Leagues</i>, and <i>Oathes</i>, assume no Liberty,</div> -<div class="verse">But, what sincerest <i>Honesty</i> allowes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By <i>Swine</i>, the babbling <i>Sophisters</i> are meant,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Hieroglyphicall</i> Signification;</div> -<div class="verse">Which wee doe <i>Sacrifice</i>, when our intent</div> -<div class="verse">Is free from <i>Falsehood</i>, and <i>Æquivocation</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, this, let ev'ry Man endeavour for,</div> -<div class="verse">Who loves the Blessings, for just men prepar'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, if the Sinne he doe not much abhorre,</div> -<div class="verse">At least, the Danger let him well regard:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, to pursue him, <i>Vengeance</i> never leaves,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That <i>falsely Sweares</i>, or <i>willingly Deceives</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Where strong <em class="upright">Desires</em> are entertain'd,<br /> -The <em class="upright">Heart</em> 'twixt <em class="upright">Hope</em>, and <em class="upright">Feare</em>, is pain'd.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_39_1" id="Ill_39_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_39_1t"><img src="images/i_b_039.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIX.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_039c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> Troubled <i>Minde</i>, ore-charged with <i>Desires</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Betweene great <i>Hopes</i>, and no lesse <i>Feares</i> opprest,</div> -<div class="verse">And payned inwardly with secret <i>Fires</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Was thus, by some, in former times exprest.</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Smoking Heart</i>, they placed just betwixt</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Fastned Anchor</i>, and a <i>Bended Bow</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">To which a <i>Barbed-Arrow</i> seemed fixt,</div> -<div class="verse">And, ready from the <i>Strayned-String</i> to goe.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Smoke</i> doth <i>Sighes</i>, the <i>Anchor</i> doth declare</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Hope</i>, which keepes us from Despairing quite;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Bowe</i> and <i>Arrow</i>, signifie that <i>Feare</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which doth, perpetually, the Soule affright.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, by this <i>Emblem</i>, it appeares to me</div> -<div class="verse">That they which are with strong <i>Desires</i> opprest,</div> -<div class="verse">(Though good or bad the Object of them be)</div> -<div class="verse">In seeking <i>Pleasures</i>, finde no small unrest:</div> -<div class="verse">For, they are not by <i>Feares</i>, alone, disturbed,</div> -<div class="verse">But, as the <i>Wiseman</i> saith, ev'n <i>Hope-Delayd</i></div> -<div class="verse"><i>Torments the Heart</i>; and, when <i>Desire</i> is curbed,</div> -<div class="verse">The Soule becommeth sad, and ill-apayd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Groundlesse-Hope</i>, makes entrance for <i>Despaire</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And with Deceiving-showes the Heart betrayes:</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Causelesse-Feare</i>, doth <i>Reasons</i> force impaire,</div> -<div class="verse">And, terrifies the Soule, in doubtfull wayes.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, quite neglect them not; For, <i>Hope</i> repells</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Griefe</i> sometimes, which would our Hearts oppresse.</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Feare</i> is otherwhile the <i>Sentinell</i></div> -<div class="verse">Which rouzeth us from dang'rous <i>Carelesnesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus, <i>Both</i> are good: but, <i>Both</i> are Plagues to such,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Who either <i>Fondly feare</i>, or <i>Hope too much</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Those <em class="upright">Fooles</em> whom <em class="upright">Beauties</em> Flame doth blinde,<br /> -Feele <em class="upright">Death</em>, where <em class="upright">Life</em> they thought to finde.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_40_1" id="Ill_40_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_40_1t"><img src="images/i_b_040.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XL.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_040c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen you doe next behold the wanton <i>Flyes</i></div> -<div class="verse">About the shining <i>Candle</i>, come to play,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill the <i>Light</i> thereof hath dimm'd their Eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, till the <i>Flame</i> hath sing'd their Wings away:</div> -<div class="verse">Remember, then, this <i>Emblem</i>; and, beware</div> -<div class="verse">You be not playing at such harmefull Games:</div> -<div class="verse">Consider, if there sit no <i>Female</i>, there,</div> -<div class="verse">That overwarmes you, with her <i>Beauties Flames</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Take heed, you doe not over dally so</div> -<div class="verse">As to inflame the Tinder of <i>Desire</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, shun the Mischiefe, e're too late it grow,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest you be scorched in that <i>Foolish-Fire</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, as those <i>Wandring-Fires</i> which in the Night,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe leade unwary <i>Trauellers</i> astray,</div> -<div class="verse">Alluring them, by their deceiving <i>Sight</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Till they have altogether lost their way:</div> -<div class="verse">Right so fantasticke <i>Beauty</i> doth amaze</div> -<div class="verse">The Lust-full <i>Eye</i>, allures the <i>Heart</i> aside,</div> -<div class="verse">Captives the <i>Senses</i> (by a sudden blaze)</div> -<div class="verse">And, leaves the <i>Iudgement</i> wholly stupify'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, if Men play too long about those <i>Torches</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Such is the Nature of their wanton <i>Flame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, from their Bodies (unawares) it scorches</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Wings</i> and <i>Feet</i>, on which they thither came.</div> -<div class="verse">It wasteth (ev'n to nothing) all their <i>Wealth</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Consumes their precious <i>Time</i>, destroyes their <i>Strength</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Bespots their <i>Honest-Fame</i>, impaires their <i>Health</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And (when their Fatall Thread is at the length)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That thing, on which their Hope of <i>Life</i> is plac't,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Shall bring them to <i>Destruction</i>, at the last.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Let him, that at <span class="smcap">Gods</span> <em class="upright">Altar</em> stands,<br /> -In <em class="upright">Innocencie</em>, wash his Hands.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_41_1" id="Ill_41_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_41_1t"><img src="images/i_b_041.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_041c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen (<i>Reader</i>) thou hast first of all survayd</div> -<div class="verse">That Reverend <i>Priest</i>, which here ingraven stands,</div> -<div class="verse">In all his Holy <i>Vestiments</i> array'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Endeavouring for <i>Purifyed-Hands</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Collect from hence, that, when thou dost appeare</div> -<div class="verse">To offer Sacrifice of <i>Prayse</i> or <i>Prayer</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou oughtst the <i>Robes</i> of <i>Righteousnesse</i>, to weare,</div> -<div class="verse">And, by <i>Repentance</i>, thy defects repaire.</div> -<div class="verse">For, thou, that, with polluted <i>Hands</i> presum'st</div> -<div class="verse">Before <i>Gods</i> Altar to present thy Face;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, in the <i>Rags</i> of thine owne <i>Merits</i> com'st,</div> -<div class="verse">Shalt reape <i>Displeasure</i>, where thou look'st for <i>Grace</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then, if thou be of those that would aspire</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Priest</i>, or <i>Prelate</i>, in <i>Gods</i> Church to be;</div> -<div class="verse">Be sure, thou first those <i>Ornaments</i> acquire,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, may be suting to that <i>High-Degree</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Intrude not, as perhaps too many doe,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Gifts</i> unfit, or by an <i>Evill meane</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Desire it with a right <i>Intention</i> too;</div> -<div class="verse">And, seeke to keepe thy <i>Conversation</i> cleane.</div> -<div class="verse">For, they that have assum'd this <i>Holy-Calling</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Hands</i> impure, and <i>Hearts</i> unsanctify'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Defame the <i>Truth</i>; give others cause of Falling,</div> -<div class="verse">And, scandalize their <i>Brethren</i>, too, beside:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, to themselves, their very <i>Sacrifice</i></div> -<div class="verse">Becomes unhallow'd; and, their <i>Thankes</i> and <i>Prayers</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>God of Purity</i>, doth so despise,</div> -<div class="verse">That, all their <i>Hopes</i>, he turneth to <i>Despaires</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, all their best Endeavours, countermands,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Till they appeare with unpolluted <i>Hands</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -No <em class="upright">Heart</em> can thinke, to what strange ends,<br /> -The <em class="upright">Tongues</em> unruely <em class="upright">Motion</em> tends.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_42_1" id="Ill_42_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_42_1t"><img src="images/i_b_042.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_042c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Ell-worthy of our better Heeding were,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Holy Pen-mans</i> Lesson, who hath sayd,</div> -<div class="verse">We should <i>be slow to Speake, and swift to Heare</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">If, well, the nature of the <i>Tongue</i> we waigh'd.</div> -<div class="verse">For, if we let it loose, it getteth <i>Wings</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, flies with wanton Carelesnesse, about;</div> -<div class="verse">It prateth in all places, of <i>All things</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Tells <i>Truth</i> and <i>Lyes</i>, and babbleth <i>Secrets</i> out.</div> -<div class="verse">To speake, of things unknowne, it taketh leave,</div> -<div class="verse">As if it had all Knowledge in Possession;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Mysteries</i> (which no Man can conceive)</div> -<div class="verse">Are thought fit Objects for the <i>Tongues</i> Expression.</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Truth</i> it mixeth <i>Errors</i>; sayes, unsayes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, is the <i>Preacher</i> of all <i>Heresies</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">That Heart, which gives it motion, it betrayes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, utters Curses, Oathes, and Blasphemies.</div> -<div class="verse">It spreads all Slanders, which base Envie raiseth;</div> -<div class="verse">It moveth Anger, and begetteth Hates:</div> -<div class="verse">It blameth <i>Vertue</i>; filthy Deeds it praiseth;</div> -<div class="verse">And, causeth Vproares, Murthers, and Debates.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, tis the chiefest <i>Factor</i> for the Devill;</div> -<div class="verse">And, yet, with speeches feignedly-sincere,</div> -<div class="verse">It otherwhile reproveth what is Evill,</div> -<div class="verse">And, will in Lowly-words, a <i>Saint</i> appeare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Now this is knowne; we, next of all, should learne,</div> -<div class="verse">How we may shunne the Mischiefe being knowne;</div> -<div class="verse">How, we bad <i>Tongues</i>, in <i>Others</i>, may discerne;</div> -<div class="verse">And, how to guide and moderate our <i>Owne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, reason good; for, none can apprehend,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">What Mischiefe doth an Evill <i>Tongue</i> attend.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Minde</em> should have a fixed Eye<br /> -On Objects, that are plac'd on High.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_43_1" id="Ill_43_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_43_1t"><img src="images/i_b_043.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_043c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> <i>Heart</i>, which bore the figure of an <i>Eye</i></div> -<div class="verse">Wide open to the <i>Sunne</i>; by some, was us'd,</div> -<div class="verse">When in an <i>Emblem</i>, they would signifie</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Minde</i>, which on Celestiall Matters mus'd:</div> -<div class="verse">Implying, by the same, that there is nought</div> -<div class="verse">Which in this lower <i>Orbe</i>, our Eyes can see,</div> -<div class="verse">So fit an Object for a manly thought,</div> -<div class="verse">As those things, which in Heav'n above us be.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>God</i>, gave <i>Mankinde</i> (above all other Creatures)</div> -<div class="verse">A lovely <i>Forme</i>, and upward-looking <i>Eye</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Among the rest of his peculiar <i>Features</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">That he might lift his <i>Countenance</i> on high:</div> -<div class="verse">And (having view'd the Beauty, which appeares</div> -<div class="verse">Within the outward <i>Sights</i> circumference)</div> -<div class="verse">That he might elevate above the Sphæres,</div> -<div class="verse">The piercing Eye, of his <i>Intelligence</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, higher, and still higher strive to raise</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Contemplations</i> Eyes, till they ascend</div> -<div class="verse">To gaine a glimpse of those eternall <i>Rayes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To which all undepraved <i>Spirits</i> tend.</div> -<div class="verse">For, 'tis the proper nature of the <i>Minde</i></div> -<div class="verse">(Till fleshly <i>Thoughts</i> corrupt it) to despise</div> -<div class="verse">Those Lusts whereto the <i>Body</i> stands inclin'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And labour alwayes, <i>upward</i> to arise.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, therefore, thought those <i>Goblins</i> which appeare</div> -<div class="verse">To haunt old <i>Graves</i> and <i>Tombes</i>, are <i>Soules</i> of such,</div> -<div class="verse">Who to these loathsome places doomed were,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, they doted on the <i>Flesh</i> too much.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, sure we are, <i>well-minded Men</i> shall goe</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To live <i>above</i>, when others bide <i>below</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Those <em class="upright">Fields</em>, which yet appeare not so,<br /> -When <em class="upright">Harvest</em> comes, will <em class="upright">yellow</em> grow.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_44_1" id="Ill_44_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_44_1t"><img src="images/i_b_044.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIV.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_044c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, in the sweet and pleasant Month of <i>May</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">We see both Leaves and Blossomes on the Tree,</div> -<div class="verse">And view the <i>Meadowes</i> in their best array,</div> -<div class="verse">We hopefull are a <i>Ioyfull-Spring</i> to see;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, oft, before the following <i>Night</i> be past,</div> -<div class="verse">It chanceth, that a <i>Vapor</i>, or a <i>Frost</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth all those forward bloomings wholly waste;</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, their <i>Sweetnesse</i> and their <i>Beautie's</i> lost.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such, is the state of ev'ry mortall Wight:</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Youth</i>, our <i>Glories</i>, and our <i>Lusts</i> we shew;</div> -<div class="verse">We fill our selves with ev'ry vaine Delight,</div> -<div class="verse">And, will most thinke on that which may insue.</div> -<div class="verse">But, let us learne to <i>heed</i>, as well as <i>know</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Spring</i> doth passe; that, <i>Summer</i> steales away;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that the <i>Flow'r</i> which makes the fairest show,</div> -<div class="verse">E're many Weekes, must wither and decay.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, from this <i>Emblem</i>, let each <i>Lab'ring-Swaine</i></div> -<div class="verse">(In whatsoever course of life it be)</div> -<div class="verse">Take heart, and hope, amidst his daily paine,</div> -<div class="verse">That, of his <i>Travailes</i>, he good fruits shall see.</div> -<div class="verse">The Plow'd and Harrow'd <i>Field</i>, which, to thine eye,</div> -<div class="verse">Seemes like to be the <i>Grave</i>, in which the Seeds</div> -<div class="verse">Shall (without hope of rising) <i>buryed</i> lye,</div> -<div class="verse">Becomes the fruitfull <i>Wombe</i>, where <i>Plenty</i> breeds.</div> -<div class="verse">There, will be <i>Corne</i>, where nought but <i>Mire</i> appeares;</div> -<div class="verse">The Durty <i>Seed</i>, will forme a greenish <i>blade</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Blade</i>, will rise to <i>Stemmes</i> with fruitfull <i>Eares</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Eares</i>, will ripen, and be <i>yellow</i> made:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, if in honest <i>Hopes</i>, thou persevere,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A Ioyfull <i>Harvest</i> will at last appeare.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -As soone, as wee to <em class="upright">bee</em>, begunne;<br /> -We did beginne, to be <em class="upright">Vndone</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_45_1" id="Ill_45_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_45_1t"><img src="images/i_b_045.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLV.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_045c.jpg" width="75" height="74" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen some, in former Ages, had a meaning</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, of <i>Mortality</i>, to make,</div> -<div class="verse">They form'd an <i>Infant</i>, on a <i>Deaths-head</i> leaning,</div> -<div class="verse">And, round about, encircled with a <i>Snake</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Childe</i> so pictur'd, was to signifie,</div> -<div class="verse">That, from our very <i>Birth</i>, our <i>Dying</i> springs:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Snake</i>, her <i>Taile devouring</i>, doth implie</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Revolution</i>, of all Earthly things.</div> -<div class="verse">For, whatsoever hath <i>beginning</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Beginnes, immediately, to vary from</div> -<div class="verse">The same it was; and, doth at last appeare</div> -<div class="verse">What very few did thinke it should become.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The solid <i>Stone</i>, doth molder into <i>Earth</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Earth</i>, e're long, to <i>Water</i>, rarifies;</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Water</i>, gives an <i>Airy Vapour</i> birth,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thence, a <i>Fiery-Comet</i> doth arise:</div> -<div class="verse">That, moves, untill it selfe it so impaire,</div> -<div class="verse">That from a <i>burning-Meteor</i>, backe againe,</div> -<div class="verse">It sinketh downe, and thickens into <i>Aire</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Aire</i>, becomes a <i>Cloud</i>; then, <i>Drops of Raine</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Drops</i>, descending on a <i>Rocky-Ground</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">There, settle into <i>Earth</i>, which more and more,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth harden, still; so, running out the <i>round</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">It growes to be the <i>Stone</i> it was before.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus, All things wheele about; and, each <i>Beginning</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Made entrance to it owne <i>Destruction</i>, hath.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Life</i> of <i>Nature</i>, entreth in with <i>Sinning</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, is for ever, wayted on by <i>Death</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Life</i> of <i>Grace</i>, is form'd by <i>Death</i> to <i>Sinne</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, there, doth <i>Life-eternall</i>, straight beginne.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Though very <em class="upright">small</em>, at first, it be,<br /> -A <em class="upright">Sprout</em>, at length, becomes a <em class="upright">Tree</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_46_1" id="Ill_46_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_46_1t"><img src="images/i_b_046.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVI.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_046c.jpg" width="75" height="74" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Ee finde it common (but not comely thou)</div> -<div class="verse">That, when a good <i>Endeavour</i> is begot,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse, at very first, it equall grow</div> -<div class="verse">With our Expectance, we regard it not.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Wit</i>, nor <i>Patience</i>, have we to conceive,</div> -<div class="verse">That ev'ry thing, which may by Man be wrought,</div> -<div class="verse">Proportionable <i>Time</i>, and <i>Meanes</i>, must have;</div> -<div class="verse">Before it can be to <i>Perfection</i>, brought.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, ev'ry day, in things of ev'ry kinde,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Experience</i> hath informed us, herein;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, in many things, a change we finde,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, at the first, would scarce believ'd have bin.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, though a <i>Gosling</i> will not prove a <i>Swan</i>,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Vnruely-Colts</i> become <i>well-trayned Steeds</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Silly-Childe</i> growes up a <i>Mighty-Man</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Lofty-Trees</i> doe Spring from <i>Little Seeds</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Learne, therefore hence, that, nothing you despise,</div> -<div class="verse">Because it may, at first, imperfect seeme:</div> -<div class="verse">And, know, how all things (in some sort) to prise,</div> -<div class="verse">Although, you give them not the best esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From hence, moreover, learne; not to despaire,</div> -<div class="verse">When you have just occasion, to pursue</div> -<div class="verse">A toylesome worke, or any great affaire:</div> -<div class="verse">Since, <i>all-things</i>, at the first, from nothing, grew.</div> -<div class="verse">And, I my selfe will, also, learne, from hence,</div> -<div class="verse">(Of all my Paines, though little fruits I see)</div> -<div class="verse">Nor to repine, nor to receive Offence;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather joy in what befalleth mee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, though my <i>Hopes</i> appeare but meanely growne,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They will be <i>Great</i>, when some shall thinke them none.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When we above the <em class="upright">Crosse</em> can rise,<br /> -A <em class="upright">Crowne</em>, for us, prepared lies.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_47_1" id="Ill_47_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_47_1t"><img src="images/i_b_047.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_047c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> <i>Serpent</i> rais'd above the Letter <i>Tau</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Aspiring to a <i>Crowne</i>, is figur'd here:</div> -<div class="verse">From whence, a <i>Christian-Morall</i> we may draw,</div> -<div class="verse">Which worth our good regarding will appeare.</div> -<div class="verse">For, by those <i>Characters</i>, in briefe, I see</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Way</i>, we must to Happinesse ascend;</div> -<div class="verse">Then, by what <i>Meanes</i>, that Path must clymed bee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what <i>Reward</i>, shall thereupon attend.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Crosse</i>, doth shew, that <i>Suffring</i> is the <i>Way</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Serpent</i>, seemes to teach me, that, if I</div> -<div class="verse">Will overcome, I must not then, assay</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>force</i> it; but, my selfe thereto <i>applye</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, by embracing what we shall not shunne,</div> -<div class="verse">We winde about the <i>Crosse</i>, till wee arise</div> -<div class="verse">Above the same; and, then, what <i>Prize</i> is wonne,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Crowne</i>, which overtops it, signifies.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let me, O <i>God</i>, obtaine from thee the Grace,</div> -<div class="verse">To be partaker of thy Blessed <i>Passion</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Let me, with Willingnesse, thy <i>Crosse</i> imbrace,</div> -<div class="verse">And, share the Comforts of thy <i>Exaltation</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">To beare that Part, whereto I doomed am,</div> -<div class="verse">My Heart, with Strength, and Courage, <i>Lord</i>, inspire:</div> -<div class="verse">Then, <i>Crucifie</i> my <i>Flesh</i> upon the same,</div> -<div class="verse">As much as my <i>Corruption</i> shall require.</div> -<div class="verse">And, when by thy Assistance, I am rear'd</div> -<div class="verse">Above that <i>Burthen</i>, which lyes yet upon me;</div> -<div class="verse">And, over all, which (justly may be fear'd)</div> -<div class="verse">Shall, during Life-time, be inflicted on me;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Among those <i>Blessed-Soules</i>, let me be found,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Which, with eternall <i>Glory</i>, shall be <i>Crown'd</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -In <em class="upright">Death</em>, no <em class="upright">Difference</em> is made,<br /> -Betweene the <em class="upright">Scepter</em>, and the <em class="upright">Spade</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_48_1" id="Ill_48_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_48_1t"><img src="images/i_b_048.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVIII.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_048c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="L" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">L</span>Et no man be so sottish as to dreame,</div> -<div class="verse">Though all Men in their <i>Death</i> made equall are,</div> -<div class="verse">That, therfore, they may gather by this <i>Theame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Parity</i>, in Life-time, fitting were.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as the <i>Bodies</i> Members (which in <i>Death</i></div> -<div class="verse">Have all the like esteeme) had their Degrees,</div> -<div class="verse">And Honours, differing in time of <i>breath</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">The same (in <i>States</i>) Discretion comely sees.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Nor, should we hence inferre, that it were just</div> -<div class="verse">To disesteeme the breathlesse <i>Carcasses</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Kings</i> and <i>Princes</i>, when they sleepe in Dust;</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Civill-Reverence</i> is due to these.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, ought we, in their Life-time, to apply</div> -<div class="verse">The Truth, which by this <i>Emblem</i> is declar'd,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Dignities</i> of Men to vilifie;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, bring upon their <i>Persons</i> lesse regard.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, which from hence, I rather wish to preach,</div> -<div class="verse">Is this; that ev'ry Man of each degree,</div> -<div class="verse">Would marke it so, that he, himselfe might teach</div> -<div class="verse">What thoughts and deeds, to him most proper be.</div> -<div class="verse">If he be great; let him remember, then,</div> -<div class="verse">That (since, nor <i>Wealth</i>, nor <i>Title</i>, can procure him</div> -<div class="verse">Exemption from the Doomes of other Men)</div> -<div class="verse">He ought to seeke, how <i>Vertue</i> may secure him.</div> -<div class="verse">If he be <i>Poore</i>; let him this <i>Comfort</i> take,</div> -<div class="verse">That, though, awhile, he be afflicted here,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>Death</i> may him as fully happy make,</div> -<div class="verse">As he, that doth a <i>Crowne Imperiall</i> weare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, when his Fatall-blow, <i>Death</i> comes to strike,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">He, makes the <i>Beggar</i>, and the <i>King</i>, alike.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -What cannot be by <em class="upright">Force</em> attain'd,<br /> -By <em class="upright">Leisure</em>, and <em class="upright">Degrees</em>, is gain'd.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_49_1" id="Ill_49_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_49_1t"><img src="images/i_b_049.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIX.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_049c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome Foolish-<i>Boyes</i> (and such a <i>Boy</i> was I)</div> -<div class="verse">When they at Schoole have certaine houres to passe,</div> -<div class="verse">(To which they are compell'd unwillingly)</div> -<div class="verse">Much time they spend in shaking of the <i>Glasse</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, what they practise, to make-short their stay,</div> -<div class="verse">Prolongs it more; for while they seeke to force</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sands</i>, to runne more speedily away,</div> -<div class="verse">They interrupt them; and, they passe the worse.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Right so, in other things, with us it fares;</div> -<div class="verse">(And, seeming wise, we act a foolish part)</div> -<div class="verse">For, otherwhile, what <i>Time</i> alone prepares,</div> -<div class="verse">We seeke to make the subject of an <i>Art</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometimes, by <i>Rashnesse</i>, we endeavour what</div> -<div class="verse">We ought with <i>Leisure</i>, and <i>Advice</i>, to doe:</div> -<div class="verse">But, if a good <i>Successe</i> doth follow, that,</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Wit</i> was nothing helpefull thereunto.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, againe, we prosecute a thing</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Violence</i>; when our desir'd effect,</div> -<div class="verse">No other meanes so well to passe can bring,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Love</i> and <i>Gentlenesse</i>, which we neglect.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, let this <i>Emblem</i> teach us to regard</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Way of Working</i>, to each <i>Worke</i> pertaines:</div> -<div class="verse">So, though some Portion of our Hopes be barr'd,</div> -<div class="verse">We shall not, altogether, lose our paines.</div> -<div class="verse">Some things are <i>strong</i>, and, othersome are <i>weake</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Labour</i>, some; and, some with <i>Ease</i> be wrought:</div> -<div class="verse">Although the <i>Reed</i> will bend, the <i>Kexe</i> will breake;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what <i>mends</i> one thing, makes another <i>naught</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Marke this; And, when much <i>Haste</i> will marre thy <i>Speed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, then, thou take good <i>Leisure</i>; take thou <i>Heed</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Of <em class="upright">Little-Gaines</em>, let Care be had;<br /> -For, of small <em class="upright">Eares</em>, great <em class="upright">Mowes</em> are made.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_50_1" id="Ill_50_1"></a> -<a href="#Ill_50_1t"><img src="images/i_b_050.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. L.</span> <i>Book. 1.</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_050c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span>Mong the many Faylings of the <i>Time</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i> giveth Cause to mention one,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, unto me, doth seeme the greater <i>Crime</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, to many, it appeareth none.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I finde, that petty things are so neglected</div> -<div class="verse">(Well nigh of all) in <i>Losings</i> and in <i>Winnings</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As if, what ere they thought to have effected,</div> -<div class="verse">Subsisted without <i>Members</i>, or <i>Beginnings</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The Man, that loseth every <i>Month</i> a <i>Penny</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May salve-up <i>Twelve-months</i> Losses, with a <i>Shilling</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if of other Losses he hath many,</div> -<div class="verse">To save a <i>Pin</i>, at length, he shall be willing.</div> -<div class="verse">For, he that sees his Wine-fill'd <i>Vessell</i> drop,</div> -<div class="verse">(Although a <i>Drop</i>, in value, be but small)</div> -<div class="verse">Should, thence, Occasion take, the <i>Leake</i> to stop,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest many <i>Droppings</i> draine him drye of all.</div> -<div class="verse">Moreover, they, that will to <i>Greatnesse</i> rise,</div> -<div class="verse">A Course, not much unlike to this, must keepe:</div> -<div class="verse">They ought not <i>Small-Beginnings</i> to despise;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, strive to <i>runne</i>, before they learne to <i>creepe</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">By many single <i>Eares</i>, together brought,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Hand</i> is fill'd; by <i>Handfulls</i>, we may gaine</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Sheafe</i>; with many <i>Sheaves</i> a Barne is fraught:</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, oft, by <i>Little</i>, we doe much obtaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Consider this; And, though I wish not thee</div> -<div class="verse">To take, of <i>Trifling-things</i>, too great a care;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, know thus much (for truth) it best will bee,</div> -<div class="verse">If all things may be weighed as they are:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By <i>slender</i> Losses, <i>great</i>-ones are begunne;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By many trifling <i>Gaines</i>, much <i>Wealth</i> is wonne.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Finis</span> <i>Libri primi</i>.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_051.jpg" width="500" height="95" alt="decoration" /> -</div> -<h2 class="no-break"> -<a name="THE_FIRST" id="THE_FIRST"></a>THE FIRST<br /> -<span class="f90">LOTTERIE</span>.</h2> - - -<p class="center">1</p> - -<div class="poetry-container6"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_051c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hou, dost overmuch respect</div> -<div class="verse">That, which will thy harme effect;</div> -<div class="verse">But, some other things there bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Which will more advantage thee:</div> -<div class="verse">Search thy heart; and, thou shalt, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Soone discover, what they are:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, thine <i>Emblem</i> showes thee, too,</div> -<div class="verse">What to shunne; and, what to doe.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_1_1"><i>Emblem</i> I.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">2</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">It is a little fear'd, that you</div> -<div class="verse">Are to your owne Designes, untrue;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, if you more constant were,</div> -<div class="verse">You would be richer, then you are,</div> -<div class="verse">(It may be, also, wiser, too)</div> -<div class="verse">Looke, therefore, what you are to doe:</div> -<div class="verse">Then, follow it, and, you will say,</div> -<div class="verse">That, well advis'd, you were, to day.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_2_1"><i>Emb.</i> II.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">3</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">How rich or poore soe're thou be,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, art a <i>Prince</i>, in some degree;</div> -<div class="verse">And, o're thy selfe, thou shouldst command,</div> -<div class="verse">As doth a <i>Monarch</i>, in his Land.</div> -<div class="verse">Within thy Heart, therefore, ingrave</div> -<div class="verse">The Lawes, that <i>Grace</i> and <i>Nature</i> gave:</div> -<div class="verse">For, thus (to counsell thee) inclines</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Emblem</i>, which, thy <i>Lot</i> assignes.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_3_1"><i>Emb.</i> III.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">4</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Much Liberty, thou hast assum'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, heretofore, so much presum'd</div> -<div class="verse">On <i>Time</i>, which, alway rideth poast,</div> -<div class="verse">That, for awhile, some <i>Hopes</i> are crost.</div> -<div class="verse">But, loe, to keepe thee from <i>Despaire</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thy <i>Misfortune</i>, to repaire,</div> -<div class="verse">Marke, what to thee, by <i>Lot</i>, befell,</div> -<div class="verse">And, practise, what is counsell'd, well.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_4_1"><i>Emb.</i> IV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center">5</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou seekest <i>Honour</i>, to obtaine,</div> -<div class="verse">By meanes, which frustrate all thy paine.</div> -<div class="verse">Thy Predecessors rich were made,</div> -<div class="verse">By using of the <i>Plough</i> and <i>Spade</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, honourable wouldst be thought,</div> -<div class="verse">By taking Courses, that are naught;</div> -<div class="verse">But, if, right noble, thou wilt be,</div> -<div class="verse">Looke, what thine <i>Emblem</i> counsells thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_5_1"><i>Emb.</i> V.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"> -<i>M</i><span class="in2"> 6</span><br /> -</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">This Man, what ever he may seeme,</div> -<div class="verse">Is worthy of a high esteeme:</div> -<div class="verse">Though <i>Fortune</i> may, his person, grinde;</div> -<div class="verse">She, cannot harme him, in his <i>Minde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Right blest, this <i>Company</i> would be,</div> -<div class="verse">If all of them, were such, as <i>He</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Reade that <i>Impresa</i>, which he drew;</div> -<div class="verse">For, that, in part, the same will shew.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_6_1"><i>Emb.</i> VI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"> -<i>M</i><span class="in2"> 7</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If some, now present, this had got,</div> -<div class="verse">They, would have blushed, at their <i>Lot</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Since, very fit, the same doth prove</div> -<div class="verse">For one, that's either light of <i>Love</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, troubled with a fickle <i>Mate</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">If you enjoy a better <i>Fate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, hearken, what your <i>Lot</i> doth say;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, you, hereafter, need it may,</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_7_1"><i>Emb.</i> VII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">8</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">For ought, that, plainely, doth appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">You may out-live the longest, here;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, seeing, now, of all this crew,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Lot</i> of <i>Death</i>, you, onely, drew,</div> -<div class="verse">See what, your <i>Emblem</i> hath injoyn'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, still, that Morall, beare in minde:</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>Deaths</i> deform'd and ghastly <i>Shade</i></div> -<div class="verse">Shall, <i>Meanes</i> of <i>Life</i>, to thee, be made.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_8_1"><i>Emb.</i> VIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">9</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Though you have <i>Wit</i>, and, know it well;</div> -<div class="verse">That, rash you are, your <i>Friends</i> can tell;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, <i>Sleepe</i>, and <i>Ease</i>, possesse you so,</div> -<div class="verse">That, some doe feare, you'l sottish grow:</div> -<div class="verse">But, lo, your hind'rance, to prevent,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i>, was, peradventure, sent;</div> -<div class="verse">For, in the <i>Moralls</i>, that, insue,</div> -<div class="verse">Are <i>Counsells</i>, fit, for such as you.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_9_1"><i>Emb.</i> IX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">10</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You, have beene wronged, many wayes,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>patient</i> are; and, that's your praise:</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Actions</i>, also, seem'd upright;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, some there are, that, beare you spite:</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, therefore, you discourag'd grow,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, you have drawne, to show</div> -<div class="verse">What other <i>Innocents</i> have borne,</div> -<div class="verse">And, how, the worlds despites, to scorne.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_10_1"><i>Emb.</i> X.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"> -<i>M</i> <span class="in2">11</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Doubtlesse, you are either wooing,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, some other <i>Bus'nesse</i>, doing;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, you shall attempt, in vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, much hazzard all your paine:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, if good, your <i>meanings</i> are,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe not honest <i>meanes</i> forbeare;</div> -<div class="verse">For, where things are, well, begunne,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>God</i>, oft, workes, when Man hath done.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_11_1"><i>Emb.</i> XI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">12</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Be not angry, if I tell</div> -<div class="verse">That, you love the <i>World</i>, too well;</div> -<div class="verse">For, this <i>Lot</i>, perhaps, you drew,</div> -<div class="verse">That, such <i>Faults</i>, you might eschew.</div> -<div class="verse">Marke, to what their Soules aspire,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, true <i>Blessednesse</i>, desire:</div> -<div class="verse">For, if you can doe, like those,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Heav'n</i> you gaine, when <i>Earth</i> you lose.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_12_1"><i>Emb.</i> XII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">13</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You love the <i>Rich</i>; and, honour them;</div> -<div class="verse">The needy-person, you contemne:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>Wealth</i>, nor want of <i>Wealth</i>, is that,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, <i>wretched</i> makes, or <i>fortunate</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">From other <i>Causes</i>, those things flow;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, since, you either doe not know,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, heede not much, this <i>Emblem</i> came,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you might learne to minde the same.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_13_1"><i>Emb.</i> XIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"> -<i>M</i> <span class="in2">14</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Chance</i> is doubtfull; and, as yet,</div> -<div class="verse">I know not, what to say of it;</div> -<div class="verse">But, this I know, a foe thou art</div> -<div class="verse">To what thine <i>Emblem</i> hath, in part,</div> -<div class="verse">Expressed by a <i>Mimicke Shape</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, thou, thy selfe, art such an <i>Ape</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Now, which of these, pertaines to thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Let them, that know thee, Iudges bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_14_1"><i>Emb.</i> XIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">15</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy Vertues he may wrong, that sayes</div> -<div class="verse">Thou spend'st thy selfe, in wanton wayes;</div> -<div class="verse">But, some have thought, and sayd of late,</div> -<div class="verse">That, those thou lov'st, consume thy state:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, spare nor <i>Time</i>, nor Substance, tho,</div> -<div class="verse">Where, them, thou oughtest to bestow;</div> -<div class="verse">But, to thine <i>Emblem</i> turne, and, see</div> -<div class="verse">When Life, and Wealth, well ventur'd bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_15_1"><i>Emb.</i> XV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">16</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Though <i>Troubles</i>, you may have (or had)</div> -<div class="verse">Enough, to make some others mad;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, be content: for, they, that are</div> -<div class="verse">As weake, have had as much to beare;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, which <i>Malice</i> did contrive,</div> -<div class="verse">To make them poore, hath made them thrive.</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Emblem</i>, which, by <i>Lot</i>, you drew,</div> -<div class="verse">Prognosticates, as much, for you.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_16_1"><i>Emb.</i> XVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">17</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Though, you suffer blame and paine,</div> -<div class="verse">You, at last, may Comfort gaine,</div> -<div class="verse">(Sharing <i>Honours</i>, truely gotten,</div> -<div class="verse">When, your Foes are dead, and rotten)</div> -<div class="verse">For, of this, you have a pawne,</div> -<div class="verse">In the <i>Lot</i>, that you have drawne;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by that, it may appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">What your paines, and wages, are.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_17_1"><i>Emb.</i> XVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">18</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Take you serious heed, I pray,</div> -<div class="verse">Whither, you doe goe to day;</div> -<div class="verse">Whom you credite; and, for whom</div> -<div class="verse">You, ingaged, shall become;</div> -<div class="verse">And, unlesse you wish for Sorrow,</div> -<div class="verse">Be as provident, to morrow:</div> -<div class="verse">For, there are some traps and Snares,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, may take you unawares.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_18_1"><i>Emb.</i> XVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">19</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Wit</i>, so much, you trust upon,</div> -<div class="verse">That, weaker <i>Meanes</i> hath yours out-gone;</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, you runne, when there is need</div> -<div class="verse">Of much more <i>Warinesse</i>, then <i>Speed</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, you, to <i>God</i>-ward, worse have err'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, yet, <i>Amendment</i> is deferr'd.</div> -<div class="verse">See, therefore, what your <i>Chance</i> doth say,</div> -<div class="verse">And, take good <i>Counsell</i>, while you may.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_19_1"><i>Emb.</i> XIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">20</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Take heed, you doe not quite forget,</div> -<div class="verse">That you are dauncing in a <i>Net</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">More, then a few, your Course doe see,</div> -<div class="verse">Though, you, suppose, unseene to be.</div> -<div class="verse">Your Fault, we will no nearer touch;</div> -<div class="verse">Me-thinkes your <i>Emblem</i> blabs too much:</div> -<div class="verse">But, if, you minde, what is amisse,</div> -<div class="verse">You, shall be nere the worse, for this.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_20_1"><i>Emb.</i> XX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">21</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Let such, as draw this <i>Lot</i>, have care,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Death</i>, and <i>Sorrow</i>, to prepare</div> -<div class="verse">All times, to come, lest one of these,</div> -<div class="verse">Their persons, unexpected, seize:</div> -<div class="verse">For, them, or some of theirs, to stay,</div> -<div class="verse">Pale <i>Death</i>, drawes neerer, ev'ry day.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, let them not, disheartned, bee:</div> -<div class="verse">For, in their <i>Emblem</i>, they shall see,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Death</i>, may (though, in appearance, grim)</div> -<div class="verse">Become, a <i>blessing</i>, unto them.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_21_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">22</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">With <i>Mary</i>, thou art one of those,</div> -<div class="verse">By whom, the better part, is chose;</div> -<div class="verse">And, though, thou tempted art, astray,</div> -<div class="verse">Continu'st in a lawfull way.</div> -<div class="verse">Give <i>God</i> the praise, with heart unfaign'd,</div> -<div class="verse">That, he, such <i>Grace</i> to thee, hath dain'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, view thy <i>Lot</i>, where thou shalt see,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Hag</i>, hath layd a <i>Trap</i>, for thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_22_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">23</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Although, that, thou demure appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Pleasure</i>, there is no man here</div> -<div class="verse">Will venture more: And, some there are,</div> -<div class="verse">Who thinke you venture over farre:</div> -<div class="verse">Hereof, consider well, therefore,</div> -<div class="verse">E're, so, you venture, any more;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in your Lotted <i>Emblem</i>, see,</div> -<div class="verse">For what, your <i>Suffrings</i> ought to bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_23_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">24</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If ought, thou purpose, to assay,</div> -<div class="verse">Pursue the same, without delay;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if thou meane to gather fruit,</div> -<div class="verse">Be constant in thy <i>Hopes</i> pursuit:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou mayst finde,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Starres</i>, to thee, are well-inclin'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Provided, thy <i>Attempts</i> be good:</div> -<div class="verse">For, that, is ever understood.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_24_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">25</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Take heed, thou love not their deceipt,</div> -<div class="verse">Who <i>Number</i> give, in steed of <i>Weight</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, let their Fansies, thee abuse,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, such-like foolish <i>Customes</i>, use.</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, it may concerne thee, much,</div> -<div class="verse">To know the <i>Vanities</i> of such;</div> -<div class="verse">And, who they are: Marke, therfore, what</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, will, to thee relate.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_25_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">26</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, to <i>Impatience</i>, art inclin'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, hast a discontented Minde;</div> -<div class="verse">That, therfore, thou mayst <i>Patience</i> learne,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thine owne <i>Over-sights</i> discerne,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Lot</i> (as to a Schoole to day)</div> -<div class="verse">Hath sent thee to the <i>Squirrells</i> Dray;</div> -<div class="verse">For, she instructs thee, to indure,</div> -<div class="verse">Till, thou, a better <i>state</i>, procure.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_26_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">27</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Lot</i>, is very much to blame,</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, your person, or, your Name</div> -<div class="verse">Hath injur'd beene, or, may have wrong</div> -<div class="verse">By some loose wanton, ere't be long:</div> -<div class="verse">Therfore, e're, hence, you passe away,</div> -<div class="verse">Marke, what your <i>Emblem</i>, now, doth say.</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, by drawing of this <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>Harmes</i> prevention may be got.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_27_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">28</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Vpon your head, those weights were laid,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, your <i>Endeavours</i>, downeward waigh'd;</div> -<div class="verse">For, those, who doe your <i>weale</i> envie,</div> -<div class="verse">Much feare, your top will spring too high;</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, yet, some <i>Burthen</i>, you sustaine:</div> -<div class="verse">But, what their <i>Malice</i> will obtaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Emblem</i> prophesies; if you,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Patience</i>, Honest-<i>wayes</i>, pursue.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_28_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">29</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i>, befell thee, for the nonce;</div> -<div class="verse">For, if things come not, all at once,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, to despairing, soone, dost runne,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, leav'st the Worke, that's well begun:</div> -<div class="verse">Which, to prevent, regardfull be</div> -<div class="verse">Of what thine <i>Emblem</i> counsells thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_29_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">30</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Afflictions, are thy chiefest <i>Lot</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, great ones, too: yet, murmure not.</div> -<div class="verse">For, all, must fiery tryalls bide,</div> -<div class="verse">And, from their Drosse be purify'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Therefore, though this, in sport, be done,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy Morall'd <i>Emblem</i>, looke upon;</div> -<div class="verse">And, learne, those <i>Vertues</i> to acquire,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, will not perish in the <i>Fire</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_30_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">31</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You seeke a <i>Lot</i>, which, proving bad,</div> -<div class="verse">Would, peradventure, make you sad;</div> -<div class="verse">But, this may please: for, you are taught</div> -<div class="verse">To mend a Fortune, that is naught;</div> -<div class="verse">And, armed, with such Counsell, here,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you, no <i>Destiny</i>, need feare.</div> -<div class="verse">Now, if you come to Harme, or Shame,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the <i>Starres</i>, lay not the blame.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_31_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"> -<i>M</i> <span class="in2">32</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">In <i>Court</i>, thou mayst have hope, to clime,</div> -<div class="verse">This present, or some other time;</div> -<div class="verse">But, something thou dost want, as yet,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, for that place, must make thee fit.</div> -<div class="verse">Presume not, therefore, on thy <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Till, those accomplishments are got,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, in thine <i>Emblem</i>, are exprest;</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, march on, among the best.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_32_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">33</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Some thinke, you love; 'tis true, you doe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, are as well beloved too:</div> -<div class="verse">But, you (if we the truth shall say)</div> -<div class="verse">Love not so truely, as you may.</div> -<div class="verse">To make a perfect <i>Love</i>, there goes</div> -<div class="verse">Much more, then ev'ry <i>Lover</i> knowes.</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Emblem</i>, therefore heede; and, then,</div> -<div class="verse">Beginne, anew, to love agen.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_33_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">34</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Now, some good <i>Counsell</i>, thou dost need;</div> -<div class="verse">Of what we say, take, therefore, heed.</div> -<div class="verse">Beware, lest thou, too much, offend</div> -<div class="verse">A meeke, and, gentle-natur'd, <i>Friend</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Though pow'r thou hast, be carefull, too,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou vexe not, long, thine able <i>Foe</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, e're thou love, be sure to finde</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Match</i>, in <i>Manners</i>, and in <i>Minde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">If thou demand a Reason, why,</div> -<div class="verse">To thee, thine <i>Emblem</i> will replie.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_34_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">35</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Beware, thou share not in their crime,</div> -<div class="verse">Who care, but for the present time:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by thy <i>Lot</i>, wee may suspect,</div> -<div class="verse">Or that, or things, to that effect.</div> -<div class="verse">If so it be, or if thy Minde,</div> -<div class="verse">To such an <i>Errour</i>, be inclin'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Chance</i>, unto an <i>Emblem</i>, brings,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, will advise to better things.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_35_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">36</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You, love to <i>seeme</i>; this, all Men see:</div> -<div class="verse">But, would you lov'd, as well, to <i>bee</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">If, also, better use were made</div> -<div class="verse">Of those good <i>Blessings</i>, you have had;</div> -<div class="verse">Your praise were more. Marke, therefore, well,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Moralls</i>, now, your <i>Emblem</i>, tell;</div> -<div class="verse">And, gather, from it, what you may,</div> -<div class="verse">To set you in a better way.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_36_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">37</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">To scape a Storme, great thought you take;</div> -<div class="verse">But, little heed, what <i>meanes</i> you make.</div> -<div class="verse">You, love your ease, and, Troubles, feare;</div> -<div class="verse">But, carelesse are, what <i>Course</i> you steere.</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Indiscretions</i>, to prevent,</div> -<div class="verse">You, to an <i>Emblem</i>, now, are sent:</div> -<div class="verse">Whereof, if you regardfull are,</div> -<div class="verse">You, lesse will feare, and better fare.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_37_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">38</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">What you have, done, consider, now;</div> -<div class="verse">For, this your <i>Chance</i>, doth seeme to show</div> -<div class="verse">That you have sworne, or vow'd, of late,</div> -<div class="verse">Or promised (you best know what)</div> -<div class="verse">Which, you have, since, unwilling bin,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe; or, else, did faile, therein.</div> -<div class="verse">If it be so; repent, or els,</div> -<div class="verse">What will befall, your <i>Emblem</i> tells.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_38_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">39</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Hopings</i>, and thy <i>Feares</i>, are such,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they afflict, and paine thee, much;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, thou giv'st too great a scope</div> -<div class="verse">Vnto thy <i>Feare</i>, or to thy <i>Hope</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, they will paine, or pleasure thee,</div> -<div class="verse">As they enlarg'd, or curbed be.</div> -<div class="verse">But, lo; thine <i>Emblem</i>, if thou please,</div> -<div class="verse">Instructs thee, how, to mannage these.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_39_1"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">40</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Let them, who get this <i>Chance</i>, beware,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest <i>Cupid</i> snarle them in a Snare:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by their <i>Lot</i>, they should be apt</div> -<div class="verse">To be, in such-like Ginnes, intrapt.</div> -<div class="verse">Some helpe, is by their <i>Emblem</i>, got,</div> -<div class="verse">If they, too late, observe it not;</div> -<div class="verse">But, then, no profit will be done them:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Counsell</i> will be lost upon them.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_40_1"><i>Emb.</i> XL.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">41</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Whether, meerely, <i>Chance</i>, or no,</div> -<div class="verse">Brought this <i>Lot</i>, we doe not know:</div> -<div class="verse">But, received, let it be,</div> -<div class="verse">As, divinely, sent to thee:</div> -<div class="verse">For, that, merits thy regard,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, thine <i>Emblem</i> hath declar'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, the best, that are, have need,</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Advisements</i>, well to heed.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_41_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">42</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, hast already, or, e're long,</div> -<div class="verse">Shalt have some dammage by the <i>Tongue</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, fully, yet, it is not knowne,</div> -<div class="verse">Whether the <i>Tongue</i> shall be thine owne,</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, anothers <i>tongue</i>, from whom</div> -<div class="verse">This Mischiefe, unto thee, shall come:</div> -<div class="verse">But, much the better, thou shalt speed,</div> -<div class="verse">If, now, thine <i>Emblem</i>, well thou heed.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_42_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">43</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Vnworthy things, thou dost affect,</div> -<div class="verse">With somewhat overmuch respect;</div> -<div class="verse">Vnto the <i>World</i>, inclining so,</div> -<div class="verse">As if thy Hopes were all below:</div> -<div class="verse">But, now, to rowse thee from this crime,</div> -<div class="verse">Good <i>Counsell</i> comes in happy time.</div> -<div class="verse">Make use thereof; and, thinke it not</div> -<div class="verse">Meere casuall, or a needlesse <i>Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_43_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">44</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, either, too much love, hast plac't</div> -<div class="verse">On things, that will not alway last;</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, thou art a little fear'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Because thy Hopes are long deferr'd:</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, thou art touch'd, in both of these.</div> -<div class="verse">Thy Profit, therefore, and thine ease,</div> -<div class="verse">It will effect, if well thou minde</div> -<div class="verse">What, in thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou shalt finde.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_44_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">45</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">When thou hast <i>Changes</i>, good, or bad,</div> -<div class="verse">Ore-joy'd, thou art, or over-sad;</div> -<div class="verse">As if it seemed very strange</div> -<div class="verse">To see the <i>Winde</i> or <i>Weather</i>, change:</div> -<div class="verse">Lo, therefore, to remember thee,</div> -<div class="verse">How changeable, things Mortall, bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, art assisted by this <i>Lot</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Now, let it be, no more, forgot.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_45_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">46</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Of thy just <i>Aymes</i>, though meanes be slight,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou mayst attaine their wished height;</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse, thy Folly shall destroy</div> -<div class="verse">The Weale, thou seekest to injoy,</div> -<div class="verse">By thy Despaire, or by neglect</div> -<div class="verse">Of that, which, may thy <i>Hopes</i> effect:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou mayst know,</div> -<div class="verse">Great things, from small <i>Beginnings</i>, grow.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_46_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">47</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou must have <i>Crosses</i>; but they, shall,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Blessings</i>, be converted, all;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Suffrings</i>, will become, thy Praise,</div> -<div class="verse">If, <i>Wisedome</i> order, well, thy wayes:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, when thy <i>Crosses</i> ended are,</div> -<div class="verse">A Crowne of Glory, thou shalt weare.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, note, how this to passe is brought:</div> -<div class="verse">For, in thine <i>Emblem</i>, it is taught.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_47_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">48</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If they, who drew this <i>Lot</i>, now be</div> -<div class="verse">Of great <i>Estate</i>, or high <i>Degree</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">They shall ere long, become as poore,</div> -<div class="verse">As those, that beg from doore to doore.</div> -<div class="verse">If poore they be; it plaine appeares,</div> -<div class="verse">They shall become great <i>Princes</i> Peeres:</div> -<div class="verse">And, in their <i>Emblem</i>, they may know,</div> -<div class="verse">What very day, it will be, so.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_48_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">49</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You, have attempted many a thing,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, you, to passe, could never bring;</div> -<div class="verse">Not, that, your Worke was hard to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">But, 'cause, you us'd wrong <i>Meanes</i>, thereto.</div> -<div class="verse">Hereafter, therefore, learne, I pray,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Times</i> of Working, and, the <i>Way</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, of thine <i>Emblem</i>, take thou heed,</div> -<div class="verse">If, better, thou desire to speed.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_49_1"><i>Emb.</i> XLIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">50</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If you, to greater <i>Wealth</i>, will rise,</div> -<div class="verse">You must not, slender <i>Gaine</i>, despise;</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, if, you minde not, to be poore,</div> -<div class="verse">You must regard slight <i>Losses</i>, more:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Wealth</i>, and <i>Poverty</i>, doe come,</div> -<div class="verse">Not all at once, but, some and some.</div> -<div class="verse">If this, concerne you, any wayes,</div> -<div class="verse">See, what your <i>Emblem</i>, further, sayes.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_50_1"><i>Emb.</i> L.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">51</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Fortune</i>, hath deserved thank,</div> -<div class="verse">That she, on you, bestowes a <i>Blank</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, as you, nothing good, have had;</div> -<div class="verse">So, you, have nothing, that is bad.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, she, in this, hath favour showne,</div> -<div class="verse">(If, now, your <i>Freedome</i> well be knowne)</div> -<div class="verse">For, you, by <i>Lot</i>, these <i>Emblems</i>, mist,</div> -<div class="verse">That you, may chuse out, which you list.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">52</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You, by an <i>Emblem</i>, seeke to get</div> -<div class="verse">What Counsel your <i>Affaires</i> may fit;</div> -<div class="verse">But, in particular, there's none,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, you, by <i>Lot</i>, can light upon:</div> -<div class="verse">And, why? because, no <i>Morall</i>, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth, worthy of your Heed, appeare?</div> -<div class="verse">No; but because you rather, need,</div> -<div class="verse">Of ev'ry <i>Emblem</i>, to take heed.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">53</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">The <i>Starres</i>, are, now, no friends of your,</div> -<div class="verse">Or this is not their lucky houre:</div> -<div class="verse">For, at this time, unto your <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">They, by an <i>Emblem</i>, answer not.</div> -<div class="verse">If, therefore, you desire to know</div> -<div class="verse">What good advice they will allow,</div> -<div class="verse">Some further <i>Meanes</i>, you must assay,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, trye your <i>Chance</i>, another day.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">54</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You, in your secret thoughts, despise</div> -<div class="verse">To thinke an <i>Emblem</i> should advise,</div> -<div class="verse">Or give you cause to minde or heed</div> -<div class="verse">Those things, whereof you may have need:</div> -<div class="verse">And, therefore, when, the <i>Lot</i>, you try'd,</div> -<div class="verse">An answer, justly, was deny'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet (by your leave) there are but few,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, need good <i>Counsell</i>, more then you.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> - -<p class="center mt2">55</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">In some extreame, you often are,</div> -<div class="verse">And, shoot too short, or else too farre;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, such an errour, you were in,</div> -<div class="verse">When, for a <i>Lot</i>, you mov'd the <i>Pin</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, one touch more, or lesse, had layd</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Index</i>, where it should have stayd.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if you can be warn'd, by this,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe the <i>Meane</i>, which oft you misse,</div> -<div class="verse">You have obtain'd as good a <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As any one, this day, hath got.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">56</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Among these <i>Emblems</i>, none there be,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, now by <i>Lot</i> will fall to thee;</div> -<div class="verse">However, doe not thou repine:</div> -<div class="verse">For, this doth seeme to be a signe,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou, thy Portion, shalt advance</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Vertue</i>, not by fickle <i>Chance</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, nerethelesse, despise thou not</div> -<div class="verse">What, by good <i>Fortune</i>, may be got.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<p class="center f150"><i>FINIS.</i></p> -<hr class="full" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p class="ph1"> -<span class="f75">A</span><br /> -COLLECTION<br /> -<span class="f75">OF</span><br /> -EMBLEMES,<br /> -<span class="f90"> ANCIENT AND<br /> -MODERNE:</span></p> - -<p class="ph2"> - - Quickened<br /> - With <span class="smcap">Metricall Illvstrations</span>; And,<br /> - disposed into <span class="smcap">Lotteries</span>, both <i>Morall</i><br /> - and <i>Divine</i>.<br /> -</p> - -<p class="center ph3"> - That <i>Jnstruction</i>, and <i>Good Counsell</i>, may bee furthered<br /> - by an Honest and Pleasant <i>Recreation</i>. -</p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<p class="center"> - <i>By</i> <span class="smcap">George Wither</span>. -</p> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<h2><span class="f75"><i>The Second Booke.</i></span></h2> - -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/i_b_063.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="NON PLVS" /> -</div> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<p class="center"> -<span class="smcap">London</span>,<br /> -Printed by <span class="smcap">Avgvstine Mathewes</span>.<br /> -MDCXXXIV.</p> - - -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="mb2"><span class="f75">TO</span><br /> -<span class="f90">THE HIGH AND MIGHTY</span><br /> -<span class="f75">Prince, <i>CHARLES</i>, Prince -<i>of</i> <span class="smcap">Wales</span>, <i>&c.</i></span></h2> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse drop-capt">FAir'st <i>Blossome</i> of our hopes; and <i>Morning-starre</i></div> -<div class="verse">To all these <i>Ilands</i>, which inclosed are</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Neptunes</i> armes, within our Northern <i>climes</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And who (wee trust) shall rise, in future times,</div> -<div class="verse">To be the brightest <i>Light</i>, that, then will shine,</div> -<div class="verse">Betwixt the <i>Artick-Circle</i>, and the <span class="smcap">Line</span>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">To <span class="smcap">Yov</span> (as now you are) that I present</div> -<div class="verse">These <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>, 'tis not so impertinent</div> -<div class="verse">As those may thinke it, who have neither seene</div> -<div class="verse">What, of your <i>Cradle-sports</i>, hath heeded beene;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor heard how many serious <i>Questionings</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Child-hood</i> frameth, out of trifling things:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if mine aime I have not much mistooke,</div> -<div class="verse">I come not oversoone with such a <i>Booke</i>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">So long as in this <i>Infant-Age</i> you are,</div> -<div class="verse">(Wherein, the speechlesse <i>Portraitures</i> appeare</div> -<div class="verse">A pleasurefull delight) your <span class="smcap">Highnesse</span> may</div> -<div class="verse">Among our <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>, finde a <i>Harmelesse-play</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, those mute <i>Objects</i> will from time to time,</div> -<div class="verse">Still <i>Riper</i>, seeme, till you to <i>ripenesse</i> clime.</div> -<div class="verse">When their dumb <i>Figures</i>, no more sport can make,</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Illustrations</i>, will begin to speake;</div> -<div class="verse">And, ev'ry day, new matter still disclose,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill your <i>Iudgement</i> to perfection growes.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">They likewise, who their <i>Services</i>, to do</div> -<div class="verse">Frequent your <i>Presence</i>, may have pleasure too,</div> -<div class="verse">From this your <i>Play-game</i>: yea, and some perchance,</div> -<div class="verse">May cure a <i>Folly</i>, or an <i>Ignorance</i></div> -<div class="verse">By that, which they shall either heare or view</div> -<div class="verse">In these our <i>Emblems</i>, when they wait on <i>You</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, shall be called, by your <span class="smcap">Excellence</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">To try what <span class="smcap">Lot</span>, they shall obtaine from thence.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">It may, moreover, much increase the sport,</div> -<div class="verse">Which is allowed in a vertuous <span class="smcap">Covrt</span>;</div> -<div class="verse">When they whose faults have long suspected bin,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall draw forth private Censures of their Sin,</div> -<div class="verse">And, heare their <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>, openly, display,</div> -<div class="verse">What, others dare not, but in private, say:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor will, to <span class="smcap">Yov</span>, the <span class="smcap">Morals</span> be in vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n when to manly Knowledge you attaine;</div> -<div class="verse">For, though to <i>Teach</i>, it will not them become</div> -<div class="verse">To be <i>Remembrancers</i>, they may presume:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that which in their <i>Child-hood</i>, men shall heed,</div> -<div class="verse">Will soonest come to minde, in time of need.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Incourag'd by these <i>Hopes</i>, I thought it meet</div> -<div class="verse">To lay this humble <i>Present</i> at your feet.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Accept it, now</i>; and, please to favour <i>me</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">When I growe <i>old</i>, and, You a <i>Man</i> shall be.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="in8"><i>To your Highnesse</i></p> -<p class="in12"><i>most humbly devoted</i>,</p> -<p class="in16"><span class="smcap">Geo: Wither</span>.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="mb2"><span class="f75">TO</span><br /> -<span class="f90">THE MOST HIGH-BORNE</span><br /> -<span class="f75">and hopeful Prince <i>JAMES,<br /> -Duke of <span class="smcap">Yorke</span>, &c.</i></span></h2> - - -<p class="in6" > -Sweet <span class="smcap">Prince</span>, -</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse drop-capt">YOur hand I kisse; and, thus my <i>Lines</i> addresse</div> -<div class="verse">Vnto your wise, and vertuous * <span class="smcap">Governesse</span>.</div> - -<span class="sidenote">* <i>The Countesse of Dorset.</i></span> -</div> -<div class="stanza italic"> -<div class="verse indent2">For, <span class="smcap">Madame</span>, (as his <span class="smcap">Proxy</span>) it is fit,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <span class="smcap">Yov</span> both <em class="upright">Read</em>, and <em class="upright">answere</em> for him, yet.</div> -<div class="verse">To <span class="smcap">Yov</span> for <span class="smcap">Him</span>, J therefore tender, here,</div> -<div class="verse">To welcome-in the <em class="upright">New-beginning Yeare</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">This harmelesse <span class="smcap">Play-Game</span>; that, it may have place,</div> -<div class="verse">When somewhat <em class="upright">riper Daies</em>, shall Make his <em class="upright">GRACE</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Affect such <em class="upright">Objects</em>; which, to looke upon</div> -<div class="verse">May pleasure yeeld him, e're this <em class="upright">Yeare</em> be gone.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">'Tis not the least <em class="upright">Discretion</em>, in great <span class="smcap">Covrts</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">To know what <em class="upright">Recreations</em>, and what <em class="upright">Sports</em></div> -<div class="verse">Become young <span class="smcap">Princes</span>; or, to find out those,</div> -<div class="verse">Which may, with harmelesse pleasantnesse, dispose</div> -<div class="verse">Their Mindes to <em class="upright">VERTVE</em>: neither in their <em class="upright">Cradles</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Should this be heeded lesse, than in their <em class="upright">Sadles</em>:</div> -<div class="verse">Because, when first to <em class="upright">know</em>, we doe begin,</div> -<div class="verse">A small <em class="upright">Occasion</em>, lets much <em class="upright">Evill</em> in.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Among those things, which both <em class="upright">Instruct</em> and <em class="upright">please</em>;</div> -<div class="verse">But few, (for <em class="upright">Children</em>) are surpassing these:</div> -<div class="verse">For, they, to looke on <em class="upright">Pictures</em>, much desire;</div> -<div class="verse">And, not to <em class="upright">Looke alone</em>, but, to enquire</div> -<div class="verse">What things those are, that represented be,</div> -<div class="verse">In ev'ry <span class="smcap">Map</span>, or <span class="smcap">Emblem</span>, which they see.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">And, that which they shall <em class="upright">view</em>, or shall be <em class="upright">told</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">(By meanes of any <em class="upright">Figure</em> they behold)</div> -<div class="verse"><em class="upright">Experience</em> breedes; assisteth <em class="upright">Memory</em>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, helps to forme a <em class="upright">Witty Fantasie</em>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if those <em class="upright">Formes</em> to good Instruction tend,</div> -<div class="verse">Oft steads them, also, till their lives have end.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Then, since ev'n all of us, much Good receive</div> -<div class="verse">By Vertuous <span class="smcap">Princes</span>; And should, therefore, strive</div> -<div class="verse">To adde some <em class="upright">helpes</em>, whereby they might acquire</div> -<div class="verse">That <em class="upright">Excellence</em>, which wee in them desire.</div> -<div class="verse">I (being able, to present his GRACE,</div> -<div class="verse">With nothing but a <em class="upright">Rattle</em>, or a <em class="upright">Glasse</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or some such <em class="upright">Cradle-play-game</em>) bring, to day,</div> -<div class="verse">This BOOKE, to be as usefull as it may:</div> -<div class="verse">And, <em class="upright">how</em>, and <em class="upright">when</em>, it will most <em class="upright">usefull</em> grow,</div> -<div class="verse">Without my <em class="upright">Teaching</em>, YOV can fully show.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">For, what is of your <em class="upright">Ablenesse</em> believ'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Through all these famous <em class="upright">Ilands</em>, hath receiv'd,</div> -<div class="verse">A large applause; in <em class="upright">that</em>, from out of those</div> -<div class="verse">Which <em class="upright">ablest</em> were, both <em class="upright">King</em> and <em class="upright">State</em> have chose</div> -<div class="verse">Your <em class="upright">Faith</em> and <em class="upright">Wisedome</em>, to be TREASVRESSE</div> -<div class="verse">Of their chiefe <em class="upright">Iewels</em>; and the GOVERNESSE</div> -<div class="verse">Of our prime Hopes. And, now J this have weigh'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Me thinks, there needs no more, by me, be said,</div> -<div class="verse">But, (having pray'd your HONOVR to receive</div> -<div class="verse">This PRESENT for the DVKE) <em class="upright">to take my leave</em>;</div> -<div class="verse">And <em class="upright">Versifie</em> to <em class="upright">him</em>, some other day,</div> -<div class="verse">When <em class="upright">Hee</em> can understand mee, what I say.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class= "in6">Till then, let it please your <i>Honour</i> sometimes to<br /> -remember <i>Him</i>, that</p> - -<p class= "in8">I am his Graces</p> - -<p class= "in12">daily and humble</p> - -<p class= "in16">Oratour,</p> - -<p class= "in12"><span class="smcap">Geo: Wither</span>.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -We best shall quiet clamorous <em class="upright">Thronges</em>,<br /> -When, we our selves, can rule our <em class="upright">Tongues</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_1_2" id="Ill_1_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_1_2t"><img src="images/i_c_063.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. I.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_063c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen I observe the Melanchollie <i>Owles</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Considering with what patience, they sustaine</div> -<div class="verse">The many clamours, of the greater <i>Fowles</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, how the little <i>Chirpers</i>, they disdaine:</div> -<div class="verse">When I remember, how, their Injuries</div> -<div class="verse">They sleight, (who, causeles give them an offence)</div> -<div class="verse">Vouchsafing, scarce to cast aside their eyes</div> -<div class="verse">To looke upon that foolish Insolence.</div> -<div class="verse">Me thinkes, by their <i>Example</i>, I am taught</div> -<div class="verse">To sleight the slaunders of Injurious <i>Tongues</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">To set the scoffes of <i>Censurers</i>, at naught,</div> -<div class="verse">And, with a brave <i>neglect</i>, to beare out <i>Wrongs</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Hee, doubtles, whom the <i>Psalmist</i>, long agoe,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnto a lonely <i>Desert-Owle</i> compar'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Did practise thus; And, when I can doe so,</div> -<div class="verse">I, shall for all affronts, become prepar'd.</div> -<div class="verse">And, (though, this Doctrine, Flesh and blood gaine-say)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, sure, to stopp the malice of <i>Despight</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">There is no better, (nay, no other) way:</div> -<div class="verse">Since, <i>Rage</i> by Opposition gathers <i>Might</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Good <em class="upright">God</em>! vouchsafe, sufficient grace and strength,</div> -<div class="verse italic">That (though I have not yet, such <em class="upright">Patience</em> gott)</div> -<div class="verse italic">I may attaine this happy gift, at length;</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, finde the cause, that, yet, I have it not.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Though me, my <em class="upright">Neighbours</em>, and my <em class="upright">Foes</em> revile;</div> -<div class="verse italic">Make me of all their words, a <em class="upright">Patient-bearer</em>:</div> -<div class="verse italic">When er'e I <em class="upright">suffer</em>, let me be, the while,</div> -<div class="verse italic">As is the silent <em class="upright">Lambe</em> before the <em class="upright">Shearer</em>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">So; though my <em class="upright">speakings</em>, cannot quiet any,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">My <em class="upright">Patience</em> may restraine the Tongues of many.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When wee by <em class="upright">Hunger</em>, <em class="upright">Wisdome</em> gaine,<br /> -Our <em class="upright">Guts</em>, are wiser then our <em class="upright">Braine</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_2_2" id="Ill_2_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_2_2t"><img src="images/i_c_064.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. II.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_064c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Crowe</i>, when deepe within a close-mouth'd-<i>Pot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">She water finds, her thirstinesse to slake;</div> -<div class="verse">(And, knoweth not where else it might be got)</div> -<div class="verse">Her <i>Belly</i>, teacheth her, this course to take:</div> -<div class="verse">She flies, and fetcheth many <i>Pibbles</i> thither,</div> -<div class="verse">Then, downe into the <i>Vessell</i>, lets them <i>drop</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, so many stones are brought together,</div> -<div class="verse">As may advance the water to the top.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From whence, we might this <i>observation</i> heed;</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Hunger</i>, <i>Thirst</i>, and those <i>necessities</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which from the <i>Bellies</i> craving, doe proceed)</div> -<div class="verse">May make a <i>Foole</i>, grow provident and wise.</div> -<div class="verse">And, though (in sport) we say, the <i>braines</i> of some,</div> -<div class="verse">Not in their <i>Heads</i>, but in their <i>Gutts</i>, doe lye;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, that, by wants, Men wiser should become,</div> -<div class="verse">Dissenteth not from true <i>Philosophy</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, no man labours with much <i>Willingnesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To compasse, what he nought at all desires;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor seeketh so, his longing to possesse,</div> -<div class="verse">As, when some urgent neede, the same requires.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, though he might, a <i>willingnesse</i>, retaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, as the <i>Belly</i>, which is ever full,</div> -<div class="verse">Breeds fumes, that cause a <i>sottish-witles-braine</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>plenteous Fortunes</i>, make the <i>Spirits</i> dull.</div> -<div class="verse">All, <i>borne to Riches</i>, have not <i>all-times</i>, witt</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe, (much lesse, to better) their degree:</div> -<div class="verse">But, men to nothing borne, oft, passage get.</div> -<div class="verse">(Through many wants) renown'd, and rich to bee:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yea, <i>Povertie</i> and <i>Hunger</i>, did produce,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The best <i>Inventions</i>, and, of chiefest use.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Though <em class="upright">Musicke</em> be of some abhor'd,<br /> -<em class="upright">She</em>, is the <em class="upright">Handmaid</em> of the <em class="upright">Lord</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_3_2" id="Ill_3_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_3_2t"><img src="images/i_c_065.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. III.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_065c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>O <i>Musicke</i>, and the Muses, many beare</div> -<div class="verse">Much hatred; and, to whatsoever ends</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Soule-delighting-Raptures</i> tuned are,</div> -<div class="verse">Such peevish dispositions, it offends.</div> -<div class="verse">Some others, in a <i>Morall way</i>, affect</div> -<div class="verse">Their pleasing <i>Straines</i> (or, for a sensuall use)</div> -<div class="verse">But, in <i>Gods Worship</i>, they the same suspect;</div> -<div class="verse">(Or, taxe it rather) as a great abuse.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>First</i> of these, are full of <i>Melancholy</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, Pitty need, or Comfort, more then blame;</div> -<div class="verse">And, soone, may fall into some dangerous <i>folly</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse they labour, to prevent the same.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Last</i>, are <i>giddie-things</i>, that have befool'd</div> -<div class="verse">Their Iudgements, with <i>beguiling-Fantasies</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which (if they be not, by discretion, school'd)</div> -<div class="verse">Will plunge them into greater <i>Vanities</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, <i>Musicke</i>, is the <i>Handmaid</i> of the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, for his <i>Worship</i>, was at first ordayned:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, therewithall she fitly doth accord;</div> -<div class="verse">And, where <i>Devotion</i> thriveth, is reteyned.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Shee</i>, by a nat'rall power, doth helpe to raise,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>mind</i> to God, when joyfull Notes are sounded:</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Passions</i> fierce Distemperatures, alaies;</div> -<div class="verse">When, by grave <i>Tones</i>, the <i>Mellody</i> is bounded.</div> -<div class="verse">It, also may in <i>Mysticke-sense</i>, imply</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Musicke</i>, in <i>our-selves</i>, ought still to be;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that our <i>jarring-lives</i> to certifie,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee should in <i>Voice</i>, in <i>Hand</i>, and <i>Heart</i>, agree:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, sing out, <i>Faith's</i> new-songs, with full concent,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Vnto the <i>Lawes</i>, ten-stringed <i>Instrument</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Marke, what <em class="upright">Rewards</em>, to <em class="upright">Sinne</em>, are due,<br /> -And, learne, <em class="upright">uprightnesse</em> to pursue.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_4_2" id="Ill_4_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_4_2t"><img src="images/i_c_066.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_066c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> <i>Sword unsheathed</i>, and a <i>strangling-Snare</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Is figur'd here; which, in <i>dumbe-shewes</i>, doe preach,</div> -<div class="verse">Of what the <i>Malefactor</i> should beware;</div> -<div class="verse">And, they doe <i>threaten too</i>, aswell as <i>Teach</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, some there are, (would God, that summe were lesse)</div> -<div class="verse">Whom, neither good <i>Advise</i>, nor, wholesome <i>Lawe</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Can turne from Pathwaies of <i>Vnrighteousnesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">If <i>Death</i>, or <i>Tortures</i>, keepe them not in awe.</div> -<div class="verse">These, are not they, whose <i>Conscience</i> for the sake</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Goodnesse</i> onely, <i>Godlinesse</i>, pursues;</div> -<div class="verse">But, these are they, who never scruple make</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Guilt</i>, but, what great <i>punishment</i> ensues.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For such as these, this <i>Emblem</i> was prepar'd:</div> -<div class="verse">And, for their sakes, in places eminent,</div> -<div class="verse">Are all our <i>Gallow-trees</i>, and <i>Gibbets</i>, rear'd;</div> -<div class="verse">That, by the sight of them, they might repent.</div> -<div class="verse">Let, therefore, those who feele their hearts inclin'd</div> -<div class="verse">To any kind of <i>Death-deserving-Crime</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(When they behold this <i>Emblem</i>) change their mind,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, they (too late) repent, another time.</div> -<div class="verse">And, let not those our Counsell, now, contemne,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, doome <i>poore Theeves</i> to death; yet, guilty be</div> -<div class="verse">Of more, then most of those whom they Condemne:</div> -<div class="verse">But, let them Learne their perill to foresee.</div> -<div class="verse">For, though a little while, they may have hope</div> -<div class="verse">To seeme upright, (when they are nothing lesse)</div> -<div class="verse">And, scape the <i>Sword</i>, the <i>Gallowes</i>, and the <i>Rope</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">There is a <i>Iudge</i>, who sees their wickednesse;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when grim <i>Death</i>, shall summon them, from hence,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They will be fully plagu'd for their offence.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -That <em class="upright">Kingdome</em> will establish'd bee,<br /> -Wherein the <em class="upright">People</em> well agree.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_5_2" id="Ill_5_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_5_2t"><img src="images/i_c_067.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. V.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_067c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> <i>Crowned Scepter</i>, here is fixt upright,</div> -<div class="verse">Betwixt foure <i>Fowles</i>, whose postures may declare,</div> -<div class="verse">They came from <i>Coasts</i>, or <i>Climats</i> opposite,</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, they diffring in their natures are.</div> -<div class="verse">In which, (as in some others, that we finde</div> -<div class="verse">Amongst these <i>Emblems</i>) little care I take</div> -<div class="verse">Precisely to unfold our <i>Authors</i> minde;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, on his meaning, <i>Comments</i> here to make.</div> -<div class="verse">It is the scope of my Intention, rather</div> -<div class="verse">From such perplext <i>Inventions</i> (which have nought,</div> -<div class="verse">Of Ancient <i>Hieroglyphick</i>) <i>sense</i>, to gather,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereby, some usefull <i>Morall</i> may be taught.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, from these <i>Figures</i>, my Collections be,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Kingdomes</i>, and the <i>Royall-dignitie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are best upheld, where <i>Subjects</i> doe agree,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe upright the state of <i>Soveraignty</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">When, from each Coast and quarter of the Land,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Rich</i>, the <i>Poore</i>, the <i>Swaine</i>, the <i>Gentleman</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Lends, in all <i>wants</i>, and at all <i>times</i>, his hand,</div> -<div class="verse">To give the best assistance that he can:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, when with <i>Willing hearts</i>, and <i>Winged-speed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The men of all Degrees, doe duely carry</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Aides</i> to publike-workes, in time of need,</div> -<div class="verse">And, to their <i>Kings</i>, be freely tributary:</div> -<div class="verse">Then shall the <i>Kingdome</i> gayne the gloriest height;</div> -<div class="verse">Then shall the <i>Kingly-Title</i> be renown'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Then shall the <i>Royall-Scepter</i> stand upright,</div> -<div class="verse">And, with supremest <i>Honour</i>, then, be Crown'd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, where this Duty long neglect, they shall;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>King</i> will suffer, and, the <i>Kingdome</i> fall.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -From that, by which I <em class="upright">somewhat</em> am,<br /> -The Cause of my <em class="upright">Destruction</em> came.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_6_2" id="Ill_6_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_6_2t"><img src="images/i_c_068.jpg" width="500" height="498" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_068c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He little <i>Sparkes</i> which rak'd in <i>Embers</i> lie,</div> -<div class="verse">Are kindly kindled by a gentle <i>blast</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>brands</i> in which the fire begins to die</div> -<div class="verse">Revive by blowing; and, flame out at last.</div> -<div class="verse">The selfe same <i>wind</i>, becomming over strong,</div> -<div class="verse">Quite bloweth out againe that very flame;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, else, consumes away (ere it be long)</div> -<div class="verse">That wasting substance, which maintain'd the same.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus fares it, in a Thousand other things,</div> -<div class="verse">As soone as they the <i>golden Meane</i> exceed;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, which keeping <i>Measure</i>, profit brings,</div> -<div class="verse">May, (by <i>excesse</i>) our losse, and ruine, breed.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Preferments</i> (well and moderately sought)</div> -<div class="verse">Have helpt those men, new <i>Virtues</i> to acquire,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, being to superiour places brought,</div> -<div class="verse">Left all their <i>goodnesse</i>, as they climed higher.</div> -<div class="verse">A little <i>wealth</i>, may make us better able</div> -<div class="verse">To labour in our Callings: Yet, I see</div> -<div class="verse">That they, who being poore, were charitable,</div> -<div class="verse">Becomming rich, hard-hearted grow to be.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Love</i>, when they entertaine it with discretion,</div> -<div class="verse">More worthy, and more happy, maketh men;</div> -<div class="verse">But, when their <i>Love</i> is overgrowne with <i>Passion</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">It overthrowes their happinesse, agen.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, this our <i>Flesh</i>, (in which we doe appeare</div> -<div class="verse">To have that <i>being</i>, which we now enjoy)</div> -<div class="verse">If we should overmuch the same endeare,</div> -<div class="verse">Would our <i>Well-being</i>, totally destroy.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, that which gives our <i>Pleasures</i> nourishment,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Is oft the poyson of our best <i>Content</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">Guiltines</em>, <em class="upright">Death</em> entred in,<br /> -And, <em class="upright">Mischiefe</em> still pursueth <em class="upright">Sinne</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_7_2" id="Ill_7_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_7_2t"><img src="images/i_c_069.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_069c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse"><i><span class="hidden">I</span>Xions</i> wheele, and he himselfe thereon</div> -<div class="verse">Is figur'd, and (by way of <i>Emblem</i>) here,</div> -<div class="verse">Set forth, for <i>Guilty men</i> to looke upon;</div> -<div class="verse">That, they, their wicked Courses might forbeare.</div> -<div class="verse">To gaine a lawlesse favour he desired,</div> -<div class="verse">And, in his wicked hopes beguiled was:</div> -<div class="verse">For, when to claspe with <i>Iuno</i>, he aspired,</div> -<div class="verse">In stead of her, a <i>Clowd</i>, he did embrace.</div> -<div class="verse">He, likewise, did incurre a dreadfull <i>Doome</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which well befitted his presumptuous Crime)</div> -<div class="verse">A terror, and, a warning, to become,</div> -<div class="verse">For wicked men, through all succeeding time.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">As did his longings, and his after <i>Paine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">So, theirs affecteth, nor effecteth ought,</div> -<div class="verse">But, that, which proveth either false or vaine;</div> -<div class="verse">And, their false <i>Pleasures</i>, are as dearely, bought:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, that, whereon they build their fairest <i>Hope</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May, bring them (in conclusion of the Deed)</div> -<div class="verse">To clime the <i>Gallowes</i>, and to stretch a <i>Rope</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, send them thither, where farre worse they speed:</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n thither, where, the <i>never-standing-Wheele</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>everlasting-Tortures</i>, turneth round,</div> -<div class="verse">And, racks the <i>Conscience</i>, till the soule doth feele</div> -<div class="verse">All Paines, that are in <i>Sense</i>, and <i>Reason</i> found.</div> -<div class="verse">For, neither doth black Night, more swiftly follow,</div> -<div class="verse">Declining <i>Day-light</i>: Nor, with Nimbler Motion</div> -<div class="verse">Can <i>waves</i>, each other, downe their Channell follow,</div> -<div class="verse">From high-rais'd <i>Mountaines</i>, to the bigg-womb'd <i>Ocean</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then, <i>Iustice</i> will, when she doth once begin,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To prosecute, an <i>Vnrepented-Sin</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When wee have greatest <em class="upright">Griefes</em> and <em class="upright">Feares</em>,<br /> -Then, <em class="upright">Consolation</em> sweet'st appeares.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_8_2" id="Ill_8_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_8_2t"><img src="images/i_c_070.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_070c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, all the yeare, our fields are fresh and greene,</div> -<div class="verse">And, while sweet <i>Flowers</i>, and <i>Sunshine</i>, every day,</div> -<div class="verse">(As oft, as need requireth) come betweene</div> -<div class="verse">The Heav'ns and earth; they heedles passe away.</div> -<div class="verse">The fulnes, and continuance, of a blessing,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth make us to be senseles of the good:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if it sometime flie not our possessing,</div> -<div class="verse">The sweetnesse of it, is not understood.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Had wee no <i>Winter</i>, <i>Sommer</i> would be thought</div> -<div class="verse">Not halfe so pleasing: And, if <i>Tempests</i> were not,</div> -<div class="verse">Such Comforts could not by a <i>Calme</i>, be brought:</div> -<div class="verse">For, things, save by their <i>Opposites</i>, appeare not.</div> -<div class="verse">Both <i>health</i>, and <i>wealth</i>, is tastles unto some;</div> -<div class="verse">And, so is <i>ease</i>, and every other <i>pleasure</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Till <i>poore</i>, or <i>sicke</i>, or <i>grieved</i>, they become:</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, they relish these, in ampler measure.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>God</i>, therefore (full as <i>kinde</i>, as he is <i>wise</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">So tempreth all the <i>Favours</i> he will doe us,</div> -<div class="verse">That, wee, his <i>Bounties</i>, may the better prize;</div> -<div class="verse">And, make his <i>Chastisements</i> lesse bitter to us.</div> -<div class="verse">One while, a scorching <i>Indignation</i> burnes</div> -<div class="verse">The Flowers and Blosomes of our <span class="smcap">Hopes</span>, away;</div> -<div class="verse">Which into <i>Scarsitie</i>, our <i>Plentie</i> turnes,</div> -<div class="verse">And, changeth <i>vnmowne-Grasse</i> to <i>parched-Hay</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Anon, his fruitfull <i>showres</i>, and pleasing <i>dewes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Commixt with cheerefull <i>Rayes</i>, he sendeth downe;</div> -<div class="verse">And then the Barren-earth her cropp renewes,</div> -<div class="verse">Which with rich Harvests, Hills, and Vallies Crowne:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, as to relish <i>Ioyes</i>, he sorrow sends,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, Comfort on <i>Temptation</i>, still, attends.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -To brawle for <em class="upright">Gaine</em>, the <em class="upright">Cocke</em> doth sleight;<br /> -But, for his <em class="upright">Females</em>, he will fight.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_9_2" id="Ill_9_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_9_2t"><img src="images/i_c_071.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IX.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_071c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome, are so <i>quarrellous</i>, that they will draw,</div> -<div class="verse">And <i>Brawle</i>, and <i>Fight</i>, for every toy they see;</div> -<div class="verse">Grow furious, for the wagging of a straw;</div> -<div class="verse">And, (otherwile) for lesse then that may be.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, are more staid, a little, and will beare,</div> -<div class="verse">Apparent wrongs (which to their face you doe;)</div> -<div class="verse">But, when they <i>Lye</i>, they cannot brooke to heare</div> -<div class="verse">That any should be bold to tell them so.</div> -<div class="verse">Another sort, I know, that <i>blowes</i> will take,</div> -<div class="verse">Put up the <i>Lye</i>, and give men leave to say</div> -<div class="verse">What words they please; till spoile they seeke to make</div> -<div class="verse">Of their estates; And, then, they'le kill and slay.</div> -<div class="verse">But, of all <i>Hacksters</i>, farre the fiercest are</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Cockrills of the game</i>, (Sir <i>Cupid's</i> knights)</div> -<div class="verse">Who, (on their foolish <i>Coxcombes</i>) often weare</div> -<div class="verse">The Scarres they get in their <i>Venerean-fights</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Take heede of these; for, you may pacifie</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>first</i>, by time: The <i>second</i>, will be pleas'd</div> -<div class="verse">If you submit, or else your words denie;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>third</i>, by satisfaction, are appeas'd:</div> -<div class="verse">But, he that for his <i>Female</i>, takes offence,</div> -<div class="verse">Through Iealousy, or madnesse, rageth so;</div> -<div class="verse">That, he accepteth of no recompence,</div> -<div class="verse">Till he hath wrought his <i>Rivals</i> overthrow.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such Fury, shun; and, shunne their Vulgar minde,</div> -<div class="verse">Who for base trash despitefully contend;</div> -<div class="verse">But, (when a just occasion, thou shalt finde)</div> -<div class="verse">Thy Vertuous <i>Mistresse</i>, lawfully defend.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, he, that in such cases turnes his face,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Is held a <i>Capon</i>, of a Dunghill Race.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -If <em class="upright">Safely</em>, thou desire to goe,<br /> -Bee nor too <em class="upright">swift</em>, nor <em class="upright">overflow</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_10_2" id="Ill_10_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_10_2t"><img src="images/i_c_072.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. X.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_072c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="O" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">O</span>Vr <i>Elders</i>, when their meaning was to shew</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>native-speedinesse</i> (in Emblem wise)</div> -<div class="verse">The picture of a <i>Dolphin-Fish</i> they drew;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, through the waters, with great swiftnesse, flies.</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Anchor</i>, they did figure, to declare</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Hope</i>, <i>stayednesse</i>, or a <i>grave-deliberation</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And therefore when those two, united are,</div> -<div class="verse">It giveth us a two-fold Intimation.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as the <i>Dolphin</i> putteth us in minde,</div> -<div class="verse">That in the Courses, which we have to make,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee should not be, to <i>slothfulnesse</i> enclin'd;</div> -<div class="verse">But, swift to follow what we undertake:</div> -<div class="verse">So, by an <i>Anchor</i> added thereunto,</div> -<div class="verse">Inform'd wee are, that, to maintaine our <i>speed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Hope</i>, must bee joyn'd therewith (in all we doe)</div> -<div class="verse">If wee will undiscouraged proceed.</div> -<div class="verse">It sheweth (also) that, our <i>speedinesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Must have some <i>staydnesse</i>; lest, when wee suppose</div> -<div class="verse">To prosecute our aymes with good successe,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee may, by <i>Rashnesse</i>, good endeavors lose.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They worke, with most securitie, that know</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Times</i>, and best <i>Occasions</i> of <i>delay</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">When, likewise, to be neither <i>swift</i>, nor <i>slow</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when to practise all the <i>speed</i>, they may.</div> -<div class="verse">For, whether calme, or stormie-passages,</div> -<div class="verse">(Through this life's <i>Ocean</i>) shall their <i>Bark</i> attend;</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>double Vertue</i>, will procure their ease:</div> -<div class="verse">And, them, in all necessities, befriend.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By <i>Speedinesse</i>, our works are timely wrought;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By <i>Staydnesse</i>, they, to passe are, safely, brought.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -They that in <em class="upright">Hope</em>, and <em class="upright">Silence</em>, live,<br /> -The best <em class="upright">Contentment</em>, may atchive.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_11_2" id="Ill_11_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_11_2t"><img src="images/i_c_073.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_073c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>F thou desire to cherish true <i>Content</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And in a troublous time that course to take,</div> -<div class="verse">Which may be likely mischieves to prevent,</div> -<div class="verse">Some use, of this our <i>Hieroglyphick</i>, make.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Fryers Habit</i>, seemeth to import,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou (as ancient <i>Monkes</i> and <i>Fryers</i> did)</div> -<div class="verse">Shouldst live remote, from places of resort,</div> -<div class="verse">And, in <i>retyrednesse</i>, lye closely hid.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>clasped-Booke</i>, doth warne thee, to retaine</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>thoughts</i> within the compasse of thy breast;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in a quiet <i>silence</i> to remaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, thy minde may safely be exprest.</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Anchor</i>, doth informe thee, that thou must</div> -<div class="verse">Walke on in <i>Hope</i>; and, in thy Pilgrimage,</div> -<div class="verse">Beare up (without <i>despairing</i> or <i>distrust</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Those wrongs, and sufferings, which attend thine <i>Age</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, whensoere <i>Oppression</i> groweth rife,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Obscurenesse</i>, is more safe than <i>Eminence</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Hee, that then keepes his <i>Tongue</i>, may keepe his <i>Life</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Till Times will better favour <i>Innocence</i>.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Truth</i> spoken where <i>untruth</i> is more approved,</div> -<div class="verse">Will but enrage the malice of thy foes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, otherwhile, a wicked man is moved</div> -<div class="verse">To cease from wrong, if no man him oppose.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let this our <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, counsell thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy life in safe <i>Retyrednesse</i>, to spend:</div> -<div class="verse">Let, in thy breast, thy thoughts reserved bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Till thou art layd, where none can thee offend.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, whilst most others, give their <i>Fancie scope</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Enjoy thy selfe, in <i>Silence</i>, and in <i>Hope</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Let none despaire of their Estate,<br /> -For, <em class="upright">Prudence</em>, greater is, than <em class="upright">Fate</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_12_2" id="Ill_12_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_12_2t"><img src="images/i_c_074.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_074c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="B" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">B</span>Ee <i>merry</i> man, and let no causelesse feare</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Constellation</i>, fatall <i>Destinie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or of those false <i>Decrees</i>, that publish'd are</div> -<div class="verse">By foolish braines, thy <i>Conscience</i> terrifie.</div> -<div class="verse">To thee, these <i>Figures</i> better Doctrines teach,</div> -<div class="verse">Than those blind <i>Stoikes</i>, who necessitate</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Contingent things</i>; and, arrogantly teach</div> -<div class="verse">(For doubtlesse truths) their dreames of changelesse <i>Fate</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Though true it bee, that those things which pertaine,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Ground-workes</i>, to <i>Gods</i> glorie, and our blisse,</div> -<div class="verse">Are fixt, for aye, unchanged to remaine;</div> -<div class="verse">All, is not such, that thereon builded is.</div> -<div class="verse">God, gives men power, to build on his <i>Foundation</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if their <i>workes</i> bee thereunto agreeing,</div> -<div class="verse">No <i>Power-created</i>, brings that Variation,</div> -<div class="verse">Which can disturbe, the <i>Workmans</i> happy being.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, of those <i>workings</i>, which required are,</div> -<div class="verse">Is any made unpossible, untill</div> -<div class="verse">Mans heart begins that <i>Counsell</i> to preferre,</div> -<div class="verse">Which is derived from a <i>crooked-will</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Starres</i>, and many other things, incline</div> -<div class="verse">Our nat'rall <i>Constitutions</i>, divers wayes;</div> -<div class="verse">But, in the Soule, <i>God</i> plac'd a <i>Power-divine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, all those <i>Inclinations</i>, overswayes.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, <i>God</i>, that <i>Prudence</i>, hath infus'd, by <i>Grace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, till <i>Selfe-will</i>, and <i>Lust</i>, betrayes a man,</div> -<div class="verse">Will keepe him firmely, in that happy place,</div> -<div class="verse">From whence, no <i>Constellation</i> move him can.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, this is that, whereof I notice take,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From this great <i>Starre</i>, enclosed by a <i>Snake</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Their <em class="upright">Friendship</em> firme will ever bide,<br /> -Whose hands unto the <em class="upright">Crosse</em> are tide.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_13_2" id="Ill_13_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_13_2t"><img src="images/i_c_075.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_075c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen first I knew the world, (and was untaught</div> -<div class="verse">By tryde experience, what true <i>Friendship</i> meant)</div> -<div class="verse">That I had many <i>faithfull friends</i>, I thought;</div> -<div class="verse">And, of their Love, was wondrous confident.</div> -<div class="verse">For, few so young in yeares, and meane in fortune,</div> -<div class="verse">Of their <i>Familiars</i>, had such troopes, as I,</div> -<div class="verse">Who did their daily fellowship importune;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, seeme so pleased in their company.</div> -<div class="verse">In all their friendly meetings, I was one;</div> -<div class="verse">And, of the <i>Quorum</i>, in their honest game:</div> -<div class="verse">By day or night, I seldome sate alone;</div> -<div class="verse">And, welcome seemed, wheresoere I came.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, where are now those multitudes of <i>Friends</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Alas! they on a sudden flasht away.</div> -<div class="verse">Their love begun, but, for some sensuall ends,</div> -<div class="verse">Which fayling them, it would no longer stay.</div> -<div class="verse">If I to vaine expences, would have mov'd them,</div> -<div class="verse">They, nor their <i>paines</i>, nor <i>purses</i>, would have spared;</div> -<div class="verse">But, in a reall need, if I had prov'd them,</div> -<div class="verse">Small showes of kindnesse, had bin then declared.</div> -<div class="verse">Of thrice three thousands, two, perhaps, or three,</div> -<div class="verse">Are left me now, which (yet) as <i>Friends</i> I prize;</div> -<div class="verse">But, none of them, of that great number be,</div> -<div class="verse">With whom I had my youthfull Iollities.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If, therefore, thou desire a <i>Friend</i>, on Earth,</div> -<div class="verse">Let one <i>pure-faith</i> betwixt you bee begot,</div> -<div class="verse">And, seeke him not, in <i>vanities</i>, or <i>mirth</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, let <i>Afflictions</i> tye your <i>true-love-knot</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, they who to the <i>Crosse</i>, are firmely tyde,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Will fast, and everlasting <i>Friends</i>, abide.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Candle</em> that affords no <em class="upright">light</em>,<br /> -What profits it, by Day, or Night?</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_14_2" id="Ill_14_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_14_2t"><img src="images/i_c_076.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_076c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Here be of those in every <i>Common-weale</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom to this <i>Emblem</i> we resemble may;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Name</i> of none I purpose to reveale,</div> -<div class="verse">But, their <i>Condition</i>, heere, I will display.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, both by gifts of <i>Nature</i>, and of <i>Grace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are so prepared, that, they might be fit</div> -<div class="verse">To stand as <i>Lights</i>, in profitable place;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, loose their <i>Talent</i>, by neglecting it.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, to the <i>common Grace</i>, and <i>nat'rall parts</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(By helpe of <i>Nurture</i>, and good <i>Discipline</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Have added an accomplishment of <i>Arts</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, their <i>Light</i> may much the brighter shine.</div> -<div class="verse">Some others, have to this, acquired more:</div> -<div class="verse">For, to maintaine their <i>Lampe</i>, in giving light,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Waxe</i>, and <i>Oyle</i>, and <i>Fatnesse</i>, they have store,</div> -<div class="verse">Which over-flowes unto them, day and night.</div> -<div class="verse">And, ev'n as <i>Lampes</i>, or <i>Candles</i>, on a Table,</div> -<div class="verse">(Or, fixt on golden <i>Candlesticks</i>, on high)</div> -<div class="verse">To light <i>Assemblies</i>, Great and Honourable,</div> -<div class="verse">They, oft, have (also) place of <i>Dignitie</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">By meanes of which, their <i>Splendor</i> might become</div> -<div class="verse">His praise, who those high favours did bequeath:</div> -<div class="verse">They might encrease the <i>Light</i> of <i>Christendome</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, make them see, who sit in shades of <i>Death</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, many of them, like those <i>Candles</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">That stand unlighted in a <i>Branch</i> of gold:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by their helpe wee nothing more can see,</div> -<div class="verse">Than wee in grossest darknesse, may behold.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If such there be, (as there bee such, I feare)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The question is, <i>For what good use they are</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Sacrifice</em>, God loveth best,<br /> -Are <em class="upright">Broken-hearts</em>, for <em class="upright">Sin</em>, opprest.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_15_2" id="Ill_15_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_15_2t"><img src="images/i_c_077.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XV.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_077c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="N" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">N</span>O Age, hath had a people, to professe</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Religion</i>, with a shew of holinesse,</div> -<div class="verse">Beyond these times; nor, did men <i>sacrifice</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">According to their foolish fantasies,</div> -<div class="verse">More oft than at this present. One, bestowes</div> -<div class="verse">On <i>pious-workes</i>, the hundreth part, of those</div> -<div class="verse">Ill-gotten goods, which from the poore he seazed,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thinkes his <i>God</i>, in that, is highly pleased.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Another, of her dues, the <i>Church</i> bereaves:</div> -<div class="verse">And, yet, himselfe a holy man conceives,</div> -<div class="verse">(Yea, and right bountifull) if hee can spare</div> -<div class="verse">From those his thefts, the tenth, or twentieth share,</div> -<div class="verse">To some new <i>Lecture</i>; or, a <i>Chaplaine</i> keepe,</div> -<div class="verse">To please <i>Himselfe</i>, or, preach his <i>Wife</i> asleepe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Some others, thinke they bring sincere <i>Oblations</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">When, fir'd with zeale, they roare out <i>Imprecations</i></div> -<div class="verse">Against all those, whom wicked they repute:</div> -<div class="verse">And, when to <i>God</i>, they tender any sute,</div> -<div class="verse">They dreame to merit what they would obtaine,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>praying-long</i>, with Repetitions vaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">With many other such like <i>Sacrifices</i></div> -<div class="verse">Men come <i>to God</i>: but, he such <i>gifts</i> despises:</div> -<div class="verse">For, neither <i>gifts</i>, nor <i>workes</i>, nor <i>any thing</i></div> -<div class="verse">(Which we can either <i>doe</i>, or <i>say</i>, or <i>bring</i>,)</div> -<div class="verse">Accepted is of <i>God</i>; untill he finde</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Spirit-humbled</i>, and a <i>troubled-minde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>contrite Heart</i>, is that, and, that alone,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>God</i> with love, and pitie, lookes upon.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such he affects; therefore (<i>Oh Lord</i>) to thee;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such, let my <i>Heart</i>, and, such, my <i>Spirit</i> bee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">King</em>, that prudently Commands,<br /> -Becomes the glory of his <em class="upright">Lands</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_16_2" id="Ill_16_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_16_2t"><img src="images/i_c_078.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_078c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Royall-Scepter</i>, Kingly power, implyes;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Crowne-Imperiall</i>, <span class="smcap">Glorie</span>, signifies:</div> -<div class="verse">And, by <i>these</i> joyn'd in one, we understand,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>King</i>, that is an honour to his <i>Land</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Kingdome</i>, is not alwaies eminent,</div> -<div class="verse">By having Confines of a large <i>extent</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Povertie</i>, and <i>Barbarousnesse</i>, are found</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n in some large <i>Dominions</i>, to abound:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, is it <i>Wealth</i>, which gets a <i>glorious-Name</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, then, those <i>Lands</i> would spread the widest <i>Fame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">From whence we fetch the <i>Gold</i> and <i>Silver-ore</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, where we gather <i>Pearles</i> upon the shore:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, have those <i>Countries</i> highest exaltations,</div> -<div class="verse">Which breed the strongest, and the Warlikst <i>Nations</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, proud of their owne powre, they sometimes grow,</div> -<div class="verse">And quarrell, till <i>themselves</i> they overthrow.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, doe the chiefest <i>glories</i>, of a <i>Land</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In many <i>Cities</i>, or much <i>People</i>, stand:</div> -<div class="verse">For, then, those <i>Kingdomes</i>, most renowned were,</div> -<div class="verse">In which <i>Vnchristian Kings</i>, and, <i>Tyrants</i> are.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It is the <i>King</i> by whom a <i>Realme's</i> renowne,</div> -<div class="verse">Is either builded up, or overthrowne.</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Solomon</i>, more fam'd was <i>Iudah</i> made,</div> -<div class="verse">Then, by the Multitude of men it had:</div> -<div class="verse">Great <i>Alexander</i>, glorified <i>Greece</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Throughout the World, which, else had bene a piece</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps obscure; And, <i>Cæsar</i> added more</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Rome</i>, then all her greatnesse did before.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Grant, <em class="upright">Lord</em>, these <em class="upright">Iles</em>, for ever may be blessed,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">With what, in this our <em class="upright">Emblem</em> is expressed.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">Studie</em>, and by <em class="upright">Watchfulnesse</em>,<br /> -The Jemme of <em class="upright">Knowledge</em>, we possesse.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_17_2" id="Ill_17_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_17_2t"><img src="images/i_c_079.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_079c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span> Thinke you would be wise; for, most men seeme</div> -<div class="verse">To make of <i>Knowledge</i> very great esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse">If such be your desires, this <i>Emblem</i> view;</div> -<div class="verse">And, marke how well the <i>Figures</i>, counsell you.</div> -<div class="verse">Wee by the Bird of <i>Athens</i>, doe expresse,</div> -<div class="verse">That painefull, and that usefull <i>watchfulnesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which ought to bee enjoyned, unto them,</div> -<div class="verse">Who seeke a place, in <i>Wisdomes</i> Academ.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as an <i>Owle</i> mewes up her selfe by <i>Day</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And watcheth in the <i>Night</i>, to get her prey;</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n so, good <i>Students</i>, neither must be such,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>daily</i> gad; or <i>nightly</i> sleepe too much.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That <i>open-booke</i>, on which the <i>Owle</i> is perch'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Affords a <i>Morall</i>, worthy to be search'd:</div> -<div class="verse">For, it informes, and, darkly doth advise,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Watchings</i> be not after Vanities;</div> -<div class="verse">(Or, like their <i>Wakings</i>, who turne dayes to nights,</div> -<div class="verse">In following their unlawfull appetites)</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, in keeping Home, you doe not spend</div> -<div class="verse">Your houres in sloth, or, to some fruitlesse end.</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather in good <i>Studies</i>; and, in that,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, true <i>Knowledge</i>, is arrived at.</div> -<div class="verse">For, if your <i>Studies</i>, and your <i>Wakings</i>, bee</div> -<div class="verse">To this intent; you shall that <i>Path-way</i> see</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Wisdome</i>, and to <i>Honour</i>, which was found,</div> -<div class="verse">Of them, whose <i>Knowledge</i> hath been most renownd.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if your <i>Watchings</i>, and <i>Retyrednesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Be for your <i>Lust</i>, or, out of <i>Sottishnesse</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">You are not, what th' <i>Athenian-Owle</i> implies,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, what our <i>English-Owlet</i> signifies.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When <em class="upright">Mars</em>, and <em class="upright">Pallas</em>, doe agree,<br /> -Great workes, by them, effected bee.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_18_2" id="Ill_18_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_18_2t"><img src="images/i_c_080.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_080c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>T prospers ever best, in all Estates,</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Mars</i> and <i>Pallas</i> are continuall Mates.</div> -<div class="verse">And, those affaires but seldome luckie be,</div> -<div class="verse">In which, these needfull <i>Powers</i>, doe not agree.</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Common-wealth</i>, in which, good <i>Arts</i> are found</div> -<div class="verse">Without a <i>Guard</i>, will soone receive a wound:</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Souldiers</i>, where <i>good-order</i> beares no sway,</div> -<div class="verse">Will, very quickly, rout themselves away.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Moreover, in our private Actions too,</div> -<div class="verse">There must bee both a <i>Knowledge</i>, how to doe</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>worke</i> propos'd; and <i>strength</i> to finish it;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, wee shall profit little by our <i>Wit</i>.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Discretion</i> takes effect, where <i>Vigour</i> failes;</div> -<div class="verse">Where <i>Cunning</i> speeds not, <i>outward-force</i> prevailes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, otherwhile, the prize pertaines to neither,</div> -<div class="verse">Till they have joyn'd their <i>Vertues</i> both together.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Consider this; and, as occasions are,</div> -<div class="verse">To both of these your due respects declare.</div> -<div class="verse">Delight not so in <i>Arts</i>, to purchase harmes</div> -<div class="verse">By Negligence, or Ignorance of <i>Armes</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">If <i>Martiall-Discipline</i> thou shalt affect;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, doe not <i>honest-Policie</i>, neglect.</div> -<div class="verse">Improve thy <i>Minde</i>, as much as e're thou may;</div> -<div class="verse">But foole thou not thy <i>Bodies</i> gifts away.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Vertues</i> both of <i>Body</i>, and of <i>Mind</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are, still, to be regarded in their kind.</div> -<div class="verse">And, wee should neither of the two disgrace;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, either of them, raise above his place:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, when these two wee value as wee ought,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Great works, by their <i>joynt-power</i>, to passe are brought.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -They, after <em class="upright">suffring</em>, shall be <em class="upright">crown'd</em>,<br /> -In whom, a <em class="upright">Constant-faith</em>, is found.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_19_2" id="Ill_19_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_19_2t"><img src="images/i_c_081.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIX.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_081c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="M" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">M</span>Arke well this <i>Emblem</i>; and, observe you thence</div> -<div class="verse">The nature of true <i>Christian-confidence</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Her <i>Foot</i> is fixed on a <i>squared-Stone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, whether side soe're you turne it on,</div> -<div class="verse">Stands fast; and, is that <i>Corner-stone</i>, which props,</div> -<div class="verse">And firmely knits the structure of our <i>Hopes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Shee</i>, alwayes, beares a <i>Crosse</i>; to signifie,</div> -<div class="verse">That, there was never any <i>Constancie</i></div> -<div class="verse">Without her <i>Tryalls</i>: and, that, her perfection,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall never be attain'd, without <i>Affliction</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Cup</i> shee hath, moreover, in her hand;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by that <i>Figure</i>, thou mayst understand,</div> -<div class="verse">That, shee hath draughts of <i>Comfort</i>, alwayes neere her,</div> -<div class="verse">(At ev'ry brunt) to strengthen, and to cheare her.</div> -<div class="verse">And, loe, <i>her</i> head is <i>crown'd</i>; that, we may see</div> -<div class="verse">How great, her <i>Glories</i>, and <i>Rewards</i>, will be.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Hereby, this <i>Vertue's</i> nature may be knowne:</div> -<div class="verse">Now, practise, how to make the same thine owne.</div> -<div class="verse">Discourag'd be not, though thou art pursu'd</div> -<div class="verse">With many wrongs, which cannot be eschew'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor yeeld thou to <i>Despairing</i>, though thou hast</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Crosse</i> (which threatens death) to be embrac't;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, though thou be compell'd to swallow up,</div> -<div class="verse">The very dregs, of <i>Sorrowes</i> bitter <i>Cup</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, whensoever griefes, or torments, paine thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou hast the same <i>Foundation</i> to sustaine thee:</div> -<div class="verse">The selfe same <i>Cup</i> of <i>Comfort</i>, is prepared</div> -<div class="verse">To give thee strength, when <i>fainting-fits</i> are feared:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when thy <i>time of tryall</i>, is expired,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thou shalt obtaine the <i>Crowne</i>, thou hast desired.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Love</em>, a <em class="upright">Musician</em> is profest,<br /> -And, of all <em class="upright">Musicke</em>, is the best.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_20_2" id="Ill_20_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_20_2t"><img src="images/i_c_082.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XX.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_082c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>F to his thoughts my <i>Comments</i> have assented,</div> -<div class="verse">By whom the following <i>Emblem</i> was <i>invented</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">I'le hereby teach you (<i>Ladies</i>) to discover</div> -<div class="verse">A true-bred <i>Cupid</i>, from a fained <i>Lover</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, shew (if you have Wooers) which be they,</div> -<div class="verse">That worth'est are to beare your <i>Hearts</i> away.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">As is the <i>Boy</i>, which, here, you pictured see,</div> -<div class="verse">Let them be <i>young</i>, or let them, rather, be</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>suiting-yeares</i> (which is instead of <i>youth</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">And, wooe you in the <i>nakednesse</i>, of <i>Truth</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Not in the common and disguised <i>Clothes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Mimick-gestures</i>, <i>Complements</i>, and <i>Oathes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Let them be <i>winged</i> with a swift <i>Desire</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, not with <i>slow-affections</i>, that will tyre.</div> -<div class="verse">But, looke to this, as to the principall,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Love</i> doe make them truly <i>Musicall</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Love's</i> a good <i>Musician</i>; and, will show</div> -<div class="verse">How, every faithfull <i>Lover</i> may be so.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Each <i>word</i> he speakes, will presently appeare</div> -<div class="verse">To be melodious <i>Raptures</i> in your eare:</div> -<div class="verse">Each <i>gesture</i> of his body, when he moves,</div> -<div class="verse">Will seeme to <i>play</i>, or <i>sing</i>, a <i>Song of Loves</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">The very <i>lookes</i>, and <i>motions</i> of his eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">Will touch your <i>Heart-strings</i>, with sweet <i>Harmonies</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if the <i>Name</i> of him, be but exprest,</div> -<div class="verse">T'will cause a thousand <i>quaverings</i> in your breast.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, ev'n those <i>Discords</i>, which occasion'd are,</div> -<div class="verse">Will make your <i>Musicke</i>, much the sweeter, farre.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, such a mooving <i>Diapason</i> strike,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">As none but <i>Love</i>, can ever play the like.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Thy <em class="upright">seeming-Lover</em>, false will bee,<br /> -And, love thy <em class="upright">Money</em>, more than <em class="upright">Thee</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_21_2" id="Ill_21_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_21_2t"><img src="images/i_c_083.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_083c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hat may the reason be, so many wed,</div> -<div class="verse">And misse the blessings of a <i>joyfull-Bed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But those ungodly, and improper ends,</div> -<div class="verse">For which, this Age most <i>Marriages</i> intends?</div> -<div class="verse">Some, love <i>plumpe flesh</i>; and, those as kinde will be</div> -<div class="verse">To any gamesome <i>Wanton</i>, as to thee.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, doate on <i>Honours</i>; and, all such will prize</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Person</i>, meerely, for thy <i>Dignities</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, fancy <i>Pleasures</i>; and, such <i>Flirts</i> as they,</div> -<div class="verse">With ev'ry <i>Hobby-horse</i>, will runne away.</div> -<div class="verse">Some (like this <i>Couple</i> in our <i>Emblem</i>, here)</div> -<div class="verse">Wooe hard for <i>Wealth</i>; and, very kind appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">Till they have wonne their prize: but, then they show</div> -<div class="verse">On what their best <i>Affections</i> they bestow.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Wealth</i>, is that sweet <i>Beautie</i>, which preferres</div> -<div class="verse">So many to their <i>Executioners</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">This, is that rare <i>Perfection</i>, for whose sake,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Politician</i>, doth his <i>Marriage</i>, make.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, most of those whom you shall married find,</div> -<div class="verse">Were cousned, (or did cousen) in this kind;</div> -<div class="verse">And, for some <i>by-spects</i>, they came together,</div> -<div class="verse">Much more, than for the sakes, of one another.</div> -<div class="verse">If this concernes thee, now, in any sense;</div> -<div class="verse">For thy instruction, take this warning hence:</div> -<div class="verse">If thou hast err'd already, then, lament</div> -<div class="verse">Thy passed crime, and, beare thy punishment.</div> -<div class="verse">If thou, as yet, but tempted art to erre;</div> -<div class="verse">Then, let this <i>Emblem</i> be thy <i>Counsellor</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, I have said my mind; which, if thou slight,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Goe, and repent it, on thy <i>wedding night</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Give <em class="upright">Credit</em>; but, first, well beware,<br /> -Before thou <em class="upright">trust</em> them, <em class="upright">who they are</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_22_2" id="Ill_22_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_22_2t"><img src="images/i_c_084.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_084c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span> Rather would (because it seemeth just)</div> -<div class="verse">Deceived be, than causelesly distrust:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>whom</i> I credited; and, then, how <i>farre</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Bee <i>Cautions</i>, which I thought worth heeding were:</div> -<div class="verse">And, had not this been taught me long agone,</div> -<div class="verse">I had been poorer, if not quite undone.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, others to such warinesse, may come,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i>, here, hath filled up a roome;</div> -<div class="verse">And, though a vulgar <i>Figure</i>, it may seeme,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morall</i>, of it, meriteth esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Seeing-Palme</i>, (endowed with an <i>Eye</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And handling of a <i>Heart</i>) may signifie</div> -<div class="verse">What warie <i>Watchfulnesse</i>, observe we must,</div> -<div class="verse">Before we venter on a weightie <i>Trust</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, to keepe our <i>kindnesse</i> from abuse,</div> -<div class="verse">There is of <i>double-diligence</i>, an use.</div> -<div class="verse">Mens hearts, are growne so false, that most are loath</div> -<div class="verse">To trust each others <i>Words</i>, or <i>Bands</i>, or <i>Oath</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, though wee had in every part an <i>Eye</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">We could not search out all <i>Hypocrisie</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, by our utmost providence, perceive</div> -<div class="verse">How many wayes, are open to deceive.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Now, then (although perhaps thou art so wise,</div> -<div class="verse">To know already, what I would advise)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet may this <i>Emblem</i>, or this <i>Motto</i>, bee</div> -<div class="verse">Instead of some <i>Remembrancer</i>, to thee.</div> -<div class="verse">So, take it therefore; And, be sure, if either</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Warning</i>, or thy <i>Wit</i>, (or both together)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Can, still, secure thee from <i>deceitfull-hearts</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thy <i>luck</i> exceedeth all thy other parts.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Hee, that on <em class="upright">Earthly-things</em>, doth trust,<br /> -Dependeth, upon <em class="upright">Smoake</em>, and <em class="upright">Dust</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_23_2" id="Ill_23_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_23_2t"><img src="images/i_c_085.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_085c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="L" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><i><span class="hidden">L</span>Ord!</i> what a coyle is here! and what a puther,</div> -<div class="verse">To save and get? to scratch and scrape together</div> -<div class="verse">The Rubbish of the world? and, to acquire</div> -<div class="verse">Those vanities, which <i>Fancie</i> doth desire?</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Violence</i> is used, and what <i>Cunning</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">What nightly <i>Watchings</i>, and what daily <i>Running</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>sorrowes</i> felt? what <i>difficulties</i> entred?</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>losses</i> hazarded? what <i>perills</i> ventred?</div> -<div class="verse">And, still, how sottishly, doe wee persever</div> -<div class="verse">(By all the power, and meanes wee can endeaver)</div> -<div class="verse">To wheele our selves, in a perpetuall <i>Round</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In quest of that, which never will be found?</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Objects</i>, here on <i>Earth</i>, we seeke to finde</div> -<div class="verse">That perfect sollidnesse, which is confinde,</div> -<div class="verse">To things in <i>Heaven</i>, though every day we see,</div> -<div class="verse">What emptinesse, and faylings, in them be.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To teach us better; this, our <i>Emblem</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Assayes to make terrestriall things appeare</div> -<div class="verse">The same they be, (both to our eares and eyes)</div> -<div class="verse">That, wee may rightly their Condition prize.</div> -<div class="verse">The best, which of earths <i>best things</i>, wee can say,</div> -<div class="verse">Is this; that they are <i>Grasse</i>, and will be <i>Hay</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The rest, may be resembled to the <i>Smoke</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which doth but either blind the sight, or choke)</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, to that uncleanly <i>Mushrum-ball</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, in some Countries, wee a <i>Puff-foyst</i> call;</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>out-side</i>, is a nastie rotten <i>skin</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Containing durt, or smoking-dust, <i>within</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This is my <i>mind</i>; if wrong you thinke I've done them,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Be <i>Fooles</i>; and, at your perils, dote upon them.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -I beare, about mee, all my store;<br /> -And, yet, a <em class="upright">King</em> enjoyes not more.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_24_2" id="Ill_24_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_24_2t"><img src="images/i_c_086.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_086c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Emblem</i> is a <i>Torteise</i>, whose owne shell</div> -<div class="verse">Becomes that <i>house</i>, where he doth rent-free dwell;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in what place soever hee resides,</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Arched-Lodging</i>, on his backe abides.</div> -<div class="verse">There is, moreover, found a kind of these,</div> -<div class="verse">That live both on the shore, and in the Seas;</div> -<div class="verse">For which respects, the <i>Torteise</i> represents</div> -<div class="verse">That man, who in himselfe, hath full contents;</div> -<div class="verse">And (by the <i>Vertues</i> lodging in his minde)</div> -<div class="verse">Can all things needfull, in all places, finde.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To such a <i>Man</i>, what ever doth betide;</div> -<div class="verse">From him, his <i>Treasures</i>, nothing can divide.</div> -<div class="verse">If of his <i>outward-meanes</i>, Theeves make a prise;</div> -<div class="verse">Hee, more occasion hath to exercise</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>inward-Riches</i>: and, they prove a <i>Wealth</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">More usefull, and lesse lyable to stealth.</div> -<div class="verse">If, any at his harmelesse person strike;</div> -<div class="verse">Himselfe hee streight contracteth, <i>Torteis-like</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To make the <i>Shell</i> of <i>Suffrance</i>, his defence;</div> -<div class="verse">And, counts it <i>Life</i>, to die with <i>Innocence</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">If, hee, by hunger, heat, or cold, be payn'd;</div> -<div class="verse">If, hee, be slaundred, sleighted, or disdayn'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Hee, alwayes keepes and carries, that, within him,</div> -<div class="verse">Which may, from those things, <i>ease</i> and <i>comfort</i>, win him.</div> -<div class="verse">When, him uncloathed, or unhous'd, you see;</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Resolutions</i>, clothes and houses bee,</div> -<div class="verse">That keepe him safer; and, farre warmer too,</div> -<div class="verse">Than <i>Palaces</i>, and princely <i>Robes</i>, can doe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">God give mee <em class="upright">wealth</em>, that hath so little Cumber;</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">And, much good doo't the <em class="upright">World</em> with all her Lumber.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -To <em class="upright">Learning</em>, J a love should have,<br /> -Although one foot were in the <em class="upright">Grave</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_25_2" id="Ill_25_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_25_2t"><img src="images/i_c_087.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXV.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_087c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="H" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">H</span>Ere, we an <i>Aged-man</i> described have,</div> -<div class="verse">That hath <i>one foot</i>, already, in the <i>Grave</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if you marke it (though the <i>Sunne</i> decline,</div> -<div class="verse">And horned <i>Cynthia</i> doth begin to shine)</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>open-booke</i>, and, with attentive eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">Himselfe, to compasse <i>Knowledge</i>, he applyes:</div> -<div class="verse">And, though that <i>Evening</i>, end his last of dayes,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Yet, I will study, more to learne</i>, he sayes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From this, we gather, that, while time doth last,</div> -<div class="verse">The time of <i>learning</i>, never will be past;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, each houre, till we our <i>life</i> lay downe,</div> -<div class="verse">Still, something, touching <i>life</i>, is to be knowne.</div> -<div class="verse">When he was old, wise <i>Cato</i> learned Greeke:</div> -<div class="verse">But, we have <i>aged-folkes</i>, that are to seeke</div> -<div class="verse">Of that, which they have much more cause to learne;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, no such minde in them, wee shall discerne.</div> -<div class="verse">For, that, which they should studie in their <i>prime</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Is, oft, deferred, till their <i>latter-time</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, <i>old-age</i>, unfit for <i>learning</i>, makes them,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, else, that common <i>dulnesse</i> overtakes them,</div> -<div class="verse">Which makes ashamed, that it should be thought,</div> -<div class="verse">They need, like <i>little-children</i>, to be taught.</div> -<div class="verse">And, so, out of this world, they doe returne</div> -<div class="verse">As wise, as in that weeke, when they were borne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">God, grant me grace, to spend my life-time so,</div> -<div class="verse italic">That I my duety still may seeke to <em class="upright">know</em>;</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, that, I never, may so farre proceed,</div> -<div class="verse italic">To thinke, that I, more <em class="upright">Knowledge</em>, doe not need:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">But, in <em class="upright">Experience</em>, may continue growing,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Till I am fill'd with fruits of pious-knowing.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Good-fortune</em>, will by those abide,<br /> -In whom, <em class="upright">True-vertue</em> doth reside.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_26_2" id="Ill_26_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_26_2t"><img src="images/i_c_088.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_088c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="M" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">M</span>Arke, how the <i>Cornucopias</i>, here, apply</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Plenties</i>, to the <i>Rod</i> of <i>Mercury</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And (if it seeme not needlesse) learne, to know</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Hieroglyphick's</i> meaning, ere you goe.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sages</i> old, by this <i>Mercurian-wand</i></div> -<div class="verse">(<i>Caducæus</i> nam'd) were wont to understand</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Art</i>, <i>Wisedome</i>, <i>Vertue</i>, and what else we finde,</div> -<div class="verse">Reputed for endowments of the <i>Minde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Cornucopias</i>, well-knowne <i>Emblems</i>, are,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, great <i>wealth</i>, and <i>plenties</i>, figur'd were;</div> -<div class="verse">And (if you joyne together, what they spell)</div> -<div class="verse">It will, to ev'ry Vnderstanding, tell,</div> -<div class="verse">That, where <i>Internall-Graces</i> may be found,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Eternall-blessings</i>, ever, will abound.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, this is <i>truth</i>, and (though some thoughts in you</div> -<div class="verse">Suggest, that this is, often times, untrue)</div> -<div class="verse">This, ever is the <i>truth</i>; and, they have got</div> -<div class="verse">Few right-form'd <i>Vertues</i>, who believe it not.</div> -<div class="verse">I will confesse, true <i>Vertue</i> hath not ever</div> -<div class="verse">All <i>Common-plenties</i>, for which most indeavour;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor have the <i>Perfect'st-Vertues</i>, those high places,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Knowledge</i>, <i>Arts</i> (and, such as have the faces</div> -<div class="verse">Of outward <i>beauty</i>) many times, attaine;</div> -<div class="verse">For, these are things, which (often) those men gaine,</div> -<div class="verse">That are more <i>flesh</i>, then <i>spirit</i>; and, have need</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>carnall-helpes</i>, till higher they proceede.</div> -<div class="verse">But, they, of whom I speake, are flowne so high,</div> -<div class="verse">As, not to want those <i>Toyes</i>, for which wee crye:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, I had showne you somewhat of their store,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, that, this <i>Page</i>, had roome to write no more.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Gospel</em>, thankefully imbrace;<br /> -For, <em class="upright">God</em>, vouchsafed us, this <em class="upright">Grace</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_27_2" id="Ill_27_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_27_2t"><img src="images/i_c_089.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_089c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His moderne <i>Emblem</i>, is a mute expressing</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Gods</i> great Mercies, in a <i>Moderne-blessing</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, gives me, now, just cause to sing his praise,</div> -<div class="verse">For granting me, my being, in these dayes.</div> -<div class="verse">The much-desired <i>Messages</i> of Heav'n,</div> -<div class="verse">For which, our <i>Fathers</i> would their lives have giv'n,</div> -<div class="verse">And (in <i>Groves</i>, <i>Caves</i>, and <i>Mountaines</i>, once a yeare)</div> -<div class="verse">Were glad, with hazard of their goods, to heare;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, in lesse bloudy times, at their owne homes,</div> -<div class="verse">To heare, in private, and obscured roomes.</div> -<div class="verse">Lo; those, those <i>Ioyfull-tydings</i>, we doe live</div> -<div class="verse">Divulg'd, in every <i>Village</i>, to perceive;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, the sounds of <i>Gladnesse</i>, eccho may,</div> -<div class="verse">Through all our goodly <i>Temples</i>, ev'ry day.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">This was (<em class="upright">Oh God</em>) thy doing; unto thee,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Ascrib'd, for ever, let all Prayses bee.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Prolong this <em class="upright">Mercie</em>, and, vouchsafe the <em class="upright">fruit</em>,</div> -<div class="verse italic">May to thy <em class="upright">Labour</em>, on this <em class="upright">Vine-yard</em>, suit:</div> -<div class="verse italic">Lest, for our fruitlesnesse, thy <em class="upright">Light of grace</em>,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Thou, from our <em class="upright">Golden candlesticke</em>, displace.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">We doe, me thinkes, already, <em class="upright">Lord</em>, beginne</div> -<div class="verse italic">To <em class="upright">wantonize</em>, and let that <em class="upright">loathing</em> in,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Which makes thy <em class="upright">Manna</em> tastlesse; And, I feare,</div> -<div class="verse">That, of those <em class="upright">Christians</em>, who, more often <em class="upright">heare</em>,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Then practise, what <em class="upright">they know</em>, we have too many:</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, I suspect my <em class="upright">selfe</em>, as much as any.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Oh! mend <em class="upright">me</em> so, that, by amending <em class="upright">mee</em>,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Amends in <em class="upright">others</em>, may increased be:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">And, let all <em class="upright">Graces</em>, which thou hast bestow'd,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Returne thee <em class="upright">honour</em>, from whom, first, they flow'd.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Bees</em>, will in an <em class="upright">Helmet</em> breed;<br /> -And, <em class="upright">Peace</em>, doth after <em class="upright">Warre</em>, succeed.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_28_2" id="Ill_28_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_28_2t"><img src="images/i_c_090.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_090c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen you have heeded, by your <i>Eyes</i> of <i>sense</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Helmet</i>, hiving of a Swarme of <i>Bees</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Consider, what may gather'd be from thence,</div> -<div class="verse">And, what your <i>Eye</i> of <i>Vnderstanding</i> sees.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That <i>Helmet</i>, and, those other <i>Weapons</i>, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Betoken <i>Warre</i>; the Honey-making, <i>Flyes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i> of a happy <i>Kingdome</i>, are,</div> -<div class="verse">Injoying <i>Peace</i>, by painfull Industries:</div> -<div class="verse">And, when, all these together are exprest,</div> -<div class="verse">As in this <i>Emblem</i>, where the <i>Bees</i>, doe seeme</div> -<div class="verse">To make their dwelling, in a <i>Plumed-Crest</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Morall</i> is implyed, worth esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, these inferre, mysteriously, to me,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Peace</i>, and <i>Art</i>, and <i>Thrift</i>, most firme abides,</div> -<div class="verse">In those <i>Re-publikes</i>, where, <i>Armes</i> cherisht bee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, where, true <i>Martiall-discipline</i>, resides.</div> -<div class="verse">When, of their Stings, the <i>Bees</i>, disarm'd, become,</div> -<div class="verse">They, who, on others Labours, use to prey,</div> -<div class="verse">Incourag'd are, with violence, to come,</div> -<div class="verse">And, beare their <i>Honey</i>, and, their <i>Waxe</i>, away.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So when a <i>People</i>, meerely, doe affect</div> -<div class="verse">To gather Wealth; and (foolishly secure)</div> -<div class="verse">Defences necessary, quite neglect;</div> -<div class="verse">Their Foes, to spoyle their Land, it will allure.</div> -<div class="verse">Long <i>Peace</i>, brings <i>Warre</i>; and, <i>Warre</i>, brings <i>Peace</i>, againe:</div> -<div class="verse">For, when the smart of <i>Warfare</i> seizeth on them,</div> -<div class="verse">They crye, <i>Alarme</i>; and, then, to fight, are faine,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, their <i>Warre</i>, another <i>Peace</i>, hath wonne them;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, out of their old rusty <i>Helmets</i>, then,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">New <i>Bees</i> doe swarme, and, fall to worke agen.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Heart</em> of him, that is <em class="upright">upright</em>,<br /> -In <em class="upright">Heavenly-knowledge</em>, takes delight.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_29_2" id="Ill_29_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_29_2t"><img src="images/i_c_091.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIX.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_091c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Emblem</i>, with some other of the rest,</div> -<div class="verse">Are scarce, with seemly <i>Properties</i>, exprest,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, since a vulgar, and a meane <i>Invention</i></div> -<div class="verse">May yield some <i>Fruit</i>, and shew a good <i>Intention</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Ile, hence, as well informe your <i>Intellects</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As if these <i>Figures</i> had not those defects.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Booke</i>, here shadow'd, may be said, to show</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Wisdome</i>, and <i>Experience</i>, which we know</div> -<div class="verse">By Common meanes, and, by these <i>Creatures</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Which to be plac'd below us, may appeare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Winged-heart</i>, betokens those <i>Desires</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, the <i>Reasonable-soule</i>, aspires</div> -<div class="verse">Above the <i>Creature</i>; and, attempts to clime,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Mysteries</i>, and <i>Knowledge</i>, more sublime:</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n to the <i>Knowledge</i> of the <i>Three-in-one</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Implyed by the <i>Tetragrammaton</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Smokings</i> of this <i>Heart</i>, may well declare</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Perturbations</i>, which within us are,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, that Heavenly wisedome, we have gain'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Which is not, here, below, to be attain'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, after which, those <i>Hearts</i>, that are <i>upright</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Enquire with daily studie, and delight.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">To me, <em class="upright">Oh Lord</em>, vouchsafe thou, to impart</div> -<div class="verse italic">The gift of such a <em class="upright">Rectifyed-heart</em>.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Grant me the <em class="upright">Knowledge</em> of Inferiour things,</div> -<div class="verse italic">So farre, alone, as their Experience, brings</div> -<div class="verse italic">The <em class="upright">Knowledge</em>, which, I ought to have of thee,</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, of those Dueties, thou requir'st of mee:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">For, thee, <em class="upright">Oh God</em>, to <em class="upright">know</em>, and, thee to <em class="upright">feare</em>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Of truest <em class="upright">Wisedome</em>, the Perfections are.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Where, <em class="upright">Labour</em>, wisely, is imploy'd,<br /> -Deserved <em class="upright">Glory</em>, is injoy'd.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_30_2" id="Ill_30_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_30_2t"><img src="images/i_c_092.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXX.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_092c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="D" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">D</span>Oe men suppose, when <i>Gods</i> free-giving Hand,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth by their <i>Friends</i>, or, by <i>Inheritance</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Wealth</i> or <i>Titles</i>, raise them in the Land,</div> -<div class="verse">That, those, to <i>Lasting-glories</i>, them advance?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, can men thinke, such <i>Goods</i>, or <i>Gifts</i> of Nature,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Nimble-apprehensions</i>, <i>Memory</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Able-body</i>, or, a comely <i>Feature</i></div> -<div class="verse">(Without improvement) them, shall dignifie?</div> -<div class="verse">May Sloth, and Idlenesse, be warrantable,</div> -<div class="verse">In us, because our <i>Fathers</i> have been rich?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, are wee, therefore, truely honourable,</div> -<div class="verse">Because our <i>Predecessours</i>, have beene such?</div> -<div class="verse">When, nor our <i>Fortunes</i>, nor our <i>naturall parts</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In any measure, are improved by us,</div> -<div class="verse">Are others bound (as if we had deserts)</div> -<div class="verse">With Attributes of <i>Honour</i> to belye us?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">No, no; the more our <i>Predecessours</i> left,</div> -<div class="verse">(Yea, and, the more, by <i>nature</i>, we enjoy)</div> -<div class="verse">We, of the more esteeme, shall be bereft;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, our <i>Talents</i>, we doe mis-imploy.</div> -<div class="verse">True <i>Glory</i>, doth on <i>Labour</i>, still attend;</div> -<div class="verse">But, without <i>Labour</i>, <i>Glory</i> we have none.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>She</i>, crownes good <i>Workmen</i>, when their Works have end;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Shame</i>, gives payment, where is nothing done.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Laborious, therefore, bee; But, lest the <i>Spade</i></div> -<div class="verse">(which, here, doth <i>Labour</i> meane) thou use in vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Serpent</i>, thereunto, be sure thou adde;</div> -<div class="verse">That is, Let <i>Prudence</i> guide thy <i>taking-paine</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, where, a <i>wise-endeavour</i>, shall be found,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Wreath</i> of <i>Glory</i>, will inclose it round.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Behold, you may, the <em class="upright">Picture</em>, here,<br /> -Of what, keepes <em class="upright">Man</em>, and <em class="upright">Childe</em>, in feare.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_31_2" id="Ill_31_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_31_2t"><img src="images/i_c_093.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_093c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hese, are the great'st <i>Afflictions</i>, most men have,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n from their <i>Nursing-cradle</i>, to their <i>Grave</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, both so needfull are, I cannot see,</div> -<div class="verse">How either of them, may well spared bee.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Rod</i> is that, which, most our <i>Child-hood</i> feares;</div> -<div class="verse">And, seemes the great'st <i>Affliction</i> that it beares:</div> -<div class="verse">That, which to <i>Man-hood</i>, is a plague, as common</div> -<div class="verse">(And, more unsufferable) is a <i>Woman</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, blush not <i>Ladies</i>; neither frowne, I pray,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thus of <i>Women</i>, I presume to say;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, number mee, as yet, among your <i>foes</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, I am more your <i>friend</i>, then you suppose:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor smile ye <i>Men</i>, as if, from hence, ye had</div> -<div class="verse">An Argument, that <i>Woman-kinde</i> were bad.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Birch</i>, is blamelesse (yea, by nature, sweet,</div> -<div class="verse">And gentle) till, with stubborne Boyes, it meet:</div> -<div class="verse">But, then, it smarts. So, <i>Women</i>, will be kinde,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, with froward <i>Husbands</i>, they are joyn'd:</div> -<div class="verse">And, then indeed (perhaps) like Birchen boughes,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which, else, had beene a trimming, to their House)</div> -<div class="verse">They, sometimes prove, sharpe <i>whips</i>, and <i>Rods</i>, to them,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Wisdome</i>, and <i>Instruction</i> doe contemne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Woman</i>, was not given for <i>Correction</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather for a furtherance to <i>Perfection</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">A precious <i>Balme of love</i>, to cure Mans griefe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, of his Pleasures, to become the chiefe.</div> -<div class="verse">If, therefore, she occasion any smart,</div> -<div class="verse">The blame, he merits, wholly, or in part:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, like sweet <i>Honey</i>, she, good <i>Stomackes</i>, pleases;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, paines the <i>Body</i>, subject to <i>Diseases</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Death's</em> one <em class="upright">long-Sleepe</em>; and, <em class="upright">Life's</em> no more,<br /> -But one <em class="upright">short-Watch</em>, an houre before.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_32_2" id="Ill_32_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_32_2t"><img src="images/i_c_094.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_094c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, on this <i>Child-like-figure</i>, thou shalt looke,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, with his <i>Light</i>, his <i>Houre-glasse</i>, and his <i>booke</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Sits, in a <i>watching-posture</i>, formed here;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when thou hast perus'd that <i>Motto</i>, there,</div> -<div class="verse">On which he layes his hand; thy selfe apply</div> -<div class="verse">To what it counselleth; and, <i>learne to die</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">While that <i>Light</i> burnes, and, that <i>short-houre</i> doth last,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, for this <i>Lesson</i>, thou obtained hast.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, in this <i>bus'nesse</i>, use thou no delayes;</div> -<div class="verse">For, if the bigger <i>Motto</i> truely, sayes,</div> -<div class="verse">There is not left unto thee, one whole <i>Watch</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy necessary labours, to dispatch.</div> -<div class="verse">It was no more, when first thy <i>Life</i> begunne;</div> -<div class="verse">And, many <i>Glasses</i> of that <i>Watch</i> be runne:</div> -<div class="verse">Which thou observing, shouldst be put in minde,</div> -<div class="verse">To husband well, the <i>space</i> that is behind.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Endeavour honestly, whil'st thou hast <i>light</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Deferre thou not, thy <i>Iourney</i>, till the <i>night</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, sleepe away, in Vanities, the <i>prime</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And <i>flowre</i>, of thy most acceptable <i>time</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">So watchfull, rather, and, so carefull be,</div> -<div class="verse">That, whensoere the <i>Bridegroome</i> summons thee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when thy <i>Lord</i> returnes, unlookt for, home;</div> -<div class="verse">Thou mayst, a <i>Partner</i>, in their joyes, become.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">And, oh <em class="upright">my God!</em> so warie, and so wise,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Let me be made; that, this, which I advise</div> -<div class="verse italic">To other men (and really have thought)</div> -<div class="verse italic">May, still, in practice, by my selfe, be brought:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">And, helpe, and pardon me, when I transgresse,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Through humane frailtie, or, forgetfulnesse.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -What ever <em class="upright">God</em> did <em class="upright">fore-decree</em>,<br /> -Shall, without faile, <em class="upright">fulfilled be</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_33_2" id="Ill_33_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_33_2t"><img src="images/i_c_095.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_095c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="M" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">M</span>E thinkes, that <i>Fate</i>, which <i>God</i> weighs forth to all,</div> -<div class="verse">I, by the <i>Figure</i> of this <i>Even-Skale</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May partly show; and, let my <i>Reader</i>, see</div> -<div class="verse">The state, of an <i>Immutable-decree</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, how it differs, from those <i>Destinies</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which carnall understandings, doe devise.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, this implies, that ev'ry thing, <i>to-come</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Was, by a steady, and, by equall <i>doome</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Weigh'd out, by <i>Providence</i>; and, that, by <i>Grace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Each <i>thing</i>, each <i>person</i>, ev'ry <i>time</i>, and <i>place</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Had thereunto, a <i>powre</i>, and <i>portion</i> given,</div> -<div class="verse">So proper to their nature (and, so even</div> -<div class="verse">To that just <i>measure</i>, which, aright became</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Workings</i>, and, the <i>being</i>, of the same)</div> -<div class="verse">As, best might helpe the furthering of that <i>end</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, <i>God's</i> eternall <i>wisedome</i>, doth intend.</div> -<div class="verse">And, though, I dare not be so bold, as they,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, of <i>God's</i> Closet, seeme to keep the <i>Key</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">(And, things, for absolute <i>Decrees</i>, declare,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, either <i>false</i>, or, but <i>Contingents</i> are)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, in his <i>Will-reveal'd</i>, my <i>Reason</i>, sees</div> -<div class="verse">Thus much, of his <i>Immutable-decrees</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">That, him, a <i>Doome-eternall</i>, reprobateth,</div> -<div class="verse">Who scorneth <i>Mercie</i>; or, <i>Instruction</i> hateth,</div> -<div class="verse">Without <i>Repenting</i>: And, that, whensoever,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Sinner</i>, true <i>amendment</i>, shall indeavour;</div> -<div class="verse">Bewaile his <i>Wickednesse</i>, and, call for <i>grace</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">There shall be, for <i>Compassion</i>, time, and place.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, this, I hold, a branch of that <i>Decree</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Which, Men may say, shall <i>never changed be</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -My <em class="upright">Fortune</em>, I had rather beare;<br /> -Then come, where greater perills are.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_34_2" id="Ill_34_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_34_2t"><img src="images/i_c_096.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIV.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_096c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="M" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">M</span>Arke well this <i>Caged-fowle</i>; and, thereby, see,</div> -<div class="verse">What, thy estate, may, peradventure, be.</div> -<div class="verse">She, wants her <i>freedome</i>; so, perhaps, dost thou,</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>freedomes</i> lacke, which, are desired, now;</div> -<div class="verse">And, though, thy <i>Body</i> be not so confin'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Art straitned, from some liberty of <i>Minde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Bird in thrall</i>, the more contented lyes,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, the <i>Hawke</i>, so neere her, she espyes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, though, the <i>Cage</i> were open, more would feare,</div> -<div class="verse">To venture out, then to continue there:</div> -<div class="verse">So, if thou couldst perceive, what <i>Birds of prey</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are hov'ring round about thee, every day,</div> -<div class="verse">To seize thy <i>Soule</i> (when she abroad shall goe,</div> -<div class="verse">To take the <i>Freedome</i>, she desireth so)</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, farre more fearefull, wouldst of them, become,</div> -<div class="verse">Then thou art, now, of what thou flyest from.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Not <i>Precepts</i>, but <i>Experience</i>, thus hath taught me;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, to such resolutions, now have brought me,</div> -<div class="verse">That, whatsoever mischiefes others doe me,</div> -<div class="verse">I make them yield some true Contentments to me;</div> -<div class="verse">And, seldome struggle from them, till I see,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>smother-fortunes</i> will securer be.</div> -<div class="verse">What spight soere my Foes, to me, can doe,</div> -<div class="verse">I laugh thereat, within an houre or two;</div> -<div class="verse">For, though the World, and I, at first, believe,</div> -<div class="verse">My Suffrings, give me cause enough to grieve;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, afterward, I finde (the more to glad me)</div> -<div class="verse">That, better <i>Fortunes</i>, might farre worse have made me.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By some young <i>Devills</i>, though, I scratched am,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, I am hopefull, I shall scape their <i>Dam</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The more contrary <em class="upright">Windes</em> doe blow,<br /> -The greater <em class="upright">Vertues</em> praise will grow.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_35_2" id="Ill_35_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_35_2t"><img src="images/i_c_097.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXV.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_097c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="O" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">O</span>Bserve the nature of that <i>Fiery-flame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which on the <i>Mountaines</i> top so brightly showes;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Windes</i> from every quarter, blow the same,</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, and to blow it out, their <i>fury</i> blowes;</div> -<div class="verse">But, lo; the more they <i>storme</i>, the more it <i>shineth</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">At every Blast, the <i>Flame</i> ascendeth higher;</div> -<div class="verse">And, till the <i>Fuells</i> want, that rage confineth,</div> -<div class="verse">It, will be, still, a great, and glorious <i>Fire</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus fares the man, whom <i>Vertue</i>, Beacon-like,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath fixt upon the <i>Hills</i> of Eminence,</div> -<div class="verse">At him, the Tempests of mad <i>Envie</i> strike,</div> -<div class="verse">And, rage against his Piles of Innocence;</div> -<div class="verse">But, still, the more they wrong him, and the more</div> -<div class="verse">They seeke to keepe his worth from being knowne,</div> -<div class="verse">They, daily, make it greater, then before;</div> -<div class="verse">And, cause his <i>Fame</i>, the farther to be blowne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">When, therefore, no selfe-doting <i>Arrogance</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>Vertues</i>, cover'd with a modest vaile,</div> -<div class="verse">Breake through <i>obscurity</i>, and, thee advance</div> -<div class="verse">To place, where <i>Envie</i> shall thy worth assaile;</div> -<div class="verse">Discourage not thy selfe: but, stand the shockes</div> -<div class="verse">Of wrath, and fury. Let them snarle and bite;</div> -<div class="verse">Pursue thee, with <i>Detraction</i>, <i>Slanders</i>, <i>Mockes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, all the venom'd Engines of <i>Despight</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou art above their malice; and, the <i>blaze</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of thy <i>Cælestiall-fire</i>, shall shine so cleare,</div> -<div class="verse">That, their besotted soules, thou shalt amaze;</div> -<div class="verse">And, make thy <i>Splendours</i>, to their shame, appeare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If this be all, that <i>Envies</i> rage can doe,</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Lord, give me</i> Vertues, <i>though I suffer too</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Even as the <em class="upright">Smoke</em> doth passe away;<br /> -So, shall all <em class="upright">Worldly-pompe</em> decay.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_36_2" id="Ill_36_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_36_2t"><img src="images/i_c_098.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_098c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome better <i>Arguments</i>, then yet I see,</div> -<div class="verse">I must perceive; and, better causes, why,</div> -<div class="verse">To those gay things, I should addicted bee,</div> -<div class="verse">To which, the Vulgar their <i>Affections</i> tye.</div> -<div class="verse">I have consider'd, <i>Scepters</i>, <i>Miters</i>, <i>Crownes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">With each appurtenance to them belonging;</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>heart</i>, hath search'd their <i>Glories</i>, and <i>Renownes</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, all the pleasant things about them thronging:</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Soule</i>, hath truely weigh'd, and, tooke the measure,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Riches</i> (which the most have so desired)</div> -<div class="verse">I have distill'd the Quintessence of <i>Pleasure</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, seene those Objects, that are most admired.</div> -<div class="verse">I, likewise feele all <i>Passions</i>, and <i>Affections</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That helpe to cheat the <i>Reason</i>, and perswade</div> -<div class="verse">That those poore <i>Vanities</i>, have some perfections,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereby their Owners, happy might be made.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, when that I have rouz'd my <i>Vnderstanding</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And cleans'd my Heart from some of that Corruption,</div> -<div class="verse">Which hinders in me <i>Reasons</i> free commanding,</div> -<div class="verse">And, shewes, things, without vailes, or interruption;</div> -<div class="verse">Then, they, me thinkes, as fruitlesse doe appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Bubbles</i> (wherewithall young-children play)</div> -<div class="verse">Or, as the <i>Smoke</i>, which, in our <i>Emblem</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Now, makes a show, and, straight, consumes away.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Be pleas'd, <em class="upright">Oh God</em>, my value may be such</div> -<div class="verse italic">Of every <em class="upright">Outward-blessing</em>, here below,</div> -<div class="verse italic">That, I may neither love them overmuch,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Nor underprise the <em class="upright">Gifts</em>, thou shalt bestow:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, know the use, of all these fading <i>Smokes</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, be refresht, by that, which others chokes.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Death</em>, is unable to divide<br /> -Their Hearts, whose Hands <em class="upright">True-love</em> hath tyde.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_37_2" id="Ill_37_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_37_2t"><img src="images/i_c_099.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_099c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="U" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">U</span>Pon an <i>Altar</i>, in this <i>Emblem</i>, stands</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Burning-heart</i>; and, therewithall, you see</div> -<div class="verse">Beneath <i>Deaths-head</i>, a paire of <i>Loving-hands</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, close, and fast-united, seeme to be.</div> -<div class="verse">These moderne <i>Hieroglyphickes</i> (vulgarly</div> -<div class="verse">Thus bundled up together) may afford</div> -<div class="verse">Good-meanings, with as much <i>Propriety</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As best, with common <i>Iudgements</i>, will accord.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It may imply, that, when both <i>Hand</i> and <i>Heart</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By sympathizing dearenesse are invited,</div> -<div class="verse">To meet each others nat'rall <i>Counterpart</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, are by sacred <i>Ordinance</i> united:</div> -<div class="verse">They then have entred that strict <i>Obligation</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By which they, firmely, ev'ry way are ty'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, without meanes (or thought of separation)</div> -<div class="verse">Should in that <i>Vnion</i>, till their <i>Deaths</i>, abide;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This, therefore, minde thou, whatsoere thou be</div> -<div class="verse">(Whose <i>Marriage-ring</i>, this <i>Covenant</i>, hath sealed)</div> -<div class="verse">For, though, thy Faith's infringement, none can see,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy secret fault, shall one day, be revealed.</div> -<div class="verse">And, thou that art at liberty, take heed,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest thou (as over great a number doe)</div> -<div class="verse">Of thine owne person, make a <i>Privy-deed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, afterwards, deny thy doing so.</div> -<div class="verse">For, though there be, nor <i>Church</i>, nor <i>Chappell</i>, nigh thee</div> -<div class="verse">(Nor outward witnesses of what is done)</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Power-invisible</i> doth alwayes eye thee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thy pretended <i>Love</i>, so lookes upon,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, if thou be not, till thy <i>dying</i>, true;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thy <i>Falsehood</i>, till thy <i>dying</i>, thou shalt rue.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -False <em class="upright">Weights</em>, with <em class="upright">Measures</em> false eschew,<br /> -And, give to ev'ry man, their <em class="upright">Due</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_38_2" id="Ill_38_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_38_2t"><img src="images/i_c_100.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_100c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="F" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">F</span>Orth of a <i>Cloud</i> (with <i>Scale</i> and <i>Rule</i>) extended</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Arme</i> (for this next <i>Emblem</i>) doth appeare;</div> -<div class="verse">Which hath to us in <i>silent-showes</i>, commended,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Vertue</i>, that is often wanting, here.</div> -<div class="verse">The World, is very studious of <i>Deceipts</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, he is judged wisest, who deceives.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>False-measures</i>, and, <i>Adulterated-weights</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of many dues, the needy-man bereaves.</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n <i>Weights</i> to sell, and, other <i>Weights</i> to buy</div> -<div class="verse">(<i>Two sorts of weights</i>) in practice are, with some;</div> -<div class="verse">And, both of these, they often falsifie,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they to great, and <i>suddaine wealth</i>, may come.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, Conscience make of raysing your estates,</div> -<div class="verse">By such a base, and such a wicked way:</div> -<div class="verse">For, this Injustice, <i>God</i> expressely hates;</div> -<div class="verse">And, brings, at last, such <i>thrivers</i> to decay.</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Weight</i> and <i>measure</i>, <i>He</i>, on all bestowes</div> -<div class="verse">The Portions due; That, <i>Weight</i> and <i>Measure</i>, then,</div> -<div class="verse">Which Man to <i>God</i>, or to his <i>Neighbour</i> owes,</div> -<div class="verse">Should, justly, be returned backe agen.</div> -<div class="verse">Give ev'ry one, in ev'ry thing his owne:</div> -<div class="verse">Give <i>honour</i>, where an <i>honour</i> shall be due;</div> -<div class="verse">Where you are <i>loved</i>, let your <i>love</i> be showne;</div> -<div class="verse">And, yield them succours, who have succour'd you.</div> -<div class="verse">Give to thy <i>Children</i>, breeding and <i>Corrections</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Charities</i>, ev'n to thy <i>Foes</i> extend:</div> -<div class="verse">Give to thy <i>wife</i>, the best of thy <i>Affections</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>God</i>, thy <i>selfe</i>, and, all thou hast, commend:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, lest thou faile, Remember who hath sayd,</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Such <em class="upright">measure</em>, as thou giv'st, shall be repay'd</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -He needs not feare, what spight can doe,<br /> -Whom <em class="upright">Vertue</em> friends, and <em class="upright">Fortune</em>, too.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_39_2" id="Ill_39_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_39_2t"><img src="images/i_c_101.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIX.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_101c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, in this <i>Emblem</i> here, observe you shall</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Eaglet</i>, perched, on a <i>Winged-ball</i></div> -<div class="verse">Advanced on an <i>Altar</i>; and, have ey'd</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Snakes</i>, assayling him, on ev'ry side:</div> -<div class="verse">Me thinkes, by that, you straight should apprehend</div> -<div class="verse">Their state, whom <i>Wealth</i>, and <i>Vertue</i>, doe befriend.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">My Iudgement, by that <i>Altar-stone</i>, conceives</div> -<div class="verse">The sollidnesse, which, true <i>Religion</i> gives;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that fast-grounded <i>goodnesse</i>, which, we see;</div> -<div class="verse">In grave, and sound <i>Morality</i>, to be.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Flying-ball</i>, doth, very well, expresse</div> -<div class="verse">All <i>Outward-blessings</i>, and, their <i>ficklenesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Eaglet</i>, meaneth such <i>Contemplatives</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As, in this world, doe passe away their lives,</div> -<div class="verse">By so possessing that which they have got,</div> -<div class="verse">As if they car'd not, though, they had it not.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Snakes</i>, may well resemble those, among them,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, meerely out of <i>envie</i>, seeke to wrong them;</div> -<div class="verse">And, all these <i>Figures</i> (thus together layd)</div> -<div class="verse">Doe speake to me, as if these words, they sayd:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">That man, who builds upon the best <em class="upright">foundation</em>,</div> -<div class="verse italic">(And spreads the widest wings of <em class="upright">Contemplation</em>)</div> -<div class="verse italic">Whil'st, in the <em class="upright">flesh</em>, he bides, will need some props</div> -<div class="verse italic">of <em class="upright">earthly-fortunes</em>, to support his <em class="upright">hopes</em>:</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, other-while, those things, may meanes become,</div> -<div class="verse italic">The stings of <em class="upright">Envie</em>, to secure him from.</div> -<div class="verse">And, hence, I learne; that, such, as will abide,</div> -<div class="verse">Against all <i>Envie</i>, strongly fortify'd,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Must joyne, great <i>Vertues</i>, and great <i>Wealth</i>, together.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">God helpe us, then, <em class="upright">poore-soules</em>, who scarce have either!</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Time</em>, is a <em class="upright">Fading-flowre</em>, that's found<br /> -Within <em class="upright">Eternities</em> wide <em class="upright">round</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_40_2" id="Ill_40_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_40_2t"><img src="images/i_c_102.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XL.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_102c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="F" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">F</span>Ive <i>Termes</i>, there be, which five, I doe apply</div> -<div class="verse">To all, that <i>was</i>, and <i>is</i>, and, <i>shall be done</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>first</i>, and <i>last</i>, is that <span class="smcap">Eternitie</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, neither shall have <i>End</i>, nor, was <i>begunne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">Beginning</span>, is the <i>next</i>; which, is a space</div> -<div class="verse">(Or moment rather) scarce imaginarie,</div> -<div class="verse">Made, when the first <i>Material</i>, formed was;</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, forbidden, longer time to tarry.</div> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">Time</span> entred, when, <span class="smcap">Beginning</span> had an <i>Ending</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, is a Progresse, all the workes of <i>Nature</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Within the circuit of it, comprehending,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n till the <i>period</i>, of the <i>Outward-creature</i>.</div> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">End</span>, is the <i>fourth</i>, of those five <i>Termes</i> I meane;</div> -<div class="verse">(As briefe, as was <i>Beginning</i>) and, ordayned,</div> -<div class="verse">To set the last of <i>moments</i>, to that <i>Scæne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, on this Worlds wide <i>Stage</i>, is entertayned.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>fifth</i>, we <span class="smcap">Everlasting</span>, fitly, call;</div> -<div class="verse">For, though, it once <i>begunne</i>, yet, shall it never</div> -<div class="verse">Admit, of any <i>future-end</i>, at all;</div> -<div class="verse">But, be extended onward, still, for ever.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The knowledge of these <i>Termes</i>, and of what <i>actions</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To each of them belongs, would set an end,</div> -<div class="verse">To many Controversies, and Distractions,</div> -<div class="verse">Which doe so many trouble, and offend.</div> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">Time's</span> nature, by the <i>Fading-flowre</i>, appeares;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, is a <i>Type</i>, of Transitory things:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Circled-snake</i>, <span class="smcap">Eternitie</span> declares;</div> -<div class="verse">Within whose <i>Round</i>, each fading Creature, springs.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Some <i>Riddles</i> more, to utter, I intended,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, lo; a sudden stop, my words have ended.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When great Attempts are undergone,<br /> -Ioyne <em class="upright">Strength</em> and <em class="upright">Wisedome</em>, both in one.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_41_2" id="Ill_41_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_41_2t"><img src="images/i_c_103.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_103c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>F (<i>Reader</i>) thou desirous be to know</div> -<div class="verse">What by the <i>Centaure</i>, seemeth here intended;</div> -<div class="verse">What, also, by the <i>Snake</i>, and, by the <i>Bowe</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which in his hand, he beareth alway bended:</div> -<div class="verse">Learne, that this <i>halfe-a man</i>, and <i>halfe-a horse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Is ancient <i>Hieroglyphicke</i>, teaching thee,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Wisedome</i> should be joyn'd with outward <i>force</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">If prosperous, we desire our workes to be.</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Vpper-part</i>, the shape of <i>Man</i>, doth beare,</div> -<div class="verse">To teach, that, <i>Reason</i> must become our <i>guide</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>hinder-parts</i>, a <i>Horses</i> Members are;</div> -<div class="verse">To shew, that we must, also, <i>strength</i> provide:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Serpent</i>, and the <i>Bowe</i>, doth signifie</div> -<div class="verse">The same (or matter to the same effect)</div> -<div class="verse">And, by two <i>Types</i>, one <i>Morall</i> to implie,</div> -<div class="verse">Is doubled a <i>fore-warning</i> of <i>neglect</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Knowledge</i> wanteth <i>Power</i>, despis'd we grow,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>know</i> but how to aggravate our paine:</div> -<div class="verse">Great <i>strength</i>, will worke it owne sad overthrow,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse, it guided be, with <i>Wisedomes</i> reine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Therefore, <em class="upright">Oh God</em>, vouchsafe thou so to marry</div> -<div class="verse italic">The gifts of <em class="upright">Soule</em> and <em class="upright">Body</em>, both, in me,</div> -<div class="verse italic">That, I may still have all things necessary,</div> -<div class="verse italic">To worke, as I commanded am, by thee.</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, let me not possesse them, <em class="upright">Lord</em>, <em class="upright">alone</em>,</div> -<div class="verse italic">But, also, <em class="upright">know</em> their vse; and, so well <em class="upright">know</em> it,</div> -<div class="verse italic">That, I may doe each <em class="upright">duety</em> to be done;</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, with upright Intentions, alwayes doe it.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">If this be more, then, yet, obtaine I may,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">My <i>will</i> accept thou, for the <em class="upright">deed</em>, I pray.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Ground</em> brings forth all needfull things;<br /> -But, from the <em class="upright">Sunne</em>, this vertue springs.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_42_2" id="Ill_42_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_42_2t"><img src="images/i_c_104.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_104c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>E doe acknowledge (as this <i>Emblem</i> showes)</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Fruits</i> and <i>Flowres</i>, and many <i>pleasant-things</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">From out the <i>Ground</i>, in ev'ry season growes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that unto their <i>being</i>, helpe it brings.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, of it selfe, the <i>Ground</i>, we know is dull,</div> -<div class="verse">And, but a <i>Willing-patient</i>, whereupon</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sunne</i>, with Beames, and Vertues wonderfull,</div> -<div class="verse">Prepareth, and effecteth, what is done.</div> -<div class="verse">We, likewise, doe acknowledge, that our <i>eyes</i></div> -<div class="verse">Indowed are with faculties of <i>Seeing</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, with some other nat'rall <i>properties</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which are as much our owne, as is our <i>Being</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">However, till the <i>Sunne</i> imparts his light,</div> -<div class="verse">We finde, that we in <i>darkenesse</i> doe remaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Obscured in an everlasting night;</div> -<div class="verse">And, boast our <i>Seeing-faculties</i>, in vaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, we, by nature, have some nat'rall powers:</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>Grace</i>, must those abilities of ours</div> -<div class="verse">First move; and, guide them, still, in moving, thus,</div> -<div class="verse">To worke with <i>God</i>, when <i>God</i> shall worke on us:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>God</i> so workes, that, no man he procures</div> -<div class="verse">Against his <i>nature</i>, ought to chuse, or shun:</div> -<div class="verse">But, by his <i>holy-Spirit</i>, him allures;</div> -<div class="verse">And, with sweet mildnesse, proveth ev'ry one.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sunne</i> is faultlesse of it, when the birth</div> -<div class="verse">Of some bad <i>Field</i>, is nothing else but <i>Weeds</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by the selfe-same <i>Sun-shine</i>, fruitfull Earth</div> -<div class="verse">Beares pleasant Crops, and plentifully breeds.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus, from our <i>selves</i>, our <i>Vices</i> have increase,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Our <i>Vertues</i>, from the <i>Sunne</i> of <i>Righteousnesse</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -No <em class="upright">passage</em> can divert the <em class="upright">Course</em>,<br /> -Of <em class="upright">Pegasus</em>, the <em class="upright">Muses</em> Horse.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_43_2" id="Ill_43_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_43_2t"><img src="images/i_c_105.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_105c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His is the <i>Poets-horse</i>; a <i>Palfray</i>, <span class="smcap">Sirs</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">(That may be ridden, without rod or spurres)</div> -<div class="verse">Abroad, more famous then <i>Bucephalus</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Though, not so knowne, as <i>Banks</i> his horse, with us;</div> -<div class="verse">Or some of those <i>fleet-horses</i>, which of late,</div> -<div class="verse">Have runne their <i>Masters</i>, out of their estate.</div> -<div class="verse">For, those, and <i>Hobby-horses</i>, best befit</div> -<div class="verse">The note, and practice of their moderne wit,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, what this <i>Horse</i> might meane, no knowledge had,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, a <i>Taverne-signe</i>, they saw it made.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, this old <i>Emblem</i> (worthy veneration)</div> -<div class="verse">Doth figure out, that <i>winged-contemplation</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">On which the <i>Learned</i> mount their best <i>Invention</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, climbe the <i>Hills</i> of highest Apprehension.</div> -<div class="verse">This is the nimble <i>Gennet</i>, which doth carry,</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Fancie</i>, thorow <i>Worlds</i> imaginary;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by <i>Idæas</i> feigned, shewes them there,</div> -<div class="verse">The nature of those <i>Truths</i>, that reall are.</div> -<div class="verse">By meanes of <i>this</i>, our <i>Soules</i> doe come to know</div> -<div class="verse">A thousand secrets, in the <i>Deeps</i> below;</div> -<div class="verse">Things, here on <i>Earth</i>, and, things above the <i>Skyes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">On which, we never fixed, yet, our eyes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">No thorny, miery, steepe, nor craggy place,</div> -<div class="verse">Can interrupt this <i>Courser</i>, in his race:</div> -<div class="verse">For, that, which others, in their passage troubles,</div> -<div class="verse">Augments his courage, and his vigour doubles.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Thus, fares the <em class="upright">Minde</em>, infus'd with brave desires;</div> -<div class="verse italic">It flies through Darkenesse, Dangers, Flouds, and Fires:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">And, in despight of what her ayme resisteth:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Pursues her <em class="upright">hopes</em>, and takes the <em class="upright">way</em> she listeth.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Husbandman</em>, doth sow the Seeds;<br /> -And, then, on <em class="upright">Hope</em>, till <em class="upright">Harvest</em>, feeds.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_44_2" id="Ill_44_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_44_2t"><img src="images/i_c_106.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIV.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_106c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He painfull <i>Husbandman</i>, with sweaty browes,</div> -<div class="verse">Consumes in labour many a weary day:</div> -<div class="verse">To breake the stubborne earth, he <i>digs</i> and <i>ploughes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, the Corne, he scatters on the clay:</div> -<div class="verse">When that is done, he <i>harrowes</i> in the Seeds,</div> -<div class="verse">And, by a well-cleans'd Furrow, layes it drye:</div> -<div class="verse">He, frees it from the <i>Wormes</i>, the <i>Moles</i>, the <i>Weeds</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">He, on the <i>Fences</i>, also hath an eye.</div> -<div class="verse">And, though he see the chilling Winter, bring</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Snowes</i>, <i>Flouds</i>, and <i>Frosts</i>, his Labours to annoy;</div> -<div class="verse">Though <i>blasting-windes</i> doe nip them in the <i>Spring</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Summers</i> Meldewes, threaten to destroy:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, though not onely <i>Dayes</i>, but <i>Weekes</i>, they are</div> -<div class="verse">(Nay, many <i>Weekes</i>, and, many <i>Moneths</i> beside)</div> -<div class="verse">In which he must with payne, prolong his care,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, constant in his hopes he doth abide.</div> -<div class="verse">For this respect, <span class="smcap">Hope's</span> <i>Emblem</i>, here, you see</div> -<div class="verse">Attends the <i>Plough</i>, that men beholding it,</div> -<div class="verse">May be instructed, or else minded be,</div> -<div class="verse">What Hopes, continuing <i>Labours</i>, will befit.</div> -<div class="verse">Though, long thou toyled hast, and, long attended</div> -<div class="verse">About such workings as are necessary;</div> -<div class="verse">And, oftentimes, ere fully they are ended,</div> -<div class="verse">Shalt finde thy paines in danger to miscarry:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, be not out of <i>hope</i>, nor quite dejected:</div> -<div class="verse">For, buryed Seeds will sprout when <i>Winter's</i> gone;</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlikelier things are many times effected;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>God</i> brings helpe, when men their best have done.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yea, they that in <i>Good-workes</i> their life imploy;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Although, <i>they sowe in teares, shall reape in joy</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Things, to their best perfection come,<br /> -Not all at once; but, <em class="upright">some</em> and <em class="upright">some</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_45_2" id="Ill_45_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_45_2t"><img src="images/i_c_107.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLV.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_107c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, thou shalt visit, in the Moneth of <i>May</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">A costly <i>Garden</i>, in her best array;</div> -<div class="verse">And, view the well-grown Trees, the wel-trimm'd Bowers,</div> -<div class="verse">The Beds of Herbs, the knots of pleasant flowers,</div> -<div class="verse">With all the deckings, and the fine devices,</div> -<div class="verse">Perteyning to those earthly <i>Paradises</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou canst not well suppose, one day, or two,</div> -<div class="verse">Did finish all, which had beene, there, to doe.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor dost thou, when young Plants, or new-sowne Lands,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe thirst for needfull Watrings, from thy hands,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Flood-gates</i>, let whole Ponds amongst them come;</div> -<div class="verse">But, them besprinklest, rather, <i>some</i> and <i>some</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, else, thou marre the <i>Flowres</i>, or chill the <i>Seed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or drowne the <i>Saplings</i>, which did moysture need.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let this experiment, which, to thy thought,</div> -<div class="verse">May by this <i>Emblem</i>, now perhaps, be brought,</div> -<div class="verse">Perswade thee to consider, that, no actions,</div> -<div class="verse">Can come, but by <i>degrees</i>, to their perfections;</div> -<div class="verse">And, teach thee, to allot, for every thing,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>leisurely-proceeding</i>, which may bring</div> -<div class="verse">The ripenesse, and the fulnesse, thou expectest:</div> -<div class="verse">And, though thy <i>Hopes</i>, but slowly thou effectest,</div> -<div class="verse">Discourage not thy selfe; since, oft they prove</div> -<div class="verse">Most prosperous actions, which at leisure move.</div> -<div class="verse">By many <i>drops</i>, is made a mighty <i>showre</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And many <i>minutes</i> finish up an <i>houre</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>little</i>, and by <i>little</i>, we possesse</div> -<div class="verse">Assurance of the greatest <i>Happinesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, oft, by too much <i>haste</i>, and, too much <i>cost</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Great <i>Wealth</i>, great <i>Honours</i>, and, great <i>Hopes</i>, are <i>lost</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Affliction</em>, doth to many adde<br /> -More <em class="upright">value</em>, then, before, they had.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_46_2" id="Ill_46_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_46_2t"><img src="images/i_c_108.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVI.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_108c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hough I am somewhat soberer to day,</div> -<div class="verse">I have been (I confesse) as mad as they,</div> -<div class="verse">Who think those men, that large Possessions have,</div> -<div class="verse">Gay Clothes, fine Furnitures, and Houses brave,</div> -<div class="verse">Are those (nay more, that they alone are those)</div> -<div class="verse">On whom, the stile of <i>Rich</i>, we should impose.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, having, by experience, understood</div> -<div class="verse">His words, who sayd, <i>his troubles did him good</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">I, now perceive, the <i>Worldly-rich</i> are poore,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse of <i>Sorrowes</i>, also, they have store.</div> -<div class="verse">Till from the <i>Straw</i>, the <i>Flaile</i>, the <i>Corne</i> doth beat;</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill the <i>Chaffe</i>, be purged from the <i>Wheat</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, till the <i>Mill</i>, the <i>Graines</i> in pieces teare,</div> -<div class="verse">The richnesse of the <i>Flowre</i>, will scarce appeare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, till mens persons great <i>Afflictions</i> touch</div> -<div class="verse">(If <i>worth</i> be found) their <i>worth</i> is not so much,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, like <i>Wheat</i>, in <i>Straw</i>, they have nor, yet,</div> -<div class="verse">That value, which in <i>threshing</i>, they may get.</div> -<div class="verse">For, till the bruising <i>Flailes</i> of <span class="smcap">God's</span> <i>Corrections</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Have threshed out of us our vaine <i>Affections</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Till those <i>Corruptions</i>, which doe misbecome us,</div> -<div class="verse">Are by thy <i>Sacred-spirit</i>, winnowed from us;</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, from us, the <i>straw</i> of <i>Worldly-treasures</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Till all the dusty <i>Chaffe</i> of empty <i>Pleasures</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, till his <i>Flaile</i>, upon us, he doth lay,</div> -<div class="verse">To thresh the huske of this our <i>Flesh</i> away;</div> -<div class="verse">And, leave the <i>Soule</i> uncover'd; nay, yet more,</div> -<div class="verse">Till <i>God</i> shall make, our very <i>Spirit</i> poore;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">We shall not up to highest <i>Wealth</i> aspire:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, then we shall; and, <i>that is my desire</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Though <em class="upright">Fortune</em>, hath a powerfull <em class="upright">Name</em>,<br /> -Yet, <em class="upright">Vertue</em> overcomes the same.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_47_2" id="Ill_47_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_47_2t"><img src="images/i_c_109.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_109c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> <i>Snake</i>, (which was by wise <i>Antiquitie</i></div> -<div class="verse">Much us'd, the type of <i>Prudencie</i> to be)</div> -<div class="verse">Hemmes in a <i>Winged-ball</i>, which doth imply,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Fickle-fortune</i>, from which, none are free.</div> -<div class="verse">Above this <i>Ball</i>, the <i>Snake</i> advanceth too,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Laurell</i>, and the <i>Sword</i>; which, <i>Emblems</i> are,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereby our <i>Authour</i> maketh much adoe,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Conquest</i> over <i>Fortune</i>, to declare.</div> -<div class="verse">And, well enough this purpose it befits,</div> -<div class="verse">If (<i>Reader</i>) any one of those thou be,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>Fortunes</i> must be mended by their <i>Wits</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, it affords instructions fit for thee:</div> -<div class="verse">For, hence, thou mayst collect, that, no estate</div> -<div class="verse">Can, by <i>Misfortunes</i> means, become so bad,</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>Prudence</i> (who is <i>Mistresse</i> over <i>Fate</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">May rule it so, that, good it might be made.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Though <i>Fortunes</i> outlawes, on thy <i>Riches</i> prey,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Wisedome</i>, there is meanes, of getting more;</div> -<div class="verse">And, ev'ry rub that's placed in thy way,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall make thee walke more safely, then before.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Poverty</i>, nor <i>Paynes</i>, nor <i>Spightfulnesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor other <i>Mischiefes</i>, that <i>Mischance</i> can doe thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall bring thee any sorrow or distresse,</div> -<div class="verse">Which will not be, at last, advantage to thee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic"><em class="upright">Lord</em>, give me such a <em class="upright">Prudence</em>: for my <em class="upright">Fortune</em></div> -<div class="verse italic">Puts many foyles, and cruell thrusts upon me:</div> -<div class="verse italic">Thy helpe, long since, it made me to importune;</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, thou didst grant it, or she had undone me.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Still, daigne me thy assistance, <em class="upright">Lord</em>, and, than,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Let all <em class="upright">Misfortunes</em>, doe the worst they can.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Life</em>, with <em class="upright">good-repute</em>, Jle have,<br /> -Or, winne an honourable <em class="upright">Grave</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_48_2" id="Ill_48_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_48_2t"><img src="images/i_c_110.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVIII.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_110c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>N this our <i>Emblem</i>, you shall finde exprest</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Man</i>, incountring with a <i>Salvage-beast</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, he resolveth (as his <i>Motto</i> sayes)</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>live</i> with <i>honour</i>; or, to <i>dye</i> with <i>praise</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">I like the <i>Resolution</i>, and the <i>Deed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In which, this <i>Figure</i> teacheth to proceed.</div> -<div class="verse">For, us, me thinkes, it counselleth, to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">An act, which all men are oblig'd unto.</div> -<div class="verse">That ugly <i>Bore</i> (wherewith the man in strife</div> -<div class="verse">Here seemes to be) doth meane a <i>Swinish-life</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, all those beastly <i>Vices</i>, that assay</div> -<div class="verse">To root becomming <i>Vertues</i> quite away;</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Vices</i>, which not onely marre our features,</div> -<div class="verse">But, also, ruinate our manly natures.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The harmefull fury, of this raging <i>Bore</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Oppose couragiously, lest more and more,</div> -<div class="verse">It get within you; and, at last, appeare</div> -<div class="verse">More prevalent, then your defences are.</div> -<div class="verse">It is a large-growne <i>Pig</i>, of that wilde <i>Swine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, ev'ry day, attempts to undermine</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Safeties</i> Fort: Twas he, which long agoe,</div> -<div class="verse">Did seeke the <i>Holy-Vineyards</i> overthrow:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if we charge him not with all our power,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sire</i>, or <i>hee</i>, will enter and devoure.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">But, what's our Strength, <em class="upright">O Lord!</em> or, what are wee</div> -<div class="verse italic">In such a <em class="upright">Combate</em>, without ayde from thee?</div> -<div class="verse italic">Oh, come to helpe us, therefore, in this Fight;</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, let us be inabled in thy might:</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">So, we shall both in <em class="upright">life-time</em>, Conquests have;</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">And, be victorious, also, in the <em class="upright">Grave</em>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Shee</em> shall increase in glory, still,<br /> -Vntill her <em class="upright">light</em>, the world, doth fill.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_49_2" id="Ill_49_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_49_2t"><img src="images/i_c_111.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIX.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_111c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hat in this <i>Emblem</i>, that mans meanings were,</div> -<div class="verse">Who made it first, I neither know nor care;</div> -<div class="verse">For, whatsoere, he purposed, or thought,</div> -<div class="verse">To serve my <i>purpose</i>, now it shall be taught;</div> -<div class="verse">Who, many times, before this Taske is ended,</div> -<div class="verse">Must picke out <i>Moralls</i>, where was none intended.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This knot of <i>Moones</i> (or <i>Crescents</i>) crowned thus,</div> -<div class="verse">Illustrate may a Mystery to us,</div> -<div class="verse">Of pious use (and, peradventure, such,</div> -<div class="verse">As from old <i>Hieroglyphicks</i>, erres not much)</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Old-times</i>, upon the <i>Moone</i>, three <i>names</i> bestow'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, three diverse wayes, her selfe she show'd:</div> -<div class="verse">And, in the <i>sacred-bookes</i>, it may be showne,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>holy-Church</i>, was figur'd by the <i>Moone</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then, these three <i>Moones in one</i>, may intimate</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>holy-Churches</i> threefold blest estate.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Moone</i>, still, biding in our <i>Hemisphære</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May typifie the <i>Church</i>, consisting, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Of men, yet living: when she shewes her light</div> -<div class="verse">Among us here, <i>in portions of the night</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Church</i> it figures, as consist she may</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>them</i>, whose <i>bodies</i> in the <i>Grave</i> doe stay;</div> -<div class="verse">And, whose blest <i>spirits</i>, are ascended thither,</div> -<div class="verse">Where <i>Soule</i> and <i>Body</i> meet, at last, together.</div> -<div class="verse">But, when the <i>Moone</i> is hidden from our eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Church-triumphant</i>, then, she signifies;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, is a <i>Crescent</i> yet, that, some, and some,</div> -<div class="verse">Must grow, till all her parts together come:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, then, this <i>Moone</i> shall beames, at full, display;</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><span class="smcap">Lord</span>, <i>hasten this great</i> Coronation-day.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -True <em class="upright">Vertue</em> is a <em class="upright">Coat of Maile</em>,<br /> -'Gainst which, no <em class="upright">Weapons</em> can prevaile.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_50_2" id="Ill_50_2"></a> -<a href="#Ill_50_2t"><img src="images/i_c_112.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. L.</span> <i>Book. 2</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_112c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="L" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><i><span class="hidden">L</span>Ord</i>, what a coyle men keepe, and, with what care</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Pistolls</i>, and, their <i>Swords</i> doe they prepare,</div> -<div class="verse">To be in readinesse? and, how they load</div> -<div class="verse">Themselves with Irons, when they ride abroad?</div> -<div class="verse">How wise and wary too, can they become,</div> -<div class="verse">To fortifie their persons up at home,</div> -<div class="verse">With lockes, and barres? and such <i>domestick-Armes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As may secure their bodies, there, from harmes?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">However, when all's done, we see, their foes</div> -<div class="verse">Breake in, sometimes, and worke their overthrowes.</div> -<div class="verse">For, though (about themselves, with Cable-quoiles,</div> -<div class="verse">They could inclose a hundred thousand miles)</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>gunshot</i> of a slanderous <i>tongue</i>, may smite,</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Fame</i> quite through it, to the very <i>White</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, more (though, there, from others, they were free)</div> -<div class="verse">They wounded, by themselves, to death might be,</div> -<div class="verse">Except their <i>Innocence</i>, more guards them, than</div> -<div class="verse">The strength of twenty royall <i>Armies</i>, can.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If, therefore, thou thy <i>Spoylers</i>, wilt beguile,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou must be armed, like this <i>Crocodile</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n with such nat'rall <i>Armour</i> (ev'ry day)</div> -<div class="verse">As no man can bestowe, or take away:</div> -<div class="verse">For, spitefull <i>Malice</i>, at one time or other,</div> -<div class="verse">Will pierce all borrowed <i>Armours</i>, put together.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Without</i>, let <i>Patience</i> durifie thy Skin;</div> -<div class="verse">Let <i>Innocencie</i>, line thy heart <i>within</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Let constant <i>Fortitude</i>, unite them so,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they may breake the force of ev'ry blow:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when thou thus art <i>arm'd</i>, if ill thou speed;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let me sustaine the <i>Mischiefe</i>, in thy steed.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"><i>Finis Libri secundi.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_113.jpg" width="500" height="100" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="no-break"> -<a name="THE_SECOND" id="THE_SECOND"></a>THE SECOND<br /> -<span class="f90">LOTTERIE</span>.</h2> - -<p class="center">1</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_113c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome friends, and foes, of thine, there be,</div> -<div class="verse">That make a <i>wondring-stocke</i> of thee;</div> -<div class="verse">Some other over-much, of late,</div> -<div class="verse">To thy dishonour boldly prate,</div> -<div class="verse">And, peradventure, to thy face,</div> -<div class="verse">E're long, they'l doe thee some disgrace:</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, doth advise</div> -<div class="verse">That thou should'st make them no replies;</div> -<div class="verse">And showes that <i>silent-patience</i>, than</div> -<div class="verse">Shall stead thee more then <i>Answers</i> can.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_1_2"><i>Emblem.</i> I.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">2</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">By such as know you, it is thought,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you are better <i>fed</i> then <i>taught</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, it might augment your <i>wit</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">If you were sometimes <i>hunger-bit</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Emblem</i>, which by <i>Lot</i> you drew,</div> -<div class="verse">To this effect doth somewhat shew:</div> -<div class="verse">But 'twill goe hard, when you are faine,</div> -<div class="verse">To feed your <i>Bowells</i>, by your <i>Braine</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_2_2"><i>Emb.</i> II.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">3</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Perhaps you may be one of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom, from the <i>Church</i>, an <i>Organ</i> blowes;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, peradventure, one of them,</div> -<div class="verse">Who doth all melody contemne:</div> -<div class="verse">Or, one, whose <i>life</i> is yet untaught,</div> -<div class="verse">How into <i>tune</i> it should be brought.</div> -<div class="verse">If so, your <i>Lot</i>, to you hath sent</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, not impertinent.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_3_2"><i>Emb.</i> III.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">4</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">God blesse thee, whosoere thou art,</div> -<div class="verse">And, give thee still an honest heart:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by the fortune of thy <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Sword</i>, and <i>Halter</i>, thou hast got,</div> -<div class="verse">Which threatens <i>death</i>, with much disgrace;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, promises the Hang-mans's place.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span> -<div class="verse">But, be not griev'd; for, now and than,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Gallowes</i> makes an honest man;</div> -<div class="verse">And, some, who scape an outward curse,</div> -<div class="verse">Born in their <i>lives</i> and <i>deaths</i> are worse,</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_4_2"><i>Emb.</i> IV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2"><i>M</i> <span class="in2">5</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou would'st be loth, we should suspect,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou didst not well thy <i>King</i> affect;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, that, thou should'st be so ingrate,</div> -<div class="verse">To sleight the welfare of the <i>State</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, thou, perchance, art one of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who <i>discord</i> through the <i>Kingdome</i> sowes.</div> -<div class="verse">We know not, but if such thou be,</div> -<div class="verse">Marke, what thine <i>Emblem</i> teaches thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_5_2"><i>Emb.</i> V.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">6</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">In you, a naturall desire</div> -<div class="verse">Beginnes to blow <i>Affection's</i> fire;</div> -<div class="verse">But, by <i>discretion</i>, guide the <i>blast</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, it consume you, at the last;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, by the fury of the same,</div> -<div class="verse">Blow out some necessary <i>Flame</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, that, which doth your <i>Profit</i> breed,</div> -<div class="verse">May harme you, if you take not heed.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_6_2"><i>Emb.</i> VI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">7</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Be carefull, what you goe about;</div> -<div class="verse">For, by this <i>Lot</i>, there may be doubt,</div> -<div class="verse">That you, some wickednesse intend,</div> -<div class="verse">Which will undoe you, in the end.</div> -<div class="verse">If you have done the <i>deed</i>, repent:</div> -<div class="verse">If purpos'd ill, the same prevent.</div> -<div class="verse">Else, though in <i>jest</i>, this <i>Counsell</i> came,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>earnest</i>, you may rue the same.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_7_2"><i>Emb.</i> VII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">8</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou art afflicted; or, ere long</div> -<div class="verse">Shalt sing some lamentable Song:</div> -<div class="verse">And, of those troubles, take some share,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, thou art very loth to beare.</div> -<div class="verse">But, be not overmuch dismayd,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor pine, what ere on thee be layd,</div> -<div class="verse">For, comfort shall thy joy restore,</div> -<div class="verse">And, make thee gladder, then before.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_8_2"><i>Emb.</i> VIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">9</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">If this thy <i>Chance</i> hath done thee right,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou art, or hast beene apt to fight;</div> -<div class="verse">And, wilt upon occasion small,</div> -<div class="verse">Beginne, sometimes, a needlesse <i>brawle</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span> -<div class="verse">To shew thee, therefore, thy defect;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, that thy folly may be check't,</div> -<div class="verse">And, fit thy minde for better things,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, some good <i>counsell</i> brings.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_9_2"><i>Emb.</i> IX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">10</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">What thing soere thou undertak'st,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou seldome good conclusion mak'st;</div> -<div class="verse">For, still, when thou hast ought to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou art too <i>hasty</i>, or too <i>slow</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, from that equall temper stray'st,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, thy worke effect thou mayst.</div> -<div class="verse">To mend this fault thou counsell'd art,</div> -<div class="verse">Be wiser, therefore, then thou wert.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_10_2"><i>Emb.</i> X.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">11</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou hast in publicke lived long,</div> -<div class="verse">And, over freely us'd thy <i>tongue</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, if thy safety thou desire,</div> -<div class="verse">Be <i>silent</i>, and, thy selfe <i>retire</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if thou wilt not be undone,</div> -<div class="verse">Possesse thy <i>joyes</i>, and <i>hopes</i>, alone:</div> -<div class="verse">For, they, that will from harmes be free,</div> -<div class="verse">Must <i>silent</i>, and <i>obscured</i>, bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_11_2"><i>Emb.</i> XI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">12</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Fortune</i>, thou dost long to heare,</div> -<div class="verse">And, what thy <i>Constellations</i> are:</div> -<div class="verse">But, why should'st thou desire to know,</div> -<div class="verse">What things, the <i>Planets</i> doe foreshow;</div> -<div class="verse">Seeke, rather, <i>Wisedome</i> to procure,</div> -<div class="verse">And, how, all <i>Fortunes</i> to indure:</div> -<div class="verse">So, thou shalt gaine a blest estate,</div> -<div class="verse">And, be the <i>Master</i> of thy <i>Fate</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_12_2"><i>Emb.</i> XII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">13</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou, seem'st to have great store of <i>friends</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, they affect thee, for their ends.</div> -<div class="verse">There is, in those, but little trust,</div> -<div class="verse">Who love, for <i>profit</i>, <i>mirth</i>, or <i>lust</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Learne, therfore, when, thou mayst be sure,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Friend's</i> affection will indure;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that this <i>Knowledge</i> may be got,</div> -<div class="verse">Good notice take thou of thy <i>Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_13_2"><i>Emb.</i> XIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">14</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It is conceiv'd, that meanes thou hast,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, might'st have had good meanes, at least,</div> -<div class="verse">To bring those matters to effect,</div> -<div class="verse">Which thou dost carelesly neglect;</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span> -<div class="verse">And, good for many might'st have done,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, yet, hast pleasur'd few, or none.</div> -<div class="verse">If this be true, thy <i>Lot</i> peruse,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>God's</i> good gifts, no more abuse.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_14_2"><i>Emb.</i> XIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">15</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Religious thou would'st faine be deem'd,</div> -<div class="verse">And, such, to many thou hast seem'd:</div> -<div class="verse">But, to this matter more there goes,</div> -<div class="verse">Then zealous lookes, and formall showes.</div> -<div class="verse">Looke, therefore, that thy heart be true,</div> -<div class="verse">What e're thou seeme in outward view.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if <i>God's</i> favour thou would'st have,</div> -<div class="verse">Observe what <i>Off'rings</i>, he doth crave.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_15_2"><i>Emb.</i> XV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">16</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">That <i>Emblem</i>, which this <i>Lot</i> will bring,</div> -<div class="verse">Concernes the honour of a <i>King</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">How, therefore, thee it may concerne,</div> -<div class="verse">By thy discretion seeke to learne.</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, the <i>Royall-powre</i> hath seem'd</div> -<div class="verse">To thee, not so to be esteem'd,</div> -<div class="verse">As well it merits, to be priz'd.</div> -<div class="verse">If so, now better be advis'd.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_16_2"><i>Emb.</i> XVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">17</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Both learn'd, and wise, thou would'st become,</div> -<div class="verse">(Else thou hast much deceived some)</div> -<div class="verse">But, if thy <i>hopes</i> thou will effect,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou must not likely <i>meanes</i> neglect;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what the likelyest <i>meanes</i> may bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i> hath advised thee:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by a <i>Fowle</i>, that's blockish thought,</div> -<div class="verse">Good <i>counsell</i> may to thee be taught.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_17_2"><i>Emb.</i> XVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">18</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">If, to <i>preferment</i> thou wilt rise,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou must not <i>Arts</i>, nor <i>Armes</i>, despise;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor so in <i>one</i> of these delight,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou the <i>other</i>, wholly sleight.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, to thy <i>Body</i> be inclin'd,</div> -<div class="verse">So much, as to neglect thy <i>Minde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">This, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou mayst learne;</div> -<div class="verse">And, much thy good it may concerne.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_18_2"><i>Emb.</i> XVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">19</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>fortunes</i> have appeared bad;</div> -<div class="verse">For, many <i>suff'rings</i> thou hast had:</div> -<div class="verse">And <i>tryalls</i> too, as yet made knowne</div> -<div class="verse">To no mans knowledge, but thine owne.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span> -<div class="verse">But, let nor losse, nor fame, nor smart,</div> -<div class="verse">From constant hopes remove thy heart:</div> -<div class="verse">And, as thine <i>Emblem</i> doth foreshew,</div> -<div class="verse">A good conclusion will insue.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_19_2"><i>Emb.</i> XIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2"><i>W</i><span class="in2">20</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Lot</i> informeth how to know</div> -<div class="verse">Where, best your <i>Love</i> you may bestow:</div> -<div class="verse">And, by the same it may appeare</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Musicke</i> most affects your eare.</div> -<div class="verse">Denye it not; for (by your leave)</div> -<div class="verse">Wee by your lookes, your heart perceive.</div> -<div class="verse">And, this perhaps you'l thinke upon</div> -<div class="verse">(To purpose) when you are alone.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_20_2"><i>Emb.</i> XX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">21</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i> may make us all suspect,</div> -<div class="verse">That some wrong <i>object</i> you affect;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, where dearenesse you pretend,</div> -<div class="verse">It is not for the noblest end.</div> -<div class="verse">What mischiefe from such falshood flowes,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Emblem</i> very truely showes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, may more happy make your <i>Fate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">If counsell be not come too late.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_21_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">22</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">To trust on others, thou art apt;</div> -<div class="verse">And, hast already beene intrapt;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, may'st er'e long be much deceiv'd</div> -<div class="verse">By some, whom thou hast well believ'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Be heedfull, therfore, of thy <i>Lot</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, let it never be forgot:</div> -<div class="verse">So, though some hazzard thou mayst run,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, thou shalt never be undone.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_22_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">23</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It seemes thou tak'st too great a care</div> -<div class="verse">For things, that vaine, and fading are;</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, dost overprise them so,</div> -<div class="verse">As if all blisse from them did flowe.</div> -<div class="verse">That, therefore, thou mayst view their worth,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Hieroglyphicke</i> shaddow'd forth,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Lot</i> befriends thee: marke the same,</div> -<div class="verse">And, be in this, no more to blame.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_23_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">24</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Though some, should thee, for one, mistake,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>wealth</i> is all upon his backe,</div> -<div class="verse">If what thou hast, bee all thine owne,</div> -<div class="verse">God, hath enough on thee bestowne.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span> -<div class="verse">A <i>Princes</i> ransome, wee may beare,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Iewells</i>, which most precious are;</div> -<div class="verse">And, yet, to many men may seeme,</div> -<div class="verse">To carry nothing worth esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse">Therefore, though small thy substance be,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, somewhat comforts thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_24_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">25</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">By this your <i>Emblem</i>, wee discerne,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you are yet of age to learne;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, when elder you shall grow,</div> -<div class="verse">There, will be more for you to <i>know</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Presume not, therefore of your <i>wit</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, strive that you may benefit.</div> -<div class="verse">For, of your age, we many view,</div> -<div class="verse">That, farre more <i>wisedome</i> have, then you.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_25_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">26</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">By thy complaints, it hath appear'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou think'st thy <i>Vertues</i> want reward;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, if they their merit had,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou <i>rich</i>, and <i>nobler</i> should'st be made.</div> -<div class="verse">To drive thee from that partiall thought,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, by an <i>Emblem</i>, shalt be taught,</div> -<div class="verse">That, where true <i>Vertue</i> may be found,</div> -<div class="verse">The truest <i>wealth</i> will still abound.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_26_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">27</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">By this thy <i>Lot</i>, thou dost appeare</div> -<div class="verse">To be of those, who love to heare</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Preacher's</i> voyce; or, else of them,</div> -<div class="verse">That undervalue, or contemne</div> -<div class="verse">Those dayly <i>showres</i> of wholsome <i>words</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>God</i>, in these our times, affords.</div> -<div class="verse">Now, which soere of these thou bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, something, teaches thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_27_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">28</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou deal'st, when thee thy <i>foe</i> offends,</div> -<div class="verse">As if, you never should be <i>friends</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>peace</i>, thou so secure doth grow,</div> -<div class="verse">As if, thou could'st not have a <i>foe</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">How, therefore, <i>Peace</i> and <i>Warre</i> pursues</div> -<div class="verse">Each other, this thine <i>Emblem</i> shewes,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou mayst learne, in ev'ry tide,</div> -<div class="verse">For future chances, to provide.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_28_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">29</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">What e're thou are in outward shew,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy Heart is ever very true,</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span> -<div class="verse">And, to those <i>Knowledges</i> aspires,</div> -<div class="verse">Which every prudent <i>Soule</i> desires:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, be not proud that thou hast got</div> -<div class="verse">This testimonie, by thy <i>Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, view thine <i>Emblem</i>, and endeaver</div> -<div class="verse">In search of <i>Knowledge</i> to persever.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_29_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">30</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">If <i>Glory</i>, thou desire to get,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Wits</i>, thou must on working set;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>labour</i> unto <i>Prudence</i> adde,</div> -<div class="verse">Before true <i>Honor</i> will be had:</div> -<div class="verse">For, what thy <i>Friends</i>, or <i>Parents</i> brought,</div> -<div class="verse">To make thee <i>famous</i>, profits nought;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather will procure thy <i>shame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse, thou shalt improove the same.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_30_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2"><i>M</i> <span class="in2">31</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The time hath beene, that of the <i>Rod</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou wert more fearefull, then of <i>God</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, now unlesse thou prudent grow,</div> -<div class="verse">More cause thou hast to feare a <i>shrowe</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, from the <i>Rod</i>, now thou art free,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Woman</i>, shall thy torment be.</div> -<div class="verse">At her, yet doe not thou repine,</div> -<div class="verse">For, all the fault is onely thine.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_31_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">32</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It seemes, thy <i>Time</i> thou dost <i>mispend</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">To warne thee, therefore of thine end;</div> -<div class="verse">To shew, how short thy <i>Life</i> will be;</div> -<div class="verse">And, with what speed it flyes from thee;</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i> was drawne: and, may advize,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou thy time shouldst better prize.</div> -<div class="verse">Which, if accordingly thou doe,</div> -<div class="verse">This, will be <i>sport</i>, and profit too.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_32_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">33</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It may be, thou art one of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, dost not all aright suppose,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Gods Decrees</i>; or, of the state</div> -<div class="verse">Of an inevitable <i>Fate</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">That, therefore, so thou maist beleeve,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, of these Mysteries conceive)</div> -<div class="verse">As thou art bound; this <i>Lot</i> befell.</div> -<div class="verse">Peruse, and minde thine <i>Embleme</i> well.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_33_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">34</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou, at thy <i>Fortune</i>, hast repin'd,</div> -<div class="verse">And, seem'st imprisond in thy minde,</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span> -<div class="verse">Because thou art not straight releast</div> -<div class="verse">From those things which have thee opprest.</div> -<div class="verse">To thee, a <i>Lot</i> is therefore sent,</div> -<div class="verse">To qualifie thy <i>discontent</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By shewing, that thy present <i>Fate</i></div> -<div class="verse">Preserves thee, from a worse estate.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_34_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">35</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Vertues</i> and thy <i>Worth</i> are such,</div> -<div class="verse">That, many doe envie thee much;</div> -<div class="verse">And, they that hate thee, take delight</div> -<div class="verse">To doe thee mischiefe and despight.</div> -<div class="verse">But, heart assume, and follow on</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>course</i> that thou hast well begunne;</div> -<div class="verse">For, all their spight shall doe no more,</div> -<div class="verse">But, make thee greater then before.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_35_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">36</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">In outward pompe, thy pleasures are;</div> -<div class="verse">Thy hope of blisse is placed there;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thou this <i>folly</i> wilt not leave,</div> -<div class="verse">Till, all <i>content</i>, it shall bereave,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse, thou timely come to see</div> -<div class="verse">How vaine, all earthly <i>Glories</i> bee.</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, thou hast gain'd,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, this <i>Knowledge</i> is obtain'd.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_36_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">37</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It may be feared, that thou hast</div> -<div class="verse">In publicke, or in private, past</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>promise</i>, or else made some <i>vow</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That's broke, or else indanger'd, now.</div> -<div class="verse">If so; this <i>Lot</i> is come, in time,</div> -<div class="verse">To mend, or to prevent this crime;</div> -<div class="verse">And, shew what should by them be done,</div> -<div class="verse">'Twixt whom <i>Affection</i> is begunne.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_37_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">38</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou art reproved of <i>deceipt</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In faulty <i>Measures</i>, and in <i>Weight</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, overbackward hast been knowne,</div> -<div class="verse">In giving ev'ry one his owne.</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, counsells thee,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou more just, hereafter be.</div> -<div class="verse">For, that, which is by <i>falsehood</i> got,</div> -<div class="verse">Makes likely showes, but prospers not.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_38_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">39</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">So highly, thou dost <i>Vertue</i> prize,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou dost <i>Fortunes</i> helpe despise,</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span> -<div class="verse">As if, where <i>Vertues</i> present are,</div> -<div class="verse">Her favours alwayes needlesse were:</div> -<div class="verse">But, sometimes there's enough to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Fortune</i>, and for <i>Vertue</i> too,</div> -<div class="verse">The pow'r of envious tongues to charme,</div> -<div class="verse">And, keepe an <i>Innocent</i> from harme.</div> -<div class="verse">Therfore, make both of <i>these</i>, thy friends;</div> -<div class="verse">For, thereunto thine <i>Emblem</i> tends.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_39_2"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">40</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou mayst be one of those, perchance,</div> -<div class="verse">Who <i>Schisme</i>, and <i>Heresies</i> advance,</div> -<div class="verse">Because they <i>Times</i> and <i>Termes</i> mistake;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>diff'rence</i> know not how to make</div> -<div class="verse">'Twixt that, which <i>temp'rall</i> doth appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">And, those things which <i>eternall</i> are.</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, by thy <i>Lot</i>, art therefore warn'd,</div> -<div class="verse">To search what should of these be learn'd.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_40_2"><i>Emb.</i> XL.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">41</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Great workes to doe, thou hast a <i>minde</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>pow'r</i> thereto thou canst not finde.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, thy <i>pow'r</i> is not unfit;</div> -<div class="verse">But, then thou failest in thy <i>wit</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Vndertakings</i>, therefore, chuse</div> -<div class="verse">(If thou wilt not thy time abuse)</div> -<div class="verse">As to thy <i>pow'rs</i>, and <i>wits</i> agree;</div> -<div class="verse">And, let them both imployed bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_41_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">42</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">When any <i>Blessing</i> thou hast gain'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou mind'st not whence it was obtain'd;</div> -<div class="verse">But, bear'st thy selfe, as if the same</div> -<div class="verse">By thine owne <i>pow'r</i>, or <i>merit</i>, came:</div> -<div class="verse">That, therefore, thou <i>mayst</i> better heed</div> -<div class="verse">From whence, all <i>Graces</i> doe proceed,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, hast an <i>Emblem</i>, by this <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">From which, good <i>Cautions</i> may be got.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_42_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">43</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">By this thy <i>Lot</i>, it should appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Muses</i> thy acquaintance are;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, that thou art (at least) of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, of their <i>Steed</i> ambitious growes.</div> -<div class="verse">If thou hast <i>wit</i>, his <i>Reynes</i> to guide,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon his backe, mount up and ride;</div> -<div class="verse">But, if thou finde thy selfe to weake,</div> -<div class="verse">Forbeare him, lest thy necke he breake.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_43_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">44</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">In many things, the worse thou art,</div> -<div class="verse">By thy despayring, fainting heart;</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span> -<div class="verse">And, oft, thy labour, and thy cost,</div> -<div class="verse">For want of <i>hopefulnesse</i>, is lost.</div> -<div class="verse">This indiscretion to prevent,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, therefore, by thy <i>Lot</i>, art sent,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Plough-man's</i> hopefulnesse to see:</div> -<div class="verse">Observe it; and, reformed bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_44_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">45</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">As soone as e're thy <i>Seeds</i> are sowne,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou <i>fruits</i> expectest, fully growne.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if they ripe not in a day,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, foolest all thy hopes away:</div> -<div class="verse">That wiser, therefore, thou mayst grow,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Lot</i>, an <i>Emblem</i> doth bestow,</div> -<div class="verse">To teach, that <i>workes</i> both faire and great,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>small-degrees</i>, are made compleat.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_45_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">46</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou hadst, or hast, or thou shalt have</div> -<div class="verse">Much trouble, ere thou fill thy <i>Grave</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, may'st, when thou expectest rest,</div> -<div class="verse">With paine, or sorrowes, be opprest.</div> -<div class="verse">But, be content, and waile not much:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Poverty</i> shall make thee <i>rich</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The paine will soone be overpast,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thou shalt happy be at last.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_46_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">47</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Fortune</i>, be it good or bad,</div> -<div class="verse">May, by thy <i>wit</i>, be better made;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, whatsoere <i>mischances</i> fall,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>prudence</i>, thou may'st helpe them all.</div> -<div class="verse">That, hopefull, therfore, thou mayst bide,</div> -<div class="verse">What change soever, shall betide,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, by thy <i>Lot</i>, informed art,</div> -<div class="verse">What succours, <i>Wisedome</i> doth impart.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_47_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2"><i>M</i><span class="in2">48</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">A man at <i>Armes</i>, thou wouldst be thought,</div> -<div class="verse">And, hast the Crowne of <i>Honour</i> sought;</div> -<div class="verse">But, thou hast much mistooke the <i>wayes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which tend to well-deserved <i>praise</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">How, <i>Honour</i>, therefore, may be got,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou art informed by thy <i>Lot</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, with what <i>Foes</i>, and, for what <i>end</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou shouldst be ready to contend.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_48_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">49</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, thou mayst be one of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who doth <i>God's</i> holy Church oppose;</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span> -<div class="verse">For, over many in these dayes,</div> -<div class="verse">Disturbe her <i>Peace</i>, and sleight her <i>Praise</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">That her <i>esteeme</i>, therefore may bee</div> -<div class="verse">Increased, or preserv'd, by thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, now, to thee, will show,</div> -<div class="verse">To what perfection she will grow.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_49_2"><i>Emb.</i> XLIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">50</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou <i>safety</i> lov'st, and wouldst have <i>Armes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy person to secure from harmes:</div> -<div class="verse">But, most of those thou hast prepar'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Are but a weake uncertaine <i>Guard</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, if thou take not greater heed,</div> -<div class="verse">May faile thy trust, in time of need.</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, therfore, hath exprest,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Armes</i>, for thy defence are best.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_50_2"><i>Emb.</i> L.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">51</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Planetary-Calculations</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Superstitious-Observations</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Lots</i>, and <i>Dreames</i>, and <i>Accidents</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which have but casuall events,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou art so fond; and, unto such,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou dost adhere, and trust so much,</div> -<div class="verse">That, it succeedeth very well,</div> -<div class="verse">No <i>Emblem</i>, now, to thee befell:</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, these, which onely <i>Counsells</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Might seeme firme <i>Destinies</i> to thee.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">52</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">He that by drawing, here, his <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Some caveat or advice hath got,</div> -<div class="verse">Did, peradventure, need alone</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Caution</i>, which he lighted on:</div> -<div class="verse">But, unto thee, so needfull are</div> -<div class="verse">All <i>Warnings</i>, and, all <i>Counsells</i> here,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Fortune</i> will not <i>one</i> bestow,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, thou may'st thinke thou need'st no moe.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">53</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">You, may be glad, you drew not that,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, in your thought, you guessed at;</div> -<div class="verse">For, so it points out that <i>condition</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereof you give a great suspicion,</div> -<div class="verse">That, had it such an <i>Emblem</i> nam'd,</div> -<div class="verse">As fits you right, you had beene sham'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Since, then, your fault is unreveal'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Amend, and keep it still conceal'd.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">54</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The <i>Muses</i> Oracle is dumbe,</div> -<div class="verse">Because to tempt them you are come;</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span> -<div class="verse">For, in your <i>heart</i>, you much despise,</div> -<div class="verse">To follow that, which they advise:</div> -<div class="verse">Their admonitions, you doe jeere,</div> -<div class="verse">And, scorne to helpe your <i>Wisedome</i>, here.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Muses</i>, therefore, leave you, still,</div> -<div class="verse">To be as foolish, as you will.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">5</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It would, perhaps, have made thee proud,</div> -<div class="verse">If, now, thy <i>Lot</i> had beene allow'd</div> -<div class="verse">To let an <i>Emblem</i> shadow forth</div> -<div class="verse">What is conceived of thy <i>worth</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Or, if thy <i>Vertues</i> were descry'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Perchance, thou wouldst be more envy'd</div> -<div class="verse">Then praysed, when they are exprest;</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Blanke</i> for thee, was therefore best.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">6</p> - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">No <i>Emblem</i>, to this <i>Lot</i>, replyes;</div> -<div class="verse">Minde, therefore, well (I thee advise)</div> -<div class="verse">What from the <i>Preacher's</i> voice thou hear'st,</div> -<div class="verse">When in the <i>Church</i>, thou next appear'st:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, there indeavour thou, to seeke</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Lot</i> of <i>Counsell</i>, ev'ry weeke.</div> -<div class="verse">For, at all seasons, there will bee</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Prophecies</i>, concerning thee,</div> -<div class="verse">That, if of those, thou takest heed,</div> -<div class="verse">These <i>Emblems</i>, thou shalt never need.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<p class="center f150"><i>FINIS.</i></p> -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p class="ph1"> -<span class="f75">A</span><br /> -COLLECTION<br /> -<span class="f75">OF</span><br /> -EMBLEMES,<br /> -<span class="f90"> ANCIENT AND<br /> -MODERNE:</span></p> - -<p class="ph2"> - Quickened<br /> - With <span class="smcap">Metricall Illvstrations</span>, both<br /> - <i>Morall</i> and <i>Divine</i>: And disposed into<br /> - <span class="smcap">Lotteries</span>. -</p> - -<p class="center ph3"> - That <i>Instruction</i>, and <i>Good Counsell</i>, may bee furthered<br /> - by an Honest and Pleasant <i>Recreation</i>. -</p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<p class="center"> - <i>By</i> <span class="smcap">George Wither</span>.</p> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<h2><span class="f75"> <i>The third Booke.</i></span></h2> - -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_125.jpg" width="200" height="197" alt="NON PLVS" /> -</div> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<p class="center"> - <span class="smcap">London</span>,<br /> - Printed by <span class="smcap">Avgvstine Mathewes</span>.<br /> - MDCXXXIV.<br /> -</p> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="mb2"><span class="f75">TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS</span><br /> -<span class="f90">Princesse, <i>FRANCIS</i>, Dutchesse Dowager</span><br /> -<span class="f75"><i>of</i> <span class="smcap">Richmond</span>, <i>and</i> <span class="smcap">Lennox</span>, <i>&c.</i></span></h2> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse drop-capt"><span class="smcap">Fame</span> sayes (great <span class="smcap">Princesse</span>) that the <i>Pow'rs-above</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Will soone forgive; which, I desire to prove:</div> -<div class="verse">For, I am guiltie of a <i>Venial-sinne</i></div> -<div class="verse">Against your <span class="smcap">Grace</span>; and, have remain'd therein</div> -<div class="verse">Without an <i>Absolution</i>, so long time,</div> -<div class="verse">That, now, my <i>Conscience</i> checks me for the <i>Crime</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, to reprove me for it, will not cease</div> -<div class="verse">Till I have, someway, sought to make my <i>Peace</i>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">To palliate my <i>Fault</i>, I could produce</div> -<div class="verse">Enough, perhaps, to stand for an <i>Excuse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, when I mind what <i>Favours</i>, and what <i>Fame</i></div> -<div class="verse">I might have purchased unto my <i>Name</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(By taking Courage, to have done my best)</div> -<div class="verse">I dare not make <i>Excuses</i>; but, request</div> -<div class="verse">Your pardon, rather, and, that some <i>Oblation</i></div> -<div class="verse">May game my <i>Person</i>, future acceptation.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">To that intent, this humble <i>Offring</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Within your gracious presence, doth appeare.</div> -<div class="verse">And, that it may the more content your eye,</div> -<div class="verse">Well-graven <i>Figures</i>, help to beautifie</div> -<div class="verse">My lowly <i>Gift</i>: And, vailed are in these,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Treasury</i> of Golden <i>Sentences</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">By my well-meaning <i>Muse</i>, interpreted,</div> -<div class="verse">That, with your <span class="smcap">Name</span>, their Morals may be spread</div> -<div class="verse">And scattred, <i>Largesse-like</i>, (at your commanding)</div> -<div class="verse">To helpe inrich the <i>Poore in Vnderstanding</i>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">If <span class="smcap">Yov</span> accept the <i>Tender</i>, I shall know,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <span class="smcap">Grace</span> is pleased with your <i>Servant</i>, so,</div> -<div class="verse">As, that there may be hope, my future Actions,</div> -<div class="verse">Will give the more contenting Satisfactions:</div> -<div class="verse">And, your <i>Encouragements</i>, my <i>Pow'rs</i> may raise,</div> -<div class="verse">To make the <span class="smcap">Beavties</span> of your <i>Later dayes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">More glorious, far, than your fresh <span class="smcap">Yovth's</span> perfection,</div> -<div class="verse">Though, knowne to be, the <i>Load-stone</i> of <i>Affection</i>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">For, like the loving <span class="smcap">Tvrtle</span>, you have stood</div> -<div class="verse">So constant, in your vowed <i>Widdow-hood</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">So strictly, kept a solitarie state;</div> -<div class="verse">So faithfull beene, to your deceased <span class="smcap">Mate</span>;</div> -<div class="verse">So firmly true, and truly kinde, to <i>them</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which are the <i>Branches</i> of his <i>Princely-stemme</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, personated in so high a <i>Straine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The parts of <span class="smcap">Honovr</span>; that, my rusticke <i>vaine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Must raised be, before it can ascend</div> -<div class="verse">To say, how much, your <i>Fame</i>, doth you commend.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Yet, if these <i>Lines</i>, (or, <i>that</i> they Vsher in)</div> -<div class="verse">For me, some <i>Passage</i> may, anew, begin</div> -<div class="verse">To your <i>Esteeme</i>; I, may so happily,</div> -<div class="verse">Illustrate forth, the <i>Golden-History</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of those <i>Affections</i>, which within your Brest,</div> -<div class="verse">Have to the world remained unexprest.</div> -<div class="verse">That, future times, to your applause may reade,</div> -<div class="verse">The matchlesse <i>Paterne</i> of a <i>Widdowed-bed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which you have drawne, for those to <i>imitate</i></div> -<div class="verse">Who can; and, for the rest to wonder at.</div> -<div class="verse">For, what (thereto) yet wanteth, in my <i>Muse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <span class="smcap">Grace</span>, as my <i>Minerva</i>, may infuse.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Nor, will it be in vaine, to shew the worth</div> -<div class="verse">Of those <i>Perfections</i>, truly blazed forth,</div> -<div class="verse">Which you may personate: Nor, shall it be</div> -<div class="verse">To your <i>Content</i> unusefull, when you see</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Best part of your selfe</i>, (as in a <i>Glasse</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Disclosed, and set up, before your <span class="smcap">Grace</span>,</div> -<div class="verse">To represent those <i>Beauties</i>, wherein lurkes,</div> -<div class="verse">More sweetnesse, than in <i>Picture-drawers</i> Workes;</div> -<div class="verse">And shew, how temp'rall <i>Glories</i>, and <i>Affections</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Have hourely ripened you, for those <i>Perfections</i></div> -<div class="verse">That, make <i>Immortall</i>; and, which are that <i>End</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereto, all Earthly <i>Graces</i>, ought to tend.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Then, if your <span class="smcap">Excellence</span>, desire to heare,</div> -<div class="verse">Those <span class="smcap">Mvses</span>, honour you, whose prayses are</div> -<div class="verse">Attending <i>Vertue</i>; and, shall please to live</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Life of Glory</i>, which my <i>Verse</i> can give;</div> -<div class="verse">Your <span class="smcap">Graces</span> favour, (when you please) hath pow'rs</div> -<div class="verse">To make both <span class="smcap">Mee</span>, and all my <i>Muses</i> yours.</div> -<div class="verse">And, wee are hopefull, that, so well wee know</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Merits</i>, and those <i>Duties</i>, which wee owe,</div> -<div class="verse">That, wee shall raise, your <span class="smcap">Honovr's</span> <i>Trophies</i> high,</div> -<div class="verse">Though, <i>Wee our selves</i> upon the pavement lie.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Thus, I have made mine <i>Offring</i>; and I stand</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Attending, now, to kisse your <span class="smcap">Graces</span> hand.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="in8"><i>Your GRACES</i></p> -<p class="in12"><i>in all humilitie</i>,</p> -<p class="in16"><span class="smcap">Geo: Wither</span>.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="mb2"><span class="f75">TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY</span><br /> -<span class="f90">Prince, <i>JAMES</i>, Duke<br /> -<i>of</i> <span class="smcap">Lennox</span>, <i>&c.</i></span></h2> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza italic"> -<div class="verse drop-capt2">WHen <em class="upright"><span class="smcap">Richmond</span></em>, your beloved <em class="upright">Vnkle</em>, liv'd,</div> -<div class="verse">(For whose departure, all this <em class="upright">Empire</em> griev'd,</div> -<div class="verse">And, yet laments) his GRACE did not refuse</div> -<div class="verse">To deigne respects, to my obscured MVSE;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor scorne, from <em class="upright">Highest-worth</em>, to stoope so low,</div> -<div class="verse">As, mee, in my despisednesse, to know:</div> -<div class="verse">And, had not <em class="upright">Bashfulnesse</em> restrain'd my <em class="upright">Wit</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">From pressing-on, (when he incourag'd it,)</div> -<div class="verse">My <span class="smcap">Pegasvs</span>, had learn'd, e're now, to rise,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, yet, with lame, and sickly <em class="upright">Feathers</em> flies.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">But, HEE hath left us; and, I thought not on</div> -<div class="verse">The losse I had of HIM, till he was gone;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor could I dreame, till he did hence ascend,</div> -<div class="verse">What t'was to want an <em class="upright">Honourable-friend</em>:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, what they feele, whom <em class="upright">Fate</em> constraines, to tarry</div> -<div class="verse">On stormy Plaines, without a SANCTVARIE.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Assoone, as from among us, he made wing,</div> -<div class="verse">My <em class="upright">Hopes</em> did waine, and, I began to sing</div> -<div class="verse">A <em class="upright">Mournfull-song</em>, not easie to forget;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, I beare the <em class="upright">burthen</em> of it, yet.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor was I silent (though my <em class="upright">Epicede</em></div> -<div class="verse">Appear'd not, for the publike eye to reade)</div> -<div class="verse">But, griev'd in private, as one wanting <em class="upright">Art</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">To give, the <em class="upright">Life of praise</em>, to his desart:</div> -<div class="verse">Which, if I could have equall'd with his <em class="upright">Name</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">His <em class="upright">Death</em> had gain'd my <em class="upright">Verse</em>, a <em class="upright">living-Fame</em>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">And, why expresse I this? except it give</div> -<div class="verse">Your GRACE, a fit occasion to perceive,</div> -<div class="verse">That, my decayed <em class="upright">Hopes</em> I would renew,</div> -<div class="verse">And, faine derive them downe, from HIM to YOV?</div> -<div class="verse">That, as you branched from his Princely <em class="upright">Stemme</em>;</div> -<div class="verse">(Are, honour'd with his <em class="upright">Ducall-Diadem</em>)</div> -<div class="verse">And, imitate his Vertue; So, you might</div> -<div class="verse">Be <em class="upright">Lord</em>, in mee, of that, which was his right:</div> -<div class="verse">And, for his Noble sake, vouchsafe to own</div> -<div class="verse">A <em class="upright">Servant</em>, which, to you, is yet unknowne.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">As <em class="upright">Prologue</em>, to the service I intend,</div> -<div class="verse">This PRESENT comes; and, without <em class="upright">Hope</em>, or <em class="upright">End</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of gaining further <em class="upright">Grace</em>, or more <em class="upright">Esteeme</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Than may, with humblest modestie, beseeme</div> -<div class="verse">His <em class="upright">Love</em>, and <em class="upright">Honest-meaning</em>, to expect,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <em class="upright">Merits</em> have, no visible effect,</div> -<div class="verse">Conducing to your profit; and, from whom</div> -<div class="verse">The best of his intents, are yet to come.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">I cannot thinke, these <em class="upright">Lots</em>, or <em class="upright">Emblems</em>, are</div> -<div class="verse">So worthy in themselves, as they'l appeare</div> -<div class="verse">In your acceptance; Or, that they can give,</div> -<div class="verse">Such Grace to YOV, as they'l from you receive.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, if YOV please, they may be, otherwhile,</div> -<div class="verse">A profitable Meanes, to help beguile</div> -<div class="verse">A Melancholy thought; And, have the pow'r</div> -<div class="verse">To shorten (without losse) a tedious howre.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Sometime (no doubt) content you are to walke</div> -<div class="verse">In <em class="upright">Artlesse Groves</em>; Or, to admit the talke</div> -<div class="verse">of Rustick <em class="upright">Swaines</em> (though ev'ry day you might</div> -<div class="verse">Your self in well-trim'd <em class="upright">garden-bowr's</em>, delight,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, heare the learnedst <em class="upright">Muses</em>, when you please;)</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n so, for change, you may, perhaps, in these</div> -<div class="verse">A <em class="upright">Recreation</em> finde; and, in some measure,</div> -<div class="verse">A <em class="upright">Profit</em>, intermixed with your <em class="upright">Pleasure</em>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">I will not make my <em class="upright">Promises</em> too large,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, my <em class="upright">Performances</em>, they overcharge</div> -<div class="verse">With <em class="upright">Expectation</em>: but, I leave them, SIR,</div> -<div class="verse">To <em class="upright">Bee</em>, and to <em class="upright">be thought</em>, the same they are.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if your EXCELLENCE, (when you behold</div> -<div class="verse">The Ground whereon I first became so bold,</div> -<div class="verse">To make this Entrance) shall vouchsafe to daigne</div> -<div class="verse">Those <em class="upright">Favours</em>, which, I dare not thinke to gaine</div> -<div class="verse">By <em class="upright">Meer-deserving</em>; you may then, perchance,</div> -<div class="verse">My <em class="upright">Willingnesse</em>, to <em class="upright">Ablenesse</em> advance:</div> -<div class="verse">And, reap in <em class="upright">Mee</em> (when ripened they are grown)</div> -<div class="verse">Some timely <em class="upright">fruits</em>, of that, which <em class="upright">you</em> have sown.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Till then, let it suffice, that I professe</div> -<div class="verse">A cheerefull, and a thankfull Readinesse</div> -<div class="verse">To honour <span class="smcap">Yov</span>; and, openly to show</div> -<div class="verse">The Dutie, which, it may appeare, I owe</div> -<div class="verse">To HIM that's gone. And, let your GRACE descend</div> -<div class="verse">To take this <em class="upright">Pledge</em>, of what I more intend.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="in8">Who am in all humilitie</p> -<p class="in12">Your <span class="smcap">Graces</span> to be</p> -<p class="in16">commanded,</p> -<p class="in16"><span class="smcap">Geo: Wither</span>.</p> - - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span></p> - - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -If well thou dost, and well intend,<br /> -Thou shalt be crowned, in the end.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_1_3" id="Ill_1_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_1_3t"><img src="images/i_d_135.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. I.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_135c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, many, for the chiefest <i>Garland</i> runne,</div> -<div class="verse">That height of <i>Glory</i>, can befall but one;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>Wreaths</i> there are, for ev'ry man prepar'd,</div> -<div class="verse">According as he meriteth <i>reward</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, though the <i>Worke</i> deserveth little meed,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Grace</i>, prints a worth, on ev'ry <i>willing-deed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which formes it currant; and, doth gratious make</div> -<div class="verse">Man's weake endeavors, for <span class="smcap">God's</span> <i>promise</i> sake.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">All seeke the selfe-same <i>prize</i>; but, doe not seeke,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>mindes</i>, and, with <i>endeavors</i>, all alike.</div> -<div class="verse">Most, wish the <i>Wreath</i>; but, few those things will doe,</div> -<div class="verse">That may be helpfull to attaine thereto:</div> -<div class="verse">And, some (that <i>will be doing</i>) more delight</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>doing their owne will</i>, then <i>doing right</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">One, thinkes by airie <i>titles</i>, to atchieve</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Palme</i> he seekes; Another, doth believe</div> -<div class="verse">Tis gain'd, by giving to his <i>Appetite</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The fulnesse of his <i>Bodies</i> vaine delight:</div> -<div class="verse">To reach their <i>aime</i>, some others nourish hopes,</div> -<div class="verse">By scrambling up unto the dunghill-tops</div> -<div class="verse">Of temp'rall <i>Riches</i>: and, of all the wayes,</div> -<div class="verse">Most thinke this <i>course</i> deserves the greatest <i>praise</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, this our <i>Emblem's</i> Motto, doth implie,</div> -<div class="verse">That, nothing Man possesseth outwardly</div> -<div class="verse">Can purchase him the <i>Crowne</i>, that should be sought,</div> -<div class="verse">Like <i>rightly-doing</i>, what is <i>rightly-taught</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, that <i>God</i> never passed any <i>doome</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To barre their <i>blisse</i>, who righteous would become:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, ev'n to <i>Cain</i> he said (of sinne detected)</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>If well thou dost, thou shalt be well respected</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A little <em class="upright">Wit</em>, may stand in stead,<br /> -When <em class="upright">Strength</em> doth faile, in time of need.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_2_3" id="Ill_2_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_2_3t"><img src="images/i_d_136.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. II.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_136c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Squirrell</i>, when shee must goe seeke her food,</div> -<div class="verse">By making passage through some neighb'ring <i>flood</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(And feares to be devoured by the Streame)</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, helpes her weaknesse, by a <i>Stratagem</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">On <i>blocks</i>, or <i>chips</i>, which on the waves doe flote,</div> -<div class="verse">She nimbly leaps; and, making them her boate</div> -<div class="verse">(By helpe of Windes, of Current, and of Tide)</div> -<div class="verse">Is wafted over to the further side.</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, that, which for the <i>Body</i> proves unfit,</div> -<div class="verse">Must often be acquired by the <i>Wit</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, what our outward <i>Fortunes</i> shall denye,</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>providence</i> must labour to supply.</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Casualties</i>, which may our need befriend,</div> -<div class="verse">We should with heedfull diligence attend;</div> -<div class="verse">And, watch to seize those <i>opportunities</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, men of abler fortunes may despise.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Some Birds, when they an <i>Oyster</i> would unlock,</div> -<div class="verse">Mount up, and let it fall upon a Rock;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when the Cockles on the Shores lye gasping,</div> -<div class="verse">(At ev'ry Tides approach their Shells unclasping)</div> -<div class="verse">Crowes cast in <i>Pebles</i>, and so take that meat</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>craft</i>, which by their <i>force</i> they could not get.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Wee, by indeav'ring thus, may gaine, at length,</div> -<div class="verse">That, which at first appeares above our strength.</div> -<div class="verse">By little <i>Screwes</i> an entrance we may make,</div> -<div class="verse">Where <i>Barres of Iron</i> cannot passage breake.</div> -<div class="verse">Small <i>Engines</i>, lift huge weights; and, we have heard,</div> -<div class="verse">That one <i>Wise-man</i> (though poore without regard)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">May save a City, when the <i>Men of Warre</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, all their <i>Captaines</i>, at a <i>non plus</i> are.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -To <em class="upright">Kings</em>, both <em class="upright">Sword</em> and <em class="upright">Mace</em> pertaine;<br /> -And, these they doe not beare in vaine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_3_3" id="Ill_3_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_3_3t"><img src="images/i_d_137.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. III</span>. <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_137c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen thou behold'st, upon a <i>Day of State</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>King</i> (or, some inferiour <i>Magistrate</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Walke forth in publicke, and the royall <i>Mace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sword</i>, or <i>Scepter</i> borne before his face:</div> -<div class="verse">Suppose thou not, that those are carried, so,</div> -<div class="verse">In ostentation, or for idle show.</div> -<div class="verse">These vulgar <i>Emblems</i>, are significant;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that <i>authority</i>, which <i>Princes</i> grant</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Bodies-politicke</i>, was, heretofore</div> -<div class="verse">Declared, by those <i>Ensignes</i>, which they bore.</div> -<div class="verse">The bruzing <i>Mace</i> (although, perhaps, with us,</div> -<div class="verse">It be not in these times, restrained thus)</div> -<div class="verse">That branch of <i>Royall-power</i> did signifie,</div> -<div class="verse">Which doth by <i>Fines</i>, or <i>losse of liberty</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Correct Offenders. By the <i>Sword</i>, they meant,</div> -<div class="verse">That larger branch of <i>pow'r</i>, to represent,</div> -<div class="verse">Which takes the <i>Malefactors</i> life away;</div> -<div class="verse">And, armes it selfe, when <i>Rebells</i> disobay.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">As often, therefore, as thou shalt espie</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Hieroglyphickes</i> of <i>Authority</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Be mindefull, and advis'd (how meane soere</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Persons</i>, or the <i>Places</i> may appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">Who get this <i>pow'r</i>) that still thou honour them:</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, thou in those, the pow'r of <i>God</i> contemne.</div> -<div class="verse">If not for theirs, yet for thy <i>Sov'raignes</i> cause,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom these doe personate; Or, for the <i>Lawes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which threaten punishment) thy selfe submit;</div> -<div class="verse">And, suffer what <i>Authority</i> thinkes fit:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, whatsoere they be that guide the <i>Reyne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>He</i>, gave the <i>pow'r</i>, who gave it, not, in vaine.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -He, that concealed things will finde,<br /> -Must looke <em class="upright">before</em> him, and <em class="upright">behinde</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_4_3" id="Ill_4_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_4_3t"><img src="images/i_d_138.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_138c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hat <i>Head</i>, which in his <i>Temple</i>, heretofore,</div> -<div class="verse">The well-knowne figure of old <i>Ianus</i> bore,</div> -<div class="verse">Retain'd the forme, which pictur'd here you finde;</div> -<div class="verse"><i>A Face before him, and a Face behinde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And this old <i>Hieroglyphicke</i> doth comprize</div> -<div class="verse">A multitude of Heathenish Mysteries;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, wee omitting, will insist on what</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem's</i> Motto, chiefely poynteth at.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">In true <i>Divinity</i>, 'tis <i>God</i> alone,</div> -<div class="verse">To whom, all hidden things are truely knowne.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Hee</i>, onely, is that <i>ever-present-being</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, by the vertue of his pow'r all-seeing,</div> -<div class="verse">Beholds, at one aspect, all things that <i>are</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That ever <i>shall be</i>, and that ever <i>were</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, in a Morall-sense, we may apply</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>double-face</i>, that man to signifie,</div> -<div class="verse">Who (whatsoere he undertakes to doe)</div> -<div class="verse">Lookes, both <i>before</i> him, and <i>behinde</i> him, too.</div> -<div class="verse">For, he shall never fruitfully forecast</div> -<div class="verse">Affaires <i>to come</i>, who mindes not what is <i>past</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, such as doe not, oft, <i>before</i> them looke,</div> -<div class="verse">May lose the labour, that's already tooke.</div> -<div class="verse">By, sometimes, looking <i>backward</i>, we behold</div> -<div class="verse">Those things, which have been done in <i>times of old</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">By looking wisely <i>forward</i>, we foresee</div> -<div class="verse">Such matters, as in <i>future-times</i> will bee:</div> -<div class="verse">And, thus, we doe not onely fruits receive,</div> -<div class="verse">From that short space of <i>time</i>, in which we live;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, by this meanes, we likewise have a share,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">In <i>times to come</i>, and, <i>times that passed are</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Good <em class="upright">Fortune</em> will with him abide,<br /> -That hath true <em class="upright">Vertue</em>, for his guide.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_5_3" id="Ill_5_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_5_3t"><img src="images/i_d_139.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. V.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_139c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Gryphon</i>, is the figure of a creature,</div> -<div class="verse">Not found within the Catalogues of <i>Nature</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, by those Wits created, who, to shew</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Internall</i> things, <i>externall Figures</i> drew:</div> -<div class="verse">The Shape, in which this <i>Fiction</i> they exprest,</div> -<div class="verse">Was borrow'd from a <i>Fowle</i>, and, from a <i>Beast</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Importing (when their parts were thus combin'd)</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Vertues</i>, both of <i>Body</i>, and of <i>minde</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, Men are sayd on <i>Gryphons</i> backes to ride,</div> -<div class="verse">When those mixt <i>Vertues</i>, them have dignify'd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Stone</i> (this <i>Brute</i> supporting) may expresse</div> -<div class="verse">The firme abiding, and the solidnesse</div> -<div class="verse">Of all true <i>Vertues</i>. That, long-winged <i>Ball</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which doth appeare fast-linked therewithall,</div> -<div class="verse">The gifts of changing <i>Fortune</i> doth implye:</div> -<div class="verse">And, all those things together, signifie,</div> -<div class="verse">That, when by such like <i>Vertues</i> Men are guided,</div> -<div class="verse">Good <i>Fortune</i> cannot be from them divided.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If this be true (as true I this believe)</div> -<div class="verse">Why should wee murmure, why repine, or grieve,</div> -<div class="verse">As if our <i>Studies</i>, or our honest paines,</div> -<div class="verse">Deprived were of some deserved gaines?</div> -<div class="verse">Why should we thinke the world hath done us wrong,</div> -<div class="verse">Because wee are not register'd among</div> -<div class="verse">Those thriving men, who purse up evr'y day,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>twelve hours labour</i> more then <i>twelve months pay</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">If wee our <i>paines</i> rewarded cannot see,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee count our <i>Merits</i> greater then they be.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But if we bide content, our worth is more;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And rich we are, though others think us poore.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /><h3 class="embleme"> -When prosperous our <em class="upright">Affaires</em> doe growe;<br /> -God's <em class="upright">Grace</em> it is, that makes them so.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_6_3" id="Ill_6_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_6_3t"><img src="images/i_d_140.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_140c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Vch pleasant <i>Flowres</i>, as here are shadow'd out</div> -<div class="verse">(Full-grown, well-trim'd, and strongly fenc'd about)</div> -<div class="verse">At first, perchance, had planting (where they stand)</div> -<div class="verse">And, husbanding, by some good <i>Gard'ners</i> hand:</div> -<div class="verse">But, when to perfect ripenesse, they are grown,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, spread forth leaves, and blossomes, fully blowne)</div> -<div class="verse">They draw it from the Vertue of the <i>Sunne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which worketh, when the <i>Gard'ners</i> worke is done:</div> -<div class="verse">For, lost were all his Travaile, and his praise,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse that <i>Planet</i> cheare them with his rayes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">In this our <i>Pilgrimage</i>, it fares with us</div> -<div class="verse">(In all our <i>hopes</i>, and all our <i>labours</i>) thus.</div> -<div class="verse">For, whatsoever bus'nesse wee intend,</div> -<div class="verse">On <i>God</i>, our good successes doe depend.</div> -<div class="verse">Our Hands may build; but, structures vaine we make,</div> -<div class="verse">Till <i>God</i>, to be <i>Chiefe-builder</i>, undertake.</div> -<div class="verse">To wall a <i>City</i>, wee may beare the cost;</div> -<div class="verse">But, he must <i>guard</i> it, or, the <i>Towne</i> is lost:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Plow-man</i> useth diligence to sowe;</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>God</i> must blesse it, or, no Corne will grow:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, though <i>Paul</i> plant, and, though <i>Apollo</i> water,</div> -<div class="verse">They spend their sweat, upon a fruitlesse matter,</div> -<div class="verse">Till <i>God</i>, from heaven, their labours please to blesse,</div> -<div class="verse">And crowne their travailes, with a good increase.<br /></div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let, therefore, those that flourish, like this <i>Flowre</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, may be wither'd, e're another houre)</div> -<div class="verse">Give <i>God</i> the praise, for making of their <i>Seeds</i></div> -<div class="verse">Bring forth sweet <i>Flowres</i>, that, else, had proved Weeds:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, me despise not, though I thrive not so;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, <i>when, God pleaseth, I shall flourish too</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -If thou thy <em class="upright">Duties</em> truely doe,<br /> -Of thy <em class="upright">Reward</em>, be hopefull too.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_7_3" id="Ill_7_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_7_3t"><img src="images/i_d_141.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_141c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome <i>Sects</i> are found, who so <i>believing</i> be,</div> -<div class="verse">They thinke themselves from <i>legall-workings</i> free;</div> -<div class="verse">And, so they live, as if they stood in feare</div> -<div class="verse">That, with <i>Good-works</i>, their <i>God</i> offended were.</div> -<div class="verse">Another sort we know, who credit not,</div> -<div class="verse">That any hope of <i>Mercie</i> can be got,</div> -<div class="verse">Till they themselves, by their <i>externall-deed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Have <i>merited</i> the favours they shall need:</div> -<div class="verse">And, so they prize their <i>workings</i>; that, for <i>Grace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">They seeme to disallow all usefull place.</div> -<div class="verse">Both sorts, their errours may be purged from,</div> -<div class="verse">When to the <i>Fiery-tryall</i> they shall come.</div> -<div class="verse">So, likewise, may another <i>Faction</i> too,</div> -<div class="verse">That erre more deadly then these former doe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These doe (forsooth) affirme, that <i>God's</i> decree</div> -<div class="verse">Before all <i>Worlds</i> (what Words can fouler be?)</div> -<div class="verse">Debarr'd the greatest part of <i>humane-race</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Without respecting sinne, from hope of <i>Grace</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, howere this number shall indeaver,</div> -<div class="verse">They must continue <i>Reprobates</i>, for ever.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The first, are errours of Impiety;</div> -<div class="verse">But, this, ascends the top of blasphemy;</div> -<div class="verse">Dispoyles <i>Religion</i> wholly of her fruits;</div> -<div class="verse">And, wrongeth <i>God</i> in all his <i>Attributes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">These <i>Errours</i>, therefore shunne; and, so <i>believe</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That wee thy <i>Faith</i>, may by thy <i>Workes</i> perceive.</div> -<div class="verse">So <i>worke</i>, that thy <i>believing</i> may approve</div> -<div class="verse">Thou wrought'st not for thy <i>Wages</i>; but, for <i>love</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For (whatsoe're thou be) if thus thou doe,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thou mayst have <i>hopes</i>, and, <i>God</i> will grant them too.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">Wisedome</em>, things which passe away,<br /> -Are best preserved from decay.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_8_3" id="Ill_8_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_8_3t"><img src="images/i_d_142.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_142c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Laurell</i>, which is given for a Crowne</div> -<div class="verse">(To men deserving Glory, and renowne)</div> -<div class="verse">Is figur'd here, those noble deeds to show,</div> -<div class="verse">For which, the <i>Wreaths</i> of <i>Honour</i>, we bestow.</div> -<div class="verse">Two <i>Serpents</i> (<span class="smcap">Wisdome's</span> <i>Emblems</i>) twisted are</div> -<div class="verse">About this branch of <i>Lawrell</i>, to declare,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Wisdome</i> is the surest meanes to save</div> -<div class="verse">Our Names and Actions, from <i>Oblivion's</i> Grave.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Snakes</i> are <i>two</i>, perhaps, to signifie</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Morall-wit</i>, and <i>Christian-policie</i></div> -<div class="verse">(Vnited both together) doe contrive</div> -<div class="verse">The safest <i>guard</i>, and best <i>preservative</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Consider this, all yee, that trust your <i>Names</i></div> -<div class="verse">To Marble Monuments; or, mount your <i>Fames</i></div> -<div class="verse">By those poore meanes, which Fooles and Knaves pursue;</div> -<div class="verse">And, may effect as easily as you:</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, with more ease; and, overtop you too,</div> -<div class="verse">When you have done the best, your wits can doe.</div> -<div class="verse">I say, consider this; and, let the <i>Pen</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of learned, wise, and understanding men,</div> -<div class="verse">Renowne your worths, and register the story</div> -<div class="verse">Of your deserved, and, well-gotten glory;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, else, it suffer close-imprisonments,</div> -<div class="verse">Within the walls of such poore <i>Monuments</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As oft are built, to leave it quite forgotten,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose bones they cover'd, e're those bones be rotten.</div> -<div class="verse">But, you shall best preserve your <i>Honest-fame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Workes</i>, your <i>Hopes</i>, and <i>Honours</i> of your <i>Name</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If you your selves be wise; and, so provide</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That <i>Prudence</i>, all your <i>Workes</i>, and <i>Speeches</i> guide.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Good <em class="upright">Hopes</em>, we best accomplish may,<br /> -By <em class="upright">lab'ring</em> in a <em class="upright">constant-Way</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_9_3" id="Ill_9_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_9_3t"><img src="images/i_d_143.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IX.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_143c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome Folkes there are, (and many men suppose,</div> -<div class="verse">That I my selfe, may passe for one of those)</div> -<div class="verse">Who many likely Businesses intend,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, bring but very few, unto an end.</div> -<div class="verse">Which folly to prevent, this <i>Emblem</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Did in a luckie houre, perhaps, appeare.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as to draw a <i>Circle</i>, with our hand,</div> -<div class="verse">We cause the brazen <i>Compasses</i> to stand</div> -<div class="verse">With one foot firmely fixed one the ground;</div> -<div class="verse">And move the other in a <i>Constant-round</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Right so, when we shall purpose to proceed</div> -<div class="verse">In any just, and profitable deed,</div> -<div class="verse">We first, should by a <i>constant-resolution</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Stand firme, to what we put in execution:</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, with <i>perseverance</i>, labour out</div> -<div class="verse">Those workings, which we are employ'd about.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, we with <i>constant-liking</i>, must elect</div> -<div class="verse">Those Businesses, we purpose to effect:</div> -<div class="verse">Or els, our <i>time</i>, our <i>labour</i>, and our <i>cost</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Will, oft, be much in vaine, or wholly lost.</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>constant-labour</i>, we must follow, too,</div> -<div class="verse">Those things, which we resolved are to do;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, els, our hopes will never be effected,</div> -<div class="verse">How warily soe're we have projected.</div> -<div class="verse">Long Iourneys I abhorre; yet, otherwhile</div> -<div class="verse">I meane a <i>Furlong</i>, and performe a <i>Mile</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">I greatly feare <i>Long-labours</i> to begin;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet some I finish, when I'me entred in:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, if in <i>Labour</i>, I more <i>constant</i> grow,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">How I improve, hereafter, you shall know.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Ere thou a <em class="upright">fruitfull-Cropp</em> shalt see,<br /> -Thy ground must <em class="upright">plough'd</em> and <em class="upright">harro'wd</em> be.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_10_3" id="Ill_10_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_10_3t"><img src="images/i_d_144.jpg" width="500" height="499" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. X.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_144c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="B" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">B</span>Efore the <i>Plowman</i> hopefull can be made,</div> -<div class="verse">His untill'd earth good Hay or Corne will yeeld,</div> -<div class="verse">He breakes the hillocks downe, with <i>Plough</i> or <i>Spade</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, harrowes over, all the cloddie Field.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, from the <i>leaveld-ground</i>, at last, he mowes</div> -<div class="verse">That Cropp of grasse, which he had hope to gaine;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, there, doth reape the fruit of what he sowes,</div> -<div class="verse">With profit, which contents him for his paine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Our <i>craggie-Nature</i> must be tilled, thus,</div> -<div class="verse">Before it will, for <i>Herbes of Grace</i>, be fit.</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>high conceit</i>, must downe be broke in us;</div> -<div class="verse">Our heart is proud, and God must humble it.</div> -<div class="verse">Before good <i>Seed</i>, in us will rooting take,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Afflictions</i> ploughes and harrowes, must prepare us:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that the truer <i>levell</i>, he may make,</div> -<div class="verse">When we are <i>sunck</i> too low, <i>Gods</i> hand must reare us.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, neither stormings of <i>Adversitie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall drowne the <i>Seedes of Hope</i>, which we have sowne;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor shall the <i>Sunne-beames</i> of <i>Prosperitie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Drie up their moisture, ere they ripe are growne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Oh <i>Lord</i>, thou know'st the nature of my <i>minde</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Thou know'st my <i>bodyes</i> tempers what they are;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by what meanes, they shall be best inclin'de</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Fruits</i> to yeeld, as they were made to beare.</div> -<div class="verse">My barren <i>Soule</i>, therefore, <i>manure</i> thou so;</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>harrow</i> it; so <i>emptie</i>, and so <i>fill</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">So <i>raise</i> it <i>up</i>, and bring it <i>downe</i>, so <i>low</i></div> -<div class="verse">As best may lay it <i>levell</i> to thy <i>Will</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">In <i>this Desire</i>, the worke is well begunne;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Say <i>thou</i> the <i>Word</i>, and all is fully <i>done</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -True <em class="upright">Knowledge</em> is a constant <em class="upright">Friend</em>,<br /> -Whose <em class="upright">Friendship</em>, never shall have end.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_11_3" id="Ill_11_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_11_3t"><img src="images/i_d_145.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_145c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="B" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">B</span>Y viewing this <i>fixt-Head</i>, enwreath'd with <i>Bayes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, what the <i>Motto</i> round about it sayes)</div> -<div class="verse">Your Apprehension's eye, may partly see</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>constant Vertues</i>, in true <i>Knowledge</i> be.</div> -<div class="verse">For, if right plac'd it be, it ever will</div> -<div class="verse">Continue in the same condition, still:</div> -<div class="verse">And, though it make mens manners to be chang'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, never is it, from it selfe, estrang'd:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor doth, nor can it, cease to be a <i>Friend</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Fate</i> soever, shall on us attend.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">When <i>Wealth</i> is lost, or faileth to besteed us;</div> -<div class="verse">Shee findes out honest meanes to cloath and feede us.</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>farre</i>, and <i>forraigne Lands</i>, shee will become,</div> -<div class="verse">As kinde, and as familiar, as at home;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>travelleth</i>, without the costly cumber,</div> -<div class="verse">Of Carriages, or Clokebagges full of Lumber.</div> -<div class="verse">No <i>Place</i> can from our presence, her enclose;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor is she frighted from us by our <i>Foes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">No <i>Pickthankes</i>, of her Favours, can bereave us;</div> -<div class="verse">No <i>Promises</i>, can woo her to deceive us.</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Youth</i>, in <i>Age</i>, in <i>Sickenesse</i>, and in <i>Griefe</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Shee bringeth Consolation and reliefe:</div> -<div class="verse">And, is in all estates, a blessing to us,</div> -<div class="verse">So constant (and so apt, all helpes to doe us)</div> -<div class="verse">That, he for whom, such <i>Knowledge</i>, God provideth,</div> -<div class="verse">Enjoyes a <i>Friend</i>, that alwaies firme abideth.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Lord</i>, I am <i>friendlesse</i> left; therefore, to me,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Knowledge</i>, and this <i>Friend</i>, vouchsafe to bee:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, thou that <i>Wisdome</i> art, (from heav'n descending)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Which, neither hath <i>beginning</i>, <i>change</i>, nor <i>ending</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By <em class="upright">Studiousnesse</em>, in <em class="upright">Vertue's</em> waies<br /> -Men gaine an <em class="upright">universall-praise</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_12_3" id="Ill_12_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_12_3t"><img src="images/i_d_146.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_146c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen <i>Emblems</i>, of too many parts consist,</div> -<div class="verse">Their Author was no choice <i>Emblematist</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, is like those, that wast whole <i>howres</i>, to tell</div> -<div class="verse">What, in three <i>minutes</i>, might be said as well.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, when each member is interpreted,</div> -<div class="verse">Out of these vulgar <i>Figures</i>, you may read</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Morall</i>, (altogether) not unfit</div> -<div class="verse">To be remembred, ev'n, by <i>men of wit</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if the <i>Kernell</i> proove to be of worth,</div> -<div class="verse">No matter from what shell we drew it forth.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Square</i> whereon the <i>Globe</i> is placed, here,</div> -<div class="verse">Must <i>Vertue</i> be; That <i>Globe</i> upon the <i>Square</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Must meane the <i>World</i>; The <i>Figure</i>, in the <i>Round</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which in appearance doth her <i>Trumpet</i> sound)</div> -<div class="verse">Was made for <i>Fame</i>; The <i>Booke</i> she beares, may show,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Breath</i> it is, which makes her <i>Trumpet</i> blow:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Wreath</i>, inclosing all, was to intend</div> -<div class="verse">A glorious <i>Praise</i>, that never shall have end:</div> -<div class="verse">And, these, in one summ'd up, doe seeme to say;</div> -<div class="verse">That, (if men <i>study</i> in a <i>vertuous-way</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Trumpet</i> of a never-ceasing <i>Fame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall through the <i>world</i> proclaime their praisefull <i>Name</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Now <i>Reader</i>, if large <i>Fame</i>, be thy ambition,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i> doth informe, on what condition</div> -<div class="verse">She may be gain'd. But, (herein, me beleeve)</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>studie</i> for meere-praise, will thee deceive:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if thy <i>Vertues</i>, be, but onely, those</div> -<div class="verse">For which the vulgar <i>Fame</i>, her <i>Trumpet</i> blowes,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thy <i>Fame's</i> a blast; Thy <i>Vertues</i>, Vices be;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thy <i>Studie's</i> vaine; and, <i>shame</i> will follow thee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Above thy <em class="upright">Knowledge</em>, doe not rise,<br /> -But, <em class="upright">with Sobrietie, be wise</em>,</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_13_3" id="Ill_13_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_13_3t"><img src="images/i_d_147.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_147c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="E" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><i><span class="hidden">E</span>Xalt thou not thy selfe</i>, though, plac'd thou be,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the topp of that old <i>Olive-tree</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">From whence the nat'rall branches prun'd have bin,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou, the better, mightst be grafted in.</div> -<div class="verse">Be not so <i>over-wise</i>, as to presume</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Gard'ner</i>, for thy goodnesse, did assume</div> -<div class="verse">Thy small <i>Crab-Olive</i>, to insert it, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Where, once, the <i>sweetest-berries</i>, growing were:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor let thy Pride those few <i>old-boughes</i> contemne,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, yet, remaine upon their ancient <i>Stemme</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, thy new-incorporated <i>Sprayes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe more enjoy the <i>Sunnes</i> refreshing raies:</div> -<div class="verse">But, humbled rather, and, more awfull bee;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, <i>hee</i> that cut off <i>them</i>, doe breake downe <i>thee</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Be <i>wise</i>, in what may to thy good, belong;</div> -<div class="verse">But, seeke not <i>Knowledge</i>, to thy neighbours wrong:</div> -<div class="verse">Be thankefull for the <i>Grace</i> thou hast receiv'd,</div> -<div class="verse">But, judge not those, who seeme thereof bereav'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor into those forbidden <i>secrets</i> peepe,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>God-Almighty</i>, to himselfe doth keepe.</div> -<div class="verse">Remember what our Father <i>Adam</i> found,</div> -<div class="verse">When he for <i>Knowledge</i>, sought beyond his bound.</div> -<div class="verse">For, doubtlesse, ever since, both <i>good</i> and <i>ill</i></div> -<div class="verse">Are left with <i>Knowledge</i>, intermingled still;</div> -<div class="verse">And, (if we be not humble, meeke, and warie)</div> -<div class="verse">We are in daily danger, to miscary.</div> -<div class="verse">Large, proves the fruit which on the <i>Earth</i> doth lie;</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Windes</i>, breake the twigge, that's grafted <i>over-high</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, he that will, beyond his bounds, be <i>wise</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Becomes a very <i>Foole</i>, before he dies.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When each man keepes unto his <em class="upright">Trade</em>,<br /> -Then, all things better will be made.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_14_3" id="Ill_14_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_14_3t"><img src="images/i_d_148.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_148c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>E more should thrive, and erre the seldomer,</div> -<div class="verse">If we were like this honest <i>Carpenter</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>Emblem</i>, in reproofe of those, is made,</div> -<div class="verse">That love to meddle, farther then their <i>Trade</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, most are now exceeding cunning growne</div> -<div class="verse">In ev'ry mans affaires, except their owne:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, <i>Coblers</i> thinke themselves not onely able,</div> -<div class="verse">To censure; but, to mend <i>Apelles</i> Table.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Great-Men</i>, sometime, will gravely undertake</div> -<div class="verse">To teach, how <i>Broomes</i> and <i>Morter</i>, we should make.</div> -<div class="verse">Their Indiscretions, <i>Peaants</i> imitate,</div> -<div class="verse">And boldly meddle with affaires of <i>State</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>Houswives</i> teach their <i>Teachers</i> how to pray,</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>Clarks</i>, have shew'd themselves, as wise as they;</div> -<div class="verse">And in their Callings, as discreet have bin,</div> -<div class="verse">As if they taught their <i>Grandames</i> how to <i>spinne</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if these <i>Customes</i>, last a few more Ages,</div> -<div class="verse">All Countries will be nothing els, but <i>Stages</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of evill-acted, and mistaken parts;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, <i>Gallemaufries</i>, of imperfect <i>Arts</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, I my selfe (you'l say) have medlings made,</div> -<div class="verse">In things, that are improper to my <i>Trade</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">No; for, the <i>MVSES</i> are in all things free;</div> -<div class="verse">Fit subject of their <i>Verse</i>, all Creatures be;</div> -<div class="verse">And, there is nothing nam'd so meane, or great,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereof they have not Liberty to treat.</div> -<div class="verse">Both <i>Earth</i> and <i>Heav'n</i>, are open unto these;</div> -<div class="verse">And (when to take more libertie they please)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They <i>Worlds</i>, and <i>things</i>, create, which never were;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when they list, they <i>play</i>, and <i>meddle</i>, there.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Shepherd</em> carefull of the Sheepe,<br /> -At all times, faithfull <em class="upright">Watch</em> doth keepe.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_15_3" id="Ill_15_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_15_3t"><img src="images/i_d_149.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XV</span>. <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_149c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He Figure of a <i>Storke</i> in elder dayes,</div> -<div class="verse">Was us'd in <i>Hieroglyphick</i>, many wayes:</div> -<div class="verse">But, when <i>one Foote</i>, thus grasp'd a <i>Peple-stone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The other being firmely fixed on</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Staffe Episcopall</i>; in that position,</div> -<div class="verse">It makes an Emblem, of a late edition:</div> -<div class="verse">By some, thought not improper, to expresse</div> -<div class="verse">Their painefull, and their serious, <i>watchfulnesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Who take upon themselves, the <i>Pastorall care</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in that <i>Function</i>, truely <i>watchfull</i> are.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Shepherds-Crooke</i>, doth some expression make</div> -<div class="verse">Of that regard, which, of their <i>Flocks</i>, they take.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Peble in the Foote</i>, doth seeme to showe,</div> -<div class="verse">That, these must farther diligence bestowe,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, use their utmost pow'r) themselves to keepe</div> -<div class="verse">From <i>slothfull Ease</i>; and from intemp'rate <i>sleepe</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, he that hath such <i>Duties</i> undertooke,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, must the lives of others overlooke)</div> -<div class="verse">Shall finde himselfe, unto himselfe become</div> -<div class="verse">A burthen, and a Charge more troublesome</div> -<div class="verse">Then all his <i>Flocke</i>, unles, he still provide</div> -<div class="verse">His owne, aswell as others <i>waies</i>, to guide.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Now, though this <i>Emblems</i> Morall doth concerne</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Clergie</i> most; yet, hence we all may learne</div> -<div class="verse">Strict <i>watch</i> to keepe; since, unto all that bee,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Watchmans</i> place belongs, in some degree.</div> -<div class="verse">Which, to discharge, if wee endeavour, still,</div> -<div class="verse">Our universall <i>Shepherd</i> aide us will,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And us from harmes, and error he will keepe,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, <i>Hee that guardeth Isr'ell doth not sleepe</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[150]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Our Dayes, untill our Life hath end,<br /> -In <em class="upright">Labours</em>, and in <em class="upright">Hopes</em>, wee spend.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_16_3" id="Ill_16_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_16_3t"><img src="images/i_d_150.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_150c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span>S soone as our <i>first Parents</i> disobey'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Forthwith a <i>Curse</i>, for their offence, was layd,</div> -<div class="verse">Inforcing them, and their succeeding race,</div> -<div class="verse">To get their Food, with sweatings of the Face.</div> -<div class="verse">But, afterward, this <i>Doome</i> to mitigate,</div> -<div class="verse">(And ease the miseries of their estate)</div> -<div class="verse"><i>God</i> gave them <i>Hope</i>, that she might helpe them beare</div> -<div class="verse">The burthens of their Travaile, and their care.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Woman</i> with an <i>Anchor</i>, and a <i>Spade</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i> of that <i>Mystery</i> is made:</div> -<div class="verse">And, this Estate, wee all continue in,</div> -<div class="verse">By God's free <i>Mercie</i>, and our proper <i>Sinne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Sinne</i>, the <i>Labour</i> is on us intail'd;</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Grace</i>, it is, that <i>Hoping</i> hath not fail'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if in <i>Hope</i>, our Labours wee attend,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Curse</i> will prove a <i>Blessing</i>, in the end.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">My Lot is <i>Hope</i>, and <i>Labour</i>; and, betweene</div> -<div class="verse">These <i>Two</i>, my Life-time hath prolonged beene:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, hitherto, the best of all my <i>Paine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">With most of all my <i>Hopes</i> have beene in vaine;</div> -<div class="verse">And to the World-ward, I am like to wast</div> -<div class="verse">My time in fruitlesse <i>labours</i>, till the last.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">However, I have still my <i>Hopes</i> as faire</div> -<div class="verse">As hee, that hath no temptings to <i>Despaire</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, change I will not, my <i>last howres</i> for theirs,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>Fortune</i>, more desirable appeares;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor cease to <i>Hope</i> and <i>Labour</i>, though, of most,</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Hope</i> and <i>Labour</i> be adjudged lost:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, though I lose the <i>shaddow</i> of my <i>Paines</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>stubstance</i> of it, still, in <i>God</i>, remaines.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Man's life, no <em class="upright">Temper</em>, more doth blesse,<br /> -Then <em class="upright">Simple-prudent-harmelessenesse</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_17_3" id="Ill_17_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_17_3t"><img src="images/i_d_151.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_151c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen from the harmelesse <i>Turtle</i>, and the <i>Snake</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Their most commended <i>properties</i> wee take,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, mixe them well) they make a composition,</div> -<div class="verse">Which yeelds a <i>temper</i> of the best condition.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>wickednesse</i>, or <i>sorrow</i>, doth abound,</div> -<div class="verse">Where, any <i>one</i> of these, <i>alone</i>, is found:</div> -<div class="verse">For, whensoe're the <i>Serpents-braine</i> we find,</div> -<div class="verse">With which, there is no <i>Dove-like-meekenesse</i> joyn'd,</div> -<div class="verse">(Without all peradventure) thence proceedes,</div> -<div class="verse">All harmefull fraud, and all injurious deedes.</div> -<div class="verse">And, where such <i>meekenesse</i> as doth seeme to be</div> -<div class="verse">In harmelesse <i>Doves</i>, divided you shall see</div> -<div class="verse">From that <i>discretion</i>, and that <i>policie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which in the <i>Serpents</i> head, is thought to lie;</div> -<div class="verse">They liable to ev'ry wrong become;</div> -<div class="verse">And, to it selfe, make <i>Vertue</i> burthensome.</div> -<div class="verse">But, where these two are ioyned, they procure</div> -<div class="verse">A life so sweet, so rich, and so secure,</div> -<div class="verse">That, all the pow'rs of <i>Malice</i> cannot shake</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>out-workes</i>, nor <i>within</i> them, terrors make.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Vouchsafe thou oh my God! vouchsafe, in me,</div> -<div class="verse italic">That these two <em class="upright">Vertues</em> may vnited be.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Such <em class="upright">Prudence</em> give, as never will disdaine</div> -<div class="verse italic">The <em class="upright">Dove-like Innocencie</em>, to retaine.</div> -<div class="verse italic">That <em class="upright">meekenesse</em>, grant me, which delighteth not,</div> -<div class="verse italic">It selfe, with <em class="upright">indiscretion</em>, to besot:</div> -<div class="verse italic">But, let these <em class="upright">two</em>, each other so defend,</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, so, in me continue, till my end,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">That, <em class="upright">simple-prudence</em>, I may still possesse,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Although the World shall count it <em class="upright">foolishnesse</em>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[152]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Where er'e we dwell, the <em class="upright">Heav'ns</em> are neere;<br /> -Let us but <em class="upright">fly</em>, and wee are there.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_18_3" id="Ill_18_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_18_3t"><img src="images/i_d_152.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_152c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hy, with a trembling faintnesse, should we feare</div> -<div class="verse">The face of <i>Death</i>? and, fondly linger here,</div> -<div class="verse">As if we thought the <i>Voyage</i> to be gone</div> -<div class="verse">Lay through the shades of <i>Styx</i> or <i>Acheron</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, that we either were to travell downe</div> -<div class="verse">To uncouth <i>Deapthes</i>, or up some <i>heights</i> unknowne?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, to some place remote, whose nearest end</div> -<div class="verse">Is farther then Earths limits doe extend?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">It is not by one halfe that distance, thither</div> -<div class="verse">Where <i>Death</i> lets in, as it is any whither:</div> -<div class="verse">No not by halfe so farre, as to your bed;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, to that place, where you should rest your head,</div> -<div class="verse">If on the ground you layd your selfe (ev'n there)</div> -<div class="verse">Where at this moment you abiding are.</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i> shewes (if well you looke thereon)</div> -<div class="verse">That, from your <i>Glasse of life</i>, which is to run,</div> -<div class="verse">There's but one step to <i>Death</i>; and, that you tread</div> -<div class="verse"><i>At once</i>, among the <i>Living</i>, and, the <i>Dead</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">In whatsoever <i>Land</i>, we <i>live</i> or <i>die</i>,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>God</i> is the same; And, <i>Heav'n</i> is, there, as nigh</div> -<div class="verse">As in that <i>place</i>, wherein, we most desire</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Soules</i>, with our last breathing, to expire.</div> -<div class="verse">Which things, well heeding; let us not delay</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Iourney</i>, when we summon'd are away,</div> -<div class="verse">(As those inforced <i>Pilgrims</i> use to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">That know not whither, nor, how farre they goe)</div> -<div class="verse">Nor let us dreame that we in <i>Time</i>, or <i>Place</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are farre from ending our uncertaine <i>Race</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, let us fix on <i>Heav'n</i>, a faithfull eye,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, still, be <i>flying thither</i>, till wee die.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -His <em class="upright">Pace</em>, must <em class="upright">wary</em> be, and <em class="upright">slow</em>,<br /> -That hath a <em class="upright">Slippery-way</em> to goe.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_19_3" id="Ill_19_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_19_3t"><img src="images/i_d_153.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIX.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_153c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> Travailer, when he must undertake</div> -<div class="verse">To seek his passage, o're some <i>Frozen Lake</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>leisure</i>, and with <i>care</i>, he will assay</div> -<div class="verse">The glassy smoothnesse of that <i>Icie-way</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest he may <i>slip</i>, by walking over-fast;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, breake the crackling <i>Pavement</i>, by his hast:</div> -<div class="verse">And, so (for want of better taking heed)</div> -<div class="verse">Incurre the mischiefes of <i>Vnwary-speed</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">We are all <i>Travellers</i>; and, all of us</div> -<div class="verse">Have many passages, as dangerous,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Frozen-lakes</i>; and, <i>Slippery-wayes</i>, we tread,</div> -<div class="verse">In which our Lives may soone be forfeited,</div> -<div class="verse">(With all our hopes of <i>Life-eternall</i>, too)</div> -<div class="verse">Unlesse, we well consider what we doe.</div> -<div class="verse">There is no private <i>Way</i>, or publicke <i>Path</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But rubs, or holes, or slipp'rinesse it hath,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereby, wee shall with <i>Mischiefes</i> meet; unlesse,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee walke it, with a <i>stedfast-warinesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The steps to <i>Honour</i>, are on <i>Pinacles</i></div> -<div class="verse">Compos'd of melting Snow, and Isicles;</div> -<div class="verse">And, they who tread not nicely on their tops,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall on a suddaine slip from all their <i>hopes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, ev'n that way, which is both sure and holy,</div> -<div class="verse">And, leades the Minde from Vanities and Folly,</div> -<div class="verse">Is with so many other <i>Path-wayes</i> crost,</div> -<div class="verse">As, that, by Rashnesse, it may soone be lost;</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse, we well deliberate, upon</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Tracts</i>, in which our <i>Ancestours</i> have gone:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, they who with more <i>haste</i>, then <i>heed</i>, will runne,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">May lose the way, in which they well begunne.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Our <em class="upright">Pelican</em>, by bleeding, thus,<br /> -Fulfill'd the <em class="upright">Law</em>, and cured <em class="upright">Vs</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_20_3" id="Ill_20_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_20_3t"><img src="images/i_d_154.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XX.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_154c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="L" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">L</span>Ooke here, and marke (her sickly birds to feed)</div> -<div class="verse">How freely this kinde <i>Pelican</i> doth bleed.</div> -<div class="verse">See, how (when other <i>Salves</i> could not be found)</div> -<div class="verse">To cure their sorrowes, she, her selfe doth wound;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when this holy <i>Emblem</i>, thou shalt see,</div> -<div class="verse">Lift up thy soule to him, who dy'd for thee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, this our <i>Hieroglyphick</i> would expresse</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Pelican</i>, which in the <i>Wildernesse</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of this vast <i>World</i>, was left (as all alone)</div> -<div class="verse">Our miserable <i>Nature</i> to bemone;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in whose eyes, the teares of pitty stood,</div> -<div class="verse">When he beheld his owne unthankfull <i>Brood</i></div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Favours</i>, and his <i>Mercies</i>, then, contemne,</div> -<div class="verse">When with his wings he would have brooded them:</div> -<div class="verse">And, sought their endlesse peace to have confirm'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Though, to procure his ruine, they were arm'd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To be their <i>Food</i>, himselfe he freely gave;</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Heart</i> was pierc'd, that he their <i>Soules</i> might save.</div> -<div class="verse">Because, they disobey'd the <i>Sacred-will</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">He, did the <i>Law of Righteousnesse</i> fulfill;</div> -<div class="verse">And, to that end (though guiltlesse he had bin)</div> -<div class="verse">Was offred, for our <i>Vniversall-sinne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let mee Oh <i>God</i>! for ever, fixe mine eyes</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the Merit of that <i>Sacrifize</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Let me retaine a due commemoration</div> -<div class="verse">Of those deare <i>Mercies</i>, <i>and</i> that bloudy <i>Passion</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which here is meant; and, by true <i>Faith</i>, still, feed</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the drops, this <i>Pelican</i> did bleed;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yea, let me firme unto thy <i>Law</i> abide,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, ever love that <i>Flocke</i>, for which he dy'd.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Bee <em class="upright">Iust</em>; for, neither <em class="upright">Sea</em> nor <em class="upright">Land</em>,<br /> -Shall hide thee from the <em class="upright">Royall-hand</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_21_3" id="Ill_21_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_21_3t"><img src="images/i_d_155.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_155c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hat, which wee call the <i>Sea-horse</i>, is a Creature,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereby the Priests of <i>Ægypt</i>, wonted were,</div> -<div class="verse">To typify an <i>Ill-disposed nature</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, such, as to their <i>Parents</i>, cruell are:</div> -<div class="verse">Because, this <i>Monster</i> (as their <i>Authors</i> write)</div> -<div class="verse">When strong he growes, becommeth so ingrate,</div> -<div class="verse">That he pursues, with violent despight,</div> -<div class="verse">His old and weakly <i>Sire</i>, which him begate.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Contrariwise, the <i>Storke</i>, they figur'd, then,</div> -<div class="verse">When they occasion had, to signifie</div> -<div class="verse">The good condition, of those honest men,</div> -<div class="verse">Who pleasure take, in workes of <i>Piety</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Because, the <i>Storkes</i>, not onely harmed none,</div> -<div class="verse">But, holpe their aged <i>Parents</i> in their need;</div> -<div class="verse">And, those offensive <i>Serpents</i>, prey'd upon,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, in the Fennes of <i>Ægypt</i>, yearely, breed.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Royall-Crowne</i>, therefore, supporting thus</div> -<div class="verse">That pious <i>Fowle</i>, and overtopping, here,</div> -<div class="verse">The wicked, and the fierce <i>Hyppotamus</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May serve to <i>comfort</i>, and to keep in <i>feare</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, it informes, that, if we pious grow,</div> -<div class="verse">And love our <i>Princes</i> (who those <i>Parents</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">To whom all <i>Subjects</i>, filiall duties owe)</div> -<div class="verse">The blessings of their <i>Favours</i>, we shall see.</div> -<div class="verse">It shewes us, also, that, if we affect</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Vnrighteous-wayes</i>, no <i>Wit</i>, or <i>Strength</i> of our,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor any <i>Vncouth-place</i>, shall us protect</div> -<div class="verse">From being reached, by the <i>Sov'raigne-power</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The way of <i>Iustice</i>, therefore, learne thou still,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For love of <i>Goodnesse</i>, or for feare of <i>Ill</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Take wing, my <em class="upright">Soule</em>, and mount up higher;<br /> -For, <em class="upright">Earth</em>, fulfills not my <em class="upright">Desire</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_22_3" id="Ill_22_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_22_3t"><img src="images/i_d_156.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_156c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen <i>Ganymed</i>, himselfe was purifying,</div> -<div class="verse">Great <i>Iupiter</i>, his naked beauty spying,</div> -<div class="verse">Sent forth his <i>Ægle</i> (from below to take him)</div> -<div class="verse">A blest Inhabitant, in Heav'n to make him:</div> -<div class="verse">And, there (as Poets feigned) he doth still,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Iove</i>, and other <i>God-heads</i>, Nectar fill.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Though this be but a <i>Fable</i>, of their feigning,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morall</i> is a <i>Reall truth</i>, pertayning</div> -<div class="verse">To ev'ry one (which harbours a desire</div> -<div class="verse">Above the Starry <i>Circles</i>, to aspire.)</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Ganymed</i>, the <i>Soule</i> is understood,</div> -<div class="verse">That's washed in the <i>Purifying flood</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of sacred <i>Baptisme</i> (which doth make her seeme</div> -<div class="verse">Both pure and beautifull, in <i>God's</i> esteeme.)</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Ægle</i>, meanes that Heav'nly <i>Contemplation</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, after Washings of <i>Regeneration</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Lifts up the <i>Minde</i>, from things that earthly bee,</div> -<div class="verse">To view those <i>Objects</i>, which <i>Faith's</i> Eyes doe see.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Nectar</i>, which is filled out, and given</div> -<div class="verse">To all the blest <i>Inhabitants of Heaven</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are those <i>Delights</i>, which (<i>Christ</i> hath sayd) they have,</div> -<div class="verse">When some <i>Repentant-soule</i> beginnes to leave</div> -<div class="verse">Her foulnesse; by renewing of her <i>birth</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, slighting all the <i>Pleasures</i> of the Earth.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I aske not, <i>Lord</i>, those Blessings to receive,</div> -<div class="verse">Which any Man hath pow'r to take, or give;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, what this World affords; for, I contemne</div> -<div class="verse">Her Favours; and have seene the best of them:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Nay, <i>Heav'n</i> it selfe, will unsufficient bee,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Vnlesse, <i>Thou</i>, also, give <i>Thy selfe</i>, to mee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Through many spaces, <em class="upright">Time</em> doth run,<br /> -And, <em class="upright">endeth</em>, where it first <em class="upright">begun</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_23_3" id="Ill_23_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_23_3t"><img src="images/i_d_157.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_157c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="O" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">O</span>Ld <i>Sages</i> by the Figure of the Snake</div> -<div class="verse">(Encircled thus) did oft expression make</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Annuall-Revolutions</i>; and of things,</div> -<div class="verse">Which wheele about in <i>everlasting-rings</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">There <i>ending</i>, where they first of all <i>begun</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, there <i>beginning</i>, where the <i>Round</i> was <i>done</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, doe the <i>Planets</i>; Thus, the <i>Seasons</i> doe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thus, doe many other <i>Creatures</i>, too.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By minutes, and by houres, the <i>Spring</i> steales in,</div> -<div class="verse">And, rolleth on, till <i>Summer</i> doth begin:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Summer</i> brings on <i>Autumne</i>, by degrees;</div> -<div class="verse">So ripening, that the eye of no man sees</div> -<div class="verse">Her Entrances. That <i>Season</i>, likewise, hath</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Winter-ward</i>, as leasurely a path:</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, cold <i>Winter</i> wheeleth on amaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill it brings the <i>Spring</i> about againe,</div> -<div class="verse">With all those <i>Resurrections</i>, which appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">To wait upon her comming, every yeare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These <i>Roundells</i>, helpe to shew the <i>Mystery</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of that immense and blest <i>Eternitie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">From whence the <span class="smcap">Creature</span> sprung, and, into <i>whom</i></div> -<div class="verse">It shall, againe, with full perfection come,</div> -<div class="verse">When those <i>Additions</i>, it hath fully had,</div> -<div class="verse">Which all the sev'rall <i>Orbes</i> of <i>Time</i> can add.</div> -<div class="verse">It is a full, and fairely written <i>Scrowle</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which up into it selfe, it selfe doth rowle;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by <i>Vnfolding</i>, and, <i>Infolding</i>, showes</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Round</i>, which neither <i>End</i>, nor <i>entrance</i> knowes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And (by this <i>Emblem</i>) you may partly see,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Tis that which <i>IS</i>, but, cannot uttred be.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[158]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Each <em class="upright">Day</em> a <em class="upright">Line</em>, small <em class="upright">tasks</em> appeares:<br /> -Yet, much it makes in threescore Yeares.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_24_3" id="Ill_24_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_24_3t"><img src="images/i_d_158.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_158c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="H" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">H</span>Ere's but <i>one Line</i>; and, but <i>one Line a Day</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Is all the <i>taske</i> our <i>Motto</i>, seemes to lay:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that is thought, perhaps, a thing so small,</div> -<div class="verse">As if it were as good bee nought at all.</div> -<div class="verse">But, be not so deceiv'd; For, oft you see</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Small things</i> (in time) <i>great matters</i>, rise to be:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, that, which when the same was first begun,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Trifle</i> seem'd, (and easie to be done)</div> -<div class="verse">By long nelect of time, will <i>burthensome</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, at the last, <i>impossible</i>, become.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Great <i>Clarkes</i>, there are, who shall not leave behinde them,</div> -<div class="verse">One good <i>Weekes</i> worke, for <i>Future-Times</i> to minde them,</div> -<div class="verse">(In <i>Callings</i>, either Humane, or Divine)</div> -<div class="verse">Who, by composing but <i>each Day a Line</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Might <i>Authors</i>, of some famous <i>Workes</i> appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">In sixtie, seventie, or in eightie yeare;</div> -<div class="verse">To which, ten hundred thousands have arrived</div> -<div class="verse">Of whom, we see no signe that ev'r they lived.</div> -<div class="verse">And, with much pleasure, wee might all effect,</div> -<div class="verse">Those needfull <i>Works</i>, which often we neglect,</div> -<div class="verse">(Vntill too late). If we but, now and then</div> -<div class="verse">Did spare one houre to exercise the penn.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, still, <i>one-Line</i>, another draweth on,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Line</i> by <i>Line</i>, great <i>Workes</i> at last are done.</div> -<div class="verse">Whereas, <i>dis-use</i>, and many dayes mispent,</div> -<div class="verse">Without their <i>Lines</i>, let in <i>discouragement</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, bring <i>Despaire</i>; which doth so sottish make us,</div> -<div class="verse">That we, to no endeavour can betake us.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Marke this, and, labour in some honest <i>Way</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">As much as makes, at least, <i>One Line a Day</i>,</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Our outward <em class="upright">Hopes</em> will take effect,<br /> -According to the <em class="upright">King's</em> aspect.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_25_3" id="Ill_25_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_25_3t"><img src="images/i_d_159.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_159c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen <i>Phœbus</i> with a cheerefull eye, beholds</div> -<div class="verse">The Flow'r-embroydred earth, and freely spreads</div> -<div class="verse">His beames abroad; behold, the <i>Marigolds</i></div> -<div class="verse">Beginne to reare their low-dejected heads:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Tulips</i>, <i>Daysies</i>, and the <i>Heliotropes</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of ev'ry kinde, their closed Leaves display;</div> -<div class="verse">And (as it were) with new-recover'd hopes,</div> -<div class="verse">Attend upon the <i>Ruler of the Day</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Againe, when either in the <i>West</i> he shrowds</div> -<div class="verse">His Rayes below this <i>Horizon</i>, or hides</div> -<div class="verse">His Face behinde the Curtaines of the <i>Cloudes</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">They lose their beauties, and abate their prides.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus fares it with a <i>Nation</i>, and their <i>King</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">'Twixt whom there is a native Sympathy.</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Presence</i>, and his <i>Favours</i>, like the <i>Spring</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe make them sweetly thrive, and fructify:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea (like fresh <i>Groves</i>, or <i>Flow'rs</i> of pleasing hew)</div> -<div class="verse">Themselves in all their jollity they showe;</div> -<div class="verse">But, they, if with displeasure, them he view,</div> -<div class="verse">Soone lose their Glory, and contemned growe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">All, are not <i>Heliotropes</i> that favour'd growe,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Princes</i> Courts; nor <i>Marigolds</i>, that beare</div> -<div class="verse">The golden blossomes; but some spring below,</div> -<div class="verse">Like <i>Daysie flow'rs</i>, that in the Pathwayes are:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet all shall feele it, when their <i>Sov'raignes</i> eye</div> -<div class="verse">Doth frowne, or smile, regard, or else neglect:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, it will finde them in <i>Obscurity</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By some Disheartning, or some sweet <i>Effect</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Vouchsafe to shine on Mee, my Gracious <i>King</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And then my <i>Wither'd</i> Leaves, will freshly spring.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Right-hand way</em>, is <em class="upright">Vertues</em> Path,<br /> -Though rugged Passages it hath.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_26_3" id="Ill_26_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_26_3t"><img src="images/i_d_160.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_160c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>F any covet knowledge of that <i>Path</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which thither tends, where <i>Peace</i> her dwelling hath,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i> (being well observ'd) will show</div> -<div class="verse">On whether side, it will be best to goe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Left-hand-way</i>, seemes to be walk'd, at ease,</div> -<div class="verse">Through Lawnes, and Downes, and green-swath'd Passages;</div> -<div class="verse">And, much allures the <i>Traveller</i>, to trie</div> -<div class="verse">The many Pleasures, which doe that <i>Way</i> lye.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Right-hand-course</i>, is through a <i>Pathlesse-mound</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of newly ploughed, and deep-furrow'd Ground;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, as uneasie seemeth, to be gone,</div> -<div class="verse">As, in appearance, rough to looke upon.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, this is <i>Vertue's Path</i>: This <i>Way</i> uneven,</div> -<div class="verse">Is that, which unto ev'ry man is given,</div> -<div class="verse">To travaile in; and, hath a safer ending,</div> -<div class="verse">Then those, whereon more <i>Pleasures</i> are attending:</div> -<div class="verse">And (though it leades us thither, where we see</div> -<div class="verse">Few promises of outward <i>Glories</i> bee)</div> -<div class="verse">It brings (us when we passe the common sight)</div> -<div class="verse">Through easy <i>Tracts</i>, to gaine our <i>Hearts delight</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The other <i>Way</i> (though seeming streight, it lyes,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Pleasure's</i> Pallaces, before our eyes)</div> -<div class="verse">Hath many rubs, and perills, which betweene</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Hopes</i>, and <i>Vs</i>, will alwayes lurke unseene;</div> -<div class="verse">Till we are drawne so farre, that 'twill be vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">To seeke, with safety, to returne againe.</div> -<div class="verse">This, let us heed; and, still be carefull, too,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Course</i> it most concerneth us to goe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, though the <i>Left-hand-way</i>, more smoothnesse hath,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let us goe forward, in the <i>Right-hand-path</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">I</em> was erected for a <em class="upright">Bound</em>,<br /> -And I resolve to <em class="upright">stand my ground</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_27_3" id="Ill_27_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_27_3t"><img src="images/i_d_161.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_161c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Bounder-Stones</i>, held sacred, heretofore,</div> -<div class="verse">Some did so superstitiously adore,</div> -<div class="verse">As, that they did not onely rev'rence doe them,</div> -<div class="verse">But, have ascrib'd a kinde of <i>God-head</i>, to them:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Terminus</i> had many a <i>Sacrifize</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As well as other senslesse <i>Deities</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I am not so prophane, as to desire</div> -<div class="verse">Such Ethnick zeale should set our hearts on fire:</div> -<div class="verse">But, wish I could, Men better did regard</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Bounders</i>, which <i>Antiquity</i> hath rear'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, they would not, with so much delight,</div> -<div class="verse">There, make <i>incroachments</i>, where they have no <i>right</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, ev'ry man might keep his owne <i>Possessions</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Our Fathers, us'd in reverent <i>Processions</i></div> -<div class="verse">(With zealous prayers, and with praisefull cheere)</div> -<div class="verse">To walke their <i>Parish-limits</i>, once a yeare:</div> -<div class="verse">And, well knowne <i>Markes</i> (which sacrilegious Hands</div> -<div class="verse">Now cut or breake) so bord'red out their Lands,</div> -<div class="verse">That, ev'ry one distinctly knew his owne;</div> -<div class="verse">And, many brawles, now rife, were then unknowne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, since neglected, sacred <i>Bounders</i> were,</div> -<div class="verse">Most men <i>Incroachers</i>, and <i>Intruders</i> are:</div> -<div class="verse">They grieve each other, and their <i>Dues</i> they steale,</div> -<div class="verse">From <i>Prince</i>, from <i>Parent</i>, and from <i>Common-weale</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, more; these bold Vsurpers are so rude,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they, on <i>Christ's</i> Inheritance intrude.</div> -<div class="verse">But, that will be aveng'd; and (on his <i>right</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Though such incroach, he will not lose it quite:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, hee's that <i>Bounder</i>, and that <i>Corner-stone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Who all <i>confines</i>, and is <i>confin'd</i>, of none.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Where <em class="upright">Lovers</em> fitly matched be,<br /> -In <em class="upright">mutuall-duties</em>, they agree.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_28_3" id="Ill_28_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_28_3t"><img src="images/i_d_162.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_162c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Ould God, I could as feelingly infuse</div> -<div class="verse">A good effect of what this <i>Emblem</i> shewes,</div> -<div class="verse">As I can tell in words, what <i>Moralls</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">The life of that, which here you pictur'd see.</div> -<div class="verse">Most <i>Lovers</i>, minde their <i>Penny</i>, or their <i>Pleasure</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, painted <i>Honors</i>; and, they all things measure,</div> -<div class="verse">Not as they are, but as they helpfull seeme,</div> -<div class="verse">In compassing those toyes, they most esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Though many wish to gaine a faithfull <i>Friend</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">They seldome seeke one, for the noblest end:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor know they (should they finde what they had sought)</div> -<div class="verse">How <i>Friendship</i> should be manag'd, as it ought.</div> -<div class="verse">Such, as good <i>Husbands</i> covet, or good <i>Wives</i></div> -<div class="verse">(The deare companions of most happy lives)</div> -<div class="verse">Wrong Courses take to gaine them; yet, contemne</div> -<div class="verse">Their honest love, who rightly counsell them:</div> -<div class="verse">And, lest, they unawares the Marke may hit,</div> -<div class="verse">They blinde their <i>judgements</i>, and befoole their <i>wit</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">He, that will finde a <i>Friend</i>, must seeke out one</div> -<div class="verse">To exercise unfeigned <i>love</i> upon;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>mutuall-duties</i>, must both yield, and take,</div> -<div class="verse">Not for himselfe; but, for his <i>Friendship</i> sake.</div> -<div class="verse">Such, as doe rightly <i>marry</i>, neither be</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Dowries</i> caught, nor wooe a <i>Pedigree</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, meerely come together, when they wed,</div> -<div class="verse">To reape the youthfull pleasures of the Bed:</div> -<div class="verse">But, seeke that fitnesse, and, that <i>Sympathy</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which maketh up the perfect'st <i>Amity</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>paire</i>, so match'd; <i>like Hands that wash each other</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">As <i>mutuall-helpes</i>, will sweetly live together.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When <em class="upright">Law</em>, and <em class="upright">Armes</em>, together meet,<br /> -The <em class="upright">World</em> descends, to kisse their feet.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_29_3" id="Ill_29_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_29_3t"><img src="images/i_d_163.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIX.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_163c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He Picture of a <i>Crowned-king</i>, here, stands</div> -<div class="verse">Upon a <i>Globe</i>; and, with outstretched hands,</div> -<div class="verse">Holds forth, in view, a <i>Law-booke</i>, and a <i>Sword</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Which plaine and moderne <i>Figures</i>, may afford</div> -<div class="verse">This meaning; that, a <i>King</i>, who hath regard</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Courts for pleading</i>, and <i>a Court of Guard</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, at all times, a due respect will carry,</div> -<div class="verse">To pious <i>Lawes</i>, and <i>Actions military</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Shall not be <i>Monarch</i>, onely in those Lands,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>are</i>, by <i>Birth right</i>, under his commands:</div> -<div class="verse">But, also, might (if just occasion were)</div> -<div class="verse">Make this whole <i>Globe</i> of Earth, his power to feare;</div> -<div class="verse">Advance his <i>Favorites</i>; and, bring downe all</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Opposites</i>, below his pedestall.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">His conquering <i>Sword</i>, in forraigne Realmes, he drawes,</div> -<div class="verse">As oft, as there is just, or needfull cause:</div> -<div class="verse">At home, in ev'ry <i>Province</i> of his Lands,</div> -<div class="verse">At all times, armed are his <i>Trayned bands</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Royall fleets</i>, are terrours to the Seas;</div> -<div class="verse">At all houres, rigg'd, for usefull Voyages:</div> -<div class="verse">And, often, he his <i>Navy</i> doth increase,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Warres</i> Provisions, may prolong his <i>Peace</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, by the tenure of the <i>Sword</i>, alone,</div> -<div class="verse">Delighteth he to hold his awfull <i>Throne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, likewise, labours, Mischiefes to prevent,</div> -<div class="verse">By wholsome <i>Lawes</i>, and rightfull <i>Goverment</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, where the <i>Sword</i> commands, without the <i>Law</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Tyrant</i> keepes the Land in slavish awe:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, where good <i>Lawes</i> doe want an <i>Armed pow'r</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Rebellious <i>Knaves</i>, their <i>Princes</i>, will devoure.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Faire-shewes</em>, we should not so much heed,<br /> -As the Vprightnesse of the <em class="upright">Deed</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_30_3" id="Ill_30_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_30_3t"><img src="images/i_d_164.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXX.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_164c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen wee should use a <i>Ruler</i>, or a <i>Square</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or such like <i>Instruments</i>, as usefull are,</div> -<div class="verse">In forming other things; we prize not so</div> -<div class="verse">The carving, or the colourable show</div> -<div class="verse">(Which makes them beautifull in outward sight)</div> -<div class="verse">As when, for <i>Vsefulnesse</i>, we finde them right.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A warped <i>Bowe</i>, though strung with silken threads,</div> -<div class="verse">And, crooked <i>Arrowes</i>, tipt with Golden heads,</div> -<div class="verse">Delight not <i>Archers</i>; tyet, such uselesse Toyes</div> -<div class="verse">Be fit enough for Bunglers, and for Boyes.</div> -<div class="verse">A skilfull <i>Artist</i> (in what Art soe're,</div> -<div class="verse">He seekes, to make his ablenesse appeare)</div> -<div class="verse">Will give large Prices, with much more content,</div> -<div class="verse">To buy a plaine (if perfect) <i>Instrument</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Then, take for nothing (or, for thankes alone)</div> -<div class="verse">An uselesse <i>Toole</i>, though, gay to looke upon.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From whence, observe; that, if there must be sought,</div> -<div class="verse">When meere <i>Mechanick-workes</i> are to be wrought,</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Instruments</i>, as rather have esteeme</div> -<div class="verse">For their <i>true-being</i>, then for what they seeme.</div> -<div class="verse">Much more, should all those <i>Rules</i> be such, whereby</div> -<div class="verse">Wee goe about, our selves to rectify;</div> -<div class="verse">And, build up, what in <i>Body</i>, or in <i>minde</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">We may defective, or impaired finde.</div> -<div class="verse">Else, peradventure, that we thinke to mend,</div> -<div class="verse">More faulty may become, at later end.</div> -<div class="verse">But, hence, I chiefly learne, to take a care,</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Life</i>, and <i>Actions</i>, rather be <i>sincere</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then <i>seeming</i> such: And, yet, Ile thinke no shame,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To <i>seeme</i>, to be as honest, as <i>I am</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -My <em class="upright">Substance</em>, and my <em class="upright">Light</em>, are spent,<br /> -In seeking other mens content.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_31_3" id="Ill_31_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_31_3t"><img src="images/i_d_165.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_165c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>F this nigh-wasted <i>Candle</i>, you shall view,</div> -<div class="verse">And, heed it well, it may enlighten you</div> -<div class="verse">To looke with more compassion, on their paines,</div> -<div class="verse">Who rob themselves, to multiply your gaines.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Taper</i> burnes, to give another light,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n till it selfe, it hath consumed quite;</div> -<div class="verse">And, all the profit, which it thence doth winne,</div> -<div class="verse">Is to be snufft, by ev'ry <i>Commer-in</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This is the Lot of some, whom I have knowne,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, freely, all their life-time, have bestowne</div> -<div class="verse">In such industrious labour, as appeares,</div> -<div class="verse">To further others profits, more then theirs;</div> -<div class="verse">And, all their <i>Patrimonies</i>, well nigh spent,</div> -<div class="verse">The ruining of others, to prevent.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>wit</i>, the <i>strength</i>, and all the <i>pow'r</i> they had,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which might, by probability, have made</div> -<div class="verse">Good meanes to raise them, in this world, as high,</div> -<div class="verse">As most, who climbe to wealthy dignity)</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n these, they have bestow'd, to better them,</div> -<div class="verse">Who their indeavours, for their paines, contemne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These are those <i>Lamps</i>, whose <i>flames</i>, from time to time,</div> -<div class="verse">Have through each <i>Age</i>, and through-out ev'ry <i>Clime</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To one another, that true <i>Light</i> convey'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Ignorance</i>, had, els, long since betray'd</div> -<div class="verse">To utter darknesse. These, despightfull <i>Pride</i></div> -<div class="verse">Oft snuffs; and, oft, to put them out, hath try'd.</div> -<div class="verse">But, from the brightnesse of such <i>Lights</i>, as they,</div> -<div class="verse">We got our <i>Light of knowledge</i>, at this day.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To <i>them</i>, God make us kinder; and to <i>Him</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">More thankfull, that we gain'd such light by <i>them</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The safest <em class="upright">Riches</em>, hee shall gaine,<br /> -Who alwayes <em class="upright">Faithfull</em> doth remaine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_32_3" id="Ill_32_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_32_3t"><img src="images/i_d_166.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_166c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Horne-of-plenty</i>, which <i>Wealth</i> signifies,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Hand-in-hand</i>, which <i>Plighted-faith</i> implies,</div> -<div class="verse">(Together being painted) seeme to teach,</div> -<div class="verse">That, such as will be <i>honest</i>, shall be <i>rich</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If this be so, why then for <i>Lucre-sake</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe many breake the <i>Promises</i> they make?</div> -<div class="verse">Why doe they cheat and couzen, lye, and sweare?</div> -<div class="verse">Why practise they all Villanies that are?</div> -<div class="verse">To compasse <i>Wealth</i>? And, how doe such as they</div> -<div class="verse">Inlarge their ill-got <i>Portions</i>, ev'ry day?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, whence proceedes it, that sometimes we see</div> -<div class="verse">Those men grow poore, who <i>faithfull</i> seeme to bee?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus, oft it proves; and, therefore, <i>Falshood</i> can,</div> -<div class="verse">In likelihood, much more inrich a man,</div> -<div class="verse">Then blamelesse <i>Faith</i>; and, then, the <i>Motto</i> here</div> -<div class="verse">Improper to this <i>Emblem</i>, doth appeare.</div> -<div class="verse">But, well enough they sute; and, all is true,</div> -<div class="verse">Which these things (being thus united) shew.</div> -<div class="verse">Should it be then concluded, that all those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who poore and honest seeme, have made but showes</div> -<div class="verse">Of reall <i>Faith</i>? And, therfore, plagu'd have bin</div> -<div class="verse">With publicke lashes, for their private sin?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Indeed, sometime it hath succeeded so:</div> -<div class="verse">But, know you should, that, most who richest grow,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Outward-wealth</i>, are very poore in that,</div> -<div class="verse">Which brings true <i>Plentie</i>, and a blest Estate:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, <i>Good men</i>, though poore they seeme to bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Have <i>Riches</i>, which the <i>Worldling</i> cannot see.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Now He, who findes himselfe endow'd with such,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">(Whate're wee thinke him) is exceeding <i>rich</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Poore-Theeves, in Halters</em> we behold,<br /> -And, <em class="upright">great-Theeves</em>, in their <em class="upright">Chaines of gold</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_33_3" id="Ill_33_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_33_3t"><img src="images/i_d_167.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_167c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>F you, this <i>Emblem</i>, well have look'd upon,</div> -<div class="verse">Although you cannot helpe it, yet, bemone</div> -<div class="verse">The Worlds blacke Impudence; and, if you can,</div> -<div class="verse">Continue (or become) an honest man.</div> -<div class="verse">The poore, and petty <i>Pilferers</i>, you see</div> -<div class="verse">On <i>Wheeles</i>, on <i>Gibbets</i>, and the <i>Gallow-tree</i></div> -<div class="verse">Trust up; when they, that farre more guilty are,</div> -<div class="verse">Pearle, Silke, and costly Cloth of Tissue, weare.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Good <i>God</i>! how many hath each <i>Land</i> of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, neither limbe, nor life, nor credit lose</div> -<div class="verse">(But, rather live befriended, and applauded)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, have of all their livelihoods defrauded</div> -<div class="verse">The helplesse <i>Widowes</i>, in their great distresse?</div> -<div class="verse">And, of their Portions, robd the <i>Fatherlesse</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, censur'd others Errours, as if none</div> -<div class="verse">Had cause to say, that they amisse have done?</div> -<div class="verse">How many, have assisted to condemne</div> -<div class="verse">Poore soules, for what was never stolne by them?</div> -<div class="verse">And, persecuted others, for that Sin,</div> -<div class="verse">Which they themselves, had more transgressed in?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">How many worthlesse men, are great become,</div> -<div class="verse">By that, which they have stolne, or cheated from</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Lords</i>? or (by some practices unjust)</div> -<div class="verse">From those, by whom they had beene put in trust?</div> -<div class="verse">How many <i>Lawyers</i>, wealthy men are growne,</div> -<div class="verse">By taking Fees, for <i>Causes</i> overthrowne</div> -<div class="verse">By their defaults? How many, without feare,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe rob the <i>King</i>, and <i>God</i>, yet blamelesse are?</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>God</i> knowes how many! would I did so, too,</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>So I had pow'r to make them better doe</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Whil'st thou dost, here, injoy thy breath,<br /> -Continue <em class="upright">mindfull</em> of thy <em class="upright">Death</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_34_3" id="Ill_34_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_34_3t"><img src="images/i_d_168.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_168c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen thou beholdest on this <i>Burying-stone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The melancholly <i>Night-bird</i>, sitting on</div> -<div class="verse">The fleshlesse ruines of a <i>rotten-Skull</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Whose Face, perhaps, hath been more beautifull,</div> -<div class="verse">Then thine is now) take up a serious thought;</div> -<div class="verse">And, doe as thou art by the <i>Motto</i> taught.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Remember Death</i>: and, minde, I thee beseech,</div> -<div class="verse">How soone, these <i>Fowles</i> may at thy window screech;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, call thee (as the common people deeme)</div> -<div class="verse">To dwell in <i>Graves</i>, and <i>Sepulchers</i>, by them,</div> -<div class="verse">Where nothing else, but <i>Bats</i>, and <i>Owles</i>, appeare;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, <i>Goblins</i>, form'd by <i>Fancies</i>, and, by <i>Feare</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If thou shalt be advis'd, to meditate</div> -<div class="verse">Thy latter end, before it be too late,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, whil'st thy <i>friends</i>, <i>thy strength</i>, and <i>wits</i> may bee</div> -<div class="verse">In likely case, to help and comfort thee)</div> -<div class="verse">There may be courses taken, to divert</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Frights</i>, which, else, would terrifie thy heart,</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Death</i> drawes neare; and helpe thee plucke away</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Sting</i>, of his, which would thy Soule dismay.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, if thou madly ramble onward, still,</div> -<div class="verse">Till thou art sinking downe that <i>darkesome-hill</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which borders on the <i>Grave</i> (and dost beginne</div> -<div class="verse">To see the Shades of <i>Terrour</i>, and of <i>Sinne</i></div> -<div class="verse">To fly acrosse thy <i>Conscience</i>) 'twill be hard</div> -<div class="verse">To learne this <i>Lesson</i>; or, to be prepar'd</div> -<div class="verse">For that sad parting; which, will forced bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Betweene this much beloved <i>World</i>, and <i>thee</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Consider this, therefore, while <i>Time</i> thou hast,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, put not off this <i>Bus'nesse</i>, till the last.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Doe not the golden <em class="upright">Meane</em>, exceed,<br /> -In <em class="upright">Word</em>, in <em class="upright">Passion</em>, nor in <em class="upright">Deed</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_35_3" id="Ill_35_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_35_3t"><img src="images/i_d_169.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_169c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span>S is the head-strong <i>Horse</i>, and blockish <i>Mule</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n such, without the <i>Bridle</i>, and the <i>Rule</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Nature</i> growes; and, is as mischievous,</div> -<div class="verse">Till <i>Grace</i>, and <i>Reason</i>, come to governe us.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Square</i>, and <i>Bridle</i>, therefore let us heed,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thereby learne to know, what <i>helpes</i> wee need;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, else, (they fayling, timely, to bee had)</div> -<div class="verse">Quite out of <i>Order</i>, wee, at length, bee made.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Square</i>, (which is an usefull <i>Instrument</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To shape foorth senselesse <i>Formes</i>) may represent</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Law</i>: Because, <i>Mankind</i>, (which is by Nature,</div> -<div class="verse">Almost as dull, as is the <i>senselesse-creature</i>,)</div> -<div class="verse">Is thereby, from the <i>native-rudenesse</i>, wrought;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in the <i>Way</i> of honest-living taught.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Bridle</i>, (which Invention did contrive,</div> -<div class="verse">To rule, and guide the <i>Creature-sensitive</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">May type forth <i>Discipline</i>; which, when the <i>Law</i></div> -<div class="verse">Hath school'd the <i>Wit</i>, must keepe the <i>Will</i> in awe.</div> -<div class="verse">And, hee that can by these, his <i>Passions</i> bound,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblems</i> meaning, usefully, hath found.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Lord, let thy sacred <i>Law</i>, at all times, bee</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Rule</i>, a <i>Master</i>, and a <i>Glasse</i> to mee;</div> -<div class="verse">(A <i>Bridle</i>, and a <i>Light</i>) that I may, still,</div> -<div class="verse">Both know my <i>Dutie</i>, and obey thy <i>Will</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Direct my <i>Feet</i>; my <i>Hands</i>, instruct thou so,</div> -<div class="verse">That I may neither <i>wander</i>, nor <i>mis-doe</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Lookes</i>, my <i>Hearing</i>, and my <i>Wordes</i> confine,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe still firme, to ev'ry <i>Word</i> of thine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">On thee, let also my <i>Desires</i> attend:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, let me hold this <i>temper</i>, till mine end.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Wee then have got the surest <em class="upright">prop</em>,<br /> -When <em class="upright">God</em>, alone, becomes our <em class="upright">Hope</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_36_3" id="Ill_36_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_36_3t"><img src="images/i_d_170.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_170c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span> Should not care how hard my <i>Fortunes</i> were,</div> -<div class="verse">Might still my <i>Hopes</i> be such, as now they are,</div> -<div class="verse">Of helpes divine; nor feare, how poore I bee,</div> -<div class="verse">If thoughts, yet, present, still may bide in mee.</div> -<div class="verse">For, they have left assurance of such <i>ayd</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, I am of no dangers, now afraid.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yea, now I see, mee thinkes, what weake and vaine</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Supporters</i> I have sought, to helpe sustaine</div> -<div class="verse">My fainting heart; when some injurious hand,</div> -<div class="verse">Would undermine the Station where I stand.</div> -<div class="verse">Me thinks, I see how scurvie, and how base,</div> -<div class="verse">It is to scrape for favours, and for grace,</div> -<div class="verse">To men of earthly minds; and unto those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who may, perhaps, before to morrow lose</div> -<div class="verse">Their Wealth, (or their abus'd Authoritie)</div> -<div class="verse">And, stand as much in want of helpe as I.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Me thinks, in this <i>new-rapture</i>, I doe see</div> -<div class="verse">The hand of <i>God</i> from heaven supporting me,</div> -<div class="verse">Without those <i>rotten-Ayds</i>, for which I whinde,</div> -<div class="verse">When I was of my tother <i>vulgar-minde</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if in some one part of me it lay,</div> -<div class="verse">I, now, could cut that <i>Limbe</i> of mine away.</div> -<div class="verse">Still, might I keepe this mind, there were enough</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Within</i> my selfe, (beside that cumbring stuffe</div> -<div class="verse">Wee seeke <i>without</i>) which, husbanded aright,</div> -<div class="verse">Would make mee <i>Rich</i>, in all the <i>Worlds</i> despight.</div> -<div class="verse">And, I have hopes, that, had shee quite bereft mee,</div> -<div class="verse">Of those few <i>ragges</i> and <i>toyes</i>, which, yet, are left me;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I should on <i>God</i>, alone, so much depend,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, I should need, nor <i>Wealth</i>, nor other <i>Friend</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -True <em class="upright">Vertue</em>, firme, will alwayes bide,<br /> -By whatsoever <em class="upright">suffrings</em> tride.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_37_3" id="Ill_37_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_37_3t"><img src="images/i_d_171.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_171c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His is a well-knowne <i>Figure</i>, signifying,</div> -<div class="verse">A man, whose <i>Vertues</i> will abide the trying:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by the nature of the <i>Diamond stone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which <i>Violence</i>, can no way worke upon)</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Patience</i>, and <i>long-suffering</i> is intended,</div> -<div class="verse">Which will not bee with <i>Injuries</i> offended;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor yeeld to any base dejectednesse,</div> -<div class="verse">Although some bruising <i>Pow'r</i>, the same oppresse;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, such hard <i>streights</i>, as theirs, that hamm'rings feele,</div> -<div class="verse">Betwixt an <i>Anvile</i>, and a <i>Sledge</i> of Steele.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">None ever had a perfect <i>Vertue</i>, yet,</div> -<div class="verse">But, that most <i>Pretious-stone</i>, which God hath set</div> -<div class="verse">On his right hand, in <i>beaming-Majestie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the <i>Ring</i> of blest <i>ETERNITIE</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, this, is that impenitrable <i>Stone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Serpent</i> could not leave impression on,</div> -<div class="verse">(Nor signe of any <i>Path-way</i>) by temptations,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, by the pow'r of sly insinuations:</div> -<div class="verse">Which wondrous <i>Mysterie</i> was of those <i>five</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose depth King <i>Solomon</i> could never dive.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Good <i>God</i>! vouchsafe, ev'n for that <i>Diamond</i>-sake,</div> -<div class="verse">That, I may of his <i>pretiousnesse</i>, partake,</div> -<div class="verse">In all my <i>Trialls</i>; make mee alwayes able</div> -<div class="verse">To bide them, with a minde impenitrable,</div> -<div class="verse">How hard, or oft so'ere, those <i>hamm'rings</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Wherewith, <i>Afflictions</i> must <i>new fashion</i> mee.</div> -<div class="verse">And, as the common <i>Diamonds</i> polish'd are,</div> -<div class="verse">By their owne dust; so, let my <i>errours</i> weare</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Each other out; And, when that I am pure,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Give mee the <i>Lustre</i>, <i>Lord</i>, that will endure.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Truth</em>, oft <em class="upright">oppressed</em>, wee may see,<br /> -But, quite <em class="upright">supprest</em> it cannot bee.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_38_3" id="Ill_38_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_38_3t"><img src="images/i_d_172.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_172c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His is that fruitfull <i>Plant</i>, which when it growes,</div> -<div class="verse">Where wholesome <i>Water</i> in abundance flowes,</div> -<div class="verse">Was, by the <i>Psalmist</i>, thought a likely <i>Tree</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Emblem</i>, of a <i>blessed-man</i>, to bee:</div> -<div class="verse">For, many wayes, it fitly typifies,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Righteous-man</i>, with his proprieties;</div> -<div class="verse">And, those true <i>Vertues</i>, which doe helpe increase</div> -<div class="verse">His growing, in the state of <i>Blessednesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Palme</i>, (in this our <i>Emblem</i>, figur'd, thus)</div> -<div class="verse">Depressed with a <i>Stone</i>, doth shew to us</div> -<div class="verse">The pow'r of <i>Truth</i>: For, as this <i>Tree</i> doth spread,</div> -<div class="verse">And thrive the more, when weights presse downe the head;</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>Gods</i> eternall <i>Truth</i> (which all the pow'r</div> -<div class="verse">And spight of <i>Hell</i>, did labour to devoure)</div> -<div class="verse">Sprung high, and flourished the more, thereby,</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Tyrants</i> crush'd it, with their crueltie.</div> -<div class="verse">And, all inferiour <i>Truths</i>, the same will doe,</div> -<div class="verse">According as they make approaches to</div> -<div class="verse">The best <i>Perfection</i>; or, as they conduce</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>God's</i> due <i>praise</i>, or some such pious use.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Lord</i>, still, preserve this <i>Truth's</i> integritie,</div> -<div class="verse">Although on ev'ry side, the wicked prie,</div> -<div class="verse">To spie how they may disadvantage it.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, <i>Lord</i>, though <i>Sinners</i> in high place doe sit,</div> -<div class="verse">(As <i>David</i> saith) yet, let them not oppresse</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Veritie</i>, by their imperiousnesse.</div> -<div class="verse">But, make both <i>Her</i>, and her <i>Professors</i>, bide</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Test</i>, like <i>Silver seven times purifide</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, all <i>Truths</i> lovers, may with comfort see,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Shee may <i>deprest</i>, but, not, <i>oppressed</i> bee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -They, who but <em class="upright">slowly-paced</em> are,<br /> -By <em class="upright">plodding</em> on, may travaile farre.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_39_3" id="Ill_39_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_39_3t"><img src="images/i_d_173.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIX.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_173c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He big-bon'd <i>Oxe</i>, in pace is very slow,</div> -<div class="verse">And, in his travaile, <i>step</i> by <i>step</i>, doth goe,</div> -<div class="verse">So leisurely, as if he tir'd had bin,</div> -<div class="verse">Before his painfull Iourney did beginne;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, all the day, he stifly ploddeth on,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill the labour of the day be done:</div> -<div class="verse">And, seemes as fresh (though he his taske hath wrought)</div> -<div class="verse">As when to worke he first of all was brought.</div> -<div class="verse">Meane-while, the <i>Palfray</i>, which more swiftnesse had,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath lost his breath, or proves a <i>Resty-jade</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, maketh it appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">How much it profiteth, to <i>persevere</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what a little <i>Industry</i> will doe,</div> -<div class="verse">If wee continue <i>constant</i> thereunto.</div> -<div class="verse">For, meanest <i>Faculties</i>, discreetly us'd,</div> -<div class="verse">May get the start, of nobler <i>Gifts</i>, abus'd.</div> -<div class="verse">This, may obserued be in many a one:</div> -<div class="verse">For (when their course of life was first begunne)</div> -<div class="verse">Some, whose refined <i>wits</i>, aspi'rd as high,</div> -<div class="verse">As if above the <i>Sphæres</i>, they were to flie:</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Sloth</i>, or <i>Pride</i>, or over-trusting to</div> -<div class="verse">Their owne Sufficiencies, themselves undoe.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea and those <i>forward-wits</i>, have liv'd to see</div> -<div class="verse">Themselves inferiours, unto those, to be,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom, they did in their jollity, contemne,</div> -<div class="verse">As blocks, or dunces, in respect of them.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, learne, <i>Great-wits</i>, this folly to prevent:</div> -<div class="verse">Let <i>Meane-wits</i>, take from hence, incouragement:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, let us all, in our <i>Affaires</i> proceed,</div> -<div class="verse">With timely <i>leisure</i>, and with comely <i>speed</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Vncertaine, <em class="upright">Fortunes</em> Favours, bee,<br /> -And, as the <em class="upright">Moone</em>, so changeth <em class="upright">Shee</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_40_3" id="Ill_40_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_40_3t"><img src="images/i_d_174.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XL.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_174c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="O" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">O</span>Vr <i>Author</i>, peradventure, giveth us</div> -<div class="verse">Dame <i>Fortune</i> (for these Reasons) pictur'd, thus:</div> -<div class="verse"><i>She</i> hath a <i>Comely-body</i>, to declare,</div> -<div class="verse">How pleasing shee doth usually appeare</div> -<div class="verse">To them, that love her Favours. She is <i>blinde</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Or, hath still closed eyes) to put in minde,</div> -<div class="verse">How blindly, and how heedlesly, she throwes</div> -<div class="verse">Her <i>Largesse</i>, where her <i>Bounty</i>, she bestowes.</div> -<div class="verse">She <i>stands upon a Ball</i>; that, wee may learne,</div> -<div class="verse">Of outward things, the <i>tottering</i>, to discerne:</div> -<div class="verse">Her <i>Ball</i> hath <i>wings</i>; that it may signifie</div> -<div class="verse">How apt her <i>Favours</i> are, away to <i>flie</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A <i>Skarfe displayed by the wind</i>, she beares,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, on her <i>naked-Body</i>, nothing weares)</div> -<div class="verse">To shew, that what her <i>Favorite</i> injoyes,</div> -<div class="verse">Is not so much for <i>Vsefulnesse</i>, as <i>toyes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Her <i>Head is hairelesse, all, except before</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">To teach thee, that thy care should be the more</div> -<div class="verse">To hold her <i>formost kindnesse</i>, alwayes fast;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, she doe show thee slipp'ry tricks, at last.</div> -<div class="verse">And, lastly, that her <i>changing</i> may be showne;</div> -<div class="verse">She beareth in her Hand a <i>Wayned-moone</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By this Description, you may now descry</div> -<div class="verse">Her true conditions, full as well as I:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if you, still, suppose her, worth such honour,</div> -<div class="verse">You have my leave to <i>wooe</i>, and <i>wayt</i> upon her.</div> -<div class="verse">Moreover (to her credit) I confesse,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Motto</i> falsly saith, her <i>Ficklenesse</i></div> -<div class="verse eindent">Is like the <i>Moones</i>: For, she hath frown'd on mee</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Twelve <i>Moones</i>, at least; and, yet, no <i>Change</i> I see.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Vntill the <em class="upright">Steele</em>, the <em class="upright">Flint</em> shall smite,<br /> -It will afford nor <em class="upright">Heat</em>, nor <em class="upright">Light</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_41_3" id="Ill_41_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_41_3t"><img src="images/i_d_175.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_175c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hilst by the High-way-side, the <i>Flint-stone</i> lies,</div> -<div class="verse">Drie, cold, and hardnesse, are the properties</div> -<div class="verse">We then perceive: But, when we prove it nigher,</div> -<div class="verse">We finde, that, <i>Coldnesse</i> doth inclose a <i>Fire</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, though <i>Raine</i>, nor <i>cloudie-skie</i> appeares,</div> -<div class="verse">It will be (many times) bedew'd with <i>teares</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From hence, I mind, that many wronged are,</div> -<div class="verse">By being judg'd, as they, at first, appeare;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, some should bee prais'd, whom wee despise,</div> -<div class="verse">If <i>inward-Grace</i>, were seene with <i>outward-Eyes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, this is not that <i>Morall</i> (wee confesse)</div> -<div class="verse">Which this our <i>Emblem</i>, seemeth to expresse:</div> -<div class="verse">For (if the <i>Motto</i> speake the meaning right)</div> -<div class="verse">It shewes, that, <i>hard-afflictions</i> first must smite</div> -<div class="verse">Our hardned hearts, before it will bee seene,</div> -<div class="verse">That any <i>light</i> of <i>Grace</i>, in them, hath beene.</div> -<div class="verse italic">Before the <em class="upright">Flint</em> will send forth shining Rayes,</div> -<div class="verse italic">It must bee strucken, by the <em class="upright">Steele</em>, (it sayes.)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Another <i>Morall</i>, adde we may to this,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which, to the <i>Figure</i>, sutes not much amisse.)</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Steele</i>, and <i>Flint</i>, may fitly represent</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Hard-hearted men</i>, whose mindes will not relent:</div> -<div class="verse">For, when in <i>opposition</i>, such become,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>fire</i> of <i>Malice</i>, flames and sparkles from</div> -<div class="verse">Their threatning Eyes; which else, close hidden rests,</div> -<div class="verse">Within the closets of their flintie brests:</div> -<div class="verse">And, flame out-right it will not, (though it smokes)</div> -<div class="verse">Till <i>Strife</i> breake passage, for it, by her <i>strokes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If any of these <i>Moralls</i> may doe good,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The purpose of my paines is understood.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -My <i>Wit</i> got <i>Wings</i>, and, high had flowne;<br /> -But, <i>Povertie</i> did keepe mee downe.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_42_3" id="Ill_42_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_42_3t"><img src="images/i_d_176.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_176c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Y" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">Y</span>Ou little thinke, what plague it is to bee,</div> -<div class="verse">In plight like <i>him</i>, whom pictur'd here you see.</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>winged-Arme</i>, and his <i>up-lifted-eye</i>s,</div> -<div class="verse">Declare, that hee hath <i>Wit</i>, and <i>Will</i>, to rise:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Stone</i>, which clogs his other <i>hand</i>, may show</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Povertie</i> and <i>Fortune</i>, keepe him low:</div> -<div class="verse">And, twixt these <i>two</i>, the <i>Bodie</i> and the <i>Mind</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Such labours, and such great vexations finde,</div> -<div class="verse">That, if you did not such mens wants contemne,</div> -<div class="verse">You could not chuse but helpe, or pitie them.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">All Ages had (and, this I know hath some),</div> -<div class="verse">Such men, as to this misery, doe come:</div> -<div class="verse">And, many of them, at their <i>Lot</i>, so grieve,</div> -<div class="verse">As if they knew, (or did at least beleeve)</div> -<div class="verse">That, had their <i>Wealth</i> suffiz'd them to aspire</div> -<div class="verse">(To what their <i>Witts</i> deserve, and they <i>desire</i>).</div> -<div class="verse">The present Age, and future Ages too,</div> -<div class="verse">Might gaine have had, from what they thought to doe.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Perhaps I dream'd so once: But, God be prais'd,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Clog</i> which kept me downe, from being rais'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Was chain'd so fast, that (if such <i>Dreames</i> I had)</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>thoughts</i>, and <i>longings</i>, are not now so mad.</div> -<div class="verse">For, plaine I see, that, had my <i>Fortunes</i> brought</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Wealth</i>, at first, as my small <i>Wit</i> hath sought;</div> -<div class="verse">I might my selfe, and others, have undone,</div> -<div class="verse">Instead of <i>Courses</i>, which I thought to runne.</div> -<div class="verse">I finde my <i>Povertie</i>, for mee was fit;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, and a <i>Blessing</i>, greater than my <i>Wit</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, whether, now, I <i>rich</i> or <i>poore</i> become,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Tis nor much <i>pleasing</i>, nor much <i>troublesome</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Mischiefe</em>, hardly can be done,<br /> -Where <em class="upright">many-pow'rs</em> are knit in one.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_43_3" id="Ill_43_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_43_3t"><img src="images/i_d_177.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_177c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="O" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">O</span>Bserve the <i>Sheafe of Arrowes</i>, figur'd here;</div> -<div class="verse">And, how the pow'r, and fury, of the <i>Beare</i></div> -<div class="verse">(Though hee attempt it) no device can finde</div> -<div class="verse">To breake one <i>slender-shaft</i>, while they are <i>joyn'd</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Whereas, were they <i>divided</i>, strength but small,</div> -<div class="verse">Like rotten Kexes, would soone breake them all.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, fitly doth imply</div> -<div class="verse">That Safeguard, which is found in <i>Vnity</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, shewes, that, when <i>Dis-union</i> is begunne,</div> -<div class="verse">It breedeth dangers, where before were none.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Psalmist</i>, numerous <i>Off-springs</i>, doth compare</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Quivers</i>, that with <i>Shafts</i> replenish'd are.</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Vnity</i> hath knit them in her <i>bands</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">They prove like <i>Arrowes</i> in a <i>Gyants</i> hands.</div> -<div class="verse">And, though, for these, their Foes in wayt have layd,</div> -<div class="verse">They shall not be supriz'd, nor made afrayd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Consider this, yee <i>Children of one Sire</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">'Twixt whom, is kindled some contentious <i>fire</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, reconciled be, lest you, at length,</div> -<div class="verse">Consume away the marrow of your <i>strength</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, by dividing, of your <i>joyned-pow'r</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Make way for those, who studie to devoure.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, let us all consider, as we ought,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Lesson</i>, by this <i>Emblem</i>, we are taught.</div> -<div class="verse">For, wee are <i>Brethren</i> all; and (by a <i>Bloud</i></div> -<div class="verse">More precious, then our nat'rall <i>Brother-hood</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Nor knit, alone, but, mingled, as it were,</div> -<div class="verse">Into a <i>League</i>; which is, by much, more deare,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, much more dangerous, to be undone,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Then all the <i>Bands</i>, that can be thought upon.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -They, best injoy their Hearts desires,<br /> -In whom, <em class="upright">Love</em>, kindles <em class="upright">mutuall-fires</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_44_3" id="Ill_44_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_44_3t"><img src="images/i_d_178.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_178c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hat may the reason be, that, when Desire</div> -<div class="verse">Hath kindled in the brest, a <i>Loving-fire</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Flame</i>, which burn'd awhile, both cleere & strong,</div> -<div class="verse">Becomes to be extinguished, ere long?</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i> gives the reason; for, it showes,</div> -<div class="verse">That, when <i>Affection</i>, to perfection growes,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Fire</i>, which doth inlighten, first, the same,</div> -<div class="verse">Is made an <i>equall</i>, and a <i>mutuall-flame</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These burning <i>Torches</i>, are alike in <i>length</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">To shew, <i>Love equall</i>, both in <i>time</i>, and <i>strength</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">They, to each otherward, their <i>Flames</i> extend,</div> -<div class="verse">To teach us, that, <i>True-lovers</i> have no end</div> -<div class="verse">Pertayning to <i>Selfe-love</i>; and, lo, betweene</div> -<div class="verse">These <i>Two</i>, one <i>Flaming-heart</i>, is to be seene;</div> -<div class="verse">To signifie, that, they, but <i>one</i>, remaine</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Minde</i>; though, in their <i>Persons</i>, they are <i>twaine</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">He, doubtlesse, then, who <i>Lov'd</i>, and, giveth over,</div> -<div class="verse">Deserveth not the Title of a <i>Lover</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, else, was unrequited in Affection,</div> -<div class="verse">And, was a <i>Lover</i>, with some imperfection.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Love</i>, that loves, and is not lov'd as much,</div> -<div class="verse">May perfect grow; but, yet, it is not such,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor can be, till it may that <i>object</i> have,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>gives</i> a <i>Heart</i>, for what it would <i>receive</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, lookes not so much <i>outward</i>, as to heed</div> -<div class="verse">What seemes <i>within</i>, to <i>want</i>, or to <i>exceed</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Whether our Emblem's <i>Author</i>, thought of this,</div> -<div class="verse">You need not care; nor, will it be amisse,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If they who perfect <i>Lovers</i>, would be thought,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Doe mind, what by this <i>Morall</i>, they are taught.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Where <em class="upright">many-Forces</em> joyned are,<br /> -<em class="upright">Vnconquerable-pow'r</em>, is there</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_45_3" id="Ill_45_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_45_3t"><img src="images/i_d_179.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLV.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_179c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">A</span>N <i>Emblem's</i> meaning, here, I thought to conster;</div> -<div class="verse">And, this doth rather fashion out a <i>Monster</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Then forme an <i>Hieroglyphicke</i>: but, I had</div> -<div class="verse">These <i>Figures</i> (as you see them) ready made</div> -<div class="verse">By others; and, I meane to <i>morallize</i></div> -<div class="verse">Their Fancies; not to mend what they devise.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, peradventure, with some vulgar praise,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Picture</i> (though I like it not) displayes</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morall</i>, which the <i>Motto</i> doth imply;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thus, it may be sayd to signifie.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">He, that hath many <i>Faculties</i>, or <i>Friends</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe him safe (or to acquire his ends)</div> -<div class="verse">And, fits them so; and, keepes them so together,</div> -<div class="verse">That, still, as readily, they ayd each other,</div> -<div class="verse">As if so many <i>Hands</i>, they had been made;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in <i>One-body</i>, usefull being had:</div> -<div class="verse">That man, by their Assistance, may, at length,</div> -<div class="verse">Attaine to an <i>unconquerable-strength</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, crowne his honest <i>Hopes</i>, with whatsoever</div> -<div class="verse">He seekes for, by a warranted Endeavour.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Or, else, it might be sayd; that, when we may</div> -<div class="verse">Make our <i>Affections</i>, and, our <i>Sense</i>, obay</div> -<div class="verse">The will of <i>Reason</i>, (and, so well agree,</div> -<div class="verse">That, we may finde them, still, at peace to be)</div> -<div class="verse">They'l guard us, like so many <i>Armed-hands</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, safely keepe us, whatsoere withstands.</div> -<div class="verse">If others thinke this <i>Figure</i>, here, inferres</div> -<div class="verse">A better sense; let those <i>Interpreters</i></div> -<div class="verse eindent">Vnriddle it; and, preach it where they please:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Their <i>Meanings</i> may be good, and so are these.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Hearts</em> of <em class="upright">Kings</em> are in <em class="upright">God's</em> Hands;<br /> -And, as He lists, He Them commands.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_46_3" id="Ill_46_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_46_3t"><img src="images/i_d_180.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVI.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_180c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hy doe men grudge at those, who raysed be,</div> -<div class="verse">By royall Favour, from a low degree?</div> -<div class="verse">Know this; <i>Hee should be honour'd, whom the King,</i></div> -<div class="verse"><i>To place of Dignity, shall please to bring</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Why should they blame their <i>Kings</i>, for fav'ring such,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom, they have thought, scarce meriting so much?</div> -<div class="verse italic">God rules their Hearts; and, they, themselves deceive,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Who dreame, that Kings exalt, without Gods leave.</div> -<div class="verse">Why murmure they at <i>God</i>, for guiding so</div> -<div class="verse">The Hearts of <i>Kings</i>, as oft they see him doe?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, at his <i>Workes</i>, why should they take offence,</div> -<div class="verse">As if their <i>Wit</i>, could teach his <i>Providence</i>?</div> -<div class="verse italic">His just, and his all-seeing <em class="upright">Wisedome</em> knowes,</div> -<div class="verse italic">Both <em class="upright">whom</em>, and <em class="upright">why</em> he crownes, or overthrowes;</div> -<div class="verse italic">And, <em class="upright">for what cause</em>, the Hearts of <em class="upright">Princes</em>, bee</div> -<div class="verse italic"><em class="upright">Inlarg'd</em>, or <em class="upright">shut</em>; when we no cause can see;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">We sometime know, what's <i>well</i>, and what's <i>amisse</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, of those <i>Truths</i>, the root concealed is;</div> -<div class="verse">And, False-hoods, and Uncertainties, there are,</div> -<div class="verse">In most of those things, which we <i>speake</i>, or <i>heare</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, were not <i>Kings</i> directed by <i>God's</i> hand,</div> -<div class="verse">They, who are best, and wisest in the Land,</div> -<div class="verse">Might oft misguide them, either by receiving</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>False report</i>, or, by some <i>wrong-believing</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">God's <i>Grace</i> it is, that <i>Good-men</i> rays'd have bin:</div> -<div class="verse">If <i>Sinners</i> flourish, we may thanke our <i>Sin</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Both <i>Good</i> and <i>Bad</i>, so like in <i>out-sides</i> be,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Kings</i> may be deceiv'd, in what they see;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, if <i>God</i> had not rul'd their <i>Hearts</i> aright,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>World</i>, by this time, had been ruin'd quite.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Vertue</em> hidden, or not us'd,<br /> -Is either <em class="upright">Sloth</em>, or <em class="upright">Grace</em> abus'd.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_47_3" id="Ill_47_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_47_3t"><img src="images/i_d_181.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_181c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>he World hath shamelesse <i>Boasters</i>, who pretend,</div> -<div class="verse">In sundry matters, to be skill'd so well,</div> -<div class="verse">That, were they pleased, so their houres to spend,</div> -<div class="verse">They say, they could in many things excell.</div> -<div class="verse">But, though they make their hearers to beleeve,</div> -<div class="verse">That, out of <i>Modestie</i> their <i>Gifts</i> they hide,</div> -<div class="verse">In them wee very plainely may perceive,</div> -<div class="verse">Or <i>Sloth</i>, or <i>Envy</i>, <i>Ignorance</i>, or <i>Pride</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">When other mens endeavours they peruse,</div> -<div class="verse">They either carpe at what they cannot mend;</div> -<div class="verse">Or else of Arrogance doe those accuse,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, to the publike view, their <i>Workes</i> commend.</div> -<div class="verse">If these men say, that they can <i>Poetize</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, will not; they are false in saying so:</div> -<div class="verse">For, he, whose <i>Wit</i> a little that way lies,</div> -<div class="verse">Will <i>doing</i> bee, though hee himselfe <i>undoe</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">If they, in other <i>Faculties</i> are learned,</div> -<div class="verse">And, still, forbeare their <i>Talents</i> to imploy;</div> -<div class="verse">The truest <i>Knowledge</i>, yet, is undiscerned,</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, they merit not, which they injoy.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, such as hide the <i>Gifts</i> they have received,</div> -<div class="verse">(Or use them not, as well as they are able)</div> -<div class="verse">Are like <i>fayre Eyes</i>, of usefull sight bereaved;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, <i>lighted-Candles</i>, underneath a <i>Table</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Their glorioust part, is but a <i>Painted-cloath</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>Figures</i>, to the wall-ward, still are hung.</div> -<div class="verse">Their hidden <i>Vertues</i>, are apparant <i>Sloth</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, all their life, is to the publike wrong:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, they doe reape the <i>Fruits</i>, by many sowne,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, leave to others, nothing of their owne.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Moone</em>, which is <em class="upright">decreasing</em> now,<br /> -When shee <em class="upright">returnes</em>, will <em class="upright">fuller</em>, grow.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_48_3" id="Ill_48_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_48_3t"><img src="images/i_d_182.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVIII.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_182c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span> Never, yet, did murmuringly complaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Although those <i>Moones</i> have long been in the <i>Waine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which on their <i>Silver Shields</i>, my <i>Elders</i> wore,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Battels</i>, and in <i>Triumphs</i>, heretofore.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor any mention have I ever made,</div> -<div class="verse">Of such <i>Eclipses</i>, as those <i>Crescents</i> had;</div> -<div class="verse">Thereby, to move some <i>Comet</i>, to reflect</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>fading-light</i>, or daigne his <i>good-aspect</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, when I tell the <i>World</i>, how ill I fare,</div> -<div class="verse">I tell her too, how little I doe care,</div> -<div class="verse">For her <i>despights</i>: yea, and I tell it not,</div> -<div class="verse">That, helpe, or pitie, might from her be got;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather, that her <i>Favourites</i> may see,</div> -<div class="verse">I know my <i>Waynings</i>, yet, can pleased bee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">My <i>Light</i>, is from the Planet of the <i>Sunne</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, though the <i>Course</i>, which I obliquely runne,</div> -<div class="verse">Oft brings my outward <i>Fortunes</i> to the <i>Waine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Light</i> shall, one day, bee renew'd againe.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, though to some, I quite may seeme to lose</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Light</i>; because, my follies interpose</div> -<div class="verse">Their shadowes to eclipse it: yet, I know,</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Crescents</i>, will increase, and <i>fuller</i>, grow.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Assoone as in the <i>Flesh</i>, I beeing had,</div> -<div class="verse">I mooved on in <i>Courses retrograde</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thereby lost my <i>Splendor</i>: but, I feele</div> -<div class="verse">Soft motions, from that great <i>Eternall-Wheele</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which mooveth all things, sweetly mooving mee,</div> -<div class="verse">To gaine the <i>Place</i>, in which I ought to bee:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when to <i>Him</i>, I backe <i>returne</i>, from <i>whom</i></div> -<div class="verse eindent">At first I came, I shall at <i>Full</i> become.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Bee warie, <em class="upright">wheresoe're</em>, thou bee:<br /> -For, from <i>deceit</i>, no <em class="upright">place</em> is free.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_49_3" id="Ill_49_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_49_3t"><img src="images/i_d_183.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIX.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_183c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome write (but, on what grounds, I cannot tell)</div> -<div class="verse">That they, who neere unto the <i>Deserts</i> dwell,</div> -<div class="verse">Where <i>Elephants</i> are found, doe notice take,</div> -<div class="verse">What trees they haunt, their sleeping-stocks to make;</div> -<div class="verse">That, when they rest against an halfe-sawne stemme,</div> -<div class="verse">It (falling) may betray those Beasts to them.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Now, though the part <i>Historicall</i>, may erre,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morall</i>, which this <i>Emblem</i> doth inferre,</div> -<div class="verse">Is overtrue; and, seemeth to imply,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>World</i> to bee so full of Treacherie,</div> -<div class="verse">As, that, no corner of it, found can be,</div> -<div class="verse">In which, from Falshoods Engines, wee are free.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I have observ'd the <i>Citie</i>; and, I finde</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Citizens</i>, are civill, grave and kinde;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, many are deluded by their showes,</div> -<div class="verse">And, cheated, when they trust in them repose.</div> -<div class="verse">I have been oft at <i>Court</i>; where I have spent,</div> -<div class="verse">Some idle time, to heare them <i>Complement</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, I have seene in <i>Courtiers</i>, such deceit,</div> -<div class="verse">That, for their Favours, I could never wait.</div> -<div class="verse">I doe frequent the <i>Church</i>; and, I have heard</div> -<div class="verse">Gods judgements, by the <i>Preachers</i>, there, declar'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Against mens falshoods; and, I gladly heare</div> -<div class="verse">Their zealous <i>Prayers</i>, and good <i>Counsells</i> there;</div> -<div class="verse">But, as I live, I finde some such as they,</div> -<div class="verse">Will watch to doe a mischiefe, if they may.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, those poore sneaking <i>Clownes</i>, who seeke their living,</div> -<div class="verse">As if they knew no manner of deceiving;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Ev'n <i>those</i>, their <i>witts</i>, can (this way) so apply,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, they'l soone cousen, wiser men, than I.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -This <em class="upright">Day</em>, my <em class="upright">Houre-glasse</em>, forth is runne;<br /> -Thy <em class="upright">Torch</em>, to <em class="upright">Morrow</em>, may bee done.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_50_3" id="Ill_50_3"></a> -<a href="#Ill_50_3t"><img src="images/i_d_184.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. L.</span> <i>Book. 3</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_184c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Here is no Day, nor minute of the Day,</div> -<div class="verse">In which, there are not many sent away</div> -<div class="verse">From <i>Life</i> to <i>Death</i>; or, many <i>drawing-on</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, must within a little while, bee gone.</div> -<div class="verse">You, often, view the <i>Grave</i>; you, often, meet</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Buriers</i>, and the <i>Mourners</i>, in the street,</div> -<div class="verse">Conveying of some Neighbour, to that home,</div> -<div class="verse">Which must, e're long, your <i>dwelling-place</i> become.</div> -<div class="verse">You see the <i>Race</i>, of many a youthfull <i>Sonne</i></div> -<div class="verse">Is finish'd, e're his <i>Father's</i> Course is done;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, the hand of <i>Death</i>, regardeth neither</div> -<div class="verse">Sexe, Youth, nor Age; but, mingleth all together.</div> -<div class="verse">You, many times, in your owne houses, heare</div> -<div class="verse">The groanes of <i>Death</i>, and, view your <i>Children</i>, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Your loving <i>Parents</i>, or, beloved <i>Wives</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To gaspe for breath, and, labour for their <i>lives</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Nay, you your selves, do sometime find the paines</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Sicknesse</i>, in your Bowels, and your Vaines.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Harbingers</i> of <i>Death</i>, sometime, begin</div> -<div class="verse">To take up your whole <i>Bodie</i>, for their <i>Inne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">You beare their heavie <i>Aches</i>, on your back;</div> -<div class="verse">You feele their <i>twinges</i>, make your heartstrings crack;</div> -<div class="verse">And, sometime, lye imprison'd, and halfe dead,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Age</i>, or with <i>Diseases</i>, on your bed:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet you deferre your ends; and, still contrive,</div> -<div class="verse">For temp'rall things; as if you thought to live</div> -<div class="verse">Sixe <i>Ages</i> longer: or, had quite forgot,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you, and others, draw one <i>common-Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, that, you might not, still, the same forget,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Emblem</i>, and this <i>Motto</i>, here were set.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"><i>Finis Libri tertij.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_185.jpg" width="500" height="96" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="no-break"><a name="THE_THIRD" id="THE_THIRD"></a>THE THIRD<br /> -<span class="f90">LOTTERIE</span>.</h2> - - -<p class="center">1</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_c_185c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">T</span>he <i>Wreathes</i> of <span class="smcap">Glory</span>, you affect,</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>meanes</i> to gaine them, you neglect;</div> -<div class="verse">And, (though in <i>doing</i>, you delight)</div> -<div class="verse">You <i>doe</i> not, alwayes, what is <i>right</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor are you growne, as yet, so wise,</div> -<div class="verse">To know, to whom the richest <i>Prize</i></div> -<div class="verse">Doth appertaine; nor what it is.</div> -<div class="verse">But, now, you are inform'd of <i>This</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_1_3"><i>Emblem</i> I.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">2</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Though you are <i>weake</i>, you much may doe,</div> -<div class="verse">If you will set your <i>Wits</i> thereto.</div> -<div class="verse">For, meaner <i>Powres</i>, than you have had,</div> -<div class="verse">And, meaner <i>Wits</i>, good shift have made,</div> -<div class="verse">Both to contrive, and compasse that,</div> -<div class="verse">Which abler men have wondred at.</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Strength</i>, and <i>Wit</i>, unite, therefore,</div> -<div class="verse">And, both shall grow improov'd the more.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_2_3"><i>Emb.</i> II.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">3</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, thou mayst be one of them,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, Civill <i>Magistrates</i> contemne;</div> -<div class="verse">And sleighteth, or else, flouteth at</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Ceremonies</i> of Estate.</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou maist, therefore, learne to get,</div> -<div class="verse">Both better <i>Manners</i>, and more <i>Wit</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sword</i>, and <i>Mace</i>, (by some despiz'd)</div> -<div class="verse">Is, for thy sake, now <i>moralliz'd</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_3_3"><i>Emb.</i> III.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">4</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">By this thy <i>Lot</i>, wee may misdoubt,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou look'st not warily about;</div> -<div class="verse">But, hudlest onward, without heed,</div> -<div class="verse">What went <i>before</i>, or may <i>succeed</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Procuring losse, or discontent,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, <i>Circumspection</i>, might prevent.</div> -<div class="verse">Therefore, with gratefulnesse, receive</div> -<div class="verse">Those counsells, which our <i>Moralls</i> give.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_4_3"><i>Emb.</i> IV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">5</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou hast, unworthily, repin'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, been displeased in thy mind,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, thy <i>Fortunes</i> doe not seeme</div> -<div class="verse">To fit thy <i>Worth</i> (in thy esteeme:)</div> -<div class="verse">And loe, to check thy discontent,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Lot</i>, a <i>Morall</i>, doth present;</div> -<div class="verse">And shewes, that, if thou <i>vertuous</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Good-Fortune</i>, will attend on thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_5_3"><i>Emb.</i> V.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">6</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">When thy Desires have good successe,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine owne <i>Endeavors</i>, thou dost blesse;</div> -<div class="verse">But, seldome unto <i>God</i> thou giv'st</div> -<div class="verse">Due thanks, for that, which thou receiv'st.</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, tells from whom</div> -<div class="verse">The fruits of good <i>Endeavours</i>, come:</div> -<div class="verse">And, shewes (if thou to thrive intend)</div> -<div class="verse">On whom, thou, alwayes, must depend.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_6_3"><i>Emb.</i> VI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">7</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">It may bee, thou art one of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>Faith</i>, more <i>bold</i>, than <i>fruitfull</i> growes;</div> -<div class="verse">And (building on some false <i>Decree</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Disheartnest those, that <i>Workers</i> be</div> -<div class="verse">To gaine (with <i>awfull-joy</i>) that <i>PriZe</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, unto no man, <i>God</i> denies,</div> -<div class="verse">That workes in <i>Hope</i>; and, lives by <i>Faith</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Marke, therefore, what thine <i>Emblem</i> saith.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_7_3"><i>Emb.</i> VII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">8</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou hast been willing, that thy <i>Name</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Should live the life of <i>Honest-Fame</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, thy <i>labours</i> (to thy praise)</div> -<div class="verse">Continue might, in future dayes.</div> -<div class="verse">Behold; the <i>Lot</i>, thou hapnest on,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath showne, how this may well bee done.</div> -<div class="verse">Pursue the <i>Course</i>, which there is taught,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thy desires to passe are brought.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_8_3"><i>Emb.</i> VIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">9</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, many things, hast well begun;</div> -<div class="verse">But, little, to good purpose, done:</div> -<div class="verse">Because, thou hast a fickle <i>braine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>hands</i> that love to take no paine.</div> -<div class="verse">Therefore, it chanceth not amisse,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou hast such a <i>Chance</i>, as this:</div> -<div class="verse">For, if thou want not <i>Grace</i>, or <i>Wit</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou maist, in time, have good of it.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_9_3"><i>Emb.</i> IX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">10</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Whatev'r you seeme to others, now,</div> -<div class="verse">It was the <i>Harrow</i>, and the <i>Plough</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, your <i>Predecessors</i> got,</div> -<div class="verse">The fairest portion of your <i>Lot</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, (that, it may encrease your <i>Wit</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">They haunt you, in an <i>Emblem</i>, yet.</div> -<div class="verse">Peruse our <i>Morall</i>; and, perchance,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Profit</i>, it will much advance.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_10_3"><i>Emb.</i> X.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">11</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Much labour, and much time you spend,</div> -<div class="verse">To get an able-constant <i>Friend</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, you have ever sought him, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Where, no such precious <i>Iewells</i> are:</div> -<div class="verse">For, you, <i>without</i> have searching bin,</div> -<div class="verse">To finde, what must be found <i>within</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Friend</i>, is mention'd by this <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>God</i> knowes where he may be got.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_11_3"><i>Emb.</i> XI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">12</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou seek'st for <i>Fame</i>; and, now art showne,</div> -<div class="verse">For what, her <i>Trumpet</i> shall be blowne.</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, also, doth declare,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Fame</i> they get, who <i>vertuous</i> are,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Praise</i> alone; and, what <i>Reward</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">For such like <i>Studies</i>, is prepar'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Peruse it; And, this <i>Counsell</i> take;</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Bee vertuous, for meere Vertues sake</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_12_3"><i>Emb.</i> XI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">13</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i>, those persons, alwayes finds,</div> -<div class="verse">That have high <i>thoughts</i>, and loftie <i>minds</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, such as have an itch to learne,</div> -<div class="verse">That, which doth nothing them concerne;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, love to peepe, with daring eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">Into forbidden <i>Mysteries</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">If any one of these thou bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, lessons hath for thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_13_3"><i>Emb.</i> XIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">14</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If all be true, these <i>Lots</i> doe tell us,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou shouldst be of those <i>Fidling-fellowes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, better practised are growne,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>others</i> matters, than their <i>owne</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Or, one, that covets to be thought,</div> -<div class="verse">A man, that's ignorant of nought.</div> -<div class="verse">If it be so, thy <i>Morall</i> showes</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Folly</i>, and what from it flowes.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_14_3"><i>Emb.</i> XIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span></p> - -<p class="center mt2">15</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou hast some <i>Charge</i>, (who e're thou be)</div> -<div class="verse">Which, <i>Tendance</i> may expect from thee.</div> -<div class="verse">And, well, perhaps, it may be fear'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Tis often left, without regard:</div> -<div class="verse">Or, that, thou dost securely sleep,</div> -<div class="verse">When, thou should'st watch, more strictly, keep.</div> -<div class="verse">Thou knowest best, if it be so:</div> -<div class="verse">Take therefore heed, what is to doe.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_15_3"><i>Emb.</i> XV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">16</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">In secret, thou dost oft complaine,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou hast <i>hop'd</i>, and <i>wrought</i> in vaine;</div> -<div class="verse">And, think'st thy <i>Lot</i>, is farre more hard,</div> -<div class="verse">Than what for others is prepar'd.</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, thou hast got,</div> -<div class="verse">To shew, it is our <i>common-Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>worke</i> and <i>hope</i>; and, that, thou hast</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Blessing</i> by it, at the last.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_16_3"><i>Emb.</i> XVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">17</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">That thou hast <i>Honestie</i>, we grant;</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>Prudence</i>, thou dost often want:</div> -<div class="verse">And, therefore, some have injur'd thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Who farre more <i>Wise</i>, than <i>honest</i> bee.</div> -<div class="verse">That, now, <i>Discretion</i> thou mayst add,</div> -<div class="verse">To those <i>good-meanings</i> thou hast had;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morall</i> of thine <i>Emblem</i>, view;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what it counsels, that, pursue.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_17_3"><i>Emb.</i> XVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">18</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">To your <i>Long-home</i>, you nearer are,</div> -<div class="verse">Than you (it may bee) are aware:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, and more easie is the <i>Way</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Than you, perchance, conceive it may.</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, therefore, <i>Death</i>, should grim appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">And, put you in a causelesse feare;</div> -<div class="verse">(Or out of minding wholly passe)</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Chance</i>, to you allotted was.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_18_3"><i>Emb.</i> XVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">19</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">In slippery <i>Paths</i>, you are to goe;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, they are full of danger too:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if you heedfull should not grow,</div> -<div class="verse">They'l hazzard much, your overthrow.</div> -<div class="verse">But, you the mischiefe may eschew,</div> -<div class="verse">If wholsome Counsell, you pursue.</div> -<div class="verse">Looke, therefore, what you may be taught,</div> -<div class="verse">By that, which this your <i>chance</i> hath brought.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_19_3"><i>Emb.</i> XIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span></p> - -<p class="center mt2">20</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">This present <i>Lot</i>, concernes full neere,</div> -<div class="verse">Not you alone, but all men here;</div> -<div class="verse">For, all of us, too little heed</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>love</i>, who for our sakes, did <i>bleed</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Tis true, that <i>meanes</i>, hee left behind him,</div> -<div class="verse">Which better teacheth how to minde him:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, if wee both by <i>that</i>, and <i>this</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Remember him, 'tis not amisse.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_20_3"><i>Emb.</i> XX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">21</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Tis hop'd, you just, and pious are,</div> -<div class="verse">More out of <i>Conscience</i>, than for feare;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that you'l vertuous courses take,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Goodnesse</i>, and for <i>Vertue-sake</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, since the best men, sometimes may</div> -<div class="verse">Have need of helpes, in <i>Vertues</i> way,</div> -<div class="verse">Those usefull <i>Moralls</i>, sleight you not,</div> -<div class="verse">Which are presented by this <i>Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_21_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">22</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i> pertaineth unto those,</div> -<div class="verse">(And who they bee, <i>God</i> onely knowes)</div> -<div class="verse">Who, to the world, have no desire;</div> -<div class="verse">But, up to heav'nly things aspire.</div> -<div class="verse">No doubt, but you, in some degree,</div> -<div class="verse">Indow'd with such <i>affections</i> bee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, had this <i>Emblem</i>, that you might</div> -<div class="verse">Encourag'd bee, in such a <i>Flight</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_22_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">23</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">The state of <i>Temp'rall</i> things to shew,</div> -<div class="verse">Yee have them, still, within your view;</div> -<div class="verse">For, ev'ry object that wee see,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, of them, serves to bee.</div> -<div class="verse">But, wee from few things, helps doe finde,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe <i>Eternitie</i> in minde.</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i>, an <i>Emblem</i> brings, therefore,</div> -<div class="verse">To make you thinke upon it more.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_23_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">24</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse you better looke thereto,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Dis-use</i>, and <i>Sloth</i>, will you undoe.</div> -<div class="verse">That, which of you despayred was,</div> -<div class="verse">With ease, might have bin brought to passe;</div> -<div class="verse">Had but so much bin done, as may</div> -<div class="verse">Bee equall'd with <i>One Line a day</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Consider this; and, to that end,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morall</i> of your <i>Lot</i> attend.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_24_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p> - -<p class="center mt2"><i>M</i><span class="in2"> 25</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If wee mistake not, thou art one,</div> -<div class="verse">Who loves to court the <i>Rising-Sunne</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if this <i>Lot</i>, thy nature finde,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou to <i>Preferment</i> hast a minde:</div> -<div class="verse">If so; learne hence, by whose respect</div> -<div class="verse">(Next God) thou mayst thy hopes effect:</div> -<div class="verse">Then, seeke to winn his grace to thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Of what estate soe're thou bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_25_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">26</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou to a <i>double-path</i> art come;</div> -<div class="verse">And, peradventure, troublesome,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou findest it; for thee to know,</div> -<div class="verse">On whether hand thou oughtst to goe.</div> -<div class="verse">To put thee out of all suspect,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Courses</i> that are indirect;</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Morall</i> points thee to a path,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>hardship</i>, but, no perill hath.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_26_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">27</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You warned are of taking heede,</div> -<div class="verse">That, never, you your <i>Bounds</i> exceed;</div> -<div class="verse">And, also, that you be not found,</div> -<div class="verse">To come within your Neighbours <i>Bound</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">There may be some concealed Cause,</div> -<div class="verse">That, none but you, this <i>Emblem</i> drawes.</div> -<div class="verse">Examine it; And, If you see</div> -<div class="verse">A fault, let it amended be.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_27_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">28</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Emblems</i> morall doth declare,</div> -<div class="verse">When, <i>Lovers</i> fitly matched are;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what the chiefest cause may be,</div> -<div class="verse">Why, <i>Friends</i> and <i>Lovers</i> disagree.</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, you somewhat thence may learne,</div> -<div class="verse">Which your <i>Affection</i> doth concerne.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if it <i>Counsell</i> you too late,</div> -<div class="verse">Then, preach it at your <i>Neighbours</i> gate.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_28_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2"><i>M</i><span class="in2"> 29</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Some, vrge their <i>Princes</i> on to <i>Warre</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And weary of sweet <i>Peace</i>, they are.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, seeke to make them, dote on <i>Peace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Till publike Danger more encrease)</div> -<div class="verse">As if the World were kept in awe,</div> -<div class="verse">By nothing else but preaching <i>Law</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Morall</i> (if of those thou art)</div> -<div class="verse">Doth act a <i>Moderators</i> part.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_29_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">30</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Tis feared, thou dost lesse esteeme,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Vpright</i> to <i>bee</i>, than so to <i>seeme</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if thine actions, faire <i>appeare</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou carest not how foule they <i>are</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Though this bee not thy fault alone,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet have a care of mending <i>One</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, study thou, <i>Vpright</i> to grow,</div> -<div class="verse">As well in <i>Essence</i>, as in <i>Show</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_30_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">31</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Some, all their <i>time</i>, and <i>wealth</i> have spent,</div> -<div class="verse">In giving other men content;</div> -<div class="verse">And, would not grudge to waste their <i>Blood</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To helpe advance the <i>Common-good</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">To such as these, you have been thought,</div> -<div class="verse">Not halfe so friendly as you ought.</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i> therefore befalls, to shew,</div> -<div class="verse">How great <i>respects</i>, to such, are due.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_31_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">32</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You have been tempted (by your leave)</div> -<div class="verse">In hope of <i>Lucre</i>, to deceive:</div> -<div class="verse">But, much, as yet, you have not swerv'd</div> -<div class="verse">From <i>Faith</i>, which ought to be observ'd.</div> -<div class="verse">If well, hereafter, you would speed,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>dealing-honestly</i>, proceed:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by your <i>Emblem</i>, you shall see,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Honest-men</i>, the <i>richest</i> bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_32_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">33</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">We hope, no person, here, beleeves,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you are of those wealthy <i>Theeves</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, <i>Chaines</i> of gold, and pearle doe weare.</div> -<div class="verse">And, of those <i>Theeves</i>, that, none you are,</div> -<div class="verse">Which weares a <i>Rope</i>, wee, plainly see;</div> -<div class="verse">For, you, as yet <i>unhanged</i> bee:</div> -<div class="verse">But, unto God, for <i>Mercie</i> crie,</div> -<div class="verse">Else <i>hang'd</i> you may bee, e're you die.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_33_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">34</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You, willing are, to put away,</div> -<div class="verse">The thinking on your <i>latter-day</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">You count the mention of it, <i>Folly</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">A meanes of breeding <i>Melancholly</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, newes unfit for men to heare,</div> -<div class="verse">Before they come to <i>sixtie-yeare</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, minde what Counsels now are sent,</div> -<div class="verse">And, mend, lest you too late repent.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_34_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">35</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Wits</i>, your <i>Wishes</i>, and your <i>Tongue</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Have run the <i>Wild goose-chase</i>, too long;</div> -<div class="verse">And (lest all Reason, you exceed)</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Rules</i>, and <i>Reines</i>, you now have need.</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Bridle</i>, therefore, and a <i>Square</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Prime <i>Figures</i>, in your <i>Emblem</i>, are.</div> -<div class="verse">Observe their <i>Morall</i>, and I pray,</div> -<div class="verse">Be <i>Wise</i>, and <i>Sober</i>, if you may.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_35_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">36</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Because her <i>Ayd</i> makes goodly showes,</div> -<div class="verse">You, on the <i>World</i>, your trust repose;</div> -<div class="verse">And, his <i>dependance</i>, you despise,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, meerly, on <i>God's</i> helpe, relies.</div> -<div class="verse">That, therefore, you may come to see,</div> -<div class="verse">How pleas'd, and safe, those men may bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Who have no ayd, but <i>God</i>, alone;</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i>, you have lighted on.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_36_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">37</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Some, thinke your <i>Vertue</i> very much;</div> -<div class="verse">And, there is cause to thinke it such:</div> -<div class="verse">For, many wayes it hath been tride;</div> -<div class="verse">And, well the <i>Triall</i> doth abide.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, think not, but some <i>brunts</i> there are,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, your owne <i>strength</i> shall never beare.</div> -<div class="verse">And, by the <i>Morall</i> of your <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Learne, where, <i>Assistance</i> may bee got.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_37_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">38</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou hast been grieved, and complain'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, the <i>Truth</i> hath wrong sustain'd.</div> -<div class="verse">But, that, dismayd thou shouldst not be,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i> will declare to thee,</div> -<div class="verse">That, though the <i>Truth</i> may suffer spite,</div> -<div class="verse">It shall not bee depressed quite;</div> -<div class="verse">But, by opposing, spread the more,</div> -<div class="verse">And, grow more pow'rfull than before.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_38_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">39</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">By <i>Rashnesse</i>, thou hast often err'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, else, thou hadst been more preferr'd.</div> -<div class="verse">But, future errours, to prevent,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou to the slow-pac'd <i>Oxe</i> art sent,</div> -<div class="verse">To learne more <i>Staydnesse</i>; and, to doe</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Workes</i>, with <i>Perseverance</i>, too.</div> -<div class="verse">Hee that this creatures <i>Vertue</i> scornes,</div> -<div class="verse">May want it all, except his <i>Hornes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_39_3"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">40</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Dame <i>Fortunes</i> favour seemes to bee</div> -<div class="verse">Much lov'd, and longed for, of thee;</div> -<div class="verse">As if, in what, her hand bestowes,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou mightst thy confidence repose.</div> -<div class="verse">But, that, her <i>manners</i> may bee knowne,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Chance</i>, upon thee, was bestowne.</div> -<div class="verse">Consider well, what thou hast got,</div> -<div class="verse">And, on her flattrings, dote thou not.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_40_3"><i>Emb.</i> XL.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">41</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">The <i>Steele</i> and <i>Flint</i>, declare, in part,</div> -<div class="verse">The Temper of a <i>Stony-heart</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, shewe, that thence, no <i>Vertue</i> flowes,</div> -<div class="verse">Till it be forced out, with blowes.</div> -<div class="verse">Some other, <i>Moralls</i> thou maist learne,</div> -<div class="verse">Thereby, which will thy <i>good</i>, concerne:</div> -<div class="verse">Marke, therefore, what they doe declare,</div> -<div class="verse">And, minde it, as occasions are.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_41_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">42</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou thinkst thy <i>Witt</i>, had made thee great,</div> -<div class="verse">Had <i>Povertie</i> not beene some <i>let</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, had thy <i>Wealth</i> as ample beene,</div> -<div class="verse">As, thou thy <i>Witt</i>, didst overweene;</div> -<div class="verse">Insteed of thy desired <i>Height</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, thou hadst beene ruin'd quite.</div> -<div class="verse">Hereafter, therefore, be content,</div> -<div class="verse">With whatsoever <i>God</i> hath sent.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_42_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">43</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">To <i>Discord</i>, thou art somewhat prone,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thinkst thou mayst subsist alone;</div> -<div class="verse">Regarding not how safe they bide,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, fast, in <i>Concords</i> bands are tide.</div> -<div class="verse">But, that thou mayst the better heed,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Good</i>, from <i>Vnion</i> doth proceed,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i> is become thy <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">From which, good <i>Caveats</i> may be got.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_43_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">44</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou wouldst be lov'd; and, to that end,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou dost both <i>Time</i>, and <i>Labour</i> spend:</div> -<div class="verse">But, thou expect'st (as wee beleeve)</div> -<div class="verse">More <i>Love</i>, than thou dost meane to give.</div> -<div class="verse">If so thou then, art much to blame:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Love</i> affects a <i>muturall-flame</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, if it faile on either side,</div> -<div class="verse">Will never, long time, true abide.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_44_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">45</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If all your <i>pow'rs</i>, you should unite,</div> -<div class="verse">Prevaile in your Desires, you might:</div> -<div class="verse">And, sooner should effect your ends,</div> -<div class="verse">If you should muster up your <i>Friends</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, since your <i>Genius</i> doth suspect,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you such <i>Policie</i> neglect,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Lot</i> presenteth to your view</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, which instructeth you.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_45_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">46</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Because, thou mayst be one of them,</div> -<div class="verse">Who dare the deeds of <i>Kings</i> condemne;</div> -<div class="verse">(As if such eyes as theirs and yours</div> -<div class="verse">Could view the depth of <i>Sov'raigne pow'rs</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, see, how in each <i>Time</i>, and <i>Place</i>,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>God</i> rules their hearts, in ev'ry case.)</div> -<div class="verse">To check thy sawcinesse, in this,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i> comes not much amisse.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_46_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">47</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Of many goodly parts thou vauntst;</div> -<div class="verse">And, much thou hast, though much thou wantst:</div> -<div class="verse">But, well it were, that, lesse, thou hadst,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse more use thereof thou mad'st.</div> -<div class="verse">That, therefore, thou mightst come to see,</div> -<div class="verse">How vaine <i>unpractiz'd-vertues</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Peruse thine <i>Emblem</i>; and, from thence,</div> -<div class="verse">Take usefull heed of thy <i>Offence</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_47_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">48</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">By this thy <i>Lot</i>, it may appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">Decayd thy <i>Hopes</i>, or <i>Fortunes</i> are.</div> -<div class="verse">But, that, thou mayst no courage lose,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, by example, showes,</div> -<div class="verse">That, as the <i>Moone</i> doth from the <i>Waine</i></div> -<div class="verse">Returne, and fill her <i>Orbe</i> againe:</div> -<div class="verse">So, thou thy <i>Fortunes</i> mayst renew,</div> -<div class="verse">If, honest <i>Hopes</i>, thou shalt pursue.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_48_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">49</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Some <i>Foes</i>, for thee, doe lie in wait,</div> -<div class="verse">Where thou suspectest no <i>Deceit</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, many a one, thy harme intends,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom thou dost hope will be thy <i>Friends</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Be, therefore, heedfull, whom to <i>trust</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>walke</i> thou tak'st, and what thou <i>dost</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou shalt see,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>warinesse</i>, will needfull bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_49_3"><i>Emb.</i> XLIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">50</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">It seemes, by drawing of this <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The day of <i>Death</i>, is much forgot;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, thou needst a faithfull <i>Friend</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To minde thee of thy <i>latter-end</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Vnheeded, therefore, passe not by,</div> -<div class="verse">What now thine <i>Emblem</i> doth imply;</div> -<div class="verse">So, thou shalt heare (without affright)</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Death's</i> message, though it were to night.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_50_3"><i>Emb.</i> L.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">51</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou seek'st by fickle <i>Chance</i>, to gaine,</div> -<div class="verse">What thou by <i>Vertue</i> might'st attaine.</div> -<div class="verse">Endeavour well, and, nothing shall</div> -<div class="verse">To thee, unfortunately fall:</div> -<div class="verse">For, ev'ry variable <i>Chance</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy firme contentment, shall advance.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if thou, yet, remaine in doubt,</div> -<div class="verse">Turne <i>Fortunes-wheele</i>, once more, about.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">52</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Lot</i>, no Answere will bestow,</div> -<div class="verse">To that, which thou desir'st to know;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor canst thou, here, an <i>Emblem</i> find,</div> -<div class="verse">Which to thy purpose is inclinde.</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, it is too late to crave,</div> -<div class="verse">What thou desirest, now, to have:</div> -<div class="verse">Or, but in vaine, to mention that,</div> -<div class="verse">Which thy <i>Ambition</i> aymeth at.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, take it not in evill part,</div> -<div class="verse">That, with a <i>Blanck</i>, thou answer'd art.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">53</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Although you now refused not,</div> -<div class="verse">To trie the <i>Fortune</i> of your <i>Lot</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, you, perhaps, unwilling are,</div> -<div class="verse">This company the same should heare,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, some harsh <i>Morall</i> should unfold</div> -<div class="verse">Such tricks, as you could wish untold.</div> -<div class="verse">But, loe, you need not stand in awe;</div> -<div class="verse">For, 'tis a <i>Blanck</i>, which now you draw.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">54</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">It proves a <i>Blanck</i>; for, to what end,</div> -<div class="verse">Should wee a serious <i>Morall</i> spend,</div> -<div class="verse">Where, <i>teachings</i>, <i>warnings</i>, and <i>advise</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Esteemed are of little price?</div> -<div class="verse">Your onely purpose, is to looke</div> -<div class="verse">Upon the <i>Pictures</i> of this <i>Booke</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">When, more discretion you have got,</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i> shall attend your <i>Lot</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span></p> - -<p class="center mt2">55</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You might have drawne an <i>Emblem</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">In which your <i>manners</i> pictur'd were:</div> -<div class="verse">But, some will vexe, when they shall see</div> -<div class="verse">Themselves, so painted out to bee,</div> -<div class="verse">And, blame this <i>Booke</i>, as if it had</div> -<div class="verse">By some unlawfull <i>Art</i> been made:</div> -<div class="verse">(Or, was contriv'd, that, to their shame,</div> -<div class="verse">Men, on themselves, might <i>Libels</i> frame)</div> -<div class="verse">And, lest you may bee so unwise,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Lot</i>, an <i>Emblem</i>, now, denies.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">56</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Because, <i>Good Chances</i>, others drew,</div> -<div class="verse">To trie these <i>Lots</i>, it pleased you.</div> -<div class="verse">But, had you such an <i>Emblem</i> found,</div> -<div class="verse">As fits you rightly, you had froun'd;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, <i>inwardly</i>, you would have <i>chast</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Although you <i>outwardly</i> had laugh'd.</div> -<div class="verse">You, therefore, very glad may bee,</div> -<div class="verse">This proves a <i>Blanck</i>; and, so may wee.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center f150"><i>FINIS.</i></p> -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_196.jpg" width="500" height="250" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - - -<p class="ph1"> -<span class="f75">A</span><br /> -COLLECTION<br /> -<span class="f75">OF</span><br /> -EMBLEMES,<br /> -<span class="f90"> ANCIENT AND<br /> - MODERNE:</span></p> - -<p class="ph2"> - - Quickened<br /> - With <span class="smcap">Metricall Illvstrations</span>, both<br /> - <i>Morall</i> and <i>Divine</i>: And disposed into<br /> - <span class="smcap">Lotteries</span>,</p> - -<p class="center ph3"> - That <i>Jnstruction</i>, and <i>Good Counsell</i>, may bee furthered<br /> - by an Honest and Pleasant <i>Recreation</i>. -</p> - -<p class="center ph3"> - <i>By</i> <span class="smcap">George Wither</span>. -</p> - -<h2><span class="f75"><i>The fourth Booke.</i></span></h2> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/i_d_197.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="NON PLVS" /> -</div> - -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<p class="center"> - <span class="smcap">London</span>,<br /> - Printed by <span class="smcap">Avgvstine Mathewes</span>.<br /> - MDCXXXIV.<br /> -</p> - - - - -<hr class="fullns" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="mb2"><span class="f75">TO</span><br /> -<span class="f90">THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE</span><br /> -<span class="f75"><em>PHILLIP</em>, Earle of <span class="smcap">Pembrooke</span>, and<br /> -<span class="smcap">Movntgomerie</span>, &c. <i>Lord <em class="upright">Chamberlaine</em> of the<br /> -Houshould, <em class="upright">Knight</em> of the most honourable Order of<br /> -the <em class="upright">Garter</em>, and one of his <em class="upright">Majesties</em> most Honourable -<em class="upright">Privie-Councell</em>.</i></span></h2> - - -<p class="in6" ><i>My Honourable</i> <span class="smcap">Lord</span>,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse drop-capt">THough, <i>Worthlesse</i> in my owne repute I am;</div> -<div class="verse">And, (though my <i>Fortune</i>, so obscures my Name</div> -<div class="verse">Beneath my <i>Hopes</i>; that, now, it makes me seeme</div> -<div class="verse">As little worth, in other mens esteeme,</div> -<div class="verse">As in mine owne;) yet, when my <i>Merits</i> were</div> -<div class="verse">No better, than, to most, they now appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">It pleased some, ev'n some of those that had</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Noblest Names</i>, (and, those of whom was made</div> -<div class="verse">The best Account) so lowly to descend,</div> -<div class="verse">As, my well-meaning <i>Studies</i>, to befriend.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Among those <span class="smcap">Worthies</span>, I may both bemone</div> -<div class="verse">(My selfe in <span class="smcap">Him</span>) and memorize, for <i>One</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Your much renowned <span class="smcap">Brother</span>, as a <i>Chiefe</i></div> -<div class="verse">In bringing to my waned <i>Hopes</i>, reliefe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, in my <i>Faculties</i>, were I as able</div> -<div class="verse">To honour <i>Him</i>, as he was honourable,</div> -<div class="verse">I would have showne, how, all this <i>Emperie</i></div> -<div class="verse">Hath lost a <i>Friend</i>, in <span class="smcap">Him</span>, as much as I.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">To <span class="smcap">Mee</span>, so freely, of his owne accord</div> -<div class="verse">It pleased <span class="smcap">Him</span>, his <i>Favours</i>, to afford;</div> -<div class="verse">That, when our learned, and late <i>Sov'raigne-Prince</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(By others mis-informed) tooke offence</div> -<div class="verse">At my Free <i>Lines</i>; <span class="smcap">Hee</span>, foun'd such <i>Meanes</i> and <i>Place</i></div> -<div class="verse">To bring, and reconcile mee to his <i>Grace</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">That, therewithall, his <i>Majestie</i> bestow'd</div> -<div class="verse">A Gift upon mee, which his <i>Bountie</i> show'd:</div> -<div class="verse">And, had inrich'd mee; if, what was intended,</div> -<div class="verse">Had not, by othersome, beene ill befriended.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">But, as I long time, suffred have by those</div> -<div class="verse">Who labour'd much, my thrivings, to oppose:</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>I my selfe</i>, (although not out of pride,</div> -<div class="verse">As many thinke it) have so much relide</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the <i>Royall-Gift</i>, neglecting so</div> -<div class="verse">To fortifie the same, as others do</div> -<div class="verse">By making Friends; that my estate grew lesse</div> -<div class="verse">(By more than twice five hundred Marks decrease)</div> -<div class="verse">Through that, which for, my profit was bestowne.</div> -<div class="verse">And, I, ere this, had wholly been undone;</div> -<div class="verse">But, that the <i>Wealth</i>, which I relie on, most,</div> -<div class="verse">Consists in things, which never can be lost.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Yet, by his <i>Losse</i>, I have <i>Occasions</i> had</div> -<div class="verse">To feele, why other men are often sad.</div> -<div class="verse">And, I, (who blushed, to be troublesome</div> -<div class="verse">To any Friend) therby, almost am come</div> -<div class="verse">To such a passe; that, what I wish to have,</div> -<div class="verse">I should grow impudent enough to <i>Crave</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Had not impartiall <i>Death</i>, and wasting <i>Time</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of all my Friends quite worne away the <i>Prime</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, left mee none, to whom I dare present</div> -<div class="verse">The meanest suite without encouragement:</div> -<div class="verse">Although, the greatest <i>Boone</i>, I would implore,</div> -<div class="verse">Should cost them, but a <i>Word</i>, or little more.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, some there are, no doubt, for whose respect</div> -<div class="verse">I might endeavour, with no vaine effect;</div> -<div class="verse">Had I but cause, to have as high esteeme,</div> -<div class="verse">Of mine owne <i>Merits</i>, as I have of them.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if your <i>Honour</i> should be so inclin'd,</div> -<div class="verse">As I desire; I, now am sure to finde</div> -<div class="verse">Another <i>Pembrooke</i>, by whose ayde sustain'd,</div> -<div class="verse">I may preserve, what by the <i>Last</i> I gain'd.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">To make adventure, how it will succeed,</div> -<div class="verse">I now am come. And lo, my <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, insteed</div> -<div class="verse">Of better <i>Advocates</i>, I first begin,</div> -<div class="verse">Mine <span class="smcap">Emblems</span>, by these <i>Lines</i>, to Vsher in;</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>they</i>, by these admittance may effect</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Mee</i>, and for <i>themselves</i>, your kinde respect.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">That, which in <i>them</i>, best Worthy you shall find,</div> -<div class="verse">Is this; that, they are Symptomes of a <i>Minde</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Affecting honestie: and of a <i>Heart</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">So truly honouring a true desert,</div> -<div class="verse">That, I am hopefull made, they will acquire</div> -<div class="verse">As much respect as I can well desire:</div> -<div class="verse">And, <span class="smcap">Sir</span>, your <i>Candor</i>, your knowne <i>Courtesies</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">With other praisefull <i>Vertues</i>, make mee rise</div> -<div class="verse">To this Beliefe; that, <span class="smcap">Yov</span> by fav'ring mee</div> -<div class="verse">Hereafter, may as highly honour'd be,</div> -<div class="verse">As by some former Bounties; and encrease</div> -<div class="verse">My Future <i>Merit</i>, by your <i>Worthinesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">However, what I <i>am</i> or shall be knowne</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Bee</i>, by <i>Your Deservings</i>, or mine <i>owne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">You may command it; and, be sure to finde</div> -<div class="verse">(Though false my <i>Fortunes</i> prove) a Faithfull <i>Mind</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="in8"><i>Thus, unfainedly, professeth</i></p> -<p class="in12"><i>Your Honours</i></p> -<p class="in16"><i>truest Honourer</i>,</p> -<p class="in16"><span class="smcap">Geo: Wither</span>. -</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="mb2"><span class="f75">TO</span><br /> -<span class="f90">THE RIGHT HONORABLE,</span><br /> -<span class="f75"><i>HENRIE</i>, Earle of <span class="smcap">Holland</span>, &c.<br /> -<i>Captaine of the <em class="upright">Guard</em>; <em class="upright">Lord-chiefe-Iustice</em> in Eyre<br /> -of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases</i><br /> -on this side <i>Trent</i>; <i>Knight</i> of the most noble Order<br /> -of the Garter, and one of his Majesties<br /> -most Honourable <i>Privie Counsell</i>.</span></h2> - - -<p class="in6" > -<i>Right Noble SIR</i>,<br /> -</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza italic"> -<div class="verse drop-capt2">HAving, of late, some <em class="upright">Cause</em>, to overlooke</div> -<div class="verse">That thankfull <em class="upright">Register</em>, wherein I booke</div> -<div class="verse">My noblest <em class="upright">Friends</em>; I found so many <em class="upright">Names</em></div> -<div class="verse">Possessing nothing, but their honour'd <em class="upright">Fames</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Whose <em class="upright">living Persons</em>, wee injoyed, here,</div> -<div class="verse">A while agoe;) that, I began to feare,</div> -<div class="verse">I might grow <em class="upright">Friendlesse</em>; (having now so few)</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse I sought, their <em class="upright">Number</em> to renew.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">By some <em class="upright">Disasters</em>, also, gaining proofe,</div> -<div class="verse">How much this <em class="upright">Course</em> would make for my behoofe;</div> -<div class="verse">I call'd my <em class="upright">Wits</em> to <em class="upright">Counsell</em>, <em class="upright">Where</em>, and <span class="smcap">How</span></div> -<div class="verse">I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow</div> -<div class="verse">The seeds of such <em class="upright">a Blessing</em>: And, me thought</div> -</div> -<div class="stanzanb"> -<div class="verse">Within mee, <i>something said</i>: Where should be sought</div> -<div class="verse">What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde,</div> -<div class="verse">But, from some <span class="smcap">Branches</span> of the selfe-same kinde;</div> -<div class="verse">Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit,</div> -<div class="verse">According to the Virtues of the <i>Roote</i>?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanzanb italic"> -<div class="verse indent2">Assoone as Fancie had inform'd me so,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <em class="upright">Lordship</em>, came to my remembrance, too,</div> -<div class="verse">With what our <em class="upright">Soveraigne's</em> Favour, <em class="upright">Vulgar Fame</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, your owne <em class="upright">Merits</em>, addeth to your <em class="upright">Name</em>.</div> -<div class="verse">Which, having weigh'd, no doubts at all I had</div> -<div class="verse">Of <em class="upright">Worth</em> in <em class="upright">Yov</em>; But, rather, doubtings made</div> -<div class="verse">That, all my <em class="upright">Wits</em> would insufficient be,</div> -<div class="verse">To make that <em class="upright">Worth</em>, become a <em class="upright">Friend</em> to mee.</div> -<div class="verse">For, I have oft observ'd, that, <em class="upright">Favour</em> shunnes</div> -<div class="verse">The best <em class="upright">Desert</em>, if after <em class="upright">her</em>, it runnes.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanzanb"> -<div class="verse indent2"><i>Yet</i>, who can tell what may befall? thought I:</div> -<div class="verse">It is no great <i>Adventure</i>, if I try</div> -<div class="verse">Without successe: And, if, I gaine my <i>End</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">I am assured of a <i>Noble-Friend</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">His honourable <span class="smcap">Father</span>, deem'd mee worth</div> -<div class="verse">So much respecting as to seeke me forth,</div> -<div class="verse">When, I was more <i>obscure</i>: And, <span class="smcap">Mee</span>, for nought</div> -<div class="verse">But, onely to <i>Befriend mee</i>, forth <span class="smcap">Hee</span> sought.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, wherefore, of his <span class="smcap">Sonne</span>, should I suspect</div> -<div class="verse">That (feeling <em class="upright">Him</em>) hee can my love reject?</div> -<div class="verse">Since, <i>Courtesie</i> doth alwaies, there, abound,</div> -<div class="verse">Where such a lovely <i>Personage</i> is found?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanzanb italic"> -<div class="verse indent2">My LORD, these were my <em class="upright">Fancies</em>: But I take them</div> -<div class="verse">To be of no more worth, than, you shall make them</div> -<div class="verse">By your <em class="upright">Acceptance</em>: Nor, is't my intent</div> -<div class="verse">To Court you, with fruitlesse <em class="upright">Complement</em>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, to attempt your <em class="upright">Favour</em> with a mind,</div> -<div class="verse">As readily, and really, inclinde</div> -<div class="verse">To <em class="upright">serve</em> you, when my services may steed;</div> -<div class="verse">As to expect your Favours, in my need.</div> -<div class="verse">For, had my <em class="upright">Fates</em> enabled me so much,</div> -<div class="verse">I should more willingly have sought out such</div> -<div class="verse">On whom I Courtesies might have bestowne,</div> -<div class="verse">Than, seeke to cure <em class="upright">Misfortunes</em> of mine <em class="upright">owne</em>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">No doubt, but, every day, your <em class="upright">Lordship</em> heares</div> -<div class="verse"><em class="upright">Inventions</em>, which may better please your eares</div> -<div class="verse">Than these I now present; And, yet you might</div> -<div class="verse">(For ought I knew) finde profit, or delight,</div> -<div class="verse">By our plaine EMBLEMS, or, some <em class="upright">uses</em> in them,</div> -<div class="verse">Which from your <em class="upright">Honour</em>, some respects may win them;</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n for that good <em class="upright">Moralitie</em>, which they</div> -<div class="verse">To Vulgar Vnderstandings will convay.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">But, Truth to speake, the chiefest cause which drew</div> -<div class="verse">My minde, to make them PRESENTS, for your view,</div> -<div class="verse">Was, but to take <em class="upright">Occasion</em> to professe,</div> -<div class="verse">That, I am <em class="upright">Servant</em>, to your WORTHINESSE.</div> -<div class="verse">In which, if YOV are pleased; All is got,</div> -<div class="verse">At which I aym'd: And, though you like it not,</div> -<div class="verse">It shall but teach Mee (for the time to come)</div> -<div class="verse">To take more heed, where I am troublesome.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class= "in6">And, I shall be, neverthelesse,</p> -<p class= "in8">your Honours to be commanded,</p> - -<p class= "in12">as becommeth your Servant,</p> - -<p class= "in12"><span class="smcap">Geo: Wither</span>.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[209]</a></span></p> - - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Whil'st I, the <em class="upright">Sunne's</em> bright Face may view,<br /> -I will no meaner <em class="upright">Light</em> pursue.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_1_4" id="Ill_1_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_1_4t"><img src="images/i_e_209.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. I.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_209c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, with a serious musing, I behold</div> -<div class="verse">The gratefull, and obsequious <i>Marigold</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">How duely, ev'ry morning, she displayes</div> -<div class="verse">Her open brest, when <i>Titan</i> spreads his Rayes;</div> -<div class="verse">How she observes him in his daily walke,</div> -<div class="verse">Still bending towards him, her tender stalke;</div> -<div class="verse">How, when he downe declines, she droopes and mournes,</div> -<div class="verse">Bedew'd (as 'twere) with teares, till he returnes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, how she vailes her <i>Flow'rs</i>, when he is gone,</div> -<div class="verse">As if she scorned to be looked on</div> -<div class="verse">By an inferiour <i>Eye</i>; or, did contemne</div> -<div class="verse">To wayt upon a meaner <i>Light</i>, then <i>Him</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">When this I meditate, me-thinkes, the <i>Flowers</i></div> -<div class="verse">Have <i>spirits</i>, farre more generous, then ours;</div> -<div class="verse">And, give us faire Examples, to despise</div> -<div class="verse">The servile Fawnings, and Idolatries,</div> -<div class="verse">Wherewith, we court these earthly things below,</div> -<div class="verse">Which merit not the service we bestow.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, oh my God! though groveling I appeare</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the Ground, (and have a rooting here,</div> -<div class="verse">Which hales me downward) yet in my desire,</div> -<div class="verse">To that, which is above mee, I aspire:</div> -<div class="verse">And, all my best <i>Affections</i> I professe</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Him</i>, that is the <i>Sunne of Righteousnesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Oh! keepe the <i>Morning</i> of his <i>Incarnation</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The burning <i>Noone-tide</i> of his bitter <i>Passion</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Night</i> of his <i>Descending</i>, and the <i>Height</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of his <i>Ascension</i>, ever in my sight:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That imitating him, in what I may,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I never follow an inferiour <i>Way</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[210]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Earth</em> is God's, and in his Hands<br /> -Are all the <em class="upright">Corners</em> of the Lands.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_2_4" id="Ill_2_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_2_4t"><img src="images/i_e_210.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. II.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_210c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="L" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">L</span>Ong since, the sacred <i>Hebrew Lyrick</i> sayd,</div> -<div class="verse">(A Truth, which never justly was denayd)</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>All the world is God's</i>; and that his <i>hands</i></div> -<div class="verse">Enclose the limits of the farthest <i>Lands</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The selfe same <i>Truth</i> affirmes, that likewise, there,</div> -<div class="verse">By him, their <i>clodds</i>, and <i>furrowes</i> warred are,</div> -<div class="verse">And, that with <i>dewes</i> and <i>showres</i>, he doth so blesse</div> -<div class="verse">The dwellings of the barren <i>Wildernesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, those Inhabitants (whom some conceiv'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Of usefull, and all pleasant things bereav'd)</div> -<div class="verse">Their labors, with advantage, doe employ,</div> -<div class="verse">And, fetch their yearely <i>Harvests</i> home, with joy.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Why then should wee, that in God's <i>Vineyard</i> live,</div> -<div class="verse">Distrust that all things needfull hee will give?</div> -<div class="verse">Why should his <i>Garden</i> doubt of what it needs,</div> -<div class="verse">Since hee oft waters barren <i>Rocks</i> and <i>Weeds</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Why should his <i>Children</i>, live in slavish feare,</div> -<div class="verse">Since hee is kind to those that strangers are?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, whither from his presence, can we flie,</div> -<div class="verse">To whom the furthest <i>hiding-place</i> is nigh.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, if I may, from lower objects clime,</div> -<div class="verse">(To questioning, in matters more sublime)</div> -<div class="verse">Why should I thinke, the <i>Soule</i> shall not bee fed,</div> -<div class="verse">Where God affoords, to <i>Flesh</i>, her <i>daily Bread</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, dreame, that hee, for some, provided none,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, on us, much <i>Mercie</i> is bestowne?</div> -<div class="verse">'Tis true enough, that <i>Hell</i> devoureth all,</div> -<div class="verse">Who shall be found without the <i>Churches</i> pale;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, how farre that extends, no Eye can see,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Since, <i>in Gods hands, Earth's farthest Corners bee</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[211]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -By seeming other than thou art,<br /> -Thou dost performe a foolish part.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_3_4" id="Ill_3_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_3_4t"><img src="images/i_e_211.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. III.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_211c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He World is much for <i>Shewes</i>, and few there are</div> -<div class="verse">So diligent to <i>bee</i>, as to <i>appeare</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Although a little travaile more, would make them</div> -<div class="verse">Those men, for which, the <i>lookers-on</i> mistake them.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, have so toyled, and consum'd so much,</div> -<div class="verse">To get a false repute of being <i>Rich</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they have spent farre more, than would have bought,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>substance</i> of the <i>shadow</i>, they have sought;</div> -<div class="verse">And, caused those, who deem'd them rich before,</div> -<div class="verse">To know them, to bee miserably <i>poore</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Some others, would so faine be counted <i>Wise</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they consume in <i>Curiosities</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Sophistries</i>, and superficiall <i>showes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">More pretious Time, than would have made them those,</div> -<div class="verse">They long to seeme, (had halfe that meanes been spent,</div> -<div class="verse">In seeking <i>Wisdome</i>, with a pure intent)</div> -<div class="verse">Whereas, the glorioust purchases of such,</div> -<div class="verse">(Though by their Peeres they seeme applauded much)</div> -<div class="verse">Are still so vaine, that little they possesse,</div> -<div class="verse">But fruitlesse <i>leaves</i>, of <i>learned foolishnesse</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, by affecting more than is their due,</div> -<div class="verse">They lose ev'n both the <i>substance</i>, and the <i>shew</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, so, instead of honours <i>Crowne</i>, have worne</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Coxcombes</i>, of a well-deserved scorne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, of all <i>Fooleries</i>, the grossest <i>Folly</i></div> -<div class="verse">Is theirs, who weare those <i>garbes</i> of <i>seeming-holy</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which paine them sore, yet make them still appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>God</i> and <i>Men</i>, as wicked as they are.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Be, therefore, what, to be thou hast profest;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, bee not of this last, of all the rest.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[212]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Pursue thy <em class="upright">Workes</em>, without delay,<br /> -For, thy short <em class="upright">houres</em> runne fast away.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_4_4" id="Ill_4_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_4_4t"><img src="images/i_e_212.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_212c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hough this bee but the picture of that <i>Glasse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By which thou measur'st how thine <i>houres</i> doe passe,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, sleight it not; for, much 'twill profit thee,</div> -<div class="verse">To ponder what the <i>Morals</i> of it bee.</div> -<div class="verse">And, 'tis an <i>Emblem</i>, whence the <i>Wise</i> may learne,</div> -<div class="verse">That, which their persons, neerely doth concerne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The brittle <i>Glasse</i>, serves fitly to expresse</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Bodie's</i> frailtie, and much crasinesse.</div> -<div class="verse">Foure <i>Pillars</i>, which the glassie worke empale,</div> -<div class="verse">Instruct thee, that the <i>Vertues</i> Cardinall,</div> -<div class="verse">To guard the <i>Manhood</i>, should bee still employ'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Lest else the feeble fabrick bee destroy'd.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sand</i>, still running forth, without delay,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth shew, that <i>Life-time</i>, passeth fast away,</div> -<div class="verse">And, makes no stop: yea, and the <i>Motto</i> too,</div> -<div class="verse">(Lest thou forgetfull prove) informes thee so.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By viewing this, Occasion, therefore, take,</div> -<div class="verse">Of thy fast-flying <i>Houres</i>, more use to make;</div> -<div class="verse">And, heedfull bee, to shunne their common crime,</div> -<div class="verse">Who take much care to trifle out the time;</div> -<div class="verse">As if it merited their utmost paine,</div> -<div class="verse">To lose the gemme, which most they seeke to gaine.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Time-past</i> is lost already: <i>Time-to-come</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Belongs, as yet, thou knowst not unto whom.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>present-houres</i> are thine, and, onely those,</div> -<div class="verse">Of which thou hast <i>Commission</i> to dispose;</div> -<div class="verse">And, they from thee, doe flye away so fast,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they are scarcely knowne, till they are past.</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">Lord, give mee grace, to minde, and use <em class="upright">Time</em> so,</div> -<div class="verse eindent italic">That, I may doe thy <em class="upright">worke</em>, before I goe.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[213]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Repent, or God will breake the thread,<br /> -By which, thy <em class="upright">doome</em> hangs o're thy head.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_5_4" id="Ill_5_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_5_4t"><img src="images/i_e_213.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. V.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_213c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="M" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">M</span>Arke well this <i>Emblem</i>; and, (when in a <i>thread</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">You see the <i>Globe</i>, there, hang above their head,</div> -<div class="verse">Who in securitie, beneath it sit)</div> -<div class="verse">Observe likewise, the <i>Knife</i>, that threatens it;</div> -<div class="verse">The smallnesse of the <i>Twine</i>; and, what a death</div> -<div class="verse">Would follow, should it fall on those beneath:</div> -<div class="verse">And (having well observ'd it) mind, I pray,</div> -<div class="verse">That, which the word about it, there, doth say:</div> -<div class="verse">For, it includes a <i>Caveat</i>, which wee need</div> -<div class="verse">To entertaine, with a continuall heed.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Though few consider it, wee finde it thus</div> -<div class="verse">(Throughout our lives) with ev'ry one of us.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Destruction</i> hangeth in a <i>single thread</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Directly over every <i>Sinner's</i> head.</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Sentence</i> is gone forth, by which wee stand</div> -<div class="verse">Condemn'd to suffer death. The dreadfull hand,</div> -<div class="verse">Of God's impartiall <i>Iustice</i>, holds a <i>Knife</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Still ready, to cut off our <i>thread of life</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, 'tis his <i>mercie</i>, that keepes up the <i>Ball</i></div> -<div class="verse">From falling, to the ruine of us all.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Oh! let us minde, how often wee have bin,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n in the very act of <i>Deadly-sinne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whilst this hung over us; and, let us praise,</div> -<div class="verse">And love him, who hath yet prolong'd our dayes:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, let our thankfulnesse, bring forth such fruit,</div> -<div class="verse">As, to the benefit may somewhat suit:</div> -<div class="verse">For, though a <i>sudden-Death</i> may not ensue,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, (since <i>Times</i> Axe, doth every minute hew</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Root of Life</i>) the Tree, e're long, must fall;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, then perhaps, too late, repent wee shall.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[214]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When <em class="upright">woe</em> is in our selves begun,<br /> -Then, whither from it, can wee run?</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_6_4" id="Ill_6_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_6_4t"><img src="images/i_e_214.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_214c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="P" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">P</span>Oore <i>Hart</i>, why dost thou run so fast? and why,</div> -<div class="verse">Behind thee dost thou looke, when thou dost fly?</div> -<div class="verse">As if thou seem'dst in thy swift flight, to heare</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>dangers</i> following thee, w<sup>ch</sup> thou dost feare?</div> -<div class="verse">Alas! thou labour'st, and thou runn'st in vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">To shunne, by <i>flight</i>, thy <i>terrors</i>, or thy <i>paine</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, loe, thy <i>Death</i>, which thou hast dreaded so,</div> -<div class="verse">Clings fast unto thee, wheresoere thou goe:</div> -<div class="verse">And while thou toyl'st, an <i>outward-ease</i> to win,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou draw'st thine owne <i>destruction</i> further <i>in</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Making that <i>Arrow</i>, which but prickes thy hide,</div> -<div class="verse">To pierce thy tender entrailes, through thy side.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, well I may this wounded <i>Hart</i> bemoane;</div> -<div class="verse">For, here, me thinkes, I'm taught to looke upon</div> -<div class="verse">Mine owne condition; and, in him, to see</div> -<div class="verse">Those deadly wounds, my <i>Sinnes</i> have made in mee.</div> -<div class="verse">I greatly feare the <i>World</i>, may unawares</div> -<div class="verse">Intangle mee, by her alluring snares:</div> -<div class="verse">I am afraid, the <i>Devill</i> may inject</div> -<div class="verse">Some poys'nous fume, my <i>Spirit</i> to infect,</div> -<div class="verse">With ghostly <i>Pestilence</i>; and, I assay,</div> -<div class="verse">To flie from these, with all the pow'rs I may.</div> -<div class="verse">But, oh my Flesh! this very <i>Flesh</i> I weare,</div> -<div class="verse">Is worse to mee, than <i>Worlds</i>, and <i>Devils</i> are:</div> -<div class="verse">For, without this, no pow'r on mee, they had.</div> -<div class="verse">This is that <i>Shirt</i>, which made <i>Alcides</i> mad.</div> -<div class="verse">It is a <i>griefe</i>, which I shall never cure,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor flie from, whilst my life-time doth endure:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From thence, oh <i>Lord</i>, my greatest <i>sorrowes</i> bee;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, therefore, from my <i>Selfe</i>, I flie to <i>Thee</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[215]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When <em class="upright">Magistrates</em> confined are,<br /> -They revell, who were kept in feare.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_7_4" id="Ill_7_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_7_4t"><img src="images/i_e_215.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_215c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> Tyrannous, or wicked <i>Magistrat</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Is fitly represented by a <i>Catt</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, though the <i>Mice</i> a harmfull vermine bee,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Cats</i> the remedie; yet, oft wee see,</div> -<div class="verse">That, by the <i>Mice</i>, far lesse, some house-wives leese,</div> -<div class="verse">Then when they set the <i>Catt</i> to keepe the <i>Cheese</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">A ravenous <i>Cat</i>, will punish in the <i>Mouse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The very same Offences, in the house,</div> -<div class="verse">Which hee himselfe commits; yea, for that <i>Vice</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which was his owne (with praise) he kills the <i>Mice</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, spoyleth not anothers life alone,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n for that very <i>fault</i> which was his <i>owne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But <i>feeds</i>, and <i>fattens</i>, in the spoyle of them,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom hee, without compassion did condemne.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, worse than so; hee cannot bee content,</div> -<div class="verse">To slaughter them, who are as innocent,</div> -<div class="verse">As hee <i>himselfe</i>; but, hee must also play,</div> -<div class="verse">And sport his wofull <i>Pris'ners</i> lives away;</div> -<div class="verse">More torturing them, 'twixt fruitlesse <i>hopes</i> and <i>feares</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Than when their bowels, with his teeth he teares:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by much terrour, and much crueltie,</div> -<div class="verse">Hee kills them, ten times over, e're they die.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">When, such like <i>Magistrates</i> have rule obtain'd,</div> -<div class="verse">The best men wish their powre might be restrain'd:</div> -<div class="verse">But, they who shun enormities, through <i>Feare</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are glad when <i>good-men</i> out of Office are.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, whether <i>Governours</i> bee good or bad,</div> -<div class="verse">Of their displacings <i>wicked-men</i> are glad;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when they see them brought into disgraces,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They boldly play the <i>Knaves</i> before their faces.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[216]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Loe, heere is all, that bee possest,<br /> -Which once was <em class="upright">Victor</em> of the <em class="upright">East</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_8_4" id="Ill_8_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_8_4t"><img src="images/i_e_216.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. VIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_216c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen hee, who by his conquering Arme, possest</div> -<div class="verse">The rich, and spacious Empires of the <i>East</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Felt his approaching end; he bade them beare</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Shirt</i> throughout his <i>Armie</i>, on a <i>Speare</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Proclaiming, that of all his large estate,</div> -<div class="verse">No more was left him, then, but only that:</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps intending, thereby, to expresse,</div> -<div class="verse">A sorrow for his wilde <i>Ambitiousnesse</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, hoping, by that <i>Spectacle</i>, to give</div> -<div class="verse">Some good <i>Instructions</i> unto those that live.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">However, let it serve us, to declare,</div> -<div class="verse">How vaine their toylings, and ambitions are,</div> -<div class="verse">Who rob themselves, and other men of rest,</div> -<div class="verse">For things that are so little while possest.</div> -<div class="verse">And, if that powerfull King, could nothing have,</div> -<div class="verse">That was of use, to carry to his <i>Grave</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Of all his conquered <i>Kingdomes</i>) but, one <i>Shirt</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, <i>Winding sheet</i>, to hide his Royall durt;</div> -<div class="verse">Why should we pinch, and scrape, and vext become,</div> -<div class="verse">To heap up Riches, for we know not whom?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, macerate the <i>Flesh</i>, by raising strife,</div> -<div class="verse">For more, than will bee usefull during life?</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, ev'n for that, which sometimes shortens <i>breath</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And makes us, also, wretched after <i>Death</i>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanzanb italic"> -<div class="verse eindent">Let mee, oh God! my labour so employ,</div> -<div class="verse">That, I, a competencie may enjoy.</div> -<div class="verse">I aske no more, than may <em class="upright">Lifes</em> want supply,</div> -<div class="verse">And, leave their due to others, when I <em class="upright">die</em>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If this thou grant, (which nothing doubt I can)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">None ever liv'd, or dy'd a richer man.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[217]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When <em class="upright">Hopes</em>, quite frustrate were become,<br /> -The <em class="upright">Wither'd-branch</em> did freshly bloome.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_9_4" id="Ill_9_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_9_4t"><img src="images/i_e_217.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. IX.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_217c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>'is true, a <i>wither'd-branch</i> I am, and seeme</div> -<div class="verse">To some, as voyd of <i>Hopes</i>, as of esteeme;</div> -<div class="verse">For, in their judgements, I appeare to be</div> -<div class="verse">A saplesse <i>Bough</i>, quite broken from the Tree,</div> -<div class="verse">(Ev'n such as that, in this our <i>Emblem</i>, here)</div> -<div class="verse">And, yet, I neither feele <i>Despaire</i>, nor <i>Feare</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, I have seene (e're now) a little <i>Spray</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Rent from her <i>Stemme</i>) lye trodden by the way,</div> -<div class="verse">Three moneths together; which, when <i>Spring</i> drew on,</div> -<div class="verse">To take an unexpected Root begun;</div> -<div class="verse">(Yea, grew to bee a Tree) and, growing, stood,</div> -<div class="verse">When those great <i>Groves</i>, were fell'd for firing-wood,</div> -<div class="verse">Which once had high esteeme; and sprung unhurt,</div> -<div class="verse">While that poore <i>Branch</i>, lay sleighted in the durt.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, I have seene such <i>twiggs</i>, afford them shade,</div> -<div class="verse">By whom they were the meanest shrippings made,</div> -<div class="verse">Of all the <i>Wood</i>; And, you may live to see,</div> -<div class="verse">(For ought yet knowne) some such event in mee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, what if all who know mee, see me dead,</div> -<div class="verse">Before those <i>hopes</i> begin to spring and spread?</div> -<div class="verse">Have therefore they that hate me, cause to boast,</div> -<div class="verse">As if mine expectations I had lost?</div> -<div class="verse">No sure: For, I, who by <i>Faith's</i> eyes have seene,</div> -<div class="verse">Old <i>Aarons</i> wither'd <i>Rod</i> grow fresh and greene;</div> -<div class="verse">And also viewed (by the selfe-same <i>Eyes</i>)</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Him</i>, whom that <i>Rod</i>, most rightly typifies,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Fall</i> by a shamefull <i>Death</i>, and <i>rise</i>, in spight</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Death</i>, and <i>Shame</i>, unto the glorioust <i>height</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Ev'n I, beleeve my <i>Hope</i> shall bee possest,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, therefore, (ev'n in <i>Death</i>) in <i>Hope</i> I'le rest.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -True <em class="upright">Vertue</em>, whatsoere betides,<br /> -In all <em class="upright">extreames</em>, unmoov'd abides.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_10_4" id="Ill_10_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_10_4t"><img src="images/i_e_218.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. X.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_218c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen, in this <i>Emblem</i>, here, you have espide,</div> -<div class="verse">The shape of a triangled <i>Pyramide</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, have observed well, those mightie <i>Rockes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose firme foundation bides the dreadfull shockes</div> -<div class="verse">Of angry <i>Neptune</i>; you may thereby see,</div> -<div class="verse">How firmly setled, <i>Vertues</i> reall bee.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as the raging <i>Seas</i>, although they roare,</div> -<div class="verse">Can make no breach upon the Rockie shore;</div> -<div class="verse">And, as a true triangled <i>Pyramide</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Stands fast, and shewes alike, on ev'ry side:</div> -<div class="verse">So, howsoever <i>Fortune</i>, turnes or winds,</div> -<div class="verse">Those men, which are indow'd with vertuous minds,</div> -<div class="verse">It is impossible, to drive them from</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Formes</i>, or <i>Stations</i>, which those minds become.</div> -<div class="verse">And, as the raging <i>Sea</i>, with foming threats,</div> -<div class="verse">Against the <i>Rockie-shore</i>, but vainely beats;</div> -<div class="verse">So, <i>Envie</i> shall in vaine, loud blustrings make,</div> -<div class="verse">When vertuous resolutions they would shake.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Vertue</i>, which receives an overthrow,</div> -<div class="verse">Was <i>Vertue</i>, not <i>indeed</i>, but in the <i>show</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So farre am I, oh <i>Lord</i>! from laying claime</div> -<div class="verse">To have this <i>Vertue</i>, that, I doe but ayme</div> -<div class="verse">At such <i>perfection</i>; and, can come no nigher</div> -<div class="verse">As yet, than to obtaine it in <i>desire</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, fixe thou so, this weake desire of mine,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the <i>Vertues</i> of thy <i>Rocke</i> divine,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>I</i>, and that invaluable <i>Stone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May bee incorporated into <i>One</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, then, it will bee neither shame, nor pride,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To say, my <i>Vertues</i>, will unmov'd abide.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[219]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">motion</em> of the <em class="upright">World</em>, this day,<br /> -Is mov'd the quite contrarie way.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_11_4" id="Ill_11_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_11_4t"><img src="images/i_e_219.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_219c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hat was this <i>Figures</i> meaning, but to show,</div> -<div class="verse">That, as these kinde of <i>Shell-fish</i> backward goe,</div> -<div class="verse">So now the <i>World</i>, (which here doth seeme to take</div> -<div class="verse">An arseward Iourney on the <i>Cancer's</i> backe)</div> -<div class="verse">Moves counterwise; as if delight it had,</div> -<div class="verse">To runne a race, in <i>Courses retrograde</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, is very likely to be true,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, this our <i>Emblem</i>, purposeth to shew.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, I have now, of late, not onely seene,</div> -<div class="verse">What backward motions, in my <i>Friends</i> have beene;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that my outward <i>Fortunes</i> and <i>Affaires</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe of themselves, come tumbling downe the staires:</div> -<div class="verse">But, I have also found, that other things,</div> -<div class="verse">Have got a wheeling in contrary <i>Rings</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Regresse</i>, holding on, 'tis like that wee,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Iewes</i>, or <i>Ethnicks</i>, backe shall turned bee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Some punie <i>Clerkes</i>, presume that they can teach</div> -<div class="verse">The ancient holy <i>Doctors</i>, how to preach.</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>Laicks</i>, learne their <i>Pastors</i> how to pray.</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>Parents</i>, are compelled to obay</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Sonnes</i>; and, so their Dignitie to lose,</div> -<div class="verse">As to be fed and cloth'd, at their dispose.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, wee have some, who have assay'd to draw,</div> -<div class="verse">All backward, to the <i>Bondage</i> of the <i>Law</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n to those abrogated <i>Rites</i> and <i>Dayes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By which, the wandring <i>Iew</i> markes out his wayes.</div> -<div class="verse">And, to pursue this <i>Round</i>, they are so heady,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they have made themselves, and others giddy.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanzanb italic"> -<div class="verse eindent">Doe then, these froward <em class="upright">Motions</em>, <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, restraine,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, set the <em class="upright">World</em> in her due course againe.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[220]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Invincibilitie</em> is there,<br /> -Where <em class="upright">Order</em>, <em class="upright">Strength</em>, and <em class="upright">Vnion</em> are.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_12_4" id="Ill_12_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_12_4t"><img src="images/i_e_220.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_220c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="F" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">F</span>Rom these well-order'd <i>Arrowes</i>, and the <i>Snake</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">This usefull Observation you may make;</div> -<div class="verse">That, where an able <i>Prudence</i>, doth combine</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Vnited-forces</i>, by good <i>Discipline</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">It maketh up a pow'r, exempted from</div> -<div class="verse">The feare, or perill, to be <i>overcome</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if you covet <i>safetie</i>, you will seeke</div> -<div class="verse">To know this <i>Ward</i>, and to acquire the like.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, doubtlesse, neither is it in the force,</div> -<div class="verse">Of iron <i>Charets</i>, or of armed <i>Horse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In which, the <i>King</i>, securitie may finde,</div> -<div class="verse">Unlesse the Riders bee well <i>Disciplinde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, lyes it in the Souldiers common <i>Skill</i></div> -<div class="verse">In warlike <i>Postures</i>; nor in theirs, who drill</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Rankes</i> and <i>Fyles</i>, to order them aright,</div> -<div class="verse">According as <i>Occasion</i> makes the <i>Fight</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, men must use a further <i>Prudence</i> too,</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, those <i>vulgar-Arts</i> will all undoe.</div> -<div class="verse">For, these, are onely <i>Sciences</i> injoynd,</div> -<div class="verse">To order well the <i>Body</i>, not the <i>Mind</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, men best train'd in these (oft times) we see,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Hare-brain'dst-fooles</i>, in all our <i>Armies</i> bee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To <i>strength</i>, and <i>skill</i>, unite we must, therefore,</div> -<div class="verse">A manly <i>Prudence</i>, comprehending more,</div> -<div class="verse">Than all these <i>Powr's</i>: ev'n such, as when shee please,</div> -<div class="verse">To all her ends, can use and mannage these;</div> -<div class="verse">And, shew us how to cure, or to prevent</div> -<div class="verse">All <i>HaZards</i>; or, withall to bee content.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Hee that's thus arm'd, and trusts in <i>God</i> alone,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">May bee <i>oppos'd</i>, but, <i>conquered</i> of none.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[221]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -When thou art shipwrackt in Estate,<br /> -Submit with patience, unto <em class="upright">Fate</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_13_4" id="Ill_13_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_13_4t"><img src="images/i_e_221.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_221c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen I beheld this Picture of a <i>Boat</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Which on the raging <i>Waves</i> doth seeme to float)</div> -<div class="verse">Forc'd onward, by the current of the Tide,</div> -<div class="verse">Without the helpe of <i>Anchor</i>, <i>Oare</i> or <i>Guide</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, saw the <i>Motto</i> there, which doth imply,</div> -<div class="verse">That shee commits her selfe to <i>Destinie</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Me thinkes, this <i>Emblem</i> sets out their estate,</div> -<div class="verse">Who have ascribed ev'ry thing to <i>Fate</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And dreame, that howsoe're the businesse goe,</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>Worke</i>, nor hinders, neither helpes thereto.</div> -<div class="verse">The leaking <i>Ship</i>, they value as the sound:</div> -<div class="verse">Hee that's to hanging borne, shall ne're bee drown'd;</div> -<div class="verse">And, men to happinesse ordain'd (say these)</div> -<div class="verse">May set their <i>Ship</i> to float, as <i>Fate</i> shall please.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Fancie</i>, springing from a mis-beleeving</div> -<div class="verse">Of God's <i>Decrees</i>; and, many men deceiving,</div> -<div class="verse">With shewes of <i>Truth</i>, both causeth much offence</div> -<div class="verse">Against God's <i>Mercies</i>, and his <i>Providence</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And brings to passe, that some to ruine runne,</div> -<div class="verse">By their neglect of what they might have done.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Meanes</i> is to bee us'd, (if wee desire,</div> -<div class="verse">The blessing of our safetie to acquire)</div> -<div class="verse">Whose naturall effects, if God deny,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon his <i>Providence</i> wee must relye,</div> -<div class="verse">Still practising what naturall aydes may bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill no likely ayd untride wee see.</div> -<div class="verse">And, when this <i>Non plus</i> wee are forc'd unto,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Stand still</i>, wee may, and wayt what God will do.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Hee that shall thus to <i>Fate</i>, his fortunes leave,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let mee bee ruin'd, if Shee him deceive.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[222]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The best, and fairest <em class="upright">House</em>, to mee,<br /> -Is that, where best I love to bee.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_14_4" id="Ill_14_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_14_4t"><img src="images/i_e_222.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIV.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_222c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hey are not <i>Houses</i> builded large and high,</div> -<div class="verse">Seel'd all with <i>Gold</i>, and pav'd with <i>Porphyrie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Hung round with <i>Arras</i>, glaz'd with <i>Christall-glasse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And cover'd o're with plates of shining <i>Brasse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which are the best; but, rather, those where wee</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>safetie</i>, <i>health</i>, and best <i>content</i>, may bee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, where wee finde, though in a meane Estate,</div> -<div class="verse">That portion, which maintaines a quiet <i>Fate</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Here, in a homely <i>Cottage</i>, thatcht with reed,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Peasant</i> seemes as pleasedly to feed,</div> -<div class="verse">As hee, that in his <i>Hall</i> or <i>Parlour</i> dines,</div> -<div class="verse">Which Fret-worke Roofes, or costly Cedar Lines:</div> -<div class="verse">And, with the very same affections too,</div> -<div class="verse">Both to, and from it, hee doth come and goe.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Tortois</i>, doubtlesse, doth no house-roome lack,</div> -<div class="verse">Although his <i>House</i> will cover but his back;</div> -<div class="verse">And, of his <i>Tub</i>, the <i>Cynicke</i> seem'd as glad,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>Alexander</i> was of all hee had.</div> -<div class="verse">When I am setled in a place I love,</div> -<div class="verse">A shrubby <i>hedge-row</i>, seemes a goodly <i>Grove</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">My liking maketh <i>Palaces</i> of <i>Sheds</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, of plaine <i>Couches</i>, carved Ivory <i>Beds</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, ev'ry <i>path</i>, and pathlesse <i>walke</i>, which lies</div> -<div class="verse">Contemn'd, as rude, or wilde, in others eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">To mee is pleasant; not alone in show,</div> -<div class="verse">But, truly such: For, liking makes them so.</div> -<div class="verse">As pleas'd in theirs, the <i>Snailes</i>, and <i>Cocles</i> dwell,</div> -<div class="verse">As doth a <i>Scallop</i> in his pearly shell:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, that commends the <i>House</i>, which makes it fit,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To serve their turnes, who should have use of it.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[223]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">King</em>, his pow'r from God receives:<br /> -For, hee alone the <em class="upright">Scepter</em> gives.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_15_4" id="Ill_15_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_15_4t"><img src="images/i_e_223.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XV.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_223c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He Gift of <i>Kingdomes</i>, <i>Children</i>, and <i>good-Wives</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are three of God's most choice <i>Prerogatives</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In temp'rall Blessings; and, of all these three,</div> -<div class="verse">The gifts of <i>Kingdomes</i>, his rar'st Favours bee:</div> -<div class="verse">For, in five hundred Millions, there's not one,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom this high <i>Honour</i> is conferr'd upon;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor is there any knowne <i>Estate</i> on earth,</div> -<div class="verse">(Whereto wee come, by <i>Merit</i>, or by <i>Birth</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Which can, to any man assurance bring,</div> -<div class="verse">That, hee shall either <i>live</i>, or <i>die</i> a <i>King</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morning-Starre</i>, that's Heire unto a <i>Crowne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Oft sets, before the <i>shining-Sunne</i> is downe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, some, that once a glorious <i>Empire</i> swayd,</div> -<div class="verse">Did lose their <i>Kingdomes</i>, e're their heads were layd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The greatest earthly <i>Monarch</i> hath no powre,</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe his Throne one minute of an houre,</div> -<div class="verse">(Vse all the meanes, and policies hee can)</div> -<div class="verse">If God will give it to another man.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Hee</i>, when <i>Belshazzar</i> was in high'st estate,</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Kingdome</i> to the <i>Persians</i> did translate.</div> -<div class="verse">King <i>Saul</i>, and <i>Rehoboam</i>, could not stay</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Royalties</i>, which God would give away;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Hee</i> that was the proudest of the rest,</div> -<div class="verse">God, changed from a <i>King</i>, into a Beast.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Nor is there any man so meane, but hee,</div> -<div class="verse">When God shall please, an <i>Emperour</i> may bee.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, from the <i>Pot-kilne</i>, from the <i>Sheep-cote</i>, some,</div> -<div class="verse">Hee raised hath, great <i>Princes</i> to become:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yea, hee o're heav'n and earth, hath rear'd his <i>Throne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That was on earth, the most <i>despised-one</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Her favours, <em class="upright">Fortune</em>, oft imparts,<br /> -To those that are of no deserts.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_16_4" id="Ill_16_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_16_4t"><img src="images/i_e_224.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_224c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Ould you not laugh, and thinke it beastly fine,</div> -<div class="verse">To see a durtie, and ill-favour'd <i>Swine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Weare on her snout, a <i>Diamond</i>, or a <i>Pearle</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That might become the <i>Ladie</i> of an <i>Earle</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">And hold it head, as if it meant to show</div> -<div class="verse">It were the <i>Pigg</i> of some well-nurtur'd <i>Sow</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, you thinke there be not any where</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Antickes</i>, but in this our <i>Emblem</i> here.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if you take these <i>Charmes</i>, and then goe forth</div> -<div class="verse">Among some troupes, which passe for folkes of worth,</div> -<div class="verse">You shall discover, quickly, if you please,</div> -<div class="verse">A thousand sights, as mimicall as these.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Here, you shall see a noble <i>Title</i> worne,</div> -<div class="verse">(That had not mis-beseem'd one better borne)</div> -<div class="verse">By him, whose vertues are of little price,</div> -<div class="verse">And, whose estate, was gotten by his <i>Vice</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">You shall behold another <i>Mushrome</i>, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Walke with our <i>Lords</i>, as if hee were their <i>Peere</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That was well knowne, to be but tother day,</div> -<div class="verse">No fit companion for such men as they;</div> -<div class="verse">And, had no other meanes to climbe this height,</div> -<div class="verse">But <i>Gaming</i>, or to play the <i>Parasite</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet (though he neither hath his <i>Trade</i>, nor <i>Lands</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor any honest <i>In-come</i>, by his <i>hands</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Hee, oft consumes at once, in <i>Games</i> or <i>Cheare</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">More than would keepe his <i>Better</i> all the yeare.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, many such as these, thou shouldst behold,</div> -<div class="verse">Which would bee vext, if I describe them should:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, thus, unworthily, blind <i>Fortune</i> flings,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To <i>Crowes</i>, and <i>Geese</i>, and <i>Swine</i>, her precious things.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[225]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The best <em class="upright">good-turnes</em> that <em class="upright">Fooles</em> can doe us,<br /> -Proove disadvantages unto us.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_17_4" id="Ill_17_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_17_4t"><img src="images/i_e_225.jpg" width="500" height="499" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_225c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> <i>Foole</i>, sent forth to fetch the <i>Goslings</i> home,</div> -<div class="verse">When they unto a Rivers brinck were come,</div> -<div class="verse">(Through which their passage lay) conceiv'd a feare</div> -<div class="verse">His Dames best <i>Brood</i>, might have been drowned there;</div> -<div class="verse">Which, to avoyd, hee thus did shew his wit,</div> -<div class="verse">And his good nature, in preventing it.</div> -<div class="verse">Hee, underneath his <i>girdle</i>, thrusts their heads,</div> -<div class="verse">And, then the Coxcombe through the water wades.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Here learne, that when a <i>Foole</i> his helpe intends,</div> -<div class="verse">It rather doth a mischiefe, then befriends;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thinke, if there be danger in his <i>love</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">How harmefull his <i>Maliciousnesse</i> may prove:</div> -<div class="verse">For, from his <i>kindenesse</i>, though no profit rise</div> -<div class="verse">To doe thee spight, his <i>Malice</i> may suffise.</div> -<div class="verse">I could not from a <i>Prince</i> beseech a boone</div> -<div class="verse">By suing to his <i>Iester</i> or <i>Buffoone</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, any Fooles vaine humor, sooth or serve,</div> -<div class="verse">To get my bread, though I were like to starve.</div> -<div class="verse">For, to be <i>poore</i>, I should not blush so much,</div> -<div class="verse">As if a <i>Foole</i> should raise me to be <i>rich</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Lord, though of such a kinde my faults may be,</div> -<div class="verse">That sharpe <i>Affliction</i> still must tutor mee,</div> -<div class="verse">(And give me due <i>Correction</i> in her Schooles)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, oh preserve me from the scorne of <i>Fooles</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Those wicked <i>Fooles</i>, that in their hearts have sed</div> -<div class="verse">There is no God; and, rather give me <i>Bread</i></div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Ravens</i>, <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, or in a <i>Lions</i> Den,</div> -<div class="verse">Then by the Favours of such foolish men:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Lest, if their <i>dainties</i> I should swallow downe,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Their smile might more undoe, me, than their <i>frowne</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[226]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Though <em class="upright">weaknesse</em> unto me belong,<br /> -In my <em class="upright">Supporter</em>, I am strong.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_18_4" id="Ill_18_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_18_4t"><img src="images/i_e_226.jpg" width="500" height="499" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XVIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_226c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span>Lthough there bee no Timber in the <i>Vine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor strength to raise the climbing <i>Ivie-twine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, when they have a helper by their side,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, prop to stay them, like this <i>Pyramide</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">One roote sometime, so many <i>Sprayes</i> will beare,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you might thinke, some goodly <i>Grove</i> it were:</div> -<div class="verse">Their tender stalkes, to climbe aloft, are seene;</div> -<div class="verse">Their boughs are cover'd with a pleasant greene;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, which else, had crept upon the ground,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath tops of loftie trees, and turrets crown'd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Emblem</i>, fitly shadowes out the Natures</div> -<div class="verse">Of us, that are the <i>Reasonable-creatures</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, wee are truely by our <i>nat'rall-birth</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Like <i>Vines</i> undrest, and creeping on the earth;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor free from spoyling, nor in case to beare</div> -<div class="verse">Good <i>fruits</i>, or <i>leaves</i>, while we are groveling there.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if <i>new-borne</i> by <i>Grace</i>, streight borne are wee,</div> -<div class="verse">From earthly creepings, by that <i>Living-tree</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, here, was planted, meerely to this end,</div> -<div class="verse">That, by his <i>pow'r</i>, our <i>weaknesse</i> might ascend.</div> -<div class="verse">And, hee our <i>frailtie</i> to himselfe so takes,</div> -<div class="verse">So, of his <i>might</i>, the partners us hee makes;</div> -<div class="verse">That, hee, in us, doth seeme to hide his <i>pow'rs</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, make the <i>strength</i> hee gives, appeare as ours.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Continue, <i>Lord</i>, this <i>Grace</i>, and grant wee may,</div> -<div class="verse">Firme hold, on our <i>Supporter</i>, alwayes lay:</div> -<div class="verse">So climbing, that wee nor neglect, nor hide</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Love</i>; nor over-climbe it, by our <i>Pride</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus, our yet staggering <i>weaknesse</i>, shall at length,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Bee fully changed into perfect <i>Strength</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Be wary, whosoe're thou be,<br /> -For, from <em class="upright">Loves</em> arrowes, none are free.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_19_4" id="Ill_19_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_19_4t"><img src="images/i_e_227.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XIX.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_227c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="G" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">G</span>Ood Folkes, take heede; for, here's a wanton <i>Wagge</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, having <i>Bowes</i> and <i>Arrowes</i>, makes his bragg</div> -<div class="verse">That, he hath some unhappy trick to play;</div> -<div class="verse">And, vowes to shoot at all he meets to day.</div> -<div class="verse">Pray be not carelesse; for, the <i>Boy</i> is blinde,</div> -<div class="verse">And, sometimes strikes, where most he seemeth kinde.</div> -<div class="verse">This rambling <i>Archer</i> spares nor one, nor other:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, otherwhile, the <i>Monkey</i> shoots his Mother.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Though you be little <i>Children</i>, come not neere;</div> -<div class="verse">For, I remember (though't be many a yeare</div> -<div class="verse">Now gone and past,) that, when I was a <i>Lad</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">My Heart, a pricke, by this young Wanton had,</div> -<div class="verse">That, pain'd me seven yeares after: nor had I</div> -<div class="verse">The grace (thus warn'd) to scape his waggery;</div> -<div class="verse">But many times, ev'n since I was a man,</div> -<div class="verse">He shot me, oftner then I tell you can:</div> -<div class="verse">And, if I had not bene the stronger-hearted,</div> -<div class="verse">I, for my over-daring, might have smarted.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">You laugh now, as if this were nothing so;</div> -<div class="verse">But, if you meet this <i>Blinkard</i> with his Bow,</div> -<div class="verse">You may, unlesse you take the better care,</div> -<div class="verse">Receive a <i>wound</i>, before you be aware.</div> -<div class="verse">I feare him not; for, I have learned how</div> -<div class="verse">To keepe my heart-strings from his Arrowes now:</div> -<div class="verse">And, so might you, and so might ev'ry one</div> -<div class="verse">That vaine <i>Occasions</i>, truely seekes to shunn.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if you sleight my Counsells, you may chance</div> -<div class="verse">To blame at last, your willfull ignorance:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, some, who thought, at first, his wounds but small</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Have dyed by them, in an <i>Hospitall</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[228]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -On whether side soe're I am,<br /> -I, still, appeare to bee the same.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_20_4" id="Ill_20_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_20_4t"><img src="images/i_e_228.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XX.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_228c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Cube</i>, which is an equall-sided-square,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth very well, in <i>Emblem</i>-wise, declare</div> -<div class="verse">The temper of that vertuous minded man,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose resolutions nothing alter can.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as the <i>Cube</i>, which way soever plac't,</div> -<div class="verse">Stands ever in one <i>posture</i>, firmely fast,</div> -<div class="verse">And, still, appeares the same in forme and size,</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon what side or part soe're it lyes:</div> -<div class="verse">So, men well formed by the <i>Word</i> divine,</div> -<div class="verse">And, truly squar'd by vertuous <i>Discipline</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Will keepe (though <i>changes</i> them shall turne & wind)</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>forme</i> and <i>firmnesse</i> of an <i>honest-minde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If, digging deepe, his <i>Fortunes</i> lay him, there,</div> -<div class="verse">Where he his owne, and others weights must beare,</div> -<div class="verse">(There, many yeares compelling him to lie,</div> -<div class="verse">Opprest with dis-respect or povertie)</div> -<div class="verse">Hee keepes the place to which hee stands enjoyn'd,</div> -<div class="verse">And brooks his chances with a constant mind.</div> -<div class="verse">If shee remoove him thence, and set him up</div> -<div class="verse">On temporall <i>Prosperities</i> high top,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Squarenesse</i> of <i>Plaine dealing</i> hee retaines,</div> -<div class="verse">And, in the same integritie remaines:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor coveting vaine <i>Wealth</i>, or false <i>esteemes</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, being any other than he seemes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Although by Nature, wee are wondrous hard,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Lord</i>, let us into such like <i>Stones</i> be squar'd:</div> -<div class="verse">Then, place us in thy spirituall <i>Temple</i>, so,</div> -<div class="verse">That, into one firme <i>Structure</i>, we may grow;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, when we, by thy <i>Grace</i>, are fitted thus,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Dwell <i>Thou thy selfe</i>, for evermore, in us.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[229]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Deformitie</em>, within may bee,<br /> -Where outward <em class="upright">Beauties</em> we doe see.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_21_4" id="Ill_21_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_21_4t"><img src="images/i_e_229.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_229c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="L" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">L</span>Ooke well, I pray, upon this <i>Beldame</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">For, in her <i>habit</i>, though shee gay appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">You, through her youthfull <i>vizard</i>, may espy</div> -<div class="verse">Shee's of an old <i>Edition</i>, by her <i>Eye</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, by her wainscot face, it may bee seene,</div> -<div class="verse">Shee might your <i>Grandams</i> first <i>dry nurse</i> have been.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This is an <i>Emblem</i>, fitly shaddowing those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who making faire, and honest outward showes,</div> -<div class="verse">Are inwardly deform'd; and, nothing such,</div> -<div class="verse">As they to bee suppos'd, have strived much.</div> -<div class="verse">They chuse their <i>words</i>, and play well-acted <i>parts</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, hide most loathsome projects in their hearts;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when you think sweet <i>Friendship</i> to embrace,</div> -<div class="verse">Some ugly <i>Treason</i>, meets you in the face.</div> -<div class="verse">I hate a painted <i>Brow</i>; I much dislike</div> -<div class="verse">A Mayden-blush, dawb'd on a furrowed <i>Cheeke</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, I abhorre to see old <i>Wantons</i> play,</div> -<div class="verse">And, suite themselves, like <i>Ladies of the May</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, more (yea, most of all) my soule despiseth</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Heart</i>, that in <i>Religious formes</i>, disguiseth</div> -<div class="verse">Prophane intentions; and arrayes in white,</div> -<div class="verse">The coale-blacke conscience of an <i>Hypocrite</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Take heed of such as these; and, (if you may)</div> -<div class="verse">Before you trust them, tract them in their way.</div> -<div class="verse">Observe their footsteps, in their private <i>path</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, these (as 'tis beleev'd, the <i>Devill</i> hath)</div> -<div class="verse">Have <i>cloven feet</i>; that is, <i>two wayes</i> they goe;</div> -<div class="verse">One for their <i>ends</i>, and tother for a <i>show</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Now, you thus warned are, advise embrace;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, trust nor gawdy <i>Clothes</i>, nor painted <i>Face</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[230]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -My <em class="upright">Hand</em> and <em class="upright">Heart</em>, in one agree,<br /> -What can you more desire of mee?</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_22_4" id="Ill_22_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_22_4t"><img src="images/i_e_230.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_230c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> <i>Heart</i> with <i>Hand-in-hand</i>, united thus,</div> -<div class="verse">Makes here an <i>Emblem</i> not unknowne to us;</div> -<div class="verse">And, 'tis not hard for any Vulgar wit,</div> -<div class="verse">Without a <i>Comment</i>, to interpret it.</div> -<div class="verse">But, though of ev'ry man confest it be,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Hand</i> and <i>Heart</i> together should agree;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, what we in <i>outward-shew</i> expresse,</div> -<div class="verse">Perform'd should be, with <i>inward-heartinesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">(Since, now the World, to such a passe is growne,</div> -<div class="verse">That, all is not consider'd, which is knowne)</div> -<div class="verse">I cannot thinke it altogether vaine,</div> -<div class="verse">To speake of that, which may appeare so plaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">When thou dost reach thy <i>hand</i> unto thy friend,</div> -<div class="verse">Take order, that thy <i>heart</i> the same intend:</div> -<div class="verse">For, otherwise in <i>Hand</i>, or <i>Heart</i>, thou lyest,</div> -<div class="verse">And, cuttest off a <i>Member</i>, e're thou dyest.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, give their <i>Hearts</i> (as many <i>Lovers</i> do)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, are afraid, to set their <i>hands</i> thereto.</div> -<div class="verse">Some give their <i>Hands</i>; and, then by many a deed,</div> -<div class="verse">To ratifie the <i>gift</i>, they dare proceede;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, keep their <i>tongues</i> from saying what they meant,</div> -<div class="verse">To helpe excuse their <i>hearts</i>, when they repent.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, some can very cunningly expresse,</div> -<div class="verse">In outward shew, a winning heartinesse,</div> -<div class="verse">And, steale the deare <i>affections</i> they have sought,</div> -<div class="verse">From those, to whom they meant, nor promis'd ought.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, will they, if <i>advantage</i> come thereby,</div> -<div class="verse">Make all their <i>Deeds</i>, for want of <i>Words</i>, a ly.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Among <i>Dissemblers</i>, in things temporall,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These <i>Raskalls</i> are the ver'est <i>Knaves</i> of all.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[231]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -No <em class="upright">Emblem</em>, can at full declare,<br /> -How fickle, <em class="upright">Minds-unconstant</em> are.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_23_4" id="Ill_23_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_23_4t"><img src="images/i_e_231.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_231c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome, thinke this <i>Emblem</i> serveth to expresse</div> -<div class="verse">No more, but onely <i>Womens</i> ficklenesse;</div> -<div class="verse">And, they will most desire to have it so,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, like those best, that most inconstant grow.</div> -<div class="verse">Although my <i>Fortunes</i> were, in some things, bad,</div> -<div class="verse">I never in my life, experience had</div> -<div class="verse">Of an <i>inconstant woman</i>: Wherefore, then,</div> -<div class="verse">Should I condemne the <i>Females</i>, more than men?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I heare some talke, that <i>Women</i> fickle be:</div> -<div class="verse">And so I thinke; and so I know are wee.</div> -<div class="verse">And (being put together) say I dare,</div> -<div class="verse">That, they and wee, in equall manner, share</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>giddinesse</i>, and <i>ficklenesse</i> of minde,</div> -<div class="verse">More wavering, than a <i>Feather</i>, or the <i>Winde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Woman</i>, heere, is plac'd, to typifie</div> -<div class="verse">A minde distracted with much levitie:</div> -<div class="verse">Not, that the womans <i>Wav'rings</i> are the more;</div> -<div class="verse">But, for this cause: Most <i>Vices</i>, heretofore,</div> -<div class="verse">And <i>Vertues</i> too, our <i>Ancestors</i> did render,</div> -<div class="verse">By words declined in the <i>female-gender</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>winged Ball</i>, (whose tottering Foundation,</div> -<div class="verse">Augments the causes of our <i>variation</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Meanes, here, those uselesse, and vaine <i>temp'rall things</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That come and goe, with never-staying <i>wings</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, which (if thereupon our hearts we set)</div> -<div class="verse">Make <i>Men</i> and <i>Women</i>, the <i>Vertigo</i> get.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Hereafter, then, let neither <i>Sexe</i> accuse</div> -<div class="verse">Each other; but, their best endeavours use,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To cure this <i>Maladie</i> in one another,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">By living well, and lovingly together.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[232]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Hee that enjoyes a <em class="upright">patient Minde</em>,<br /> -Can <em class="upright">Pleasures</em> in <em class="upright">Afflictions</em> finde.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_24_4" id="Ill_24_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_24_4t"><img src="images/i_e_232.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIV.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_232c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hat meanes this <i>Countrey-peasant</i>, skipping here</div> -<div class="verse">Through prickling <i>Thistles</i> w<sup>th</sup> such gamesom cheere?</div> -<div class="verse">And, plucking off their tops, as though for <i>Posies</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">He gather'd Violets, or toothlesse Roses?</div> -<div class="verse">What meaneth it, but onely to expresse</div> -<div class="verse">How great a joy, well-grounded <i>Patientnesse</i></div> -<div class="verse">Retaines in Suff'rings? and, what sport she makes,</div> -<div class="verse">When she her Iourney through <i>Affliction</i> takes?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I, oft have sayd (and, have as oft, beene thought</div> -<div class="verse">To speake a <i>Paradox</i>, that favours nought</div> -<div class="verse">Of likely truth) that, some <i>Afflictions</i> bring</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Honey bag</i>, which cureth ev'ry Sting</div> -<div class="verse">(That wounds the <i>Flesh</i>) by giving to the <i>Mind</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">A pleasing taste of <i>Sweetnesses</i> refin'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor can it other be, except in those,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose Better part, quite stupifyed growes,</div> -<div class="verse">By being Cauterized in the Fires</div> -<div class="verse">Of childish <i>Feares</i>, or temporall <i>Desires</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, as the <i>Valiant</i> (when the <i>Coward</i> swounds)</div> -<div class="verse">With gladnesse lets the <i>Surgion</i> search his Wounds;</div> -<div class="verse">And, though they smart, yet cheerefully indures</div> -<div class="verse">The Plaisters, and, the Probe, in hope of Cures:</div> -<div class="verse">So, Men, assured that <i>Afflictions</i> paine</div> -<div class="verse">Comes not for vengeance to them, nor in vaine;</div> -<div class="verse">But, to prepare, and fit them for the place,</div> -<div class="verse">To which, they willingly direct their pace;</div> -<div class="verse">In Troubles, are so farre from being sad,</div> -<div class="verse">That, of their <i>Suffring</i>, they are truely glad.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">What ever others thinke, I thus beleeve;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, therefore, <i>joy</i>, when they suppose I <i>grieve</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[233]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -All is not <em class="upright">Gold</em>, which makes a show;<br /> -But, what the <em class="upright">Touchstone</em> findeth so.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_25_4" id="Ill_25_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_25_4t"><img src="images/i_e_233.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXV.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_233c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen Silver <i>Medalls</i>, or some coynes of <i>Gold</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Are by the <i>Gold-smith</i> either bought or sold,</div> -<div class="verse">Hee doth not only search them with his <i>Eye</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">But, by the <i>Scale</i>, their <i>weight</i> will also trie;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, by the <i>Touchstone</i>, or the <i>Test</i>, assay</div> -<div class="verse">The truenesse of them, and their just <i>Alay</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Now, by their warinesse, who thus proceed,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee fairely are admonished, to heed</div> -<div class="verse">The faithfulnesse of him wee make our <i>Friend</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, on whose love wee purpose to depend:</div> -<div class="verse">Or else, when wee a <i>Iewell</i> thinke to get,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee may bee cheated by a <i>Counterfet</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">All is not <i>Gold</i> that glisters: Otherwhile,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Tincture</i> is so good, it may beguile</div> -<div class="verse">The cunningst eye: But, bring it to the <i>Touch</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, then, you find the value not so much.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, keepe the <i>Tincture</i>, brooking, likewise, well</div> -<div class="verse">An ordinarie <i>Touch</i>; but, yeeld a <i>Smell</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which will discover it, if you apply</div> -<div class="verse">Vnto your <i>Nose</i>, that piece of <i>Chymistrie</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, when there's enough to give content,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Colour</i>, in the <i>Touch</i>, and in the <i>Scent</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Bulke</i>, is more than answers <i>Gold</i> in <i>weight</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, proves it a sophisticall deceit.</div> -<div class="verse">Nay, some, is fully that which you desire,</div> -<div class="verse">In all these <i>Properties</i>; and, till the fire</div> -<div class="verse">Hath made <i>assayes</i>, you'l thinke you might be bold</div> -<div class="verse">To pawne your life, it had been <i>Ophir-gold</i>:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, to bee false, the <i>Metall's</i> then descride;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, such are many <i>Friends</i>, when they are tride.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[234]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Apollo</em> shoots not ev'ry day,<br /> -But, sometime on his <em class="upright">Harpe</em> doth play.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_26_4" id="Ill_26_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_26_4t"><img src="images/i_e_234.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_234c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Here are a sort of people so severe,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>foolish</i>, and <i>injurious</i> too, they are;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if the world were to bee rul'd by these,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Soule</i>, nor <i>Bodie</i>, ever should have ease.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sixe dayes</i>, (as their wisdomes understand)</div> -<div class="verse">Are to bee spent in <i>Labour</i>, by command,</div> -<div class="verse">With such a strictnesse, that they quite condemne</div> -<div class="verse">All <i>Recreations</i> which are us'd in them.</div> -<div class="verse">That, which is call'd the <i>Sabbath</i>, they confine</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Prayers</i>, and all <i>Offices-divine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">So wholly, that a little <i>Recreation</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Day</i>, is made a marke of <i>Reprobation</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, (by this meanes) the reason is to seeke,</div> -<div class="verse">When their poore <i>Servants</i> labour all the <i>weeke</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Of which, they'l bate them nothing) how it tyes</div> -<div class="verse">Them, to observe the sixe-fold <i>Sacrifice</i></div> -<div class="verse">By some injoyn'd; and gives them such due <i>Rest</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>God</i> allowed, both to <i>Man</i> and <i>Beast</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Hee, gave the <i>Woods</i>, the <i>Fields</i>, and <i>Meddowes</i>, here,</div> -<div class="verse">A time to <i>rest</i>, as well as times to <i>beare</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Forrest Beasts</i>, and <i>Heards</i>, have howres for <i>play</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As well as time to <i>graze</i>, and hunt their prey:</div> -<div class="verse">And, ev'ry <i>Bird</i> some leasure hath to sing,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, in the Aire, to <i>sport</i> it on her wing.</div> -<div class="verse">And, sure, to <i>him</i>, for whom all these were made,</div> -<div class="verse">Lesse kindnesse was not meant, then these have had.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Flesh</i> will faint, if pleasure none it knowes;</div> -<div class="verse">The Man growes madd, that alway muzing goes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Wisest men</i>, will <i>sometimes merry</i> bee:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, this is that, this <i>Emblem</i> teacheth me.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[235]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Live</em>, ever mindfull of thy <em class="upright">dying</em>;<br /> -For, <em class="upright">Time</em> is alwayes from thee flying.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_27_4" id="Ill_27_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_27_4t"><img src="images/i_e_235.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_235c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His vulgar <i>Figure</i> of a <i>winged glasse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth signifie, how swiftly <i>Time</i> doth passe.</div> -<div class="verse">By that leane <i>Scull</i>, which to this <i>houre-glasse</i> clings,</div> -<div class="verse">We are informed what effect it brings;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by the <i>Words</i> about it, wee are taught</div> -<div class="verse"><i>To keepe our latter ending still in thought</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The common <i>houre-glasse</i>, of the <i>Life</i> of <i>Man</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Exceedeth not the largenesse of a <i>span</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sand</i>-like <i>Minutes</i>, flye away so fast,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>yeares</i> are out, e're wee thinke <i>months</i> are past:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, many times, our <i>nat'rall-day</i> is gone,</div> -<div class="verse">Before wee look'd for <i>twelve a clocke at Noone</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, where wee sought for <i>Beautie, at the Full</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee finde the <i>Flesh</i> quite rotted from the <i>Skull</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let these Expressions of <i>Times</i> passage, bee</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Remembrancers</i> for ever, <i>Lord</i>, to mee;</div> -<div class="verse">That, I may still bee guiltlesse of their crime,</div> -<div class="verse">Who fruitlesly consume their precious <i>Time</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, minde my <i>Death</i>; not with a slavish feare,</div> -<div class="verse">But, with a thankfull use, of <i>life-time</i>, here:</div> -<div class="verse">Not grieving, that my <i>dayes</i> away doe post;</div> -<div class="verse">But, caring rather, that they bee not lost,</div> -<div class="verse">And, lab'ring with Discretion, how I may</div> -<div class="verse">Redeeme the <i>Time</i>, that's vainely slipt away.</div> -<div class="verse">So, when that <i>moment</i> comes, which others dread,</div> -<div class="verse">I, undismay'd, shall climbe my <i>dying bed</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">With joyfull <i>Hopes</i>, my <i>Flesh</i> to dust commend;</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Spirit</i>, with a stedfast <i>Faith</i> ascend;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, whilst I <i>living</i> am, to <i>sinne</i> so <i>dye</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That <i>dying</i>, I may live eternally.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[236]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -In ev'ry <em class="upright">Storme</em>, hee standeth fast,<br /> -Whose dwelling, on the <em class="upright">Rocke</em> is plac'd.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_28_4" id="Ill_28_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_28_4t"><img src="images/i_e_236.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_236c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hat thing soever some will have exprest,</div> -<div class="verse">As typified by this <i>Halcyons-nest</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">I shall not thinke this <i>Emblem</i> ill-appli'd,</div> -<div class="verse">If, by the same, the <i>Church</i> bee signifi'd.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as it is (by some) affirm'd of these,</div> -<div class="verse">That, whilst they breed, the fury of the seas</div> -<div class="verse">Is through the world alayd; and, that their <i>Brood</i></div> -<div class="verse">Remaines in safetie, then, amidst the flood:</div> -<div class="verse">So, when the Christian <i>Church</i> was in her birth,</div> -<div class="verse">There was a generall <i>Peace</i> throughout the earth;</div> -<div class="verse">And, those tumultuous <i>Waves</i>, which after that</div> -<div class="verse">Began to rise, and bee enrag'd thereat,</div> -<div class="verse">Were calmed so, that <i>Hee</i> was borne in peace,</div> -<div class="verse">From whom, the faithfull <i>Off-spring</i> did encrease.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">They, likewise, on a <i>Rocke</i>, their dwellings have,</div> -<div class="verse">As here you see; and, though the raging <i>Wave</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of dreadfull <i>Seas</i>, hath beaten, ever since,</div> -<div class="verse">Against the <i>Fortresse</i> of their strong defence,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, still it stands; and, safe, it shall abide,</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n in the midst of all their foming pride.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Vpon this <i>Rocke</i> so place me, oh my God!</div> -<div class="verse">That, whatsoever <i>Tempests</i> bee abroad,</div> -<div class="verse">I may not feare the fury of my Foe;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor bee in danger of an overthrow.</div> -<div class="verse">My life is full of <i>Stormes</i>; the <i>Waters</i> roule,</div> -<div class="verse">As if they meant to swallow up my soule.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Tides</i> oppose; the furious winds doe roare;</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Cable's</i> weake, my <i>tacklings</i>, Lord, are poore,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, my fraile <i>vessell</i> cannot long endure;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, reach to mee thy hand, and I'm secure.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[237]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -That's <em class="upright">Friendship</em>, and <em class="upright">true-love</em>, indeed,<br /> -Which firme abides, in time of need.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_29_4" id="Ill_29_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_29_4t"><img src="images/i_e_237.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXIX.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_237c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hat's <i>Love in earnest</i>, which is constant found,</div> -<div class="verse">When Friends are in <i>Affliction</i>, or in <i>Bands</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, their <i>Affection</i> merits to be <i>crown'd</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whose <i>hearts</i> are fastned where they joyne their <i>hands</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Tis easie to be friendly, where wee see</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Complement</i> or two will serve the turne;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, where the <i>kindnesse</i> may required bee;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, when the charge is with a trifle borne.</div> -<div class="verse">It is as easie too, for him to spend</div> -<div class="verse">At once, the full Revenues of a yeare,</div> -<div class="verse">In Cates, for entertainment of his <i>Friend</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Who thinkes his <i>glorie</i>, is <i>expensive-cheere</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, 'tis his pleasure; and, if none should come</div> -<div class="verse">Like <i>fashionable-Friends</i>, for him to court,</div> -<div class="verse">Hee would with <i>Rogues</i>, and <i>Canters</i>, fill the Roome,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, such as should abuse, and flout him for't.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, hard it is, to suffer, or to spend</div> -<div class="verse">For him (though worthy) that's of meane estate,</div> -<div class="verse">Unlikely our occasions to befriend,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, one unable to remunerate.</div> -<div class="verse">Few men are liberall, whom neither <i>Lust</i>,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Vaine glorie</i>, <i>Prodigalitie</i>, nor <i>Pride</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth forward into foolish <i>Bountie</i> thrust;</div> -<div class="verse">As may, by Observation bee espide.</div> -<div class="verse">For, when a slender <i>Bountie</i> would relieve</div> -<div class="verse">Their vertuous <i>Friend</i>, whose wants to them are knowne,</div> -<div class="verse">To their <i>Buffoone</i>, a Knights estate they'l give,</div> -<div class="verse">And, thinke on t'other trifles ill-bestowne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, this Ile say; and, give the <i>Devill</i> his due;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These <i>Friends</i>, are to their <i>lusts</i>, and <i>humours</i>, true.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[238]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Sword</em> hath place, till <em class="upright">War</em> doth cease;<br /> -And, usefull is, in time of <em class="upright">Peace</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_30_4" id="Ill_30_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_30_4t"><img src="images/i_e_238.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXX.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_238c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Sword</i>, to bee an <i>Emblem</i>, here, we draw,</div> -<div class="verse">Of that Authoritie, which keeps in awe</div> -<div class="verse">Our <i>Countries</i> Enemies; and, those that are</div> -<div class="verse">The Foes of <i>Peace</i>, as well as those of <i>Warre</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Peace</i> may give the <i>Law of Armes</i> her due,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Warre</i>, to <i>Civill-pow'rs</i>, respect may shew.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Kingdomes</i>, nor in <i>Warre</i> nor <i>Peace</i>, can stand,</div> -<div class="verse">Except the <i>Sword</i> have alway some command:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, that, for which our forraine <i>Spoylers</i> come,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Domesticke Foes</i>, will else devoure at home;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>stranger-drones</i> the peacefull <i>Bees</i> will harme,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse with warlike stings, themselves they arme.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Considering this, let none bee so unwise,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Swords</i> well-us'd protection to despise:</div> -<div class="verse">Or, thinke the practice of this <i>double-guard</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In any place, or age, may well bee spar'd.</div> -<div class="verse">Let not the <i>Sword-man</i> sleight the pow'rfull <i>Gowne</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Gowne-men</i> cast the <i>Sword</i> out of their Towne,</div> -<div class="verse">Because it terrifies, or draweth Blood;</div> -<div class="verse">For, otherwhile Phlebotomy is good:</div> -<div class="verse">And, though to kill a Lowse, the <i>Banians</i> feare;</div> -<div class="verse">(Though <i>Anabaptists</i> love no <i>Sword</i> to weare)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, being drawne, to fright, or cut off <i>Sinne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">It may bee brandish'd by a Cherubin.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">However, from the <i>Sword</i> divide not you</div> -<div class="verse">(In any case) the peacefull <i>Olive-bough</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">That is, let <i>Peace</i>, at all times, be that <i>End</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">For which, to draw the <i>Sword</i> you doe intend;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, for <i>well-doing</i>, bee as ready, still,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To give <i>rewards</i>, as <i>blowes</i>, for <i>doing-ill</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[239]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -A <em class="upright">Fortune</em> is ordain'd for thee,<br /> -According as thy <em class="upright">Labours</em> bee.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_31_4" id="Ill_31_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_31_4t"><img src="images/i_e_239.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_239c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Spade</i>, for <i>Labour</i> stands. The <i>Ball with wings</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Intendeth <i>flitting-rowling-wordly-things</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Altar-stone</i>, may serve in setting foorth,</div> -<div class="verse">Things firmer, sollid, and of greater worth:</div> -<div class="verse">In which, and by the <i>words</i> inclosing these,</div> -<div class="verse">You, there may read, your <i>Fortune</i>, if you please.</div> -<div class="verse">If you, your <i>labour</i>, on those things bestow,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>rowle</i>, and <i>flutter</i>, alwaies, to and fro;</div> -<div class="verse">It cannot be, but, that which you obtaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Must prove a <i>wavering</i>, and unconstant gaine:</div> -<div class="verse">For, he that soweth <i>Vanitie</i>, shall finde,</div> -<div class="verse">At <i>reaping-time</i>, no better fruit then <i>Winde</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Your houres, in serions matters, if you spend,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, such, as to a lasting purpose tend,</div> -<div class="verse">The purchase of your paines will ever last;</div> -<div class="verse">And, bring you <i>Pleasure</i>, when the <i>Labour's</i> past.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, though in teares, your <i>Seed-time</i>, you imploy,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Harvest</i> shall be fetched home, with ioy.</div> -<div class="verse">If <i>much</i> be wrought, much profit will ensue;</div> -<div class="verse">If <i>little</i>, but a little meede is due.</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>nothing</i>, nothing comes: On <i>evill deedes</i></div> -<div class="verse">An evill conscience, and, ill fame succeedes:</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>honest-life</i>, still findes prepared for't,</div> -<div class="verse">Sweet <i>Hopes</i> in Death; and, after, <i>good-report</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Sexe</i>, or of <i>Degree</i>, there's no regard:</div> -<div class="verse">But, as the <i>Labour</i>, such is the <i>reward</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To <i>worke-aright</i>, oh <i>Lord</i>, instruct thou mee;</div> -<div class="verse">And, ground my <i>Workes</i>, and <i>buildings</i> all on thee:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, by the fiery <i>Test</i>, when they are tride,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">My <i>Worke</i> may stand, and I may <i>safe</i> abide.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[240]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Let none in troublous times repine;<br /> -For, after <em class="upright">Stormes</em>, the <em class="upright">Sun</em> will shine.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_32_4" id="Ill_32_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_32_4t"><img src="images/i_e_240.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_240c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="D" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">D</span>Iscourage not your selves, although you see</div> -<div class="verse">The weather blacke, and <i>stormes</i> prolonged be.</div> -<div class="verse">What though it fiercely <i>raines</i>, and thunders loud?</div> -<div class="verse">Behold, there is a <i>Raine-bow</i> in the <i>Cloud</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Wherein, a trustfull promise may be found,</div> -<div class="verse">That, quite, your <i>little-worlds</i>, shall not be drown'd.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Sun-shine</i>, through the foggy mists appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">The lowring <i>Skie</i>, begins againe to cleare;</div> -<div class="verse">And, though the <i>Tempest</i>, yet, your eyes affright,</div> -<div class="verse">Faire weather may befall you, long ere night.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Such comfort speakes our <i>Emblem</i>, unto those,</div> -<div class="verse">Whom stormie <i>Persecution</i> doth enclose;</div> -<div class="verse">And, comforts him, that's for the present sad,</div> -<div class="verse">With hopes, that better seasons may bee had.</div> -<div class="verse">There is nor trouble, sorrow, nor distresse,</div> -<div class="verse">But mitigation hath, or some release.</div> -<div class="verse">Long <i>use</i>, or <i>time</i>, the storme away will turne,</div> -<div class="verse">Else, <i>Patience</i> makes it better to be borne.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, <i>sorrowes</i> lowring dayes, will come and goe,</div> -<div class="verse">As well as prosp'rous houres of <i>Sunshine</i> doe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when 'tis past, the <i>paine</i> that went before,</div> -<div class="verse">Will make the following pleasure seeme the more.</div> -<div class="verse">For, hee, hath promis'd, whom we may beleeve,</div> -<div class="verse">His blessing, unto those that <i>mourne</i> and <i>grieve</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, though sorrow much dejects their head,</div> -<div class="verse">In ev'ry need, wee shall be comforted.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This promise I beleeve; in ev'ry griefe,</div> -<div class="verse">Performe it, <i>Lord</i>, and helpe my unbeliefe:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">So, others viewing how thou cheerest mee,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Shall, in all <i>sorrows</i>, put their trust in thee.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[241]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -For whatsoever, <em class="upright">Man</em> doth strive,<br /> -The Conquest, <em class="upright">God</em> alone, doth give.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_33_4" id="Ill_33_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_33_4t"><img src="images/i_e_241.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_241c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hen on the <i>Sword</i>, the <i>Olive-branch</i> attends,</div> -<div class="verse">(That is, when bloody <i>Warres</i>, have peacefull <i>Ends</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">And, whensoever <i>Victories</i> are gained;</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Emblem</i> shewes, by whom they are obtained:</div> -<div class="verse">For, that all <i>Victorie</i>, doth onely from</div> -<div class="verse">The pow'rfull hand of <i>God-Almightie</i>, come,</div> -<div class="verse">The Boughes of <i>Bayes</i> and <i>Olives</i>, doe declare,</div> -<div class="verse">Which round the <i>Tetragrammaton</i> appeare.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor must we thinke, that God bestowes, alone,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Victories</i> of Warre, on any one;</div> -<div class="verse">But, that, when we contend in other things,</div> -<div class="verse">From him, th'event that's wisht for, also springs.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This being so, how dare wee, by the <i>Lawes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, by the <i>Sword</i>, pursue a wicked Cause?</div> -<div class="verse">How dare wee bring a matter that's unjust,</div> -<div class="verse">Where hee (though few perceive him) judge it must?</div> -<div class="verse">Or, prosecute with fury, or despite,</div> -<div class="verse">Against the person of his <i>Favourite</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">What Fooles are they, who seeke the <i>Conquest</i>, by</div> -<div class="verse">Oppression, Fraud, or hellish Perjurie?</div> -<div class="verse">How mad are those, who to the <i>Warres</i> prepare,</div> -<div class="verse">For nothing, but to spoyle and murther there?</div> -<div class="verse">Who, nor ingag'd by Faith to their <i>Alies</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor urg'd by any private injuries,</div> -<div class="verse">(Nor sent, nor tolerated, by their <i>Prince</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor caring whether side hath giv'n offence)</div> -<div class="verse">Run rambling through the World, to kill and slay,</div> -<div class="verse">Like needie Butchers, for two groats a day?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These men may side, where <i>Conquests</i>, God bestowes;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Yet, when the <i>Field</i> is wonne, these men doe lose.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[242]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Since overmuch, will over-fill,<br /> -Powre am enough; but <em class="upright">doe not spill</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_34_4" id="Ill_34_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_34_4t"><img src="images/i_e_242.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIV.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_242c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>T is this <i>Emblems</i> meaning, to advance</div> -<div class="verse">The love and practise, of true <i>Temperance</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, by this <i>Figure</i> (which doth seeme to fill,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill the liquor overflow, and spill)</div> -<div class="verse">Wee are, as by example, taught to see</div> -<div class="verse">How fruitlesse our <i>Intemperancies</i> bee:</div> -<div class="verse">Thus by the <i>Rule of Contrarieties</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Some <i>Vertues</i>, best are showne to vulgar eyes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To see a nastie <i>Drunkard</i>, reele and spew,</div> -<div class="verse">More moves to <i>Sobernesse</i>, than can the view</div> -<div class="verse">Of twentie civill men; and, to behold</div> -<div class="verse">One <i>Prodigall</i>, (that goodly lands hath sold)</div> -<div class="verse">Stand torne and louzie, begging at the dore,</div> -<div class="verse">Would make <i>Intemperance</i> abhorred more,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, manly <i>Sobernesse</i>, much better, teach)</div> -<div class="verse">Than all that sixe <i>Philosophers</i> can preach:</div> -<div class="verse">So, by the <i>Vessels</i> overflowing, here,</div> -<div class="verse">True <i>Moderation</i> doth more prais'd appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">Than by the <i>meane</i> it selfe: And, without sinne,</div> -<div class="verse">That's <i>pictur'd</i>, which to <i>doe</i>, had wicked bin,</div> -<div class="verse">For, though to vertuous ends; wee doe deny</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Doing-ill</i>, that <i>Good</i> may come thereby.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">From hence, let us be taught, that carefull heed,</div> -<div class="verse">Whereby wee should both <i>Minde</i> and <i>Bodie</i>, feed.</div> -<div class="verse">Let us, of our owne selves, observe the size;</div> -<div class="verse">How much wee want, how little will suffize;</div> -<div class="verse">And, our owne <i>longings</i>, rather leave unfill'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Than suffer any portion to bee spill'd:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, what we <i>marre</i>, shall to account be layd,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, what wee wisely <i>spend</i>, shall be repayd.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[243]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -They passe through many <em class="upright">stormes</em>, and <em class="upright">streights</em>,<br /> -Who rise to any glorious <em class="upright">heights</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_35_4" id="Ill_35_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_35_4t"><img src="images/i_e_243.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXV.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_243c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Tree</i>, which here doth largely seeme to grow,</div> -<div class="verse">(And spreads <i>above</i>, though streightned in <i>below</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Through adverse <i>Winds</i>, and many a Winters blast,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath gain'd a faire proportion at the last;</div> -<div class="verse">And, from a lowly <i>shrub</i>, is growne to bee</div> -<div class="verse">A well-esteemed, and a goodly <i>Tree</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, hath it chanced unto many a man:</div> -<div class="verse">And, he that first in misery began,</div> -<div class="verse">(So poore and meane, that very few or none</div> -<div class="verse">Have judg'd him to be worth the looking on)</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n he, through scornes, through wrongs, and povertie,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath crept, and screw'd, and rais'd himselfe so high,</div> -<div class="verse">That, he hath placed been among the prime,</div> -<div class="verse">Of those, who seem'd the <i>Worthies</i> of the time;</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, overtopt and aw'd, the best of those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who sought to curbe him, when he first arose.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This, I have seene; And, as wee seldome find</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Tree</i> grow faire, that cannot brooke the <i>Wind</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, must be hous'd at Winter; or, on whom</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Gardners</i> pruning-knife, did never come:</div> -<div class="verse">So, I have rarely knowne those men to rise</div> -<div class="verse">To any good, or noble qualities,</div> -<div class="verse">Who feele not, first some <i>hardship</i>, or some <i>storme</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To prune, to discipline, and to reforme</div> -<div class="verse">Their wits and manners. For, prosperitie,</div> -<div class="verse">Ease, plentie, and too large a libertie,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth often blast them; and, somtime bereave them,</div> -<div class="verse">Of what their <i>Predecessors</i> worth's, did leave them.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let, therefore, no man, feare when this he knowes,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Although in <i>tempests</i>, and through <i>streights</i> he goes.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[244]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">God</em>, ever will bee present, there,<br /> -Where, of one <em class="upright">Faith</em>, and <em class="upright">Mind</em> they are.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_36_4" id="Ill_36_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_36_4t"><img src="images/i_e_244.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_244c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span> Fixed <i>Palme</i>, (whose <i>Fingers</i> doe appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">As if displayed, and advanc'd they were)</div> -<div class="verse">Intended by our <i>Author</i>, here, wee see,</div> -<div class="verse">To shaddow out <i>agreeing-Minds</i>, that bee</div> -<div class="verse">Establish'd in one <i>Trust</i>. And, well it may,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Vertue</i>, of the holy <i>Church</i> display.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as our <i>hands</i>, the better meanes can make,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>gaine</i>, as well as to <i>retaine</i>, or <i>take</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>benefits</i> we seeke; when wee intend,</div> -<div class="verse">Our differing <i>Fingers</i>, all, to worke one end:</div> -<div class="verse">So, when the <i>Church</i> of <i>Christ</i> (wherein wee finde</div> -<div class="verse">A diff'rence of <i>Degrees</i>) shall with one <i>minde</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Pursue a faithfull hope; they'l soone obtaine,</div> -<div class="verse">That wished benefit, they seeke to gaine:</div> -<div class="verse">For, when but two or three shall in <i>Gods</i> name,</div> -<div class="verse">Request a <i>blessing</i>, he will grant the same.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let all thy sev'rall <i>Churches</i>, <span class="smcap">Lord</span> (that stand</div> -<div class="verse">Like many <i>Fingers</i>, members of one <i>Hand</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Will-Essentiall</i> with joynt love obay,</div> -<div class="verse">Though circumstantially, they differ may.</div> -<div class="verse">Some have the larger <i>Circuit</i>, some are <i>stronger</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Some are of short <i>continuance</i>, some of longer;</div> -<div class="verse">But, though their <i>Guifts</i> may differ, yet provide,</div> -<div class="verse">That, still, on one <i>Foundation</i>, they may bide;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, all those, who in one <i>Faith</i> agree,</div> -<div class="verse">May, in one <i>Band</i> of <i>Love</i>, united bee:</div> -<div class="verse">Till our confined <i>Wisdome</i> comes to know,</div> -<div class="verse">That, many things, for which wee wrangle so,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Would further that, whose hindrance wee doe feare,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If more our <i>Faith</i>, and lesse our <i>Discord</i> were.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[245]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">Protect</em> mee, if I worthy bee;<br /> -If I <em class="upright">demerit</em>, punish mee.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_37_4" id="Ill_37_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_37_4t"><img src="images/i_e_245.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_245c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Emblem</i>, forth unto your view hath set,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Sword</i>, together with a <i>Coronet</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">To shew the prudent <i>Reader</i>, what Reward</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>ill</i>, and for <i>well doing</i>, is prepar'd;</div> -<div class="verse">That they, who heretofore, amisse have done,</div> -<div class="verse">May learne, their threatned punishments to shun:</div> -<div class="verse">That they, whose <i>Actions</i> warrantable were,</div> -<div class="verse">May, in their honest <i>Courses</i>, persevere:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that those men, who great and pow'rfull bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Should punish and reward, as cause they see.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Men are of diff'ring tempers: Some, are wonne</div> -<div class="verse">By promises, and gentle meanes alone:</div> -<div class="verse">Some, moved are by shame; and, some through dread,</div> -<div class="verse">To bee in purse, or bodie punished.</div> -<div class="verse">And, some, their duties are allur'd to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">No way, but by a mixture of these two.</div> -<div class="verse">They, therefore, neither <i>Wise</i>, nor <i>Honest</i> bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Who dandle all Offenders on their knee;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, punish onely with a <i>God-forbid</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, <i>Doe not so, my sonnes</i>, as <i>Ely</i> did.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor wiser ought, are they, nor honester,</div> -<div class="verse">Who alwayes fright, and threaten those that erre;</div> -<div class="verse">No mercie joyning, to the chastisement</div> -<div class="verse">Of them, whose faults are worthy to bee shent.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor are they lesse to blame, who carry <i>Swords</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">To punish errors; but, nor lookes, nor words,</div> -<div class="verse">To cherish well deservings: And, in this,</div> -<div class="verse">Most men, that punish others, doe amisse.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Sure, if the <i>Sword misdoing</i>, may pursue,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For <i>doing-well</i>, the <i>Coronet</i> is due.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[246]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Tongue</em>, which every secret speakes,<br /> -Is like a <em class="upright">Barrell</em> full of leakes.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_38_4" id="Ill_38_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_38_4t"><img src="images/i_e_246.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXVIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_246c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Barrell</i>, from whose bottome, sides, and bung,</div> -<div class="verse">The liquor (as in this our <i>Emblem</i>) flowes,</div> -<div class="verse">May fitly typifie the babling <i>Tongue</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of him that utters ev'ry thing hee knowes.</div> -<div class="verse">For, such as are their taskes, who strive to fill</div> -<div class="verse">An ever-leaking <i>Vessell</i>, to the brim;</div> -<div class="verse">Ev'n such are his, who laboureth to still</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>tatlers</i> tougue; for, paines are lost on him.</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Figure</i>, also, serveth to expresse,</div> -<div class="verse">The trustlesse nature of a <i>whorish woman</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, shee to all displayes her wantonnesse,</div> -<div class="verse">And, cares to keepe her secresies, from no man.</div> -<div class="verse">Within her bosome, nothing long shee keeps,</div> -<div class="verse">But, whatsoever shee conceives or knowes,</div> -<div class="verse">Streight, from the heart, up to her tongue, it creeps;</div> -<div class="verse">And, round about the <i>Citie</i>, then, it goes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Bee warned therefore, and commit thou not</div> -<div class="verse">Thy person, state, or fame, to such as these;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, they thy <i>Reputation</i> doe bespot,</div> -<div class="verse">Consume thy <i>Substance</i>, or thy <i>Minde</i> disease.</div> -<div class="verse">But, most of all, bee wary, lest the crime,</div> -<div class="verse">Which here wee doe reproove, thy mind infect:</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Vice</i>, like <i>weeds</i>, will grow in little time,</div> -<div class="verse">And, out-grow <i>Vertues</i>, if Wee them neglect.</div> -<div class="verse">The surest way to keepe such errors out,</div> -<div class="verse">And, in our selves true <i>Vertnes</i> to maintaine;</div> -<div class="verse">Is, to bee <i>hoopt</i> with <i>Temp'rance</i>, round about,</div> -<div class="verse">And, our out-flowing humors to restraine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If thus we practise, 'twill prevent the wrongs</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Of our owne errors, and of others tongues.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[247]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -How ever thou the <em class="upright">Viper</em> take,<br /> -A dang'rous hazzard thou dost make.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_39_4" id="Ill_39_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_39_4t"><img src="images/i_e_247.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XXXIX.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_247c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Figure</i> warnes us, that wee meddle not</div> -<div class="verse">With matters, whereby nothing may bee got,</div> -<div class="verse">Save <i>harme</i> or <i>losse</i>; and, such as once begun,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee may, nor safely <i>doe</i>, nor leave <i>undone</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">I should bee loath to meddle in the strife</div> -<div class="verse">Arising 'twixt a <i>Husband</i>, and his <i>Wife</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>Truth</i> conceal'd, or spoke, on either side,</div> -<div class="verse">May one or th'other grieve, or both divide.</div> -<div class="verse">I would not with my most familiar <i>Mate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Be <i>Partner</i> in the whole of my estate;</div> -<div class="verse">Lest I, by others errors, might offend,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, wrong my Family, or, lose my <i>Friend</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">I would not, willingly, in my distresse,</div> -<div class="verse">From an unworthy hand, receive redresse;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, when I need a <i>Suretie</i>, would I call</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Vnthrift</i>, or a roaring <i>Prodigall</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, either these I thanklesly must shun,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, humour them, and be perhaps undone.</div> -<div class="verse">I would not heare my <i>Friend</i> unwisely prate</div> -<div class="verse">Those things, of which I must informe the <i>State</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, seeme unfriendly; or, else leave to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">That, which a stronger <i>Band</i> obligeth to.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Nor would I, for the world, my heart should bee</div> -<div class="verse">Enthrald by one, that might not <i>marry</i> mee;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, such like <i>passions</i>, bee perplexed in,</div> -<div class="verse">As hang betwixt a <i>Vertue</i>, and a <i>Sinne</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, such, as whether way soe're I went,</div> -<div class="verse">Occasion'd guilt, or shame, or discontent:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, howsoe're wee mannage such like things,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Wee handle winding <i>Vipers</i>, that have stings.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[248]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The gaining of a rich Estate,<br /> -Seemes, many times, restrain'd by <em class="upright">Fate</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_40_4" id="Ill_40_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_40_4t"><img src="images/i_e_248.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XL.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_248c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="O" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">O</span>Bserve this <i>Wheele</i>, and you shall see how <i>Fate</i></div> -<div class="verse">Doth limit out to each man, that Estate</div> -<div class="verse">Which hee obtaines; Then, how hee doth aspire</div> -<div class="verse">To such a height; and, why hee mounts no higher:</div> -<div class="verse">For, whatsoere their <i>Authors</i> understood,</div> -<div class="verse">These <i>Emblems</i>, now, shall speake as I thinke good.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The <i>Cornucopias</i> fastned to a <i>Round</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thus fixt, may shew, that Riches have their <i>bound</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, can be raised, by mans pow'r or wits,</div> -<div class="verse">No higher than <i>Gods</i> Providence permits.</div> -<div class="verse">The placing of them on that <i>Wheele</i>, doth show,</div> -<div class="verse">That, some waxe <i>Poore</i>, as others <i>Wealthy</i> grow:</div> -<div class="verse">For, looke how much the higher, one doth rise,</div> -<div class="verse">So much the lower, still, the other lies;</div> -<div class="verse">And, when the height of one is at an end,</div> -<div class="verse">Hee sinkes againe, that others may ascend.</div> -<div class="verse">The many stops, which on this <i>Wheele</i> you spie,</div> -<div class="verse">Those many <i>obstacles</i> may typifie,</div> -<div class="verse">Which barre all those that unto <i>Wealth</i> aspire,</div> -<div class="verse">From compassing the <i>Round</i> of their desire.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">The want of <i>Wit</i>, from <i>Riches</i>, barreth some;</div> -<div class="verse">Some, cannot rich, because of <i>Sloth</i>, become.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, that are <i>wise</i>, and <i>painefull</i>, are deny'd</div> -<div class="verse">Encrease of wealth, through <i>Pleasure</i>, or through <i>Pride</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Some, lose much profit, which they else might make,</div> -<div class="verse">Because of <i>Conscience</i>, or for <i>Credit</i> sake.</div> -<div class="verse">If none of these did hinder, wee have store,</div> -<div class="verse">That might bee <i>Rich</i>, who, yet, are very <i>Poore</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, these, indeed, doe come to be those <i>Fates</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Which keepe most men, from getting large <i>Estates</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -In all thine <em class="upright">Actions</em>, have a care,<br /> -That no <em class="upright">unseemlinesse appeare</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_41_4" id="Ill_41_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_41_4t"><img src="images/i_e_249.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_249c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He <i>Virgine</i>, or the <i>Wife</i>, that much desires,</div> -<div class="verse">To please her <i>Lovers</i>, or her <i>Husband's</i> Eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">In all her costl'est <i>Robes</i>, her selfe attires;</div> -<div class="verse">And, seekes the coml'est <i>Dresse</i>, shee can devise.</div> -<div class="verse">Then, to her trustie <i>Looking-glasse</i>, shee goes,</div> -<div class="verse">(Where, often, shee her person turnes and winds)</div> -<div class="verse">To view, how seemely her attiring showes;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, whether ought amisse therein she finds.</div> -<div class="verse">Which praisefull <i>Diligence</i>, is figur'd thus</div> -<div class="verse">In this our <i>Emblem</i>; that, it may be made</div> -<div class="verse">A documentall signe, remembring us,</div> -<div class="verse">What care of all our <i>Actions</i>, must bee had.</div> -<div class="verse">For, hee that in <i>God's</i> presence would appeare</div> -<div class="verse">An acceptable <i>Soule</i>; or, gracious grow</div> -<div class="verse">With men, that of approv'd conditions are,</div> -<div class="verse">Must by some faithfull <i>Glasse</i>, be trimmed so.</div> -<div class="verse">The good Examples of those pious men,</div> -<div class="verse">Who liv'd in elder times, may much availe:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, and by others evills, now and then,</div> -<div class="verse">Men see how grossely, they themselves, doe faile.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">A wise Companion, and, a loving Friend,</div> -<div class="verse">Stands nearer, than those ancient glasses doe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, serveth well to such an usefull end:</div> -<div class="verse">For, hee may bee thy <i>Glasse</i>, and <i>Fountaine</i> too.</div> -<div class="verse">His good <i>Example</i>, shewes thee what is fit;</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Admonition</i>, checks what is awry;</div> -<div class="verse">Hee, by his <i>Good-advise</i>, reformeth it;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by his <i>Love</i>, thou mend'st it pleasedly.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, if thou doe desire the perfect'st <i>Glasse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Ioyne to the <i>Morall-Law</i>, the <i>Law of Grace</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[250]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Wee, bring the <i>Hony</i> to the <i>Hive</i>;<br /> -But, others, by our labours thrive.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_42_4" id="Ill_42_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_42_4t"><img src="images/i_e_250.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_250c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He prettie <i>Bees</i>, with daily paines contrive</div> -<div class="verse">Their curious <i>Combes</i>, and from the flowry Fields,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe bring that pleasant sweetnesse to their Hive,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Nectar</i>, and <i>Ambrosiack</i> dainties, yeelds,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, when themselves with labours they have tir'd,</div> -<div class="verse">The following Winters famine to prevent,</div> -<div class="verse">For their good service, either they are fir'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, forth into an emptie <i>Hive</i> are sent:</div> -<div class="verse">And, there, with slender diet they are served,</div> -<div class="verse">To leave another <i>Summers</i> worke, to those</div> -<div class="verse">Who take no care, though all the swarme be starved,</div> -<div class="verse">If weake, and quite past labour once it growes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">As with such <i>Bees</i>, it fares with many a one,</div> -<div class="verse">That, spends his youthfull time in honest thrift;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by the <i>Waspe</i>, the <i>Hornet</i>, or the <i>Drone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of all their labours, they are soone bereft.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, the bordring <i>Flies</i>, much wrong this <i>brood</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Through idle <i>visitings</i>; or, them despoyle,</div> -<div class="verse">By making friendly shewes of <i>neighbourhood</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">When, all their Complements, are nought but guile.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, their powerfull Foes do rob them quite;</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, their <i>Lords</i>, or <i>Landlords</i>, with pretence,</div> -<div class="verse">Of claiming only what is just and right,</div> -<div class="verse">Oppresse them without <i>mercie</i>, or <i>defence</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, by one course or other, daily, some</div> -<div class="verse">(That are laborious in an honest way)</div> -<div class="verse">The prey of Pride, or Idlenesse become:</div> -<div class="verse">And, such as these, may therefore truely say,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, whatsoever they to passe have brought,</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Not for themselves, but others, they have wrought</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[251]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -<em class="upright">God</em>, by their Names, the <em class="upright">Stars</em> doth cal;<br /> -And, hee is <em class="upright">Ruler</em> of them all.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_43_4" id="Ill_43_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_43_4t"><img src="images/i_e_251.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_251c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="S" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">S</span>Ome say, (and many men doe these commend)</div> -<div class="verse">That, all our <i>deeds</i>, and <i>Fortunes</i> doe depend</div> -<div class="verse">Vpon the motions of celestiall <i>Spheres</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, on the constellations of the <i>Starres</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">If this were true, the <i>Starres</i>, alone, have bin</div> -<div class="verse">Prime cause of all that's <i>good</i>, and of all <i>sinne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, 'twere (me thinkes) injustice to <i>condemne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, give rewards to any, but to <i>them</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, if they made mee <i>sinne</i>, why for that ill,</div> -<div class="verse">Should I be damn'd, and they shine brightly, still?</div> -<div class="verse">If they inforc'd my <i>goodnesse</i>, why should I</div> -<div class="verse">Bee glorified for their <i>Pietie</i>?</div> -<div class="verse">And, If they neither <i>good</i> nor <i>ill</i> constraine,</div> -<div class="verse">Why then, should wee of <i>Destinie</i> complaine?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, if it bee (as tis) absurd to say,</div> -<div class="verse">The starres enforce us (since they still obay</div> -<div class="verse">Their just <i>Commander</i>) 'twere absurder, farre,</div> -<div class="verse">To say, or thinke, that God's <i>Decree</i> it were,</div> -<div class="verse">Which did <i>necessitate</i> the very same,</div> -<div class="verse">For which, we thinke the <i>starres</i> might merit blame.</div> -<div class="verse">Hee made the <i>starres</i> to bee an ayd unto us,</div> -<div class="verse">Not (as is fondly dream'd) to helpe undoe us:</div> -<div class="verse">(Much lesse, without our fault, to ruinate,</div> -<div class="verse">By doome of irrecoverable <i>Fate</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">And, if our good Endeavors, use wee will,</div> -<div class="verse">Those glorious creatures will be helpfull still</div> -<div class="verse">In all our honest wayes: For, they doe stand</div> -<div class="verse">To helpe, not hinder us, in God's command;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, hee not onely rules them by his pow'rs,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, makes their Glory, servant unto ours.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[252]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Who, <em class="upright">Patience</em> tempts, beyond her strength,<br /> -Will make it <em class="upright">Fury</em>, at the length.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_44_4" id="Ill_44_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_44_4t"><img src="images/i_e_252.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_252c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span>Lthough wee know not a more patient creature,</div> -<div class="verse">Than is the <i>Lambe</i>, (or, of lesse harmfull nature)</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, as this <i>Emblem</i> shewes, when childish wrong,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath troubled, and provok'd him overlong,</div> -<div class="verse">Hee growes enrag'd; and makes the wanton <i>Boyes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Bee glad to leave their sports, and run their wayes.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Thus have I seene it with some Children fare,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, when their <i>Parents</i> too indulgent were,</div> -<div class="verse">Have urg'd them, till their <i>Doting</i> grew to <i>Rage</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, shut them wholly from their Heritage.</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, many times, a foolish man doth lose</div> -<div class="verse">His faithfull Friends, and justly makes them foes.</div> -<div class="verse">Thus, froward <i>Husbands</i>; and, thus, peevish <i>Wives</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doe foole away the comfort of their lives;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by abusing of a <i>patient-Mate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Turne dearest <i>Love</i>, into the deadliest <i>Hate</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, any wrong may better bee excused,</div> -<div class="verse">Than, <i>Kindnesse</i>, long and wilfully abused.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, as an injur'd <i>Lambe</i>, provoked, thus,</div> -<div class="verse">Well typifies how much it moveth us,</div> -<div class="verse">To finde our <i>Patience</i> wrong'd: So, let us make</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i> of our selves, thereby to take</div> -<div class="verse">More heed, how God is moved towards them,</div> -<div class="verse">That, his <i>long suffring</i>, and his <i>Love</i> contemne.</div> -<div class="verse">For, as wee somewhat have of every <i>Creature</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">So, wee in us, have somewhat of his <i>Nature</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Or, if it bee not sayd <i>the same</i> to bee,</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Pictures</i>, and his <i>Images</i> are wee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Let, therefore, his <i>long-suffring</i>, well be weigh'd,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, keepe us, to <i>provoke him</i>, still afraid.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[253]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Hee that is <em class="upright">blind</em>, will nothing <em class="upright">see</em>,<br /> -What <em class="upright">light</em> soe're about him bee.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_45_4" id="Ill_45_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_45_4t"><img src="images/i_e_253.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLV.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_253c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="I" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">I</span>T is by some supposed, that our <i>Owles</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By Day-time, are no perfect-sighted <i>Fowles</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, the more you doe augment the <i>light</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The more you shall deprive them of their <i>sight</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Candles</i>, <i>Torches</i>, nor the <i>Sunne at noone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Spectacles</i>, nor all of these in one</div> -<div class="verse">Can make an <i>Owlet</i> in the day-time see,</div> -<div class="verse">Though none, by <i>night</i>, hath better eyes than shee.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">This <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, sets their <i>blindnesse</i> forth,</div> -<div class="verse">Who cannot see, when an apparant <i>worth</i></div> -<div class="verse">Illustrates vertuous Men; yet, seeme to spie</div> -<div class="verse">Those faults, wherewith ill-willers them belie.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>blindnesse</i>, also, well it may declare,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Heretikes</i>, who Eagle-sighted are,</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>Sophistries</i>, and in the cloudie-night,</div> -<div class="verse">Of those darke <i>Errors</i>, which delude the <i>sight</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, cannot see the Rayes of <i>Truth</i> divine,</div> -<div class="verse">Though, brighter than the <i>Day-light</i>, shee doth shine.</div> -<div class="verse">It, likewise, very fitly typifies,</div> -<div class="verse">Those, in our dayes, who spie out mysteries,</div> -<div class="verse">Beyond the <i>Moone</i>; yet, cannot gain the view</div> -<div class="verse">Of that, which common <i>Reason</i> proveth true:</div> -<div class="verse">And, therefore, onely, crie it (madly) downe,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, by <i>Reasons</i> light, it may be knowne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">These, when 'twas offred, first, the light refused;</div> -<div class="verse">And, they have now the darknesse which they chused.</div> -<div class="verse">Till, therefore, God shall offer <i>Grace</i> againe,</div> -<div class="verse">Man strives to set up <i>Lights</i>, to these, in vaine:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, what are <i>Lights</i> to those who <i>blinded</i> bee?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Or, who so <i>blinde</i>, as they that will not see?</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[254]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -None knowes, untill the <em class="upright">Fight</em> be past,<br /> -Who shall bee <em class="upright">Victor</em>, at the last.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_46_4" id="Ill_46_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_46_4t"><img src="images/i_e_254.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVI.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_254c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="W" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm2"><span class="hidden">W</span>Hile, these two <i>Champions</i> for the <i>Conquest</i> fight,</div> -<div class="verse">Betwixt them both <i>Victoria</i> takes her flight,</div> -<div class="verse">On doubtfull wings; and, till the <i>fray</i> bee past,</div> -<div class="verse">None knowe, to whether, shee the <i>Wreath</i> will cast.</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>Emblem</i> serves, not onely, to expresse</div> -<div class="verse">The danger, and the issues doubtfulnesse,</div> -<div class="verse">In all <i>Contentions</i>; but, may warne us too,</div> -<div class="verse">That, wee no strivings rashly undergoe;</div> -<div class="verse">Since they, who long with painfull skill have striv'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Of likely <i>Conquests</i>, are at length depriv'd.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><i>Force</i>, much prevailes; but <i>Sleight</i> and <i>Wit</i> hath pow'r,</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, to hurle downe <i>Strength</i> upon the floore.</div> -<div class="verse">Sometimes againe, our <i>Ingineeres</i> doe faile;</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>Blowes</i>, doe more than <i>Stratagems</i>, prevaile.</div> -<div class="verse">Though, I, upon mine <i>honest-Cause</i> depend,</div> -<div class="verse">Another may o'rethrow it, by his <i>Friend</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, hee that boasteth of his <i>Patrons</i> grace,</div> -<div class="verse">May lose his hopes, if Bribing come in place.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">To say the Truth, in whatsoever Cause,</div> -<div class="verse">Wee by the <i>Sword</i> contend, or by the <i>Lawes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">There's no event or issue more assured,</div> -<div class="verse">Than this, that, losse to both shall bee procured:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, sometime, as well an <i>innocent</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As <i>guilty-cause</i>, may finde an ill event.</div> -<div class="verse">Let, therefore, our endeavours be, to strive,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, shall hereafter, least occasion give</div> -<div class="verse">Of those <i>contentions</i>, and of those <i>debates</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which hurt our honor, safetie, or estates:</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, we, a <i>Conquest</i>, may be sure to gaine,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, none repine, at that which we obtaine.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[255]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Why should I feare the want of <em class="upright">Bread</em>?<br /> -If <em class="upright">God</em> so please, I shall bee <em class="upright">fed</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_47_4" id="Ill_47_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_47_4t"><img src="images/i_e_255.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_255c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>He faithlesse <i>Iewe's</i> repining currishnesse,</div> -<div class="verse">The blessed <i>Psalmist</i>, fitly did expresse,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>grinning-dogs</i>, which howling roame by night,</div> -<div class="verse">To satisfie their grudging appetite.</div> -<div class="verse">Here, therefore, by an <i>Emblem</i>, wee are showne,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>God</i>, (who as hee lists, bestowes his owne)</div> -<div class="verse">Providing so, that none may bee unfed,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth offer to the <i>Dogges</i>, the <i>Childrens</i> bread.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, by this <i>Emblem</i>, wee advised are,</div> -<div class="verse">Of their presumptuous boldnesse to beware,</div> -<div class="verse">Who bound God's <i>Mercie</i>; and, have shut out some</div> -<div class="verse">From hope of <i>Grace</i>, before the <i>Night</i> is come:</div> -<div class="verse">Since, to the <i>Dogs</i>, his meat is not denide,</div> -<div class="verse">If they <i>returne</i>, (though not till <i>Evening-tide</i>.)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Moreover, wee, some notice hence may take,</div> -<div class="verse">That, if provision, <i>God</i>, vouchsafes to make,</div> -<div class="verse">For <i>Lyons</i>, <i>Dogs</i>, and <i>Ravens</i>, in their need,</div> -<div class="verse">Hee will his <i>Lambes</i>, and harmlesse <i>Turtles</i> feed:</div> -<div class="verse">And, so provide, that they shall alwayes have</div> -<div class="verse">Sufficient, to maintaine the <i>Life</i> hee gave.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I must confesse, I never merit shall,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Crummes</i>, which from thy <i>Childrens</i> table fall:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, thou hast oft, and freely fed mee, <i>Lord</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Among thy <i>Children</i>, at thy <i>Holy-board</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor have I, there, been fill'd with <i>Bread</i> alone;</div> -<div class="verse">But, on the blessed <i>Bodie</i> of thy <i>Sonne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">My <i>Soule</i> hath feasted. And, if thou dost grant</div> -<div class="verse">Such favours, <i>Lord</i>! what can I feare to want?</div> -<div class="verse eindent">For, doubtlesse, if thy <i>Sonne</i> thou please to give,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">All other things, with him, I shall receive.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[256]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -All <em class="upright">Flesh</em>, is like the wither'd <em class="upright">Hay</em>,<br /> -And, so it springs, and fades away.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_48_4" id="Ill_48_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_48_4t"><img src="images/i_e_256.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLVIII.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_256c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Infant</i>, and this little Trusse of <i>Hay</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">When they are moralized, seeme to say,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Flesh</i> is but a tuft of Morning-<i>Grasse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Both greene, and wither'd, ere the day-light passe.</div> -<div class="verse">And, such we truly finde it; for, behold,</div> -<div class="verse">Assoone as Man is borne, hee waxeth old,</div> -<div class="verse">In Griefes, in Sorrowes, or Necessities;</div> -<div class="verse">And, withers ev'ry houre, untill hee dyes:</div> -<div class="verse">Now, flourishing, as <i>Grasse</i>, when it is growne,</div> -<div class="verse">Straight perishing, as <i>Grasse</i>, when it is mowne.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">If, wee with other things, mans <i>Age</i> compare,</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Life</i> is but a <i>Day</i> (For, equall'd are</div> -<div class="verse">His <i>Yeares</i> with <i>Houres</i>: His <i>Months</i>, with <i>Minutes</i> bee</div> -<div class="verse">Fit parallels; and, ev'ry <i>breathing</i>, wee</div> -<div class="verse">May tearme a <i>Day</i>) yet, some, ev'n at the <i>Night</i></div> -<div class="verse">Of that short <i>Day</i>, are dead, and witherd quite.</div> -<div class="verse">Before the <i>Morning</i> of our lives bee done,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Flesh</i> oft fades: Sometime, it growes till <i>Noone</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, there's no mortall <i>Flesh</i>, that will abide</div> -<div class="verse">Vnparched longer, than till <i>Evening-tide</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">For, in it selfe, it alwayes carries that,</div> -<div class="verse">Which helpeth so, it selfe to ruinate;</div> -<div class="verse">That, though it feele, nor <i>storme</i>, nor scorching <i>flame</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">An inbred <i>Canker</i>, will consume the same.</div> -<div class="verse">Considering well, and well remembring this,</div> -<div class="verse">Account the <i>Flesh</i> no better than it is:</div> -<div class="verse">Wrong not thine everlasting <i>Soule</i>, to cherish</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Gourd</i>, which in a moments time will perish.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Give it the tendance, fit for fading <i>Crops</i>;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">But, for <i>Hay-harvest</i>, lose not better hopes.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[257]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -Make use of <em class="upright">Time</em>, that's <em class="upright">comming on</em>;<br /> -For, that is perish'd, which is <em class="upright">gone</em>.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_49_4" id="Ill_49_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_49_4t"><img src="images/i_e_257.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. XLIX.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_257c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">T</span>His <i>Glasse</i> declares, how <i>Time</i> doth passe away;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if the <i>Words</i>, about it, rightly say,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Time that's gone, is lost</i>: and, proofe will shew,</div> -<div class="verse">That, many find both <i>Words</i>, and <i>Emblem</i>, true.</div> -<div class="verse">How fast their <i>Time</i> departs, they best perceive,</div> -<div class="verse">From whom it steales, before they take their leave,</div> -<div class="verse">Of what they love; and, whose last <i>houre</i> is gone,</div> -<div class="verse">Before their chiefest businesses are done.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">How fast it slides, ev'n they are also taught,</div> -<div class="verse">(Too late, perhaps) who never kept in thought</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>ending-day</i>; but, alwayes did presume,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, largely hope upon the <i>Time to come</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>present-howres</i>, nor thankfully enjoying,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, honestly, nor usefully employing.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">That, <i>yeares expir'd, are lost</i>, they likewise find:</div> -<div class="verse">For, when their understanding brings to mind,</div> -<div class="verse">How fondly (or, how ill perchance) they spent</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>passed age</i>; they see, with discontent,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Time</i>, not onely <i>lost</i>, but, worse than so;</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Lost</i>, with a thousand other Losses moe:</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, when they shall need it, <i>wealth</i> nor <i>pow'r</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Can purchase them, one <i>minute</i> of an <i>howre</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Consider this, all ye that spend the <i>prime</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>noone tide</i>, and the <i>twilight</i> of your <i>Time</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">In childish play-games, or meere worldly things;</div> -<div class="verse">As if you could, at pleasure, clip <i>Times</i> wings,</div> -<div class="verse">Or turne his <i>Glasse</i>, or, had a <i>Life</i>, or twaine</div> -<div class="verse">To live, when you had fool'd out <i>this</i> in vaine.</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Short is the <i>present</i>; lost <i>Times-passed</i> bee;</div> -<div class="verse eindent">And, <i>Time to come</i>, wee may not live to see.</div> -</div></div></div> - -</div> - -<div class="embleme-page"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[258]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="fullns" /> -<h3 class="embleme"> -The <em class="upright">Garland</em>, He alone shall weare,<br /> -Who, to the <em class="upright">Goale</em>, doth persevere.</h3> -<hr class="fullns" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a name="Ill_50_4" id="Ill_50_4"></a> -<a href="#Ill_50_4t"><img src="images/i_e_258.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></a> -<hr class="fullns" /> -<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Illvstr. L.</span> <i>Book. 4</i></div> -<hr class="fullns" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_258c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A" /></div> -<div class="verse indentm1"><span class="hidden">A</span>N <i>Arme</i> is with a <i>Garland</i> here extended;</div> -<div class="verse">And, as the <i>Motto</i> saith, it is intended,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>To all that persevere</i>. This being so;</div> -<div class="verse">Let none be faint in heart, though they be <i>slow</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, he that <i>creepes</i>, untill his <i>Race</i> be done,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall gaine a <i>Wreath</i>, aswell as they that <i>runne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">This being so; let no man walke in doubt,</div> -<div class="verse">As if Gods <i>Arme</i> of <i>Grace</i> were stretched out</div> -<div class="verse">To some small number: For, whoe're <i>begins</i></div> -<div class="verse">And <i>perseueres</i>, the profer'd <i>Garland</i> winns:</div> -<div class="verse">And, God respects no persons; neither layes</div> -<div class="verse">A stumbling blocke in any of our Waies.</div> -<div class="verse">This being so, let no man think't enough</div> -<div class="verse">To set his hand, a little, to the Plough,</div> -<div class="verse">And, then desist; but, let him still pursue,</div> -<div class="verse">To doe that <i>Worke</i>, to which that <i>Wreath</i> is due:</div> -<div class="verse">For, nor on <i>Good-beginners</i>, nor on those</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>walke halfe-way</i>, (much lesse on him, that goes</div> -<div class="verse">No stepp at all) will God this <i>gift</i> conferre;</div> -<div class="verse">But, onely, unto those that <i>persevere</i>.</div> -<div class="verse eindent"><span class="smcap">Lord</span>, by thy <i>Grace</i>, an entrance I have made</div> -<div class="verse">In honest <i>Pathes</i>; and, thy assistance had,</div> -<div class="verse">To make in them, some slow <i>proceedings</i> too.</div> -<div class="verse">Oh grant me, full abilitie, to doe</div> -<div class="verse">Thy sacred <i>Will</i>; and, to <i>beginn</i>, and <i>end</i></div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Workes</i>, as to thy <i>glory</i>, still, may tend.</div> -<div class="verse">That (<i>Walking</i>, and <i>continuing</i> in the <i>Path</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which evermore, thine approbation hath)</div> -<div class="verse eindent">I may that <i>Garland</i>, by thy <i>grace</i>, obtaine,</div> -<div class="verse eindent">Which, by mine owne <i>desert</i>, I cannot gaine.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center"><i>Glory be to God.</i></p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[259]</a></span></p> - - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_259.jpg" width="500" height="87" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="no-break"><a name="THE_FOVRTH" id="THE_FOVRTH"></a>THE FOVRTH<br /> -<span class="f90">LOTTERIE.</span></h2> - - -<p class="center">1</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="poetry-img" style="width: 75px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_259c.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="T" /> -</div> -<div class="verse indentm0"><span class="hidden">T</span>Hou, of a noble minde, art thought,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, heav'nly things, hath chiefly sought.</div> -<div class="verse">And, scorn'st thy vertue to debase,</div> -<div class="verse">By loving those of lower place.</div> -<div class="verse">If so, thine <i>Emblom</i> doth expresse</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Wisdome</i>, and thy <i>worthynesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if to earthward thou incline;</div> -<div class="verse">Thence, learne <i>Affections</i> more Divine.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_1_4"><i>Emb.</i> I.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">2</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Some <i>words</i> or <i>thoughts</i>, perhaps, of your</div> -<div class="verse">Have wrong'd Gods <i>providence</i>, or <i>Pow're</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Els, you (it may be) to some <i>place</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Confine his unconfined <i>Grace</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, thinke, he never taketh care,</div> -<div class="verse">Of any <i>Realme</i>, but where you are.</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Lot</i>, now, therefore, doth provide,</div> -<div class="verse">To have your <i>Iudgement</i> rectifide.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_2_4"><i>Emb.</i> II.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">3</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou maist be <i>wise</i>, but, there is, yet,</div> -<div class="verse">Some crack, or, failing in thy <i>wit</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, thou dost <i>personate</i> a <i>part</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, showes thee other, then thou <i>art</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, doth declare,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Habit</i>, such deserve to weare;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that, he merits <i>Asses</i> eares,</div> -<div class="verse">Who <i>is not</i>, that, which he <i>appeares</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_3_4"><i>Emb.</i> III.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">4</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You have, as yet, much <i>worke</i> to doe,</div> -<div class="verse">But, yoo have <i>little time</i> thereto:</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>little</i>, flyes away with speed,</div> -<div class="verse">And, you the <i>Losse</i>, as little heed.</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, therefore, all your time be gone,</div> -<div class="verse">Before you duely thinke thereon,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>memorandum</i> you have got,</div> -<div class="verse">By drawing, of this luckie <i>Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_4_4"><i>Emb.</i> IV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[260]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">5</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Though you, perhaps, no <i>perill</i> dread,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>mischiefe</i> hangs above your head;</div> -<div class="verse">By which, you (taking little care)</div> -<div class="verse">May perish ere you be aware.</div> -<div class="verse">To minde you, therefore, to eschew</div> -<div class="verse">Such Miseries as may ensue;</div> -<div class="verse">Your L<i>ot</i>, this warning <i>Emblem</i> sent;</div> -<div class="verse">Observe it, and your <i>harmes</i> prevent.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_5_4"><i>Emb.</i> V.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">6</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou <i>fly'st</i>, in hope, to shun thy griefe;</div> -<div class="verse">Thou <i>changest place</i>, to seeke releefe;</div> -<div class="verse">And, many blamelesse things are shent</div> -<div class="verse">As, causers of thy discontent.</div> -<div class="verse">But trouble, now, no more thy minde,</div> -<div class="verse">The root of thy disease to finde;</div> -<div class="verse">For, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou shalt see,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Fountaine</i>, whence thy torments bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_6_4"><i>Emb.</i> VI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2"><i>M</i><span class="in2">7</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou art, or els thou wert, of late,</div> -<div class="verse">Some great, or petty, <i>Magistrate</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, <i>Fortune</i> thereunto, perchance,</div> -<div class="verse">In time to come, will thee advance.</div> -<div class="verse">But, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou shalt see,</div> -<div class="verse">That, when restrein'd, thy <i>pow'r</i> shall be,</div> -<div class="verse">Offenders, thereof will be glad,</div> -<div class="verse">And skoffe the pow're which thou hast had;</div> -<div class="verse">Observe it; and be so <i>upright</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou maist laugh at their <i>despight</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_7_4"><i>Emb.</i> VII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">8</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse"><i>Promotion</i> thou dost much desire,</div> -<div class="verse">And, spacious <i>Fortunes</i> to acquire;</div> -<div class="verse">As, if thou thoughtst, thou mightst attaine,</div> -<div class="verse">True <i>Blessednesse</i>, by such a <i>gaine</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">To shew thee, therefore, what event,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>happinesse</i>, and what <i>content</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Such things, will bring vs, at the last,</div> -<div class="verse">An usefull <i>Object</i>, now, thou hast.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_8_4"><i>Emb.</i> VIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">9</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Disheartned be not, though thou see,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Hopes</i>, quite frustrate seeme to be;</div> -<div class="verse">For, many <i>Hopes</i>, appearing past,</div> -<div class="verse">Have, beene renew'd againe, at last;</div> -<div class="verse">And, grew far greater, then before,</div> -<div class="verse">When, they seem'd lost, for evermore.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Examples</i>, therefore, now are brought,</div> -<div class="verse">That, still, to <i>Hope</i>, thou mayst be taught.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_9_4"><i>Emb.</i> IX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[261]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2"><i>M</i> <span class="in2">10</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Most men desire to gaine the <i>Fate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which keepes them safe, in ev'ry state;</div> -<div class="verse">And, you, no doubt, would faine provide,</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Station</i>, which might firme abide.</div> -<div class="verse">If so you meane; your <i>Lot</i> hath brought,</div> -<div class="verse">Some newes of that, which you have sought:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by your <i>Emblem</i>, you may see,</div> -<div class="verse">What men shall most unmooved be.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_10_4"><i>Emb.</i> X.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">11</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You seeme, to wonder, much of late,</div> -<div class="verse">That, some goe <i>backward</i> in <i>Estate</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Who seeme to thrive; and, why, we finde,</div> -<div class="verse">Those <i>Friends</i>, who seemed very kinde,</div> -<div class="verse">(And, forward good respects to show)</div> -<div class="verse">Doe now unkinde, and froward grow.</div> -<div class="verse">But, when your <i>Emblem</i> you shall see,</div> -<div class="verse">No wonder, then, such things will be.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_11_4"><i>Emb.</i> XI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">12</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou seek'st a <i>Conquest</i>; or, (at least)</div> -<div class="verse">Of such a Pow're to be possest,</div> -<div class="verse">As none can conquer; And, bohold,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, in an <i>Emblem</i>, shalt be told</div> -<div class="verse">The meanes to get thy hearts desire.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, know, that if thou come no nigher,</div> -<div class="verse">Then but to <i>know</i> the meanes of <i>blisse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The farther off, the <i>blessing</i> is.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_12_4"><i>Emb.</i> XII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">13</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou liv'st, as one who thinks, that, <i>Fate</i></div> -<div class="verse">All Actions did <i>nesessitate</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, that to <i>doe</i>, or leave <i>undone</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy Businesses, came all to one.</div> -<div class="verse">If, thus thou thinke, perhaps, this <i>Chance</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">May helpe to cure thine <i>Ignorance</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, show, when 'twill be, wholly, fit</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Fate</i>, our matters, to commit.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_13_4"><i>Emb.</i> XIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">14</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy Neighbors <i>house</i> when thou dost view,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Welfurnisht</i>, <i>pleasant</i>, <i>large</i>, or <i>new</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou thinkst good <span class="smcap">Lares</span>, alwaies dwell,</div> -<div class="verse">In Lodgings that are trimm'd so well.</div> -<div class="verse">But, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou art showne,</div> -<div class="verse">That (if thou lov'dst what is thine <i>owne</i>)</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Thatcht Roofes</i>, as true Contentments yeeld,</div> -<div class="verse">As those, that are with <i>Cedar</i> seeld.</div> -<div class="verse">Vaine <i>Fancies</i>, therefore, from thee cast;</div> -<div class="verse">And, be content with what thou hast.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_14_4"><i>Emb.</i> XIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[262]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">15</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou seek'st <i>Preferment</i>, as a thing,</div> -<div class="verse">Which <i>East</i>, or <i>Westerne-winds</i> might bring;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thinkst to gaine a temp'rall <i>Crowne</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">By <i>Powres</i> and <i>Vertues</i> of thine owne:</div> -<div class="verse">But, now, thy <i>Lot</i> informes from whom,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Scepter</i>, and <i>preferments</i> come;</div> -<div class="verse">Seeke, thence, thy lawfull <i>hopes</i> fruition,</div> -<div class="verse">And, cherish not a vaine <i>ambition</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_15_4"><i>Emb.</i> XV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">16</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i>, though rich, or poore, thou bee,</div> -<div class="verse">Presents an <i>Emblem</i>, fitt for thee.</div> -<div class="verse">If <i>Rich</i>, it warnes, not to be <i>proud</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">Since, <i>Fortunes</i> favours are allow'd</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>Swinish-men</i>: If thou be <i>poore</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Deject thou not thy selfe, the more;</div> -<div class="verse">For, many worthy men, there are,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, doe not <i>Fortunes</i> Iewels weare.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_16_4"><i>Emb.</i> XVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">17</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, dost not greatly care, by whom</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>wealth</i>, or thy <i>Preferments</i>, come:</div> -<div class="verse">So, thou maist get them, <i>Foole</i> or <i>Knave</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>prayers</i>, and thy <i>praise</i> may have;</div> -<div class="verse">Because, thou dost nor feare, nor dreame,</div> -<div class="verse">What disadvantage comes by them:</div> -<div class="verse">But, by thine <i>Emblem</i>, thou shalt see,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Mischieves</i>, in their <i>favours</i> bee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_17_4"><i>Emb.</i> XVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">18</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You boast, as if it were, unknowne</div> -<div class="verse">The power you have were not your owne:</div> -<div class="verse">But, had you not an able <i>Prop</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">You could not beare so high a <i>Top</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if that <i>Ayde</i> forsake you shall,</div> -<div class="verse">Downe to the ground, you soone will fall.</div> -<div class="verse">Acknowledge this; and, humble grow,</div> -<div class="verse">You may be, still, supported so.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_18_4"><i>Emb.</i> XVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">19</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i> of yours doth plainely show,</div> -<div class="verse">That, in some danger now you go.</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>wounds</i> by <i>Steele</i>, yet, feare you not;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>Pistoling</i>, nor <i>Cannon-shot</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather, dread the <i>shafts</i> that fly,</div> -<div class="verse">From some deepe-wounding <i>wantons</i> eye.</div> -<div class="verse">Your greatest perills are from thence;</div> -<div class="verse">Get therefore, Armour of defence.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_19_4"><i>Emb.</i> XIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[263]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">20</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy Vertues, often, have beene tride,</div> -<div class="verse">To finde what proofes they will abide:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, thinke not all thy <i>Trialls</i> past,</div> -<div class="verse">Till thou on ev'ry side art cast;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, feare thou, what may chance to thee,</div> -<div class="verse">If truely, square, thy dealings be:</div> -<div class="verse">For, then, what ever doth befall,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor <i>harme</i>, nor <i>shame</i>, betide thee shall.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_20_4"><i>Emb.</i> XX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">21</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Fine <i>Clothes</i>, faire <i>Words</i>, entising <i>Face</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">With <i>Maskes</i> of <i>Pietie</i> and <i>Grace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Oft, cheat you, with an outward show,</div> -<div class="verse">Of that, which prooveth nothing so.</div> -<div class="verse">Therefore, your <i>Emblems</i> Morall read;</div> -<div class="verse">And, ere too farre you doe proceed,</div> -<div class="verse">Thinke, whom you deale withall, to day,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, by faire shewes, deceive you may.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_21_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">22</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You, are accus'd of no man, here,</div> -<div class="verse">As, if to any, false, you were</div> -<div class="verse">In <i>word</i>, or <i>Deed</i>; and, wish, we doe,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Conscience</i> may acquit you too,</div> -<div class="verse">But, if your selfe you guilty finde,</div> -<div class="verse">(As, unto such a fault inclin'd)</div> -<div class="verse">The crime, already <i>past</i>, repent;</div> -<div class="verse">And, what is yet <i>undone</i>, prevent.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_22_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">23</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">You haue delighted much, of late,</div> -<div class="verse">Gainst <i>Womens</i> ficklenesse, to prate;</div> -<div class="verse">As if this frailety you did find,</div> -<div class="verse">Entail'd, alone, on <i>Womankind</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, in your selfe, ther's now and then,</div> -<div class="verse">Great proofes, of wav'ring minds, in men:</div> -<div class="verse">Then, jugde not faults which are unknown;</div> -<div class="verse">But, rather learne to mend your owne.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_23_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">24</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">At your <i>Afflictions</i>, you repine,</div> -<div class="verse">And, in all troubles, cry, and whine;</div> -<div class="verse">As if, to <i>suffer</i>, brought no <i>Ioy</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, quite, did all contents destroy.</div> -<div class="verse">That, you might, therefore, <i>patient</i> grow,</div> -<div class="verse">And, learne, that Vertues pow're, to know,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i>, unto your view, is brought:</div> -<div class="verse">Peruse, and practise what is taught.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_24_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[264]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">25</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">On out side <i>Friends</i>, thou much reli'st,</div> -<div class="verse">And, <i>trustest</i>, oft, before thou try'st;</div> -<div class="verse">By which, if <i>Cousnage</i> thou escape,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Wit</i> wee praise not, but thy <i>Hap</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">But, lest by <i>trust</i>, (e're <i>triall due</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, overlate, thy <i>Trusting</i> rue;</div> -<div class="verse">Observe the <i>Morall</i> of thy <i>Lot</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, looke that thou forget it not.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_25_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">26</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">By this your <i>Lot</i>, it should appeare,</div> -<div class="verse">That, you your selfe are too severe;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, have, by some, perswaded bin,</div> -<div class="verse">That, ev'ry <i>Pleasure</i> is a <i>sinne</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">That, wiser therefore, you may grow,</div> -<div class="verse">You have an <i>Emblem</i>, now, to show,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Hee</i>, whose wisdome all men praise,</div> -<div class="verse">Sometime, layes downe his <i>Bow</i>, and <i>playes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_26_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">27</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou little heedst how <i>Time</i> is lost,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, how thine <i>Howres</i> away doe post;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor art thou mindfull of the day,</div> -<div class="verse">In which thy life, will breath away.</div> -<div class="verse">To thee this <i>Lot</i>, now, therefore, came,</div> -<div class="verse">To make thee heedfull of the same.</div> -<div class="verse">So, of thy Dutie, let it mind thee,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou maist <i>live</i>, when <i>Death</i> shall finde thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_27_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">28</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">A safe-abiding, wouldst thou know,</div> -<div class="verse">When <i>Seas</i> doe rage, and <i>winds</i> doe blow?</div> -<div class="verse">If so; thine <i>Emblem</i> shewes thee, where</div> -<div class="verse">Such <i>Priviledges</i> gained are.</div> -<div class="verse">Observe it well; then, doe thy best,</div> -<div class="verse">To bee a <i>Yongling</i>, in that nest</div> -<div class="verse">There <i>Moraliz'd</i>; and, mocke thou not</div> -<div class="verse">At what is taught thee, by this <i>Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_28_4"><i>Emb.</i> XVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">29</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Beleeve not, alwayes, as thy <i>Creed</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Love-profest</i>, is <i>Love-indeed</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, their <i>Affections</i> entertaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Who in thy <i>need</i>, firme <i>Friends</i> remaine.</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, it much may thee concerne,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lesson</i>, perfectly, to learne.</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblems</i> morall, therefore, view,</div> -<div class="verse">And, get true <i>Friends</i>, by being, <i>true</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_29_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[265]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">30</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">The <i>Consciences</i>, of some, afford</div> -<div class="verse">No Lawfull use unto the <i>Sword</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Some dreame, that, in the time of peace,</div> -<div class="verse">The practise of all <i>Armes</i> may cease;</div> -<div class="verse">And, you, perhaps, among the rest,</div> -<div class="verse">With such like fancies are possest.</div> -<div class="verse">However, what your <i>Morall</i> sayes</div> -<div class="verse">Observe; and, walke in blamelesse <i>waves</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_30_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">31</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">A better <i>Fortune</i> you might gaine,</div> -<div class="verse">If you, could take a little <i>paine</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">If you have <i>Wealth</i>, you should have more,</div> -<div class="verse">And, should be Rich, (though you are <i>poore</i>)</div> -<div class="verse">If to the <i>longings</i> you have had,</div> -<div class="verse">A true <i>endevour</i> you would adde:</div> -<div class="verse">For, by your <i>Emblem</i>, you may see,</div> -<div class="verse">Such, as your <i>Paines</i>, your <i>Gaines</i> will be.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_31_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">32</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">When any troublous Time appeares,</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Hope</i> is ouercome, with <i>feares</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As, if with every <i>Floud</i> of <i>Raine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>World</i> would quite be drownd againe.</div> -<div class="verse">But, by your <i>Emblem</i>, you shall see,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>Sunshine</i>, after <i>Stormes</i> may be:</div> -<div class="verse">And, you this <i>Lot</i>, (it may be) drew,</div> -<div class="verse">In times of neede, to comfort <i>you</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_32_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">33</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">When, you to ought, pretend a right,</div> -<div class="verse">You thinke to winne it by your <i>might</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, by your strength, your purse or friends,</div> -<div class="verse">You boast to gaine your wished <i>Endes</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">But, such <i>Presumptions</i> to prevent</div> -<div class="verse">You to an <i>Emblem</i> now are sent</div> -<div class="verse">That, showes, by whom he <i>Victor</i> growes,</div> -<div class="verse">That winnes, by giving overthrowes.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_33_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">34</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If, truely <i>temperate</i>, thou be,</div> -<div class="verse">Why should this <i>Lot</i>, be drawne by thee?</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, thou either dost exceed,</div> -<div class="verse">In costly Robes; or, drinke, or feede,</div> -<div class="verse">Beyond the <i>meane</i>. If this thou finde,</div> -<div class="verse">Or, know'st, in any other kinde,</div> -<div class="verse">How thou offendest by <i>excesse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Now, leave off, that <i>intemp'ratnesse</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_34_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[266]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">35</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou hop'st, to climbe, to honor'd <i>heights</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, wouldst not passe through stormes or <i>streights</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">But, shun'st them so, as if there were</div> -<div class="verse">No way to <i>blisse</i>, where <i>troubles</i> are.</div> -<div class="verse">Lest, then, thou lose thy hop'd-for praise,</div> -<div class="verse">By, seeking wide, and easie wayes;</div> -<div class="verse">See what thine <i>Emblem</i> doth disclose.</div> -<div class="verse">And, feare not ev'ry <i>winde</i> that blowes.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_35_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">36</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Sometimes, it may be, thou dost finde,</div> -<div class="verse">That, God, thy <i>prayers</i>, doth not minde,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, heede, of those <i>Petitions</i> take,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, men and <i>Congregations</i> make.</div> -<div class="verse">Now, why they take so ill effect,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, by our <i>Morall</i>, maist collect:</div> -<div class="verse">And, by the same, shalt also see,</div> -<div class="verse">When, all thy <i>suits</i> will granted be.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_36_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">37</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, hast been very forward, still,</div> -<div class="verse">To <i>punish</i> those, that merit ill;</div> -<div class="verse">But, thou didst never, yet, regard</div> -<div class="verse">To give <i>Desert</i>, her due <i>Reward</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">That, therefore, thou maist now have care,</div> -<div class="verse">Of such <i>Injustice</i>, to beware,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblem</i>, doth to thee present,</div> -<div class="verse">As well <i>Reward</i>, as <i>punishment</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_37_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">38</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, either hast a <i>babling tongue</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, cannot keepe a <i>secret</i>, long;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, shalt, perhaps, indanger'd growe,</div> -<div class="verse">By such, as utter all they know.</div> -<div class="verse">In one, or other, of the twaine,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou maist be harm'd; and, to thy gaine,</div> -<div class="verse">It may redound, when thou shalt see,</div> -<div class="verse">What, now, thine <i>Emblem</i>, counsels thee.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_38_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">39</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">By this, thy <i>Lot</i>, we understand,</div> -<div class="verse">That, somewhat, thou hast tooke in hand,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, (whether, further, thou <i>Proceed</i></div> -<div class="verse">Or quite <i>desist</i>) will danger breed.</div> -<div class="verse">Consider, then, what thou hast done,</div> -<div class="verse">And, since the <i>hazzard</i> is begun,</div> -<div class="verse">Advised be to take the <i>Course</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Whrch may not make the danger worse.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_39_4"><i>Emb.</i> XXXIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[267]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">40</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">The <i>Destinies</i>, thou blamest, much,</div> -<div class="verse">Because, thou canst not be so rich,</div> -<div class="verse">As others are: But, blame no more.</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Destinies</i>, as heretofore;</div> -<div class="verse">For, if it please thee to behold,</div> -<div class="verse">What, by thine <i>Embleme</i>, shall be told,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, there, shalt find, which be those <i>Fates</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, keepe men low, in their <i>estates</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_40_4"><i>Emb.</i> XL.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">41</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou thinkst, that thou from <i>faults</i> art free;</div> -<div class="verse">And, here, unblamed thou shalt be.</div> -<div class="verse">But, if to all men, thou wilt seeme</div> -<div class="verse">As faire, as in thine owne esteeme,</div> -<div class="verse">Presume thou not abroad to passe,</div> -<div class="verse">Vntill, by ev'ry <i>Looking-Glasse</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, in thy <i>Morall</i>, is exprest,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou hast, both <i>Minde</i>, and <i>Body</i> drest.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_41_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">42</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Some, <i>labour</i> hardly, all their daies,</div> -<div class="verse">In painefull-profitable wayes;</div> -<div class="verse">And, others taste the sweetest <i>gaine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Of that, for which these tooke the <i>paine</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, these, they not alone undo,</div> -<div class="verse">But, having <i>robd</i>, they <i>murther</i> too.</div> -<div class="verse">The wrongs of such, this <i>Emblem</i> showes,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thou mayst helpe, or pitty those.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_42_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">43</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, often hast observ'd with feares,</div> -<div class="verse">Th'<i>aspects</i>, and <i>motions</i> of the <i>Starres</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As if, they threatned <i>Fates</i> to some,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, <i>God</i> could never save them from.</div> -<div class="verse">If this, thy dreaming Error be,</div> -<div class="verse">Thine <i>Emblems</i> Morall shewes to thee,</div> -<div class="verse">That, <i>God</i> restraines the <i>Starry-Fates</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">And, no mans harme, <i>necessitates</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_43_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">44</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou, hast provoked, over long,</div> -<div class="verse">Their <i>patience</i>, who neglect the wrong;</div> -<div class="verse">And, thou dost little seeme to heede,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>harme</i> it threats, if thou proceed.</div> -<div class="verse">To thee, an <i>Emblem</i>, therefore, showes,</div> -<div class="verse">To what, <i>abused-Patience</i> growes.</div> -<div class="verse">Observe it well; and, make thy <i>Peace</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Before to <i>Fury</i>, <i>Wrath</i> increase.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_44_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLIV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[268]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">45</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thou hast the helps of <i>Natures</i> light;</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Experience</i> too, doth ayde thy sight:</div> -<div class="verse">Nay more, the <i>Sun</i> of <i>Grace-divine</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">Doth round about thee daylie shine;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, <i>Reasons</i> eye is blind in thee,</div> -<div class="verse">And, clearest <i>Objects</i> cannot see.</div> -<div class="verse">Now, from what cause, this <i>Blindnesse</i> growes</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Morall</i> of thine <i>Emblem</i> showes.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_45_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLV.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">46</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>cause</i>, thy <i>Money</i>, or thy <i>Friend</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">May make thee forward to <i>contend</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, give thee Hopes, that thy intents,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall bring thee prosperous events.</div> -<div class="verse">But view thy <i>Lot</i>; then, marke thou there,</div> -<div class="verse">That <i>Victories</i> uncertaine are;</div> -<div class="verse">And rashly venture not on that</div> -<div class="verse">Whose End may be, <i>thou knowest not what</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_46_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLVI.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">47</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">To them who grudgingly repine,</div> -<div class="verse">Assoone as their estates decline,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Lot</i> pertaines; or, unto those,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, when their neighbour needy growes,</div> -<div class="verse">Contemne him; as if he were left,</div> -<div class="verse">Of God; and, of all hopes bereft.</div> -<div class="verse">If this, or that, be found in thee,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou, by thy <i>Morall</i>, taught shalt be,</div> -<div class="verse">That, there is none so ill besped;</div> -<div class="verse">But may have hope, he shall be fed.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_47_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLVII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">48</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Flesh</i> thou lov'st, as if it were,</div> -<div class="verse">The chiefest <i>Object</i>, of thy <i>Care</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And of such value, as may seeme,</div> -<div class="verse">Well meriting, thy best esteeme.</div> -<div class="verse">But, now, to banish that conceit,</div> -<div class="verse">Thy <i>Lot</i> an <i>Emblem</i> brings to sight,</div> -<div class="verse">Which, without flattery, shewes to thee</div> -<div class="verse">Of what regard it ought to be.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_48_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLVIII.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">49</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">It may suspected be, thou hast,</div> -<div class="verse">Mispent the <i>Time</i>, that's gone and past;</div> -<div class="verse">For, to an <i>Emblem</i> thou art sent,</div> -<div class="verse">That's made, such folly to prevent:</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>morall</i> heed; Repent thy <i>Crime</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">And, Labour, to <i>Redeeme the Time</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_49_4"><i>Emb.</i> XLIX.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[269]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center mt2">50</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">With good applause thou hast begunne,</div> -<div class="verse">And, well, as yet, proceedest on:</div> -<div class="verse">But, e're the <i>Lawrell</i>, thou canst weare,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou to the End must <i>persevere</i>.</div> -<div class="verse">And, lest this dutie, be so got,</div> -<div class="verse">Thou hast a Caveat, by this <i>Lot</i>.</div> -<div class="verse lindent">See, <a href="#Ill_50_4"><i>Emb.</i> L.</a></div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">51</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">Although, this time, you drew it not,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Good Fortune</i>, for you, may be got.</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps, the <i>planets</i> ruling now,</div> -<div class="verse">Have cast no good <i>Aspects</i> on you.</div> -<div class="verse">For, many say, that, now and then,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Starres</i> looke angerly on men:</div> -<div class="verse">Then, try your Chance againe, anon;</div> -<div class="verse">For, their displeasure soone is gone.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">52</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">If, by your <i>Lot</i> you had beene prais'd</div> -<div class="verse">Your minde, perchance, it would have rais'd,</div> -<div class="verse">Above the <i>meane</i>. Should you receive</div> -<div class="verse">Some check, thereby, It would bereave</div> -<div class="verse">Your <i>Patience</i>: For, but few can beare,</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Reproofes</i>, which unexpected are.</div> -<div class="verse">But, now prepared you have beene,</div> -<div class="verse">To draw your <i>Lot</i> once more begin;</div> -<div class="verse">And, if another <i>Blancke</i> you get,</div> -<div class="verse">Attempt your <i>chance</i>, no more, as yet.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">53</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">To crosse your hopes, <i>Misfortune</i> sought;</div> -<div class="verse">And, by your <i>Lot</i>, a <i>Blanck</i> hath brought:</div> -<div class="verse">But, he who knew her ill intent,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath made this <i>Blanke</i> her spight prevent;</div> -<div class="verse">For, if that <i>Number</i> you shall take,</div> -<div class="verse">Which these two <i>fignres</i>, backward, make,</div> -<div class="verse">And view the place to which they guide;</div> -<div class="verse">An <i>Emblem</i>, for you, they provide.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center mt2">54</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">These <i>Lots</i> are almost <i>Ten</i> to <i>One</i></div> -<div class="verse">Above the <i>Blankes</i>; yet, thou hast none.</div> -<div class="verse">If thus thy <i>Fortune</i> still proceed,</div> -<div class="verse">Tis <i>Ten</i> to <i>One</i> if well thou speed.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet, if thou doe not much neglect,</div> -<div class="verse">To doe, as <i>Wisdome</i> shall direct,</div> -<div class="verse">It is a <i>Thousand</i> unto <i>ten</i></div> -<div class="verse">But all thy Hopes will prosper, then.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[270]</a></span></p> - -<p class="center mt2">55</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">It seemes, Dame <i>Fortune</i>, doth not know,</div> -<div class="verse">What <i>Lot</i>, on thee, she should bestow;</div> -<div class="verse">Nor, canst thou tell, (if thou mightst have</div> -<div class="verse">The choice) what <i>Fortune</i>, thou shouldst crave.</div> -<div class="verse">For, <i>one thing</i>, now, thy minde requires;</div> -<div class="verse">Anon, <i>another</i> it desires.</div> -<div class="verse">When Resolution thou hast got,</div> -<div class="verse">Then, come againe, and draw thy <i>Lot</i>.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center mt2">56</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanzal"> -<div class="verse">The <i>Chance</i>, which thou obtained hast,</div> -<div class="verse">Of all our <i>Chances</i>, is the last;</div> -<div class="verse">And, casting up the totall <i>summes</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">We finde thy <i>Gaine</i>, to <i>Nothing</i> comes.</div> -<div class="verse">Yet if it well be understood,</div> -<div class="verse">This <i>Chance</i> may chance to doe thee good;</div> -<div class="verse">For, it inferres what <i>Portion</i> shall,</div> -<div class="verse">To ev'ry one, (at last) befall;</div> -<div class="verse">And warnes, while <i>something</i>, is enjoyd,</div> -<div class="verse">That, well it (alwaies) be imployd.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p class="center f150"><i>FINIS.</i></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_270.jpg" width="500" height="252" alt="decoration" /> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[271]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_271.jpg" width="500" height="61" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="no-break"><a name="A_Table" id="A_Table"></a> -<i>A Table for the better finding out of the<br /> -principall things and matters, mentioned in<br /> -these Foure Bookes.</i></h2> - -<ul class="index"><li class="ifrst"><i>A.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Adversitie. pag. <a href="#Page_16">16</a>. <a href="#Page_17">17</a>. <a href="#Page_26">26</a>. <a href="#Page_30">30</a>. <a href="#Page_240">240</a>. <a href="#Page_243">243</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Ægle. <a href="#Page_6">6</a>. <a href="#Page_3">3</a>. <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Affection. <a href="#Page_7">7</a>. <a href="#Page_33">33</a>. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>. <a href="#Page_83">83</a>. <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Affliction. <a href="#Page_16">16</a>. <a href="#Page_17">17</a>. <a href="#Page_44">44</a>. <a href="#Page_47">47</a>. <a href="#Page_70">70</a>. <a href="#Page_81">81</a>. <a href="#Page_108">108</a>. <a href="#Page_240">240</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Agreement in Desire. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Age. <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Ambitions emptines. <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Ambition. <a href="#Page_69">69</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Anchor. <a href="#Page_39">39</a>. <a href="#Page_72">72</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Annuall revolutions. <a href="#Page_157">157</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Anvils and Hammer. <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Appearances deceive. <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Apollo. <a href="#Page_234">234</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Archer. <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Armour. <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Arrs. <a href="#Page_1">1</a>. <a href="#Page_80">80</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Action. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Armes. <a href="#Page_3">3</a>. <a href="#Page_32">32</a>. <a href="#Page_80">80</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Authoritie. <a href="#Page_137">137</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>B.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Ball. <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Beginning. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Best men not best favour'd. <a href="#Page_224">224</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Bear. <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Bees. <a href="#Page_23">23</a>. <a href="#Page_90">90</a>. <a href="#Page_250">250</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Beautie. <a href="#Page_40">40</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Blabs. <a href="#Page_246">246</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Blessings long enjoyed. <a href="#Page_70">70</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Bounds. <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">A Bore. <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Borrowed worth. <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">A Bowe bended. <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Bridle. <a href="#Page_169">169</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">A Broken-heart <a href="#Page_77">77</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx"><a name="BB" id="BB"></a>Busy-bodies. <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Butterfly and Spider. <a href="#Page_18">18</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>C.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Candle and Flie. <a href="#Page_40">40</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Carnal affections. <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Caduceus. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>. <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Ceremonies of estate. <a href="#Page_137">137</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Centaure. <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">A Childe. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Christian confidence. <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Church. <a href="#Page_111">111</a>. <a href="#Page_136">136</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Christ the true Pellican. <a href="#Page_154">154</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">The Circular motion of things. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Circumspection. <a href="#Page_138">138</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Clamor. <a href="#Page_63">63</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Cleargie-men. <a href="#Page_149">149</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx"><a name="Const" id="Const"></a>Constancie. <a href="#Page_2">2</a>. <a href="#Page_81">81</a>. <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Cock. <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Comlinesse. <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Good Companions. <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Constant resolution <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Consideration. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Contempt of earthly things. <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Contention. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>. <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Contention hazzardous. <a href="#Page_254">254</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Contemplation. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>. <a href="#Page_105">105</a>. <a href="#Page_156">156</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Corcord. <a href="#Page_63">63</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Consolation. vid. Comfort.</li> - -<li class="indx">Comfort. <a href="#Page_70">70</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Comfort sweetned by troubles. ibid.</li> - -<li class="indx">Constellations. <a href="#Page_31">31</a>. <a href="#Page_74">74</a>. <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Contentment. <a href="#Page_86">86</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Cornerstone. <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Coronet. <a href="#Page_255">255</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Cornucopia <a href="#Page_9">9</a> <a href="#Page_88">88</a>. <a href="#Page_166">166</a>. <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Corporeall vertues. <a href="#Page_80">80</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Covetousnesse. <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Crocadile. <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Craft. <a href="#Page_136">136</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Crowne. <a href="#Page_47">47</a>. <a href="#Page_78">78</a>. <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Crosse. <a href="#Page_47">47</a> 75 <a href="#Page_81">81</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Crosses <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Curiositie <a href="#Page_147">147</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Cupid <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Cynthia <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>D.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Danger hangs over all <a href="#Page_213">213</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Death <a href="#Page_1">1</a>. <a href="#Page_21">21</a>. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>. <a href="#Page_48">48</a>. <a href="#Page_94">94</a>. <a href="#Page_168">168</a>. <a href="#Page_184">184</a>. <a href="#Page_235">235</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Deaths head <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Deliberation <a href="#Page_72">72</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Delay <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Degrees. <a href="#Page_29">29</a>. <a href="#Page_49">49</a> <a href="#Page_117">117</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Deceit in all places. <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Despaire is not to be admitted. <a href="#Page_217">217</a>. <a href="#Page_221">221</a>. <a href="#Page_240">240</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Destinie. vid. Fate.</li> - -<li class="indx">Decrees of God. <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Our Destruction is of our selves. <a href="#Page_214">214</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Desires best object. <a href="#Page_209">209</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Devotion. <a href="#Page_41">41</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Diamond. <a href="#Page_171">171</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Diana. <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Divine assistance. <a href="#Page_170">170</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Dissimulation, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Discord. <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Discretion. <a href="#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Doggs. <a href="#Page_255">255</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Dolphin. <a href="#Page_72">72</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx"><a name="Dove" id="Dove"></a>Dove. <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Drowsinesse. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Drones. <a href="#Page_250">250</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>E.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Earthly things. <a href="#Page_85">85</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Endurance <a href="#Page_23">23</a>. <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Endeavour continued. <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Envy <a href="#Page_97">97</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">End. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Equalitie. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>. <a href="#Page_48">48</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Equivocation. <a href="#Page_38">38</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Estridge. <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Eternitie. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>. <a href="#Page_157">157</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Everlasting. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Excesse. <a href="#Page_68">68</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Externall Blessings. <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>F.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Faith <a href="#Page_13">13</a>. <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Faith infringed. <a href="#Page_38">38</a>. <a href="#Page_99">99</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Fate <a href="#Page_74">74</a>. <a href="#Page_95">95</a>. <a href="#Page_221">221</a>. <a href="#Page_251">251</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Fatall necessity <a href="#Page_251">251</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Falshood <a href="#Page_99">99</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Fame <a href="#Page_146">146</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Faire shewes deceitfull <a href="#Page_233">233</a>. <a href="#Page_229">229</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Face <a href="#Page_39">39</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Fighters <a href="#Page_71">71</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Ficklenesse vid. Inconstancy</li> - -<li class="indx">Filial pietie <a href="#Page_155">155</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Fire on an Altar <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Fierie-triall <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Flesh is hay <a href="#Page_256">256</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Flying-Ball <a href="#Page_71">71</a>. <a href="#Page_101">101</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Flie and the Candle <a href="#Page_40">40</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Flower of the Sunne <a href="#Page_159">159</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Fooles, who the greatest <a href="#Page_211">211</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Fooles favours mischievous <a href="#Page_225">225</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Fortune <a href="#Page_6">6</a>. <a href="#Page_88">88</a>. <a href="#Page_101">101</a>. <a href="#Page_109">109</a>. <a href="#Page_139">139</a> <a href="#Page_174">174</a>. <a href="#Page_224">224</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Fraud in all professions <a href="#Page_183">183</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Friendship <a href="#Page_75">75</a>. <a href="#Page_99">99</a>. <a href="#Page_162">162</a>. <a href="#Page_237">237</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Friends <a href="#Page_75">75</a>, <a href="#Page_145">145</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Frequencie <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Fullnesse <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Furie begotten by abused patience <a href="#Page_252">252</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>G.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Ganimed <a href="#Page_156">156</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Light Gaines <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Glory <a href="#Page_5">5</a>. <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">God <a href="#Page_140">140</a>, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>, <a href="#Page_223">223</a> <a href="#Page_255">255</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Gods prerogatives <a href="#Page_223">223</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Gods decrees <a href="#Page_95">95</a>. <a href="#Page_141">141</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Gospell preached <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Good works <a href="#Page_135">135</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Governours <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Government <a href="#Page_238">238</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Goblins about Graves <a href="#Page_43">43</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Grace <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>, <a href="#Page_226">226</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Grave <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Greefe <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Groves <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Great things from small beginnings <a href="#Page_46">46</a>. <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Gryphon <a href="#Page_139">139</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Guile vid. Fraud and Deceit</li> - -<li class="indx">Guiltinesse <a href="#Page_66">66</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>H.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Hast <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_49">49</a> <a href="#Page_153">153</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hammer and Anvile, <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Halter <a href="#Page_66">66</a>, Halcyon, vid. Kings Fisher</li> - -<li class="indx">Harvest <a href="#Page_44">44</a></li> - -<li class="indx"><a name="Harlot" id="Harlot"></a>Harlots <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Harmlesnes vid. Innocency</li> - -<li class="indx">Hazzardous enterprises <a href="#Page_247">247</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Harmony vid. Musick</li> - -<li class="indx">Hard-hearted men <a href="#Page_175">175</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hardship <a href="#Page_243">243</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Heed <a href="#Page_19">19</a>. <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_153">153</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Heliotrope <a href="#Page_159">159</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Heaven <a href="#Page_152">152</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hellen <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hyppocrisy <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a>, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hyppocrite <a href="#Page_229">229</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Honour <a href="#Page_5">5</a>, <a href="#Page_153">153</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hope <a href="#Page_13">13</a>, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>, , <a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_73">73</a>. <a href="#Page_106">106</a> <a href="#Page_150">150</a>, <a href="#Page_217">217</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Houses which are best <a href="#Page_222">222</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hony <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Howreglasse <a href="#Page_21">21</a>, <a href="#Page_212">212</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Hunger <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Husbands <a href="#Page_162">162</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Humility 147<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[272]</a></span></li> - -<li class="indx">Hyppotamus <a href="#Page_155">155</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>I.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Ianus <a href="#Page_138">138</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Idlenesse <a href="#Page_5">5</a>. <a href="#Page_92">92</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Innocence <a href="#Page_9">9</a>. <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_151">151</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Infant <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Incroachments <a href="#Page_161">161</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Invincibility <a href="#Page_220">220</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Inconstancy <a href="#Page_231">231</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Intemperance <a href="#Page_242">242</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Industry <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Impiety. <a href="#Page_155">155</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Imprsonmēt better than a worse mischiefe <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Ioys sweetned by afflictions <a href="#Page_70">70</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Iteration <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Iustice <a href="#Page_66">66</a>. <a href="#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="#Page_155">155</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Iust dealing. <a href="#Page_100">100</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Ixion <a href="#Page_69">69</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>K.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Kingsfisher <a href="#Page_236">236</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Kings <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>, <a href="#Page_159">159</a> <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_180">180</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Kingdomes <a href="#Page_67">67</a></li> - -<li class="indx">A Kingdomes glorie <a href="#Page_78">78</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Knowledge <a href="#Page_1">1</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>L.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Labour <a href="#Page_5">5</a>, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>,</li> - -<li class="indx">Labour in vaine <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Lambe <a href="#Page_252">252</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Lawe <a href="#Page_3">3</a>. <a href="#Page_163">163</a>. <a href="#Page_169">169</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Leasure and heed <a href="#Page_19">19</a>. <a href="#Page_49">49</a> <a href="#Page_107">107</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Learne to die <a href="#Page_94">94</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Learning <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> - -<li class="indx">A Line a day. <a href="#Page_158">158</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Liking makes indifferent things excellent <a href="#Page_222">222</a></li> - -<li class="indx">A Little and little makes a mickle <a href="#Page_50">50</a>. <a href="#Page_158">158</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Life <a href="#Page_21">21</a>. <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Love the best Musitian, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Love <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>. <a href="#Page_38">38</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Losses <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Losses may be recovered <a href="#Page_182">182</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Looking-glasses <a href="#Page_241">241</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>M.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Malefactors <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Mars <a href="#Page_80">80</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Marriages. <a href="#Page_83">83</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Magistrates out of office <a href="#Page_215">215</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">A Mace. <a href="#Page_137">137</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Man his owne enemie <a href="#Page_214">214</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Mercy, offred to all <a href="#Page_255">255</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Merit <a href="#Page_139">139</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Measures <a href="#Page_100">100</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Medlers, <i>vid.</i> <a href="#BB">Busie-bodies</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Meditation best in the night <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Meanes, not to be neglected <a href="#Page_221">221</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Meanes, not the onely ground of Hope <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Mercurie <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li> - -<li class="indx">The Meane <a href="#Page_169">169</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Military exercise <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Mis-fortune may be profitable. <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Mortalitie <a href="#Page_8">8</a> <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Moone <a href="#Page_111">111</a>. <a href="#Page_182">182</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Monuments <a href="#Page_142">142</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Mutuall affection. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>. <a href="#Page_163">163</a>. <a href="#Page_178">781</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Musicke <a href="#Page_65">65</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>N.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Nature and Grace <a href="#Page_104">104</a>. <a href="#Page_144">144</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Nature needes a supporter. <a href="#Page_226">226</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Necessitie <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Night helpfull to Meditation <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>O.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Oathes <a href="#Page_38">38</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Obscuritie profitable <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Occasion <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Offenders <a href="#Page_215">215</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Old men may learne <a href="#Page_87">87</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Opportunitie <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Oppression <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Opposition <a href="#Page_63">63</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Order <a href="#Page_220">220</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Outward appearances <a href="#Page_175">175</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Owle <a href="#Page_9">9</a>. <a href="#Page_63">63</a>. <a href="#Page_79">79</a>. <a href="#Page_168">168</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Oxe <a href="#Page_173">173</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>P.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Paine <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Palmetree <a href="#Page_172">172</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Patience <a href="#Page_28">28</a>. <a href="#Page_63">63</a>. <a href="#Page_252">252</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Patriots <a href="#Page_165">165</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Pallas <a href="#Page_9">9</a>. <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Parents <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li> - -<li class="indx">A Pastorall charge <a href="#Page_149">149</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Peace <a href="#Page_9">9</a> <a href="#Page_238">238</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Perjurie <a href="#Page_38">38</a></li> - -<li class="indx"><a name="Peg" id="Peg"></a>Pegasus <a href="#Page_105">105</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Perseverance <a href="#Page_19">19</a>. <a href="#Page_143">143</a>. <a href="#Page_175">175</a>. <a href="#Page_258">258</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Pelican <a href="#Page_154">154</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Pietie <a href="#Page_8">8</a>. <a href="#Page_41">41</a>. <a href="#Page_155">155</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Pigmey Spirits <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Planets <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Planting <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Pleasure <a href="#Page_22">22</a>. <a href="#Page_23">23</a>. <a href="#Page_38">38</a>. <a href="#Page_68">68</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Plenty <a href="#Page_64">64</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Plaine-dealing <a href="#Page_228">228</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Poeticall Libertie <a href="#Page_148">148</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Poets Horse, <i>vid.</i> <a href="#Peg">Pegasus</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Power <a href="#Page_103">103</a>. <a href="#Page_179">179</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Power divine <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Policie <a href="#Page_80">80</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Posterity <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Poore Theeves <a href="#Page_167">167</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Povertie <a href="#Page_176">176</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Cause of povertie. <a href="#Page_248">248</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Praise <a href="#Page_146">146</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Practise <a href="#Page_66">66</a>. <a href="#Page_158">158</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Preaching <a href="#Page_89">89</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Preferment <a href="#Page_68">68</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Prelats <a href="#Page_41">41</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Priests. ibid.</li> - -<li class="indx">Pride to be avoyed <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Princes <a href="#Page_155">155</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Profit causeth contention <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Processions <a href="#Page_165">165</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Prosperitie <a href="#Page_12">12</a>. <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Protection divine <a href="#Page_245">245</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Promotion is of God <a href="#Page_223">223</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Prudence <a href="#Page_74">74</a>. <a href="#Page_142">142</a>. <a href="#Page_151">151</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Puritie <a href="#Page_41">41</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Punishment and reward <a href="#Page_245">245</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Pyramus <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>Q.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Qvarrellers <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>R.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Rashnesse <a href="#Page_9">9</a>. <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Redeeme the time <a href="#Page_23">23</a>. <a href="#Page_257">257</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Recreation <a href="#Page_234">234</a></li> - -<li class="indx">A well Resolved man <a href="#Page_228">228</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Restraints from being Rich <a href="#Page_248">248</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Resolute constancy <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Repine not at misfortunes <a href="#Page_96">96</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Reputation <a href="#Page_140">140</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Repentance to be hastned <a href="#Page_213">213</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Retirednesse <a href="#Page_73">73</a>. <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Revolutions of things <a href="#Page_45">45</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Reward <a href="#Page_135">135</a>. <a href="#Page_139">139</a> <a href="#Page_141">141</a>. <a href="#Page_229">229</a>. <a href="#Page_258">258</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Reward and punishment <a href="#Page_243">243</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Riches <a href="#Page_1">1</a>. <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Rich Theeves <a href="#Page_191">197</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Rod. <a href="#Page_93">93</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Royall favour. <a href="#Page_159">159</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>S.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Sacred callings <a href="#Page_41">41</a></li> - -<li class="indx">The best Sacrifice <a href="#Page_77">77</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Salamander <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Scepter <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Scepter and Spade <a href="#Page_48">48</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sea-horse <a href="#Page_155">155</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Selfe perdition <a href="#Page_68">68</a>. <a href="#Page_214">214</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Selfe love <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Shepherds crooke <a href="#Page_149">149</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Ship <a href="#Page_13">13</a>. <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sisyphus <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sinne <a href="#Page_66">66</a>. <a href="#Page_69">69</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Silence <a href="#Page_73">73</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Simplicity <a href="#Page_151">151</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sincerity <a href="#Page_228">228</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sive <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li> - -<li class="indx">A Skeleton <a href="#Page_8">8</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sloath <a href="#Page_9">9</a>. <a href="#Page_181">181</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Slownesse <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Slow pace goes farre <a href="#Page_173">173</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Small beginnings <a href="#Page_46">46</a>. <a href="#Page_50">50</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Snake <a href="#Page_5">5</a>. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>. <a href="#Page_47">47</a>. - <a href="#Page_74">74</a>. <a href="#Page_101">101</a>. <a href="#Page_102">102</a> <a href="#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Snaile <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sophisters <a href="#Page_38">38</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sober knowledge <a href="#Page_147">147</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sorrow <a href="#Page_24">24</a> <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Soveraigntie is of God, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>. <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Spade <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Spider <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Squirrell <a href="#Page_26">26</a>. <a href="#Page_136">136</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Staiednesse <a href="#Page_72">72</a> <a href="#Page_153">153</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Starrs <a href="#Page_31">31</a>. <a href="#Page_74">74</a>. <a href="#Page_251">251</a></li> - -<li class="indx">States-men <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Steresman <a href="#Page_37">37</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Stedfastnesse. <i>vid.</i> <a href="#Const">Constancy</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Stewes <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Storke <a href="#Page_149">149</a> <a href="#Page_155">155</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Strength <a href="#Page_80">80</a>. <a href="#Page_103">103</a>. <a href="#Page_136">136</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Students <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Studiousnesse <a href="#Page_146">146</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Suffering <a href="#Page_23">23</a>. <a href="#Page_47">47</a>. <a href="#Page_81">81</a>. - <a href="#Page_171">171</a>. <a href="#Page_232">232</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sufficiencie <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Sunnshine after stormes <a href="#Page_240">240</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Swearing. <a href="#Page_38">38</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Swine <a href="#Page_38">38</a>. <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Sword <a href="#Page_66">66</a>. <a href="#Page_137">137</a>. <a href="#Page_163">163</a>. - <a href="#Page_238">238</a>. <a href="#Page_245">245</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>T.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Talents hidden <a href="#Page_76">76</a>. <a href="#Page_181">181</a></li> - -<li class="indx">A Tatler, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Tennis-ball, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Terrene pompe <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Temperance <a href="#Page_169">169</a>. <a href="#Page_242">242</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Terminus <a href="#Page_161">161</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Theeves <a href="#Page_167">167</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Thisbe <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Time. <a href="#Page_4">4</a>. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>. <a href="#Page_157">157</a>. - <a href="#Page_212">212</a>. <a href="#Page_235">235</a> <a href="#Page_257">257</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Titles, ill placed <a href="#Page_224">224</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Tongue <a href="#Page_42">42</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Tortois <a href="#Page_86">86</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Touchstone <a href="#Page_229">229</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Transitorie things <a href="#Page_85">85</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Triall <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Trie e're thou trust. <a href="#Page_84">84</a>. <a href="#Page_233">233</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Truth <a href="#Page_172">172</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Turtle. <i>vid.</i> <a href="#Dove">Dove</a>. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[273]</a></span></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>V.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Vanitie of earthly things <a href="#Page_98">98</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vaine hopes. <a href="#Page_69">69</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vaine shewes <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vengeance <a href="#Page_66">66</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vertue. <a href="#Page_1">1</a>. <a href="#Page_5">5</a>. <a href="#Page_6">6</a>. - <a href="#Page_22">22</a>. <a href="#Page_30">30</a>. <a href="#Page_88">88</a>. - <a href="#Page_97">97</a>. <a href="#Page_101">101</a>. <a href="#Page_109">109</a>. - <a href="#Page_111">111</a>. <a href="#Page_139">139</a>. <a href="#Page_171">171</a>. - <a href="#Page_218">218</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Vice <a href="#Page_22">22</a>. <a href="#Page_104">104</a>. <a href="#Page_224">224</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Victorie vncertaine <a href="#Page_252">252</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Victorie is of God <a href="#Page_241">241</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Viper <a href="#Page_247">247</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vnanymitie <a href="#Page_67">67</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vnchastitie <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vnitie <a href="#Page_67">67</a>. <a href="#Page_177">177</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vnitie of faith <a href="#Page_244">244</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vniversall Grace <a href="#Page_210">210</a>. <a href="#Page_258">258</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vnprofitable gifts <a href="#Page_76">76</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Vprightnesse of heart <a href="#Page_91">91</a></li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>W.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Wanton women <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Warre <a href="#Page_90">90</a>, <a href="#Page_238">238</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Wast <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Wearinesse <a href="#Page_9">9</a> <a href="#Page_84">84</a> <a href="#Page_153">153</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Watchfulnesse <a href="#Page_79">79</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Watchmen <a href="#Page_149">149</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Way of Uertue <a href="#Page_160">160</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Weapons <a href="#Page_111">111</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Wealth <a href="#Page_68">68</a>. <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Weights <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Welldoing <a href="#Page_135">135</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Weaknesse needes a suporter <a href="#Page_222">222</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Wisedome <a href="#Page_1">1</a>. <a href="#Page_2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>. - <a href="#Page_103">103</a>. <a href="#Page_142">142</a>. <a href="#Page_145">145</a>.</li> - -<li class="indx">Witt <a href="#Page_1">1</a>. <a href="#Page_64">64</a>. <a href="#Page_136">136</a>. <a href="#Page_167">167</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Wives <a href="#Page_172">172</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Whoredome. <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Whore. <i>vid.</i> <a href="#Harlot">Harlot</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Woods decayed <a href="#Page_35">35</a></li> - -<li class="indx">Woman <a href="#Page_93">93</a>. <a href="#Page_231">231</a></li> - -<li class="indx">World goes backeward <a href="#Page_219">219</a>.</li> - - -<li class="ifrst"><i>Y.</i></li> - -<li class="indx">Youth. <a href="#Page_22">22</a>. <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> -</ul> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_275.jpg" width="500" height="255" alt="" /> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - - - -<h2 class="no-break"><a name="A_Supersedeas" id="A_Supersedeas"></a> -A <i>Supersedeas</i> to all them, whose custome<br /> -<span class="f75">it is, without any deserving, to importune<br /> -<i>Authors</i> to give unto them their<br /> -<i>Bookes</i>.</span></h2> - - -<div class="poetry-container4"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse drop-capt">IT merits nor your Anger, nor my Blame,</div> -<div class="verse">That, thus I have inscrib'd this <i>Epigram</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">For, they who know me, know, that, <i>Bookes</i> thus large,</div> -<div class="verse">And, fraught with <i>Emblems</i>, do augment the Charge</div> -<div class="verse">Too much above my <i>Fortunes</i>, to afford</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Gift</i> so costly, for an <i>Aierie-word</i>:</div> -<div class="verse">And, I have prov'd, your <i>Begging-Qualitie</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">So forward, to oppresse my <i>Modestie</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">That, for my future ease, it seemeth fit,</div> -<div class="verse">To take some Order, for preventing it.</div> -<div class="verse">And, peradventure, other Authors may,</div> -<div class="verse">Find Cause to thanke me for't, another day.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">These many years, it hath your <i>Custom</i> bin,</div> -<div class="verse">That, when in my possession, you have seene</div> -<div class="verse">A <i>Volume</i>, of mine owne, you did no more,</div> -<div class="verse">But, <i>Aske</i> and <i>Take</i>; As if you thought my store</div> -<div class="verse">Encreast, without my Cost; And, that, by <i>Giving</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">(Both <i>Paines</i> and Charges too) I got my living;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, that, I find the <i>Paper</i> and the <i>Printing</i>,</div> -<div class="verse">As easie to me, as the <i>Bookes</i> Inventing.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">If, of my <i>Studies</i>, no esteeme you have,</div> -<div class="verse">You, then abuse the <i>Courtesies</i> you crave;</div> -<div class="verse">And, are <i>Vnthankfull</i>. If you prize them ought,</div> -<div class="verse">Why should my <i>Labour</i>, not enough be thought,</div> -<div class="verse">Vnlesse, I adde <i>Expenses</i> to my paines?</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Stationer</i>, affoords for little Gaines,</div> -<div class="verse">The <i>Bookes</i> you crave: And, He, as well as I</div> -<div class="verse">Might give away, what you repine to buy:</div> -<div class="verse">For, what hee <i>Gives</i>, doth onely <i>Mony</i> Cost,</div> -<div class="verse">In mine, both <i>Mony</i>, <i>Time</i>, and <i>Wit</i> is lost.</div> -<div class="verse">What I shall Give, and what I have bestow'd</div> -<div class="verse">On Friends, to whom, I <i>Love</i>, or <i>Service</i> ow'd,</div> -<div class="verse">I grudge not; And, I thinke it is from them,</div> -<div class="verse">Sufficient, that such <i>Gifts</i> they do esteeme:</div> -<div class="verse">Yea, and, it is a <i>Favour</i> too, when they</div> -<div class="verse">Will take these <i>Triflles</i>, my large <i>Dues</i> to pay;</div> -<div class="verse">(Or, Aske them at my hands, when I forget,</div> -<div class="verse">That, I am to their <i>Love</i>, so much in debt.)</div> -<div class="verse indent2">But, this inferres not, that, I should bestow</div> -<div class="verse">The like on all men, who, my <i>Name</i> do know;</div> -<div class="verse">Or, have the Face to aske: For, then, I might,</div> -<div class="verse">Of <i>Wit</i> and <i>Mony</i>, soone be begger'd, quite.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">So much, already, hath beene <i>Beg'd</i> away,</div> -<div class="verse">(For which, I neither had, nor looke for pay)</div> -<div class="verse">As being valu'd at the common Rate,</div> -<div class="verse">Had rais'd, <i>Five hundred Crownes</i>, in my Estate.</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[274]</a></span> -<div class="verse">Which, (if I may confesse it) signifies,</div> -<div class="verse">That, I was farre more <i>Liberall</i>, than <i>Wise</i>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">But, for the time to come, resolv'd I am,</div> -<div class="verse">That, till without denyall (or just blame)</div> -<div class="verse">I may of those, who <i>Cloth</i> and <i>Clothes</i> do make,</div> -<div class="verse">(As oft as I shall need them) <i>Aske</i>, and <i>Take</i>;</div> -<div class="verse">You shall no more befoole me. Therfore, <i>Pray</i></div> -<div class="verse"><i>Be Answer'd</i>; And, henceforward, keepe away.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_277.jpg" width="200" height="176" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="no-break"><a name="A_Direction" id="A_Direction"></a> -A <i>Direction</i>, shewing how they who are so<br /> -<span class="f75"><i>disposed</i>, <i>shall find out their <em class="upright">Chance</em>, in the<br /> -<em class="upright">Lotteries</em> aforegoing</i>.</span></h2> - -<p class="drop-capt">TUrne about one of the <i>Indexes</i> in the Figures, which are in the -following Page, without casting your eyes thereupon, so observe -where it stayeth untill your hand ceaseth to give it motion. If it be -the upper <i>Figure</i>, whose <i>Index</i> you moved; than, that <i>Number</i> whereupon -it resteth, is the number of your <i>Lot</i>, or Blancke.</p> - -<p>This being knowne, move the other <i>Index</i> in like manner, and that -<i>Quarter</i> of the said <i>Figure</i> whereon the same standeth (when your -hand is taken away) sheweth in which of the foure Bookes, or <i>Lotteries</i>, -that <i>Chance</i> is to be expected, whereunto your <i>Number</i> doth send -you, whether it be <i>Lot</i>, or <i>Blancke</i>. If it be any Number above Fifty, -it is a <i>Blancke Chance</i>, and you are to looke no further. If it be any of -the other <i>Numbers</i>, it sends you to the <i>Emblem</i> answering to the same -<i>Number</i>, in the <i>Booke</i> next before the same <i>Lotterie</i>.</p> - -<p>If the letter <i>M.</i> be placed before the alotted <i>Number</i>; then, that -Lot is proper onely to a <i>Man</i>: If <i>W.</i> stand before it, it is proper onely -to a <i>Woman</i>: if there be no letter, it is indifferent to both <i>Sexes</i>: -And, therefore, when a <i>Man</i> or <i>Woman</i> happneth on a <i>Chance</i> impertinent -to their proper <i>Sexe</i>, they are then, to take the next <i>Chance</i> -which pertaineth properly to their <i>Sexe</i>, whether it be <i>Blancke</i> or <i>Lot</i>; -the triall whereof, I have thus contrived, without the use of <i>Dice</i>; -lest by bringing them into sight, they might, sometimes, occasion -worse <i>Gaming</i>.</p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza italic"> -<div class="verse indent2">If <em class="upright">King</em>, <em class="upright">Queene</em>, <em class="upright">Prince</em>, or any one that springs</div> -<div class="verse">From Persons, knowne to be deriv'd from <em class="upright">Kings</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">Shall seeke, for <em class="upright">Sport sake</em>, hence to draw their <em class="upright">Lot</em>;</div> -<div class="verse">Our <em class="upright">Author</em> sayes; that, hee provided not</div> -<div class="verse">For such as <em class="upright">those</em>: Because, it were too much</div> -<div class="verse">For him, to find out <em class="upright">Fortunes</em>, fit for such,</div> -<div class="verse">Who, (as hee thinkes) should, rather, <em class="upright">Ayde</em> supply</div> -<div class="verse">For him, to mend his evill <em class="upright">Fortunes</em> by.</div> -<div class="verse">To <em class="upright">them</em>, hee, therefore pleased is to give</div> -<div class="verse">This noble, and this large <em class="upright">Prerogative</em>;</div> -<div class="verse">That, they shall chuse from hence, what <em class="upright">Lots</em> they please,</div> -<div class="verse">And make them better, if they like not <em class="upright">these</em>.</div> -<div class="verse indent2">All other <em class="upright">Personages</em>, of <em class="upright">High degree</em>,</div> -<div class="verse">That, will professe our Authors friends to be,</div> -<div class="verse">This <em class="upright">Freedome</em>, likewise, have; that till, they find</div> -<div class="verse">A <em class="upright">Lot</em>, which is agreeing to their mind,</div> -<div class="verse">They shall have libertie, anewe, to try</div> -<div class="verse">Their fought-for Chance: And, ev'rytime-apply</div> -<div class="verse">The <em class="upright">Morrals</em> they disliked, unto those,</div> -<div class="verse">Which are, ill-quallifide, among their <em class="upright">Foes</em>.</div> -<div class="verse">All others, who this <em class="upright">Game</em>, adventure will,</div> -<div class="verse">Must beare their <em class="upright">Fortunes</em>, be they Good, or Ill.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[275]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_279.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="Spinner 1" /> -</div> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_e_279b.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="Spinner 2" /> -</div> - -</div> - -<hr class="chapter" /> -<div class="transnote"> -<h2><b>Transcriber's notes:</b></h2> - -<p>In the text version italics are represented with _underscore_ and small -caps with ALL CAPS. Upright text in italic sections, has been marked with =equals=.</p> - -<p>As noted at the start of the text, inconsistencies and apparent errors in the text have been left. -The only changes that have been made are to unclear or missing punctuation marks (e.g. where a gap in the text is seen). -In these cases, consistent punctuation has been used.</p> - -<p><b>A list of inconsistencies and problems found in the text:—</b></p> - -<p><b>Introduction</b></p> -<ul class="index"> -<li>Sheet 6 "A Writ of Prevention". STRVCTVRFS should probably read STRVCTVRES.</li> - -<li>Sheet 13 "To The Reader". A closing bracket should be added after "Graver"<br /> -(whether hee were the Versifier or the Graver.</li> - -<li>Sheet 14 "To The Reader". A closing bracket should be added after Hieroglyphicks<br /> -(as in the Tetragrammaton; in the Figure of Arîon; -and in the Proprieties due to some other Hieroglyphicks.</li> - -</ul> - -<p><b>Book I</b></p> -<ul class="index"> - -<li>In Book 1, The first illustration is labelled "Illvstratio", subsequent ones are labelled "Illvstr."</li> - -<li>Embleme 21. "And by our <i>Death</i>, our <i>Life</i> is new-begnnne", -should probably read "new-begunne."</li> - -<li>Embleme 27. "Some, I have k<i>n</i>owne, by <i>Harlots</i> Wiles undone", -the italic "n" seems out of place.</li> - -<li>Embleme 30. "And shine like purest <i>Gold</i>, and <i>Pretious-Stones</i>", -Pretious and Precious are both found in the text.</li> - -<li>Embleme 45. "Made entrance to it owne <i>Destruction</i>, hath", it could be its.</li> - -<li>The First Lotterie, No. 19. "Of much more <i>Warinesse</i>, then <i>Speed</i>", -"more then" is used throughout the text.</li> -</ul> - -<p><b> Book 2.</b></p> -<ul class="index"> - -<li>Illvstr. 2. "THe <i>Crowe</i>, when deepe within a close-mouth'd-<i>Pot</i>.", -should end with a comma.</li> - -<li>"Illvstr. IIII.", -IV is used in Book 1. IIII used in Book 4. XIIII, XXIIII and are used in Books 1 and 2. XLIIII in B4</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XLV. "And, view the well-grown Trees, the wel-trimm'd Bowers", -perhaps "wel" should be "well".</li> - -<li>The Second Lotterie. Verses after 54 are labelled 5 and 6, but should be 55 and 56.</li> - -<li>p.120 has been mislabelled as 118 and corrected by hand.</li> - -<li>Book 2 ends at page 124, book 3 starts at page 135.</li> -</ul> - -<p><b>Book 3.</b></p> - -<ul class="index"> - -<li>Illvstr XIII. "But, with Sobrietie, be wise," -should end with period.</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XV. "But, when <i>one Foote</i>, thus grasp'd a <i>Peple-stone</i>", -"Peble-stone" is used a few lines down.</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XVI. "The <i>stubstance</i> of it, still, in <i>God</i>, remaines", -"stubstance" should probably be "substance".</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XX. "Of those deare <i>Mercies</i>, <i>and</i> that bloudy <i>Passion</i>", -"and" may be italicised in error.</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XXIV. "By long nelect of time, will <i>burthensome</i>", -"nelect" should probably be "neglect"</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XXIV. "As much as makes, at least, <i>One Line a Day</i>," -should end with period.</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XXVI. "It brings (us when we passe the common sight)", -Opening bracket should be placed after "us".</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XXX. "Delight not <i>Archers</i>; tyet, such uselesse Toyes", -"tyet" should probably be "yet".</li> - -</ul> - -<p><b>Book 4.</b></p> -<ul class="index"> - -<li>Book 3 ends with page 196, Book 4 starts with page 109. The next page is 210 so 109 should be 209</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XXXI. "Your houres, in serions matters, if you spend", -"serions" should probably be "serious"</li> - -<li>Illvstr. XXXVIII. "A <i>tatlers</i> tougue; for, paines are lost on him", -"tougue" should probably be "tongue".<br /> -"And, in our selves true <i>Vertnes</i> to maintaine;", -"Vertnes" should probably be "Vertues".</li> - -<li>The Fourth Lotterie. Verse 1. "If so, thine <i>Emblom</i> doth expresse", -"Emblom" should probably be Emblem".</li> - -<li>Verse 12. "As none can conquer; And, bohold", -"bohold" should probably be "behold".</li> - -<li>Verse 39. "Whrch may not make the danger worse", -"Whrch" should probably be "Which".</li> - -<li>Verse 53. "Which these two <i>fignres</i>, backward, make", -"fignres" should probably be "figures".</li> -</ul> - -<p><b>Index.</b> (Punctuation has been left as printed).</p> - -<ul class="index"> - -<li>"Christ the true Pellican. 154." is spelt Pelican on p.154.</li> - -<li>"Ganimed 156." Ganymed is used on p.156.</li> - -<li>"Greefe 26." Griefe is used on p26</li> - -<li>"Halter 66, Halcyon, vid. Kings Fisher." Requires a line break between the two entries.</li> - -<li>"Mutuall affection 34. 163. 781." p.781 doesn't exist, a link has been made to p.178.</li> - -<li>"Rich Theeves 197" p.197 doesn't exist, a link has been made to p.191.</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<hr class="chapter" /> -<div class="transnote"> -<h3><b>Transcriber's Addendum</b></h3> -<p>Transcriptions and translations of the mottoes engraved around each emblem -are provided as a convenience to the reader. Each transcription is shown as written (with any notes), -followed by the text -normalised to modern standards of punctuation and spelling (u/v, æ/ae, -cunque/-cumque, oe/ae etc.) -and its translation.</p> - -<div class="center"> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of the translations of the mottoes"> -<tr><td class="tdm"> </td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="tdm"><a name="png17_t" id="png17_t"></a><a href="#png17">Portrait</a></td><td class="tdtr">EFFIGIES GEORGII WITHERI POETÆ.<br /> -Effigies Georgii Witheri poetae<br /> -Portrait of the poet George Wither</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_1_1t" id="Ill_1_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_1_1">Ill 1 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIVITVR INGENIO CÆTERA MORTIS ERṼT<br /> -Vivitur ingenio; caetera mortis erunt<br /> -We live by our genius; the rest will belong to death</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_2_1t" id="Ill_2_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_2_1">Ill 2 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SAPIENTIA CONSTANS<br /> -Sapientia constans<br /> -Wisdom is constant</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_3_1t" id="Ill_3_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_3_1">Ill 3 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">LEX REGIT ET ARMA TVENTVR.<br /> -Lex regit et arma tuentur<br /> -Law directs and arms protect</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_4_1t" id="Ill_4_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_4_1">Ill 4 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NE TENEAR<br /> -Ne tenear<br /> -Lest I be held back</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_5_1t" id="Ill_5_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_5_1">Ill 5 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">LABORE VIRTVS, VIRTVTE GLORIA PARATVR<br /> -Labore virtus, virtute gloria paratur<br /> -Virtue is acquired through labour, glory through virtue</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_6_1t" id="Ill_6_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_6_1">Ill 6 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON OBEST VIRTVTI SORS.<br /> -Non obest virtuti sors<br /> -Chance is no hindrance to virtue</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_7_1t" id="Ill_7_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_7_1">Ill 7 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON SCEPTRO SED PLECTRO DVCITVR<br /> -Non sceptro sed plectro ducitur<br /> -She is led by the plectrum, not by the sceptre</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_8_1t" id="Ill_8_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_8_1">Ill 8 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN HVNC INTVENS PIVS ESTO<br /> -In hunc intuens pius esto<br /> -Look on this and be pious</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_9_1t" id="Ill_9_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_9_1">Ill 9 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN NOCTE CONSILIṼ<br /> -In nocte consilium<br /> -Deliberation at night</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_10_1t" id="Ill_10_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_10_1">Ill 10 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SPERNIT PERICVLA VIRT[VS]<br /> -Spernit pericula virtus<br /> -Virtue scorns danger</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_11_1t" id="Ill_11_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_11_1">Ill 11 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">AD SCOPVM LICET ÆGRE ET FRVSTRA<br /> -Ad scopum licet aegre et frustra<br /> -Towards the goal, but painfully and unsuccessfully</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_12_1t" id="Ill_12_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_12_1">Ill 12 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ΠΑΝΤΑ ΛΕΛΟΙΠΑ<br /> -πάντα λέλοιπα<br /> -I have left all things</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_13_1t" id="Ill_13_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_13_1">Ill 13 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">REMIGIO VENTISQ[VE] SECVNDIS<br /> -Remigio ventisque secundis<br /> -By rowing and favourable winds</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_14_1t" id="Ill_14_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_14_1">Ill 14 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">QVID SI SIC<img src="images/i_b_0142d.gif" alt="3dots" /><br /> -Quid si sic<br /> -What if so?</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_15_1t" id="Ill_15_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_15_1">Ill 15 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DVM NVTRIO CONSVMOR<br /> -Dum nutrio consumor<br /> -As I nourish I am consumed</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_16_1t" id="Ill_16_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_16_1">Ill 16 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CONCVSSVS SVRGO<br /> -Concussus surgo<br /> -When struck I rise</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_17_1t" id="Ill_17_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_17_1">Ill 17 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DVM EXTENDAR<br /> -Dum extendar<br /> -Until I am stretched</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_18_1t" id="Ill_18_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_18_1">Ill 18 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MATVRA<br /> -Matura<br /> -Hurry!</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_19_1t" id="Ill_19_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_19_1">Ill 19 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">LENTE SED ATTENTE<br /> -Lente sed attente<br /> -Slowly but carefully</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_20_1t" id="Ill_20_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_20_1">Ill 20 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TRANSEAT<br /> -Transeat<br /> -Let it pass</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_21_1t" id="Ill_21_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_21_1">Ill 21 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MORS VITÆ INITIVM.<br /> -Mors vitae initium<br /> -Death is the beginning of life</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_22_1t" id="Ill_22_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_22_1">Ill 22 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">QVO ME VERTĀ NESCIO<br /> -Quo me vertam nescio<br /> -I know not where to turn</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_23_1t" id="Ill_23_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_23_1">Ill 23 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PATIOR VT POTIAR<br /> -Patior ut potiar<br /> -I suffer to obtain</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_24_1t" id="Ill_24_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_24_1">Ill 24 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CONSEQVITVR QVODCVNQ[VE] PETIT<br /> -Consequitur quodcumque petit<br /> -She attains whatever she aims at</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_25_1t" id="Ill_25_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_25_1">Ill 25 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON QVAM CREBRO SED QVĀ BĒE<img src="images/i_b_0142d.gif" alt="3dots" /><br /> -Non quam crebro sed quam bene<br /> -Not how often, but how well</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_26_1t" id="Ill_26_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_26_1">Ill 26 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DVRABO<br /> -Durabo<br /> -I shall endure</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_27_1t" id="Ill_27_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_27_1">Ill 27 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VBI HELENA IBI TROIA<br /> -Ubi Helena, ibi Troia<br /> -Where Helen is, there is Troy</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_28_1t" id="Ill_28_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_28_1">Ill 28 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI.<br /> -Victrix patientia duri<br /> -Patience victorious over hardship</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_29_1t" id="Ill_29_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_29_1">Ill 29 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON VNO STERNITVR ICTV.<br /> -Non uno sternitur ictu<br /> -It is not felled with one blow</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_30_1t" id="Ill_30_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_30_1">Ill 30 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NVDRISCO IL BVONO ET SPENGO IL REO<br /> -Nudrisco il buono et spengo il reo<br /> -I nourish the good and destroy the malefactor</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_31_1t" id="Ill_31_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_31_1">Ill 31 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SAPIENS DOMINABITVR ASTRIS.<br /> -Sapiens dominabitur astris<br /> -The wise man shall rule over the stars</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_32_1t" id="Ill_32_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_32_1">Ill 32 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">EX VTROQVE CÆSAR<br /> -Ex utroque Caesar<br /> - A Caesar either way</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_33_1t" id="Ill_33_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_33_1">Ill 33 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PERSEQVAR EXSTINCTṼ<br /> -Persequar exstinctum<br /> -I will follow him into death</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_34_1t" id="Ill_34_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_34_1">Ill 34 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FLAMMESCIT VTERQVE<br /> -Flammescit uterque<br /> -Each catches fire</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_35_1t" id="Ill_35_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_35_1">Ill 35 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">POSTERITATI<br /> -Posteritati<br /> -For posterity</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_36_1t" id="Ill_36_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_36_1">Ill 36 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NIL PENNA, SED VSVS<br /> -Nil penna, sed usus<br /> -Not the plume, but its use</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_37_1t" id="Ill_37_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_37_1">Ill 37 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DVM CLAVVM RECTAM TENEAM<img src="images/i_b_0142d.gif" alt="3dots" /><br /> -Dum clavum rectam teneam<br /> -As long as I hold the tiller steady</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_38_1t" id="Ill_38_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_38_1">Ill 38 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SI SCIENS FALLO.<br /> -Si sciens fallo<br /> -If I knowingly deceive</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_39_1t" id="Ill_39_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_39_1">Ill 39 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SPEQVE METVQVE PAVET<img src="images/i_b_0142d.gif" alt="3dots" /><br /> -Speque metuque pavet<br /> -It trembles with hope and fear</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_40_1t" id="Ill_40_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_40_1">Ill 40 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">COSI VIVO PIACER CONDVCE A MORTE<br /> -Così vivo piacer conduce a morte<br /> -So lively pleasure leads to death</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_41_1t" id="Ill_41_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_41_1">Ill 41 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PVRIS MANIBVS.<br /> -Puris manibus<br /> -With clean hands</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_42_1t" id="Ill_42_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_42_1">Ill 42 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">LINGVA QVO TENDIS<br /> -Lingua, quo tendis?<br /> -Tongue, where are you going?</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_43_1t" id="Ill_43_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_43_1">Ill 43 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">original reads "ΟΥΜE ΒΛLΨΟΝ ΑΝΩ" which has been corrected to "ΘΥΜΕ ΒΛΕΨΟΝ ΑΝΩ"<br /> -θυμέ, βλέψον ἄνω<br /> -Look up, my soul</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_44_1t" id="Ill_44_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_44_1">Ill 44 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FLAVESCENT<br /> -Flavescent<br /> -They shall turn golden</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_45_1t" id="Ill_45_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_45_1">Ill 45 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FINIS AB ORIGINE PĒDET<br /> -Finis ab origine pendet<br /> -The end depends on the beginning</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_46_1t" id="Ill_46_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_46_1">Ill 46 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TANDEM FIT ARBOR<br /> -Tandem fit arbor<br /> -At last it becomes a tree</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_47_1t" id="Ill_47_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_47_1">Ill 47 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SVPERATA CRVCE CORONOR<br /> -Superata cruce coronor<br /> -I rise above the cross and am crowned</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_48_1t" id="Ill_48_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_48_1">Ill 48 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MORS SCEPTRA LIGONIB[VS] ÆQVAT<br /> -Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat<br /> -Death levels sceptres and spades</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_49_1t" id="Ill_49_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_49_1">Ill 49 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PAVLATIM NON IMPETV.<br /> -Paulatim non impetu<br /> -Gradually, not by force</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_50_1t" id="Ill_50_1t"></a><a href="#Ill_50_1">Ill 50 Bk 1</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DE PARVIS GRANDIS ACERVVS ERIT.<br /> -De parvis grandis acervus erit<br /> -From small things a great heap will grow</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_1_2t" id="Ill_1_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_1_2">Ill 1 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NEQVEO COMPESCERE MVLTOS<br /> -Nequeo compescere multos<br /> -I cannot restrain so many</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_2_2t" id="Ill_2_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_2_2">Ill 2 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">INGENII LARGITOR VENTER.<br /> -Ingenii largitor venter<br /> -The belly is the bestower of genius</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_3_2t" id="Ill_3_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_3_2">Ill 3 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MVSICA SERVA DEI<br /> -Musica serva dei<br /> -Music is the handmaid of God</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_4_2t" id="Ill_4_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_4_2">Ill 4 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DISCITE IVSTICIAM.<br /> -Discite iusticiam<br /> -Learn justice</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_5_2t" id="Ill_5_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_5_2">Ill 5 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CONSENSV POPVLI REGNṼ SVBSISTIT.<br /> -Consensu populi regnum subsistit<br /> -The kingdom is sustained by the consent of the people</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_6_2t" id="Ill_6_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_6_2">Ill 6 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">QVI ME ALIT ME EXTINGVIT.<br /> -Qui me alit me extinguit<br /> -He who feeds me extinguishes me</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_7_2t" id="Ill_7_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_7_2">Ill 7 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SEQVITVR SVA PŒNA NOCENTEM<br /> -Sequitur sua poena nocentem<br /> -His punishment follows the evildoer</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_8_2t" id="Ill_8_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_8_2">Ill 8 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">POST TENTATIONEM CONSOLATIO.<br /> -Post tentationem consolatio<br /> -After temptation, consolation</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_9_2t" id="Ill_9_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_9_2">Ill 9 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PRO GALLINIS<br /> -Pro gallinis<br /> -For the hens</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_10_2t" id="Ill_10_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_10_2">Ill 10 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TVTIVS VT POSSIT FIGI.<br /> -Tutius ut possit figi<br /> -To be fixed more securely</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_11_2t" id="Ill_11_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_11_2">Ill 11 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN SILENTIO ET SPE.<br /> -In silentio et spe<br /> -In silence and hope</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_12_2t" id="Ill_12_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_12_2">Ill 12 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FATO PRVDENTIA MAIOR.<br /> -Fato prudentia maior<br /> -Prudence is greater than fate</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_13_2t" id="Ill_13_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_13_2">Ill 13 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CONIVNCTIS VOTIS<br /> -Coniunctis votis<br /> -Joined in prayer</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_14_2t" id="Ill_14_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_14_2">Ill 14 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CVI BONO?<br /> -Cui bono?<br /> -For whose benefit? (This is what the phrase usually means. But our author understands it as: For what benefit?)</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_15_2t" id="Ill_15_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_15_2">Ill 15 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SACRIFICIVM DEO COR CONTRIBVLATIM<br /> -Sacrificium deo cor contribulatum<br /> -A contrite heart is a sacrifice to God</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_16_2t" id="Ill_16_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_16_2">Ill 16 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">REGNI CORONA REX<br /> -Regni corona rex<br /> -The king is the crown of the kingdom</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_17_2t" id="Ill_17_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_17_2">Ill 17 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">STVDIO ET VIGILANTIA.<br /> -Studio et vigilantia<br /> -By study and watchfulness</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_18_2t" id="Ill_18_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_18_2">Ill 18 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ARTE ET MARTE<br /> -Arte et marte<br /> -By art and by arms</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_19_2t" id="Ill_19_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_19_2">Ill 19 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CONSTANTE FIDVCIA<br /> -Constante fiducia<br /> -By art and by arms</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_20_2t" id="Ill_20_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_20_2">Ill 20 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">AMOR DOCET MVSICAM<br /> -Amor docet musicam<br /> -Love teaches music</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_21_2t" id="Ill_21_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_21_2">Ill 21 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON TE SED NVMMOS<br /> -Non te sed nummos<br /> -Not you but your money</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_22_2t" id="Ill_22_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_22_2">Ill 22 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FIDE SED CVI VIDE<br /> -Fide sed cui vide<br /> -Trust, but be careful whom</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_23_2t" id="Ill_23_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_23_2">Ill 23 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">HVMANA FVMVS<br /> -Humana fumus<br /> -All things human are smoke</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_24_2t" id="Ill_24_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_24_2">Ill 24 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">OMNIA MEA MECVM PORTO<br /> -Omnia mea mecum porto<br /> -All that is mine I carry with me</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_25_2t" id="Ill_25_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_25_2">Ill 25 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TAMEN DISCAM.<br /> -Tamen discam<br /> -Yet I shall learn</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_26_2t" id="Ill_26_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_26_2">Ill 26 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIRTVTI FORTVNA COMES.<br /> -Virtuti fortuna comes<br /> -Fortune is the companion of virtue</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_27_2t" id="Ill_27_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_27_2">Ill 27 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DEVS NOBIS HÆC OTIA FECIT.<br /> -Deus nobis haec otia fecit<br /> - God has granted us this ease</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_28_2t" id="Ill_28_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_28_2">Ill 28 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">EX BELLO PAX<br /> -Ex bello pax<br /> -From war, peace</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_29_2t" id="Ill_29_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_29_2">Ill 29 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">COR RECTṼ INQVIRIT SCIENTIĀ.<br /> -Cor rectum inquirit scientiam<br /> -An upright heart seeks knowledge</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_30_2t" id="Ill_30_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_30_2">Ill 30 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ΕΚ ΠΟΝΟΥ ΚΛΕΟΣ.<br /> -ἐκ πόνου κλέος<br /> -From labour, glory</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_31_2t" id="Ill_31_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_31_2">Ill 31 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PVEROS CASTIGO VIROSQ[VE]<br /> -Pueros castigo virosque<br /> -I chastise boys and men</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_32_2t" id="Ill_32_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_32_2">Ill 32 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VITA MORTALIVM VIGILIA.<br /> -Vita mortalium vigilia<br /> -The life of mortals is watchfulness</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_33_2t" id="Ill_33_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_33_2">Ill 33 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MANET IMMVTABILE FATVM.<br /> -Manet immutabile fatum<br /> -Fate remains unalterable</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_34_2t" id="Ill_34_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_34_2">Ill 34 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DETERIVS FORMIDO.<br /> -Deterius formido<br /> -I fear something worse</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_35_2t" id="Ill_35_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_35_2">Ill 35 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ADVERSIS CLARIVS ARDET.<br /> -Adversis clarius ardet<br /> -It burns brighter in adversity</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_36_2t" id="Ill_36_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_36_2">Ill 36 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MVNDI.<br /> -Sic transit gloria mundi<br /> -So passes the world's glory</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_37_2t" id="Ill_37_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_37_2">Ill 37 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IVSQVE A LA MORT<br /> -Jusqu'à la mort<br /> -Until death</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_38_2t" id="Ill_38_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_38_2">Ill 38 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SVVM CVIQVE TRIBVE<br /> -Suum cuique tribue<br /> -Allow each his own</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_39_2t" id="Ill_39_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_39_2">Ill 39 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN VIRTVTE ET FORTVNA.<br /> -In virtute et fortuna<br /> -In virtue and fortune</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_40_2t" id="Ill_40_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_40_2">Ill 40 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ΑΙΩΝΙΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΣΚΑΙΡΟΝ.<br /> -αἰώνιον καὶ πρόσκαιρον<br /> -Eternal and temporal</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_41_2t" id="Ill_41_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_41_2">Ill 41 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIRIBVS IVNGENDA SAPIENTIA.<br /> -Viribus iungenda sapientia<br /> -Wisdom should be joined to strength</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_42_2t" id="Ill_42_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_42_2">Ill 42 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SOLVM A SOLE<br /> -Solum a sole<br /> -The soil from the sun</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_43_2t" id="Ill_43_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_43_2">Ill 43 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">RECTO CVRSV<br /> -Recto cursu<br /> -On a steady course</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_44_2t" id="Ill_44_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_44_2">Ill 44 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SPES ALIT AGRICOLAS:·<br /> -Spes alit agricolas<br /> -Hope nourishes farmers</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_45_2t" id="Ill_45_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_45_2">Ill 45 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">POCO A POCO.<br /> -Poco a poco<br /> -Little by little</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_46_2t" id="Ill_46_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_46_2">Ill 46 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TRIBVLATIO DITAT.<br /> -Tribulatio ditat<br /> -Affliction enriches</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_47_2t" id="Ill_47_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_47_2">Ill 47 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VICTRIX FORTVNÆ SAPIENTIA.<br /> -Victrix fortunae sapientia<br /> -Wisdom victorious over fortune</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_48_2t" id="Ill_48_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_48_2">Ill 48 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">AVT MORS AVT VITA DECORA<br /> -Aut mors aut vita decora<br /> -Either death or life with honour</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_49_2t" id="Ill_49_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_49_2">Ill 49 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DONEC TOTṼ IMPLEAT ORBĒ.<br /> -Donec totum impleat orbem<br /> -Until it fills the whole world</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_50_2t" id="Ill_50_2t"></a><a href="#Ill_50_2">Ill 50 Bk 2</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIRTVS LORICA FIDELIS<br /> -Virtus lorica fidelis<br /> -Virtue is a trusty coat of mail</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_1_3t" id="Ill_1_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_1_3">Ill 1 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SI RECTE FACIES.<br /> -Si recte facies<br /> -If you act rightly</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_2_3t" id="Ill_2_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_2_3">Ill 2 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SUPERAT SOLERTIA VIRES.<br /> -Superat solertia vires<br /> -Cleverness outdoes strength</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_3_3t" id="Ill_3_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_3_3">Ill 3 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON SINE CAUSA.<br /> -Non sine causa<br /> -Not without cause</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_4_3t" id="Ill_4_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_4_3">Ill 4 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PANDO RECONDITA.<br /> -Pando recondita<br /> -I disclose what is hidden</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_5_3t" id="Ill_5_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_5_3">Ill 5 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIRTUTE DUCE COMITE FORTUNA<br /> -Virtute duce comite fortuna<br /> -With virtue as guide and fortune as companion</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_6_3t" id="Ill_6_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_6_3">Ill 6 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FLOREBO PROSPICIENTE DEO.<br /> -Florebo prospiciente deo<br /> -Under God's gaze I shall flourish</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_7_3t" id="Ill_7_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_7_3">Ill 7 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FAC ET SPERA.<br /> -Fac et spera<br /> -Do and hope</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_8_3t" id="Ill_8_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_8_3">Ill 8 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">RERUM SAPIENTIA CUSTOS.<br /> -Rerum sapientia custos<br /> -Wisdom is the guardian of all things</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_9_3t" id="Ill_9_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_9_3">Ill 9 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">LABORE ET CONSTANTIA.<br /> -Labore et constantia<br /> -By labour and constancy</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_10_3t" id="Ill_10_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_10_3">Ill 10 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">EVERTIT ET AEQUAT.<br /> -Evertit et aequat<br /> -He overturns and levels</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_11_3t" id="Ill_11_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_11_3">Ill 11 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SCIENTIA IMMUTABILIS.<br /> -Scientia immutabilis<br /> - Knowledge is immutable</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_12_3t" id="Ill_12_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_12_3">Ill 12 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIRTUTE AC STUDIO PER ORBEM FAMA PERPETUA COMPARATUR.<br /> -Virtute ac studio per orbem fama perpetua comparatur<br /> -By virtue and zeal everlasting worldwide fame is obtained</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_13_3t" id="Ill_13_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_13_3">Ill 13 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NOLI ALTUM SAPERE.<br /> -Noli altum sapere<br /> -Be not over-wise</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_14_3t" id="Ill_14_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_14_3">Ill 14 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TRACTANT FABRILIA FABRI.<br /> -Tractant fabrilia fabri<br /> -Workmen wield their own tools</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_15_3t" id="Ill_15_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_15_3">Ill 15 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON DORMIT QUI CUSTODIT.<br /> -Non dormit qui custodit<br /> -He who is on guard does not sleep</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_16_3t" id="Ill_16_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_16_3">Ill 16 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN SPE ET LABORE TRANSIGO VITAM.<br /> -In spe et labore transigo vitam<br /> -I spend my life in hope and labour</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_17_3t" id="Ill_17_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_17_3">Ill 17 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PRUDENTE SIMPLICITATE.<br /> -Prudente simplicitate<br /> -In prudent simplicity</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_18_3t" id="Ill_18_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_18_3">Ill 18 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TRANSITUS CELER EST ET AVOLAMUS.<br /> -Transitus celer est et avolamus<br /> -The passage is swift, then we fly away</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_19_3t" id="Ill_19_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_19_3">Ill 19 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PEDETENTIM.<br /> -Pedetentim<br /> -Step by step</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_20_3t" id="Ill_20_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_20_3">Ill 20 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PRO LEGE ET PRO GREGE.<br /> -Pro lege et pro grege<br /> -For the law and for the flock</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_21_3t" id="Ill_21_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_21_3">Ill 21 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DISCITE IUSTITIAM.<br /> -Discite iustitiam<br /> -Learn justice</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_22_3t" id="Ill_22_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_22_3">Ill 22 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO.<br /> -Non est mortale quod opto<br /> -What I choose is no mortal thing</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_23_3t" id="Ill_23_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_23_3">Ill 23 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN SE SUA PER UESTIGIA UOLUITUR.<br /> -In se sua per vestigia volvitur<br /> -It rolls round on its own tracks onto itself</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_24_3t" id="Ill_24_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_24_3">Ill 24 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NULLA DIES SINE LINEA.<br /> -Nulla dies sine linea<br /> -No day without a line</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_25_3t" id="Ill_25_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_25_3">Ill 25 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">AD REGIS NUTUS.<br /> -Ad regis nutus<br /> -At the king's pleasure</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_26_3t" id="Ill_26_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_26_3">Ill 26 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">HAC VIRTUTIS ITER.<br /> -Hac virtutis iter<br /> -This way is the path of virtue</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_27_3t" id="Ill_27_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_27_3">Ill 27 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CONCEDO NULLI.<br /> -Concedo nulli<br /> -I yield to no-one</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_28_3t" id="Ill_28_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_28_3">Ill 28 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MANUS MANUM LAUAT.<br /> -Manus manum lavat<br /> -One hand washes another</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_29_3t" id="Ill_29_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_29_3">Ill 29 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">LEGIBUS ET ARMIS.<br /> -Legibus et armis<br /> -By laws and arms</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_30_3t" id="Ill_30_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_30_3">Ill 30 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON QUAM FORMOSA SED QUAM RECTA.<br /> -Non quam formosa sed quam recta<br /> -Not how beautiful, but how straight</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_31_3t" id="Ill_31_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_31_3">Ill 31 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ALIIS INSERVIENDO CONSUMOR.<br /> -Aliis inserviendo consumor<br /> -I am consumed in the service of others</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_32_3t" id="Ill_32_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_32_3">Ill 32 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DITAT SERVATA FIDES.<br /> -Ditat servata fides<br /> -Keeping faith brings riches</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_33_3t" id="Ill_33_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_33_3">Ill 33 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FVRES PRIVATI IN NERVO PVBLICI IN AVRO<br /> -Fures privati in nervo, publici in auro<br /> -Private thieves in fetters, public thieves in gold</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_34_3t" id="Ill_34_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_34_3">Ill 34 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MEMENTO MORI<br /> -Memento mori<br /> -Remember you will die</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_35_3t" id="Ill_35_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_35_3">Ill 35 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SERVA MODVM.<br /> -Serva modum<br /> -Observe due measure</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_36_3t" id="Ill_36_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_36_3">Ill 36 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FVLCRVM TVTISSIMVM<br /> -Fulcrum tutissimum<br /> -The safest support</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_37_3t" id="Ill_37_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_37_3">Ill 37 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIRTUS INEXPUGNABILIS.<br /> -Virtus inexpugnabilis<br /> -Impregnable virtue</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_38_3t" id="Ill_38_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_38_3">Ill 38 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VERITAS PREMITUR NON OPPRIMITUR.<br /> -Veritas premitur non opprimitur<br /> -Truth is oppressed but not suppressed</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_39_3t" id="Ill_39_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_39_3">Ill 39 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PAS A PAS.<br /> -Pas a pas<br /> -Step by step</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_40_3t" id="Ill_40_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_40_3">Ill 40 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FORTUNA UT LUNA.<br /> -Fortuna ut luna<br /> -Fortune like the moon</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_41_3t" id="Ill_41_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_41_3">Ill 41 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ANTÈ FERIT QUÀM FLAMMA MICET.<br /> -Ante ferit quam flamma micet<br /> -It strikes before the flame kindles</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_42_3t" id="Ill_42_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_42_3">Ill 42 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PAUPERTATE PREMOR SUBLEUOR INGENIO.<br /> -Paupertate premor sublevor ingenio<br /> -I am borne down by poverty, and uplifted by genius</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_43_3t" id="Ill_43_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_43_3">Ill 43 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIRTUS UNITA FORTIOR.<br /> -Virtus unita fortior<br /> -Virtue is stronger when united</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_44_3t" id="Ill_44_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_44_3">Ill 44 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">AMORE MUTUO.<br /> -Amore mutuo<br /> -By mutual love</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_45_3t" id="Ill_45_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_45_3">Ill 45 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS.<br /> -Concordia insuperabilis<br /> -Unconquerable harmony</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_46_3t" id="Ill_46_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_46_3">Ill 46 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN MANU DEI COR REGIS.<br /> -In manu dei cor regis<br /> -The heart of the king is in God's hand</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_47_3t" id="Ill_47_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_47_3">Ill 47 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CELATA VIRTUS IGNAVIA EST.<br /> -Celata virtus ignavia est<br /> -Virtue concealed is worthlessness</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_48_3t" id="Ill_48_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_48_3">Ill 48 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">REDIBO PLENIOR.<br /> -Redibo plenior<br /> -I shall return more full</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_49_3t" id="Ill_49_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_49_3">Ill 49 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NUSQUAM TUTA FIDES.<br /> -Nusquam tuta fides<br /> -Nowhere is trust secure</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_50_3t" id="Ill_50_3t"></a><a href="#Ill_50_3">Ill 50 Bk 3</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI:<br /> -Hodie mihi cras tibi<br /> -Today for me, tomorrow for you</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_1_4t" id="Ill_1_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_1_4">Ill 1 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON INFERIORA SECUTUS.<br /> -Non inferiora secutus<br /> -Following no lesser things</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_2_4t" id="Ill_2_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_2_4">Ill 2 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">IN MANU DOMINI OMNES SUNT FINES TERRÆ.<br /> -In manu domini omnes sunt fines terrae<br /> -All the ends of the earth are in the hand of the Lord</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_3_4t" id="Ill_3_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_3_4">Ill 3 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">QUOD NON ES NE VIDEARE CAVE.<br /> -Quod non es ne videare cave<br /> -Take care lest you seem what you are not</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_4_4t" id="Ill_4_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_4_4">Ill 4 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FESTINAT DECURRERE.<br /> -Festinat decurrere<br /> -Swiftly it runs through</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_5_4t" id="Ill_5_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_5_4">Ill 5 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ABRUMPAM.<br /> -Abrumpam<br /> -I will break it off</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_6_4t" id="Ill_6_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_6_4">Ill 6 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">HINC DOLOR INDE FUGA.<br /> -Hinc dolor inde fuga<br /> -Hence my pain; thence my flight</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_7_4t" id="Ill_7_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_7_4">Ill 7 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CAPTIVUM IMPUNE LACESSUNT.<br /> -Captivum impune lacessunt<br /> -They provoke the prisoner without fear of harm</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_8_4t" id="Ill_8_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_8_4">Ill 8 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">RESTAT DE VICTORE ORIENTIS.<br /> -Restat de victore orientis<br /> -This remains of the conqueror of the east</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_9_4t" id="Ill_9_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_9_4">Ill 9 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">INSPERATA FLORUIT.<br /> -Insperata floruit<br /> -It flourished unhoped-for</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_10_4t" id="Ill_10_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_10_4">Ill 10 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NESCIT LABI VIRTUS.<br /> -Nescit labi virtus<br /> -Virtue knows no failure</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_11_4t" id="Ill_11_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_11_4">Ill 11 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">HODIE SIC VERTITVR ORBIS.<br /> -Hodie sic vertitur orbis<br /> -So the world turns today</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_12_4t" id="Ill_12_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_12_4">Ill 12 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIS NESCIA VINCI.<br /> -Vis nescia vinci<br /> -A power that knows no defeat</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_13_4t" id="Ill_13_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_13_4">Ill 13 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">QUO FATA TRAHUNT.<br /> -Quo fata trahunt<br /> -Where the fates lead</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_14_4t" id="Ill_14_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_14_4">Ill 14 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ΟΙΚΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΣ<br /> -οἴκος φίλος οἴκος ἄριστος<br /> -The best house is the house you love</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_15_4t" id="Ill_15_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_15_4">Ill 15 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">DEUS DAT CUI VULT.<br /> -Deus dat cui vult<br /> -God gives to whom he wishes</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_16_4t" id="Ill_16_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_16_4">Ill 16 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">INDIGNUM FORTUNA FOVET.<br /> -Indignum fortuna fovet<br /> -Fortune cherishes the unworthy</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_17_4t" id="Ill_17_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_17_4">Ill 17 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">STULTORUM ADIUMENTA NOCUMENTA.<br /> -Stultorum adiumenta nocumenta<br /> -The assistance of fools is a hindrance</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_18_4t" id="Ill_18_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_18_4">Ill 18 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">TE STANTE VIREBO.<br /> -Te stante virebo<br /> -While you stand I shall flourish</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_19_4t" id="Ill_19_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_19_4">Ill 19 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FERIO.<br /> -Ferio<br /> -I hit</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_20_4t" id="Ill_20_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_20_4">Ill 20 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">QUOCUNQUE FERAR.<br /> -Quocumque ferar<br /> -Wherever I am carried</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_21_4t" id="Ill_21_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_21_4">Ill 21 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">BELLA IN VISTA DENTRO TRISTA.<br /> -Bella in vista dentro trista<br /> -Fair without, foul within</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_22_4t" id="Ill_22_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_22_4">Ill 22 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">EN DEXTRA FIDESQUE.<br /> -En dextra fidesque<br /> -See, the right hand and the pledged faith</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_23_4t" id="Ill_23_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_23_4">Ill 23 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER.<br /> -Varium et mutabile semper<br /> -Always inconstant and changeable</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_24_4t" id="Ill_24_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_24_4">Ill 24 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">GAUDET PATIENTIA DURIS.<br /> -Gaudet patientia duris<br /> -Patience rejoices in hardships</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_25_4t" id="Ill_25_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_25_4">Ill 25 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SIC SPECTANDA FIDES.<br /> -Sic spectanda fides<br /> -So good faith should be examined</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_26_4t" id="Ill_26_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_26_4">Ill 26 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON SEMPER ARCUM TENDIT.<br /> -Non semper arcum tendit<br /> -He does not always draw the bow</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_27_4t" id="Ill_27_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_27_4">Ill 27 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VIVE MEMOR LETHI FUGIT HORA.<br /> -Vive memor leti; fugit hora<br /> -Live mindful of death; time flies</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_28_4t" id="Ill_28_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_28_4">Ill 28 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">MEDIIS TRANQUILLUS IN UNDIS.<br /> -Mediis tranquillus in undis<br /> -Calm amid the waves</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_29_4t" id="Ill_29_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_29_4">Ill 29 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">BONA FIDE.<br /> -Bona fide<br /> -In good faith</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_30_4t" id="Ill_30_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_30_4">Ill 30 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PACISQUE BONUS BELLIQUE MINISTER.<br /> -Pacisque bonus bellique minister<br /> -A good servant in peace and in war</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_31_4t" id="Ill_31_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_31_4">Ill 31 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PAR SIT FORTUNA LABORI.<br /> -Par sit fortuna labori<br /> -Let fortune be a match for labour</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_32_4t" id="Ill_32_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_32_4">Ill 32 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">POST NUBILA PHŒBUS.<br /> -Post nubila Phoebus<br /> -After clouds, the sun</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_33_4t" id="Ill_33_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_33_4">Ill 33 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">OMNIS VICTORIA A DOMINO.<br /> -Omnis victoria a domino<br /> -All victory is from the Lord</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_34_4t" id="Ill_34_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_34_4">Ill 34 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NE QUID NIMIS.<br /> -Ne quid nimis<br /> -Nothing to excess</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_35_4t" id="Ill_35_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_35_4">Ill 35 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA.<br /> -Per angusta ad augusta<br /> -Through difficulties to greatness</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_36_4t" id="Ill_36_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_36_4">Ill 36 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FIDUCIA CONCORS.<br /> -Fiducia concors<br /> -United in faith</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_37_4t" id="Ill_37_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_37_4">Ill 37 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PRO ME SI MEREOR IN ME.<br /> -Pro me; si mereor, in me<br /> -For me, or if I deserve it, against me</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_38_4t" id="Ill_38_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_38_4">Ill 38 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">HAC ATQUE ILLAC PERFLUIT.<br /> -Hac atque illac perfluit<br /> -It leaks in all directions</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_39_4t" id="Ill_39_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_39_4">Ill 39 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">UTCUNQUE.<br /> -Utcumque<br /> -However</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_40_4t" id="Ill_40_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_40_4">Ill 40 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FATA OBSTANT.<br /> -Fata obstant<br /> -The fates oppose</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_41_4t" id="Ill_41_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_41_4">Ill 41 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">VT NE QUID DEDECEAT.<br /> -Ut ne quid dedeceat<br /> -So there may be nothing unseemly</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_42_4t" id="Ill_42_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_42_4">Ill 42 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">NON NOBIS. <br /> -Non nobis<br /> -Not for us</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_43_4t" id="Ill_43_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_43_4">Ill 43 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">ASTRA DEUS REGIT.<br /> -Astra deus regit<br /> -God rules the stars</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_44_4t" id="Ill_44_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_44_4">Ill 44 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">FUROR FIT LÆSA SÆPIUS PATIENTIA.<br /> -Furor fit laesa saepius patientia<br /> -Patience too often offended turns to fury</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_45_4t" id="Ill_45_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_45_4">Ill 45 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">CŒCUS NIL LUCE IUVATUR.<br /> -Caecus nil luce iuvatur<br /> -A blind man is not helped by light</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_46_4t" id="Ill_46_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_46_4">Ill 46 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">INTER UTRUMQUE VOLAT.<br /> -Inter utrumque volat<br /> -She flies between the two</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_47_4t" id="Ill_47_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_47_4">Ill 47 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">SI DEUS VOLUERIT.<br /> -Si deus voluerit<br /> -If God wishes</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_48_4t" id="Ill_48_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_48_4">Ill 48 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">OMNIS CARO FŒNUM.<br /> -Omnis caro faenum<br /> -All flesh is grass</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="tdm"><a name="Ill_49_4t" id="Ill_49_4t"></a><a href="#Ill_49_4">Ill 49 Bk 4</a></td> -<td class="tdtr">PERIT QUOD ELAPSUM EST.<br /> -Perit quod elapsum est<br /> -That which has gone by is lost</td> -</tr> - 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