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CHOICE 
 
 EMBLEMS, 
 
 Divine and Moral, 
 
 Ant ie nt and Modern: 
 
 DELIGHTS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 INGENIOUS, 
 
 IN ABOVE 
 
 'Fifty Select Emblems, 
 
 Curioufly In graven upon Copper-Plates. 
 
 With Fifty Pleafant Poems and Lots, by 
 way of Lottery, for I Humming each Emblem, 
 to promote Inftru&ion and Good Counfel by 
 Diverting Recreation. * • 
 
 The Sixth Edition. 
 
 L O N CD O N : 
 
 Printed for Edmund Parker, at the 
 fSBihle and Crown, over againft the New 
 Church in Lcmlard- Street. 1752. 
 
33i 
 
 THE j?_Ce 
 
 AUTHOR t3 ; 
 
 UPON THE 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 FRONTISPIECE. 
 
 THis Book containing Emblems, 'twas 
 thought fit 
 A Title-Page JhoiCd Jland to ufher it 
 ^that's Emblematical: And to that end, 
 Our Author to the Graver did commend 
 A plain I?iventiov y that it might be wrought 
 According as his Fancy had forethought, 
 Jnftead thereof > the Workman brought to light 
 What here you fee, therein miftaking quite 
 7*he true Defign ; And fo (with ^ains and Cojl) 
 ^thc fir ft-int ended Frontispiece is loft. 
 
 tfhc Author waf as much difpleas'd, as He 
 Jn fitch Adventures is inclined to be ^ 
 And half refohfd to caft this Piece afide % 
 As nothing worth ; but having better ey'd 
 
 A a 'fhofs 
 
Upon the Frontispiece. 
 
 *fbofe Errors and Confufions which may there 
 
 Blame -worthy (at the fir ft afpetl) appear 3 
 
 He faw they fitted many Fantafies 
 
 Much better than what Reafon can devife, 
 
 And thut the Graver (by meer Chance/ had hit 
 
 On what fo much tranjeends the Reach of Wit, 
 
 As made it feem an Objetl of Delight, 
 
 To look on what Misfortune brought to light : 
 
 And here it ftands, to try his Wit who lifts 
 
 %o flinty the Secrets out of Cabalifts. 
 
 If any think this Page will now declare 
 tfhe Meaning of thofe Figures ifibieh are there 7 
 ^they are deceived, for De&my denies 
 Vhe utfring of fitch hidden Myfteries. 
 In theft refpetls : Fir ft > This conta'meth nought 
 Which (in a proper Senfe) concemeth ought 
 I'be Prefent Age : Moreover ', 'tis ordain *d 
 ttbat none muft know the Secrecies contained 
 Within this Piece, hit they who are fo wife 
 'Jo find them out by their own Prudencies : 
 And he that can unriddle them to us> 
 Shall ftiled be the fecond OE D I P US. 
 
 ^Tis like wife thought expedient, now and then? 
 %o make fome Work for thofe All-knowing Men, 
 ('To exercife upon) who think they fee 
 'The Secret Meanings of all things that be. 
 
 And la fly, fince we find that fome there are y 
 Who left aff'ctl Inventions which appear 
 ^Beyond their Under/landings, This we knew 
 A Reprefentment worthy of £beir View : 
 
 And here we placed it, to be to thefe 
 
 A Frontispiece in any Senfe they plea fe, 
 
 Mtjefiy 
 
'^SfS;^ 
 
 
 Majefty in Mifery : 
 
 O R, A N ' 
 
 IMPLORATION 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 King of Kings. 
 
 WRITTEN 
 
 By his ^Majesty i%- CHARLES 
 the Firjtj with his own Hand^ during his 
 Captivity in Carifbrook-Caftle in the Ifle 
 of Wight, 1648. 
 
 1. 
 
 GREAT Monarch of the World, from whofe 
 Power fprings 
 The Potency and Power of Kings, 
 Record the Royal Woe my Suffering tings. 
 
 2. 
 And teach my Tongue, that ever did confine 
 Its Faculties in Truth's Seraphick Line, 
 To track the Treafons of thy Foes and mine. 
 
 a 3. Natur© 
 
Majefly in Mtfery, &c. 
 
 Nature and Law by thy Divine Decree, 
 The only Root of Righteous Royalty, 
 With this dim Diadem invefted me. 
 
 With it the 'Sacred Scepter, Purple Robe, 
 The Holy Un£bion, and the Royal Globe j 
 Jet I am Jeveil'd with the Life of Job. 
 
 The fierce!} Furies that do daily tread 
 Upon my Grief, my Gray Difcrowned Head, 
 Are thofe that owe my Bounty for their Bread. 
 
 6. 
 They raife a War, and Chriften it, The Caufe; 
 Whilft Sacrilegious Hands have beft Applaufe, 
 Plunder and Murder are the Kingdom's Laws. 
 
 Tyranny bears the 'Title of Taxation, 
 Revenge and Robbery are Reformation, 
 Oppreffion gains the Name of Scqueftration. 
 
 My Loyal Subjects who in this bad Seafon 
 Attend me (by the Law of God and Reafon) 
 They dare impeach and punifh for High Treafon. 
 
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 Next at the Clergy do their Furies frown, 
 
 Pious Epifcopacy muft go down, 
 
 They will deftroy the Crozier and the Crown. 
 
 10. 
 Churchmen are chain'd,and Schifmaticks are freed, 
 Mechanicks preach, and Holy Fathers bleed, 
 The Crown is Crucified with the Creed. 
 
 11. The 
 
Majefty in J\difery &c, 
 
 ii 
 
 The Church of England doth all Faclion fofter. 
 The Pulpit is ufurpt by each Impofter, 
 Extempore excludes the Tatcr^ofter. 
 
 12. 
 
 The Presbyter and Independent feed, 
 
 Springs with broad blades to make Religion bleed r 
 
 Herod and Tontius dilate are agreed. 
 
 The Corner Stone's mifplac'd by every Paviorj 
 With fuch a Bloody Method and Behaviour 
 Their Anceftors did crucify our Saviour. 
 
 14. 
 
 My Royal Confort, from whofe fruitful Vybmfr 
 So many Princes Legally have come, 
 Is forc'd in Pilgrimage to fcek a Tomb. 
 
 15- 
 Great Sri tains Heir is forced into France, 
 Whilft on his Father's Head his Foes advance j 
 Poor Child ! he weeps out his Inheritance. 
 
 id". 
 With my own Power my Majefty they wound, 
 In theKing'sName the King himfelf'suncrown , J > 
 So doth the Duft deftroy the Diamond. 
 
 17- 
 With Proportions daily they enchant 
 My People's Ears, fuch as do Reafon daunt, 
 And the Almighty will' not let me Granu 
 
 18. 
 They promife to erect my Royal Stem^ 
 To make me Great, t 'advance my Diadem, 
 If I will firft fall down and worflnp them. 
 
 a z t% But 
 
Majefiy in Mtfery^ &c. 
 
 But for Refufal they devour my Thrones, 
 Diftrefs my Children, and deftroy my Bones, 
 I fear they'll force me to make Bread of Stones. 
 
 20. 
 My Life they prize at fuch a {lender rate, 
 And in my Abfence they draw Bills of hate, 
 To prove the King a Traytor to the State. 
 
 21. 
 Felons obtain more Privilege than I, 
 They are allow'd to anfwer e'er they die, 
 'Tis Death for me to afk the Reafon, why. 
 
 22. 
 But, Sacred Saviour, with thy Words I woo 
 Thee to forgive, and not be bitter to 
 Such as thou know'ft do not know what they do. 
 
 But fince they from their Lord are fo disjointed, 
 As to contemn thofe Edicts he appointed, 
 How can they prize the Power of his Anointed? 
 
 24. 
 Augment my Patience, nullify my Hate, 
 Preferve my IfTue, and infpire my Mate, 
 Yet, tho' we perifh, Blefs this Church and State. 
 
 Vota dabunt qucz Mia negarunt* 
 
 The 
 
3^W£W£<mB&$M 
 
 fcrrasrora 
 
 The Explanation of the Emblem in 
 Latin and Englifh. 
 
 POnderihis genua omne mali, probrique gra- 
 * vatus, 
 Vixque ferenda ferens, Talma ut deprejja, refurgOt 
 Ac velat undarum Fluttus Ventiqne % furorem, 
 Irati Populi Rupes immota repelJo. 
 Clarior e Tenebris, Cceleftis Stella, corufco, 
 Victor & sternum felici pace tfriumpho. 
 Auro Fulgentem rutilo gemmifque Micantem, 
 At curis Gravidam fpernendo Calco Coronam. 
 Spinofam, atfcrrifacilem, quo fpes mea> Chrifti 
 Auxilio, nobis non eft tra&are moleftum 5 
 JEternam, fixisfidei, femperque beatam % 
 In Caelos occvlMs fpeffo, nobifque paratam. 
 Quod Vanum eft fperno, quod Chrifti Gratia 
 
 prasbet 
 Ampletti Studium eft 5 Virtutis Gloria mercer 
 
 In EngUJb. 
 
 TH O' clogg'd with weights of Miferies, 
 Talm-like deprefs'd I higher rife. 
 And as the unmonfd Rock out-braves 
 The boiftrous Winds and raging Waves % 
 
 So 
 
Epitaphs upon K Charles I. 
 
 So Triumph I, andjkine more Wight 
 In fad Afflictions Darkfom night. 
 That Splendid^ but yet Toilfom Crown, 
 Regard lefly I trample down. 
 With Joy I take this Crown of T?horn t 
 Though Sharps yet eafy to be born. 
 That Heavenly Crown already mine, 
 I view with Eyes of Faith Divine. 
 I flight vain things 5 and do imbrace 
 Glory > the juft reward of Grace. 
 
 An Epitaph upon King Charles 
 the Firft. 
 
 S10 falls the flately Cedar, while it flood, 
 \ That was theonly Glory of the Wood. 
 Great Charles, Terreftrial God, Celeflial Man, 
 Whofe life, like others, though it were a fpan, 
 let in that fpan was comprehended more, 
 Than Earth hath waters, or the Ocean ihore. 
 Thy Heavenly Virtues Angels fhould reherfe, 
 It is a Theam too high for Human Verfe. 
 He that would know thee right then, let him look 
 Upon thy rare Incomparable Book, 
 And read it o're and o're 5 which if he do, 
 He'll find iht&King, and Priefi and prophet too, 
 
 And 
 
Epitaphs upon K. Charles 1. 
 
 And fadly fee our lofs, and though in vain, 
 With fruitlefs wifhes call thee back again. 
 Nor fhall oblivion fit upon thyHerfe, 
 Though there were neither Monument norVerfe. 
 Thy Suff 'rings and thy Death let no Man name, 
 It was thy Glory, but the Kingdom's fhame. 
 
 Another. 
 
 STay Paffenger $ behold and fee, 
 The widdow'd Grave of Majefty. 
 Why trembleft not ? here's that will make 
 The mod ftupid Soul to fhake, 
 Here lies intomb'd the facred Duft, 
 Of Peace and Piety, Right and Jufr. 
 The Blood (O ftart'ft thou not to hear !) 
 Of a bleftKing 'twixt hope and fear, 
 Shed, and hurried hence to be 
 The Miracle of Mifery. 
 The Lawgiver amongft his own, 
 Sentenc'd by a Law unknown 5 
 Voted Monarchy to Death, 
 By the coarfe 'Plebeian breath. 
 The Sovereign of all Command 
 Suffering by a Common Hand. 
 A Prince (to make the Odium more) 
 Martyr'd at his very door. 
 The Head cut off! Oh, Death to fee't, 
 In Obedience to the Feet ! 
 
 And 
 
Epitaphs upon K. Charles J. 
 
 And that by Juftice you muft know, 
 
 If thou haft faith to think it fo $ 
 
 We'll ftir no further than this facred clay, 
 
 But let it flumber till the Judgment day. 
 
 Of all the Kings on Earth, it's not deny'd^ 
 
 Here lies the firft that for Religion dy'd. 
 
 Another. 
 
 Written by the Magnanimous James Marquis of 
 of Montrofs with the Point of his Sword. 
 
 C"1 Reat, Good, and Juft, could I but rate 
 Jf My Grief, and thy fo rigid Fate. 
 l'de weep the world to fuch a {train, 
 That it fhould deluge once again. 
 But fince thy loud-tongu'd blood demands fupplies 
 More from Briareus Hands than Argus Eyes 5 
 Fie fing thy Elegy with Trumpets founds, 
 And write thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds. 
 
 To 
 
T O T H E 
 
 READER. 
 
 IT is probable, that iffome "Books had not been 
 compofed pleafantly, and fuitable to mean 
 Capacities, many <Perfons had not been fo 
 delighted hi reading, and thereby in time have 
 attained to more ufeful Knowledge, therefore 
 tho y I can fay no more to dijfuade from Vice, or to 
 incourage Men to Virtue, than hath already been 
 done by many learned Authors, yet thefe lively 
 Emblems may chance to bring that oftner to Re- 
 membrance which they have more learnedly ex- 
 prefs'd 5 and perhaps by fuch Circumfiances as 
 they would not defcendunto, may i?ifinuate farther 
 into fome Under/landings than more applauded 
 Difcourfes, by Jlirring up the Affections, win- 
 ning the Attention, or helping the Memory. 
 
 Andfince the World is grown fo very airy, that 
 the (Printing of folid and ferious Treatifes hath 
 many times undone the 'Bookfeller, to advance 
 their 'Profits, I was moved to invent fomewhat 
 which might be likely to pleafe the Topulace, and 
 
 have 
 
The Epiftle to the Reader. 
 
 have therefore added Lotteries to thefe Emblems, 
 to occafton the more frequent Notice of the Morals 
 and good Counfels tendered in their Illtiflrations $ 
 hoping that fome time or other, fqme <Perfons may 
 draw thofe Lots which may make them more wife 
 and happy as long as they live, 
 
 Tojfibly this Device may be cenfured, and re- 
 puted as great an Indecorum as eretling an Ate- 
 houfe at the Church-ftile 5 yet perhaps if the 
 Wife ft would fimetimes take tip this Book, and 
 without any fuperjiitious Conceit ■, make Tryal 
 wrhat their Lots would remember or give them 
 caufe to think on, it might now and then either 
 occafion better proceedings, or prevent worfe 
 Mifchiefs. 
 
 Some Games were ever in ufe, and I think ever 
 will be ; and for ought I know, ever may be with- 
 out Exception : and I believe this Recreation may 
 be as harmlefs as any, if they be ufed as they are 
 intended 5 for my Meaning is not that any one 
 jhould ufe it as an Oracle, which can infallibly 
 fignify what is divinely allotted, but to ferve only 
 for a Moral Paftime : And that J may by no means 
 incourage the fecret Entertainment of fuch a 
 Fancy, I do here previoufly affirm and declare y 
 that none but Children or Idiots may be toller ated 
 to be fo foolijh without being laughed at,, 
 
 Tet if any Jhall draw thofe Lots wherein their 
 fecret Vices are reprav'd t and fome good Injlrn- 
 
 ffiom 
 
The Epiftle to the Reader. 
 
 Bions proposed, which in their own Underfland- 
 ings are conducible and pertinent to their welfare^ 
 let not fuch as thofe pafs them over as mcer Ca- 
 fualties to them \ for whatfoever thefe Lots are to 
 others, or in themfelves, they ought to be parti- 
 cularly regarded and applied by them to their own 
 Concerns.- 
 
 Some perhaps will think, that this Game is 
 piirpofcly invented as a means to reprove Mens 
 Vices, without being fufpefted to aim at particular 
 <Perfons ; for if any, who are notorioufly guilty* 
 by drawing thefe Chances fb all be fo fitted, that 
 thofe Vices be thereby intimated to the by-jlanders % 
 of which the World knows them guilty, they do 
 therein make their own Libels, and may, I hope % 
 be laughed at without blame : if not, I do here 
 warn all fuch as are juflly fufpeBed of heinotis 
 Crimes and fcandalous Converfations, either to 
 forbear thefe Lotteries, or to excufe me if they be 
 juftly fhamed by their own Atl. 
 
 Having thus declared the reafon of this Inven- 
 tion, and made thefe Anticipations, every Man 
 hath his own Choice, whether he will make ufe of 
 thefe Lotteries or no 5 he that will is left to his 
 Chance, of which how he may make Try a I, Di- 
 re tt ion is given at the latter end of this Book. 
 
 R. B. 
 
 B Emblem 
 
% Choke Bmblemsi 
 
 Emblem I. 
 
 Finu ah Qrigine pndet. 
 
 The 
 
divine and Moral. 3 
 
 THE 
 
 Firft Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 As joon as tve to Be begun^ 
 We did begin to be undone. 
 
 WHenfome, in former Ages, had a meaning 
 An Emblem of Mortality to make, 
 They form'd an Infant on a jDeatb's-Head leanings 
 And round about encircled with a Snake* 
 The Child fo pi&ur'd was to fignifie, 
 That from our very Birth our 2)ying fprings s 
 The S?iake > her 'Tail devouring, doth imply 
 The Revolution of all Earthly things. 
 For whatfoever hath 'Beginning here, 
 Begins immediately to vary from 
 
 B % Th« 
 
4 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 The fame it was $ and doth at laft appear 
 What very few did think it ftiou'd become. 
 
 The folid Stone doth molder into Earth, 
 That Earth e'er long to Water rarities, 
 That Water gives an Airy Vapur Birth, 
 And thence a Fiery Comet doth arife : 
 That moves until it felf it fo impair, 
 That from a burning Meteor back again, 
 It ilnketh down and thickens into Air $ 
 That Air becomes a Cloud ; then Drop of Rain : 
 Thofe Drop defcending on a Rocky Ground, 
 There fettle into Earth, which more and more 
 Doth harden ftill 5 fo running out the round, 
 It grows to be the Stone it was before. 
 
 Thus all things wheel about, and each Beginning 
 Made Entrance to its own Dejlrutlion hath. 
 The Life of Nature entreth in with Sinning, 
 And is for ever waited on by Death, 
 
 The Life of Grace is form'd by Death to Sin, 
 And there doth Life Eternal ftrait begin. 
 
 Lot 1, 
 
^Divine and Moral. 5 
 
 Lot 1. 
 
 WHEN thou haft Changes good or bad, 
 O'erjoy'd thou art, or overfad : 
 As if it feemed very ftrange, 
 To fee the Wind or Weather change, 
 
 Lo therefore to remember thee 
 How Changeable Things Mortal be> 
 Thou art afTifted by this Lot, 
 Now lot it be no more forgot. 
 
 B 3 Emblem- It 
 
Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem II. 
 
 £>uo me vertam nefcis. 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 
 
 m®m®mmmmmMimmmmm@m\ 
 
 
 THE 
 
 Second Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 tm 
 
 When Vice and Vertue touth fbaU wooe, 
 *$is bard to faj which wiy 'twill go; 
 
 MY hopeful Friend^ at thrice fire Yean an4 
 three, 
 Without a Guide (into the World alone) 
 To feek my Fortune did adventure me $ 
 And many Hazards I alighted on. 
 Firft England's greateft Rendezvous I fought,. 
 Where VICE and VERTUE at the higheft fit j 
 And thither both a Mind and Body brought, 
 For neither of their Services unfit. 
 
 B>4, Both 
 
8 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Both woo'd my Youth, and both perfuaded fo, 
 That (like the young Man in our Emblem here) 
 I flood and cry'd, Ah ! which way fh all I go ? 
 Tome fo pleafing both their Offers were. 
 VICE <Pleafures beft Contentments piomis'd me, 
 And what the wanton Flefb defires to have. 
 Quoth VERTUE, I will Wifdom give to thee, 
 And thofe brave things which nobleft Minds do 
 
 crave. 
 Serve me \ faidVICE, and thou ft alt foon acquire 
 AH thofe Atchievements which my Service brings. 
 Serve me, faid V E R T U E, and Til raife thee 
 
 higher 
 tfhan VICES can, and teach thee better things. 
 Whilft thus they ftrove to gain me, I efpyM 
 Grim Death attending VICE $ and that her Face 
 Was but a painted Vizard \ which did hide 
 The foul'ft Deformity that ever was. 
 LORD, grant me Grace for evermore to view 
 Her Uglinefs ; And that I viewing it, 
 Her Falfehoods and Allurements may efchew, 
 And on fair V E R T U E my Affeftion fet 5 
 
 Her 'Beauties contemplate, her Love embrace t 
 And by her fafe 'Direction run my Race* 
 
 Lot 2, 
 
^Divine and Moral. 
 
 Lot 2. 
 
 WITH Mary, thou art one of thofe, 
 By whom the better part is chofe s 
 And tho r thou tempted art aftray 5 
 Continue in a lawful way, 
 
 Give God the Praife with Heart unfeign'd,* 
 That he fuch Grace to thee hath deign'd. 
 And view thy Lot, where thou /halt fee, 
 What Hag hath laid a Trap for thee 
 
 B % Emblem -lit 
 
lo Choice Emilems^ 
 
 Emblem III. 
 
 Vhntm IngeniO) cater a mortis erunt. 
 
 £hc 
 
^Divine and Moral. 1 1 
 
 ^P JXf v*? T? ^XF IF 'X' vE» **f 'I? viz ^? *Xf *X» Jx* i tX» \Z» 'T vP W tXF 
 
 % y» j\ <>7\ j> \7% >7> o» <l7S> *t % *y\ <j\ <3vc t% &% %y\ \ &% %y\ ■& % %y% o \ ir* 
 
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 *5£? V? V? V? V> %£ 1 V? %C %& SO SO SO \C SO SO SO SO SO "SO V? Sfl* 
 Jm jXi iXi aL (Li tXi iXi uLi <Xi (Xk flu iXi iXi /it uj <Xi Lit ijU LXt (Xa iKk 
 
 »V^ /X^ *T^ n^H ^r^- ^^ T^ T^ "w" T^ *^^ r^^ /^^ *^^ /^^ •'^^ T* *^^ *W* *^^ ^^^' 
 
 THE 
 
 Third Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 By Knowledge only Life we gain, 
 All other Things to Death pertain. 
 
 HOW fond are they who fpend their precious 
 Time 
 In ftill purfuing their deceiving Tieafures* 
 And they that unto airy titles climb, 
 Grtire themfelves in hording up of Ireafures ? 
 For thefe are ^DeatFs^ who, when with Wearinefs 
 They have acquir'd moft, fweeps all away $ 
 And leaves them for their Labours, to poffefs 
 Kought but a raw-bon'd Carcafs lapt in Clay. 
 
 Of 
 
ii- Choice Emblems \ 
 
 Of twenty hundred thoufands, who this hour 
 Vaunt much of thofe c PojJeJfions they have got^ 
 Of their new purchased Honours* or the Tower* 
 By which they feem to have advanc'd their Lot : 
 Of this great Multitude, there mall not 'Three 
 Remain for any future Age to know, 
 But perifh quite, and quite forgotten be> 
 As Seajls devoured twice ten Years ago. 
 
 Thou therefore who defir'ft for ay to live> 
 And to poffefs thy Labours maugre Death \ 
 To needful Arts y andlioneft Affions* give 
 Thy Span of Time* and thy fhort Blaft of Breath- 
 In holy Studies exercife thy Mind 5 
 In Works of Charity thy Hands imploy $ 
 That Knowledge and that Tredfure feek to find, 
 Which may enrich thy Heart with perfect Joy, 
 So tho' obfcured thou appear a while, 
 Defpifed, poor, or born to Fortunes low, 
 Thy Vertue mall acquire a nobler (tile, 
 Than great eft Kings are able to beftow 5 
 
 And gain thee thofe TojJeJJions* which not they .^ 
 Nor Time* nor Death have Pow'r to take away, 
 
 Lot 3, 
 
Divine and Moral. j j 
 
 Lot 5. 
 
 TJHOU doft over-much refpecl 
 That which will thy Harm effect 
 But fome other things there be 
 Which will more advantage thee* 
 
 Search thy Heart, and thou (halt there 
 Soon difcover what they are. 
 Yea, thine Emblem /hews thee too, 
 What to fhun, and what to do. 
 
 Emblem IV*- 
 
1$ Choice Bmblemsy 
 
 Emblem IV. 
 
 H A N T A A E A I IT Ai 
 
 Th» 
 
^Divine and Moral. 1 5 
 
 THE 
 
 Fourth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 As to the World I Naked came. 
 So Naked fiript 1 kave the fame. 
 
 THrice happy is that Man whofe Thought? 
 do rear 
 His Mind above that pitch the Worldling flies $ 
 And, by his Contemplations) hovers where 
 He views Things Mortal with unbleared Eyes, 
 What Trifles then do Villages and Towns, 
 Large Fields, or Flocks of fruitful Cattle feem ? 
 2Sfay, what poor things are Mitres, Se£ters r 
 
 Crowns, 
 And all thofe Glories which Men moft efleem. 
 
1 6 Choice 'Emblems^ 
 
 Tho' he that hath among them his Delight, 
 Brave things imagins them (becaufe they blind 
 With fome falfe Luftre his beguiled Sight) 
 He that's above them their Mean Worth may find. 
 
 Lord, to that BleJJed Station me convey, 
 Where I may view the Worlds and view her £o f 
 That I her true Condition may furvey, 
 And all her Imperfections rightly know. 
 Remember me, that once there was a Day, 
 When thou didtt wean me from them with content,. 
 Ev'n when fhut up within thofe Gates I lay 
 Thro' which the Tlague-infiitting Angel went.. 
 And let me flill remember, that an Hour 
 Is hourly coming on, wherein I fhall 
 (Tho 1 I had all the World within my Power) 
 Be naked ftript, and turned out of all. 
 But mind me chiefly, that I never cleave. 
 Too clofely to my Self$ and caufe thou me 
 Not other Earthly things alone to leave^. 
 But to forfake my Self for love of T'hee. 
 
 That I may fay, now I have all things left y 
 Before that I of all things am bereft. 
 
 Lot 4,. 
 
'Divine and Moral. 17 
 
 Lot. 4. 
 
 BE not angry if I tell, 
 That you love the World too well $ 
 For this Lot perhaps you drew, 
 That fuch Faults you might efchew* 
 
 Mark to what their Souls afpire 
 Who true BlefTednefs defire $ 
 For if you can do like thofe, 
 Heav'n you gain, when Earth you lofe. 
 
 Emblem V. 
 
1(8 Choice EmMemSy 
 
 Emblem V; ' 
 
 Ad ScopttMy licet &gre, & frujlra. 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. i 9 
 
 
 THE 
 
 Fifth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 »!*>.-* 
 
 A Fool in Folly taheth Paw, 
 JLhh<? he Uhur fiiU in vtfm 
 
 AMafly Mill-Stone up a tedious Hill, 
 With mighty Labour, Sifyplms doth roll « 
 Which being rais'd aloft, down tumbleth dill, 
 To keep imployed his afflicled Soul* 
 On him this tedious Labour is impos'd 5 
 And (tho' in vain) it muft be ftill affay'd : 
 But fome, by no Neceflity inclos'd, 
 Upon themfelves fuch needlefs Tasks have laid, 
 Yea, knowing.not (or caring not to know) 
 That they are worn and weary'd out in vain, 
 
 They 
 
20 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 They madly toil to plunge themfelves in Woe 5 
 And feek uncertain Eafe in certain Tain, 
 
 Such Fools are they, who dream they can acquire 
 A Mind content, by laboring ft ill for more : 
 For Wealth encreafing doth encreafe Dejire, 
 And makes Contentment lefler than before. 
 
 Such Fools are they, whofe Hops do vainly 
 ftretch 
 To climb by Titles to a happy Height : 
 For having gotten one Ambitious Reach, 
 Another comes perpetually in fight. 
 And their Stupidity is nothing lefs, 
 \Vh9 dream that Flejh and Blood may raifed be 
 Up to the Mount of ferfett Holinefs: 
 For (at our beft) corrupt and vile are we. 
 Yet we are bound by Faith \ with Zove, and Hofe, 
 To roll the Stone of Good Endeavmt ft ill, . 
 As near as may be, to Perfections Toj>> 
 Tho' back again it tumble down the Hill. 
 
 So what our Works had never Power to do, 
 God's Grace at laft fhall freely bring us to. 
 
 Lot. 5. 
 
^Divine and Moral. a I 
 
 Lot 5. 
 
 M. 
 
 DOubtlefs you are either Wooing, 
 Or fome other Bus'nefs doing, 
 Which you fhall attempt in vain, 
 Or much hazard all your Pain. 
 
 Yet if good your Meanings are, 
 Do not honeft Means forbear. 
 For where things are weil begun, 
 God oft works when Man hath done. 
 
 Emblem VL 
 
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 Tedetentim. 
 
 The 
 
TXvine and Moral. 23 
 
 THE 
 
 Sixth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 His Pace tnujl wary be y andJlow> 
 That hath a Jliftfery way to go* 
 
 A Traveller, when he muft undertake 
 To feek his Paflfage o'er forne Frozen 
 Lake, 
 With Leifure and with Care he will affay 
 The Glaffy Smoothnefs of that Icy Way $ 
 Left he may flip by walking over-faft, 
 Or break the crackling Tavement by his hafte : 
 And fo (for want of better taking heed) 
 Incur the Mischiefs of Unwary Speed* 
 
 We 
 
a 4. . Choice Emblems, 
 
 We are all Travellers ; and all of us 
 Have many Paflages as dangerous 
 As Frozen Lakes 5 and Slippery Ways we tread, 
 In which our Lives may foon be forfeited, 
 (With all our Hopes of Life Eternal too) 
 Unlefs we well confider what we do. 
 There is no private Way or publick Tath^ 
 But Rubs, or lioles, or Slip Vine Is it hath, 
 Whereby we (hall with Mifchiefs meet j unlefs 
 We walk it with a ftedfajl Warinefs. 
 
 The Steps to Honour are on Tinacles 
 Compos'd of melting Snow, and Ificles 5 
 And they who tread not nicely on their tops, 
 Shall on a fuddain flip from all their Hopes* 
 Yea, ev'n that Way which is both fure and Holy, 
 And leads the Mind from Vanities and Folly, 
 Is with fo many other ^Path-ways croft, 
 As that by Rafhnefs it may foon be loft - y 
 Unlefs we well deliberate upon 
 Thofe Tracks in which our Jncejlors have gone. 
 
 And they who with more Hajle than HeedmW 
 
 run, 
 May lofe the Way in which they well begun. 
 
 Lot €. 
 
'Divine and Moral. 25 
 
 Lot 6. 
 
 IN flippVy Paths you are to go> 
 Yea, they are full of Danger too 5 
 And if you heedful fhou'd not grow, 
 They'll hazard much your overthrow. 
 
 But you the Mifchief may efchew, 
 
 If wholfome Counfel you purfue : 
 
 Look therefore what you may be taught, 
 
 By that which this your Chance hath trought. 
 
 C Emblem VIL 
 
2 6 Choice Emblem^ 
 
 Emblem VII. 
 
 fro Lege Is? fro Grege, 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 37 
 
 THE 
 
 Seventh Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Our Pelican , by bleeding thus, 
 Fulfilled the Law, and cured us. 
 
 LOok here and mark (her fickly Birds to feed) 
 How freely this kind *fklitun doth bleed. 
 See how (when other Salves cou'd net be found) 
 To cure their Sorrows, fhe her felf doth wound : 
 And when this holy Emblem thou /halt fee, 
 Lift up thy Soul to him who dy'd for thee. 
 
 For this our Hieroglyfhick wou'd exprefs, 
 That Teliccin % which in the Wildernefs 
 
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 Of this vaft World, was left (as all alone) 
 Our miferable Nature to bemoan $ 
 And in whofe Eyes the Tears of Pity flood, 
 When he beheld his own unthankful Brood 
 His Favours and his Mercies then contemn, 
 When with his Wings he wou'd have brooded them: 
 And fought their endlefs Peace to have confirmed, 
 Tho' to procure his Ruin they were arm'd. 
 
 To be their Food himfelf he freely gave ; 
 His Heart was pierc'd, that he their Souls might 
 
 fave. 
 Becaufe they difobey'd the Sacred Will* 
 He did the Law of Right eoufnefs fulfil 5 
 And to that end (tho' guiltlefs he had been) 
 Was offer'd for our Univerfal Sin. 
 
 Let me, Oh God! for ever fix mine Eyes 
 Upon the Merit of that Sacrifice: 
 Let me retain a due Commemoration 
 Of thofe dear Mercies and that bloody cpajjion 
 Which here is meant $ and, by true Faith, dill feed 
 Upon the Drops this Telican did bleed : 
 
 Yea, let me firm unto thy Zaw abide, 
 And ever love that Flock for which he dy'd. 
 
 Lot 7, 
 
J)ivine and Moral. 29 
 
 Lot 7. 
 
 T~»His prefent Lot concerns full near, 
 Not you alone, but all Men here : 
 For all of us too little heed 
 His Love, who for our fakes did bleed, 
 
 Tistrue, that means he left behind him, 
 Which better teacheth how to mind him. 
 Yet if we both by that and this 
 Remember him, 'tis not amifs. 
 
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 Emblem VIII. 
 
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 THE 
 
 Eighth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 2^0' fo endeavour all he can 9 
 An Ape will never be a Mm* 
 
 WHat tho' an Apfo- e Pigmy in Attire, 
 His Dwarfifh Body Gy ant-like array ? 
 Turn Brave, and get him <SW/tt to feem the 
 
 higher ? 
 What would fo doing handfome him, I pray ? 
 Now furely fuch a Mimick fight as that, 
 Wou'd with exceffive Laughter move your Spleen, 
 Till you had made the little T>andiprat % 
 To lie within fome Auger- hole unfeen. 
 
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31 Choice Emblems, 
 
 I muffc confefs I cannot chufe but finite, 
 When I perceive how Men that worthlefs are, 
 Piece out their Imperfections to beguile, 
 By making /hows of what they never were. 
 For in their "borrow* d Shapes I know thofe Men, 
 And (thro* their Masks) fuch infight of them have, 
 That 1 can oftentimes difclofe (ev'n then) 
 How much they favour of the Fool or Knave, 
 
 A Tigmy Spirit and an Earthly Mind> 
 Whofe look is only nVd on Objedls vain, 
 In my efteem fo mean a place doth find, 
 That ev'ry fuch a one I much refrain. 
 JBut when in honour'd Robes I fee it put, 
 Betrim'd as if fome thing of Worth it were, 
 Look -big, and on the Stilts of Great?iefi ftrut $ 
 From fcorning it I cannot then forbear. 
 For when to grofs Unworthinefs, Men add 
 Thofe Dues which ro the trtiejl Worth pertain $ 
 'Tis like an rfpe in Human Veflments clad, 
 Which when moil fine, deferveth moft difdain : 
 
 And moreabfur'd thofe Men appear to me, 
 Than this fantaflick Monkey feems to thee. 
 
 Lot 8. 
 
'Divine and Moral. % j 
 
 Lot 8. 
 
 M. 
 
 THY Chance is doubtful, and as yet 
 I know not what to make of it. 
 But this I know, a Foe thou art 
 To what thine Emblem hath, in part ? 
 
 Expreffed by a Mimick Shape $ 
 Or thou thy felf art fuch an Ape. 
 Now which of thefe pertains to thee» 
 Let them that know thee Judges be* 
 
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3* 
 
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 Emblem IX. 
 
 Fures Trivati in Nervo y Tuhlici in 
 Auto. 
 
 Th« 
 
jDivine and Moral. 
 
 35 
 
 
 THE 
 
 Ninth Emblem 
 Uluftrated. 
 
 P00r Thieves in Halters we hehold r 
 And Great Thieves in their Chains ofGolk^ 
 
 IF you this Emblem well have look'd upon, 
 Altho' you cannot help it, yet bemoan 
 The World's black Impudence $ and if you can 9 
 Continue (or become) an honeft Man. ^ 
 The poor and petty 'Pilferers, you fee 
 On Wheels, on Gibbets, and the Gallows-Tree 
 Truft up 5 when they that far more guilty are, 
 Pearl, Silk, and coftly Cloth of TifTue wear. 
 
 Gcoi 
 
3 6 Choice Emblems, 
 
 Good God I how many hath each Land of thofe, 
 Who neither Limb, nor Life, nor Credit lofe> 
 (But rather live befriended and applauded) 
 Yet have, of all their Livelihoods, defrauded 
 The helplefs Widows in their great Diftrefs? 
 And of their Portions rob'd the Fatherlefs ? 
 Yet cenfur'd others Errors, as if none 
 Had caufe to fay, that they amifs have done? 
 
 How many have aflifted to condemn 
 Poor Souls, for what was never ftoln by them ? 
 And perfecuted others, for that Sin 
 Which they themfelves had more tranfgrefled in 1 
 How many worchlefs Men are great become, 
 By that which they have ftoln, .or cheated from 
 Their Lords*, or (by fome Practices unjuft) 
 From thofe by whom they had been put in truft ? 
 How many Lawyers wealthy Men are grown, 
 By taking Fees for Caufe s overthrown 
 By their Defaults ? How many, without Fear, 
 Do rob the King and God, yet blamelefs are ? 
 
 God knows how many ! wou*d I did fo too, 
 So I had Tow'r to make them letter do.. 
 
 Lot o, 
 
divine and Morah 37 
 
 Lot 9. 
 
 WE hope no Perfon here believes, . 
 That you are of thofe wealthy Thieves, 
 Who Chains of Gold and Pearl do wear : 
 And of thofe Thieves that none you are 
 
 Which wear a Rope, we plainly fee 5 
 For you as yet unhanged be. 
 But unto God for Mercy cry 5 
 Elfe hang'd you may be e're you die. 
 
 Emblem X 
 
3 8 Choice Emblemsy 
 
 Emblem X. 
 
 Fulcrum Tutijfcnwm 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 39 
 
 THE 
 
 Tenth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 We then have got the fureft Prop, 
 When Heaven alone becomes our Hopel 
 
 IShou'd not care how hard my Fortnnes were^ 
 Might ftill my Hopes be fuch as now they are, 
 Of Helps Divine 3 nor fear how poor I be r 
 If Thoughts yet prefent ftill may bide in me* 
 For they have left aflurance of fuch Aid* 
 That I am of no Dangers now afraid. 
 
 Yea, now I fee, methinks, what weak and vain 
 Supporters I have fought, to help fuftain 
 
 My 
 
/j.6 Choice EmMems^ 
 
 My fainting Heart, when fome injurious Hand, 
 Wou'd undermine the Station where I ftand. 
 Methinks I fee how fcurvy, and how bafe 
 It is, to fcrape for Favours and for Grace, 
 To Men of earthly Minds 5 and unto thofe, 
 Who may perhaps before to morrow, lo£b 
 Their Wealth, (or their abus'd Authority) 
 And ftand as much in want of Help as L 
 
 Methinks in this new Rapture, I do fee 
 The Hand of God from Heaven fupporting me, 
 Without thofe rotten Aids> for which I whin'd 
 When I was of my t'other vulgar Mind j 
 And if in fome one part of me it lay, 
 I now cou'd cut that Limb of mine away. 
 Still might I keep this Mind, there were enough 
 Within my felf, (befide that cumbring Stuff 
 We feek without) which, husbanded aright, 
 Wou'd make me rich in all the World's defpight. 
 And I have hopes, that had /he quite bereft me 
 Of thofe few Rags and 'Toys which yet are left me, 
 
 I fhou'd on God alone (o much depend, 
 
 That I fhou'd need nor Wealthy nor other Friend, 
 
 Lot. zo. 
 
^Divine and Moral 41 
 
 Lot- 10. 
 
 BEcaufe her Aid makes goodly fhows, 
 You on the World your Truft repofe 5 
 And his Dependance you defpife, 
 Who clearly on Heaven's Help relies, 
 
 That therefore you may come to fee, 
 How plcas'd and fafe thofe Men may bo, 
 Who have no Aid but God alone 5 
 This Emblem you have lighted on. 
 
 Emblem XI. 
 
4 2 Choice Emilems 
 
 Emblem XI. 
 
 Serva Modum. 
 
 Tfee. 
 
7)ivine and Moral. 43 
 
 THE 
 
 Eleventh Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Da not the Golden Mean exceed, 
 In Wordy in Vafjion^ nor in Deed. 
 
 f \ S is the head-ftrong Horfe, and blockilh 
 J\ Mule, 
 
 Ev'n fuch, without the Bridle and the Rule, 
 Our Nature grows $ and is as mifchievous, 
 Till Grace and Reafoit come to govern us. 
 The Square and Bridle therefore let us heed, 
 And thereby learn to know what Helps we need j 
 Left elfe (they failing timely to be had) 
 Quite out of Order we at length be made. 
 
 The 
 
44 Choice Emblems, 
 
 The Square (which is an ufeful Instrument % 
 To ihape forth fenfelefs Forms) may reprefent 
 The JL&W : Becaufe Mankind ( which is by 
 
 Nature 
 Alrnoft as dull as is the fenfelefs creature) 
 Is thereby from the native Rudenefs wrought, 
 And in the Way of honei+ living taught. 
 The Bridle, (which Invention did contrive, 
 To rule and guide the Creature-fenfitive) 
 May type forth 7)ifcipline $ which when the Law 
 Hath fchool'd the Wit, muft keep the Will in 
 
 awe. 
 And he that can by ilic/e his (Pajfions bound, 
 This Emblem's Meaning, ufefully, hath found. 
 
 Lord, let thy facred Zaiv at all times be, 
 A Rule, a Mafter, and a Glafs to me 5 
 (A Bridle and a Light) that I may, (till, 
 Both know my Z)uty t and obey thy Will* 
 Direcl: my Feet, my Hands inftrucl thou fo, 
 That I may neither -wander notmifdo. 
 My Looks, my Hearing, and my Words confine, 
 To keep ftill firm to ev'ry Word of thine. 
 
 On thee let alfo my Tiefires attend, 
 
 And let me hold this temper till mine end. 
 
 Lot 11, 
 
^Divine and Moral. 4.5 
 
 Lot ir. 
 
 YOUR Wits, your Wi/hes, and your Tongue 
 Have run the Wild- Goofe- Chafe too long ; 
 And (left all Reafon you exceed) 
 Yo now of Rule and Reins have need. 
 
 A Bridle therefore and a Square, 
 Chief Figures in your Emblem are. 
 Obferve their Moral, and alway 
 Be wife and fober as you may. 
 
 Emblem XII. 
 
4.6 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XII. 
 
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 Taufertate pernor^ fuhlevor Jngenio. 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 4.7 
 
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 THE 
 
 Twelfth Emblem 
 Uluftrated. 
 
 M) Wit got Wings, and high had flown, 
 But Poverty did keep me down. 
 
 YOU little think what plague it is to be 
 In plight like him, whom pi&ur'd here 
 you fee. 
 His winged Arm, and his up-lifted Eyes, 
 Declare that he hath Wit, and Will* t0 «& : 
 The Stone, which clogs his other Hand, may 
 
 /how, 
 That Toverty and Fortune keep him low : 
 And 'twixt thefe two, the 2Wy and the Mind, 
 Such Labours and fuch great Vexations find, 
 
 That, 
 
48 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 That, If you did not fuch Mens Wants contemn, 
 You cou'd not chufe but help, or pity them. 
 All Ages had (and this I know hath fome) 
 Such Men as to this Mifery do come : 
 And many of them at their Lot fo grieve, 
 As if they knew (or did at leaft believe) 
 That had their Wealth fuffic'd them to afpire 
 (To what their Wits deferve> and they dejire) 
 The prefent Age, and future Ages too, 
 Might Gain have had from what they thought 
 to do. 
 
 Perhaps I drearnM fo once : But, God be prais'd, 
 The Clog which kept me down from being rais'd, 
 Was chain'd fo faft, that (if fuch Dreams I had) 
 My 'Thoughts and Longings are not now fo mad. 
 For plain I fee, that had my Fortunes brought 
 Such Wealth at firft as my fmall Wit hath fought, 
 I might my felf and others have undone, 
 Inftead of Courfes which I thought to run : 
 I find my Poverty for me was fit $ 
 Yea, and a fluffing greater than my Wit, 
 
 And whether now I rich or foor become, 
 *Tis nor much ^leajing nor much tmihlefom. 
 
 Xot 12, 
 
'Divine and Moral. . 4 9 
 Lot 12. 
 
 THou think'ft thy Wit had made thee Great, 
 Had Poverty not been fome let : 
 But had thy Wealth as ample been, 
 As thou didft think thy Wit fo fine, 
 
 Inftead of thy defired height, 
 Perhaps thou hadft been ruin'd quite, 
 Hereafter therefore be content 
 With whatfoever Heav'n hath fent. 
 
 Emblem XIII. 
 
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 Emblem XIII. 
 
 Stultorum Adjumenta Necumenta, 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 
 
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 THE 
 
 Thirteenth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 The beji Good Turns that Fools can do us p 
 Prove Disadvantages unto us. 
 
 A Tool fent forth to fetch the Go flings home, 
 When they unto a River's brink were come, 
 {Thro' which their Paffage lay) conceiv'd a Fear, 
 His Dame's beft Srood might have been drowned 
 
 there $ 
 Which to avoid, he thus did (hew his Wit, 
 And his good Nature in preventing it: 
 He underneath his Girdle thrufts their Heads, 
 And then the Coxcomb thro' the Water wades. 
 
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 Here learn, that when a Fool his help intends, 
 It rather doth a Mifchief than befriends 5 
 And think, if tfcere be Danger in his Love, 
 How harmful his Malicioufnefs may prove : 
 For from his Kindnefs tho' no Profit rife, 
 To do thee fpight his Malice may fuffice. 
 I could not from a Prince befeech a Boon, 
 By fuing to his Jefter or Buffoon : 
 Nor any Fool's vain Humour fboth or ferve 
 To get my Bread, tho' I were like to ftarve. 
 For to be poor I fhould not blufh fo much, 
 As if a Fool fhou'd raife me to be rich. 
 
 Lord, tho' of fuch a kind my Faults may be, 
 That fharp Affliction ftill muft tutor me, 
 (And give me due Correction in her Schools) 
 Yet, oh pre ferve me from the Scorn of Fools, 
 Thofe wicked Fools, that in their Hearts have faid 
 There is no God 5 and rather give me Bread 
 By Ravens, LORD, or in a Lion's Den, 
 Than by the Favours of fuch foolifh Men 5 
 
 Left if their Dainties I fhould fwallow down, 
 Their Smile might more undo me than their 
 Froivn* 
 
 Lx 13. 
 
^Divine and Moral 5? 
 
 Lot. i?. 
 
 THou doft not greatly care by whom 
 Thy Wealth, or thy Preferments come 5 
 So thou may'ft get them, Fool or Knave, 
 Thy Prayers and thy Praife may have. 
 
 Becaufe thou doft not fear nor dream 
 What difadvantage comes by them : 
 But by thine Emblem, thou may 'ft fee, 
 Pools Favours mifchievous may be. 
 
 Emblem XIV, 
 
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 Emblem XIV. 
 
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*D'tvine and Moral. 
 
 55 
 
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 THE 
 
 Fourteenth Embkm 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 4M 
 
 Behold and mark the Picture here. 
 Of what hep Man arid Child in Fear. 
 
 THefe are the great*& AffiZHom mod Mei> 
 have, 
 Ev'n from their Nurfiiig- Cradle to their Gravr - y 
 Tet both fo needful are, I cannot fee 
 How either of them may well fpared be. 
 Tke Rod is that which mofi our Childhood fears y 
 And feems the great'ft AffiiBion that it bears : 
 That which to Manhood is a Plague as common, 
 (And more unfuflferable) is a Woman. 
 
 D -4, 
 
 Yet 
 
56 Choice Emhlems, 
 
 Yet blufh not Ladies, neither frown, I pray, 
 That thus of Women I prefume to fay 5 
 Nor number me as yet among your Jew, 
 For I am more your Friend than you fuppofe. 
 Nor fmile ye Men, as if from hence ye had 
 An Argument that Woman-kind were bad. 
 The Sircb is blamelefs (yea, by Nature fweet 
 And gentle) till with ftubborn Boys it meet, 
 But then it fmarts. So Women will be kind, 
 Until with fro ward Husbands they are join'd 5 
 And then indeed (perhaps) like Birchen-boughs, 
 (Which elfe had been a trimming to their Houfe) 
 They fometimes prove fharp Whi$s and Rod* to 
 
 them 
 That Wifdom and Injlrublion do contemn. 
 
 A Woman was not given for Correction, 
 But rather for a furtherance to TerfeBion 5 
 A precious 'Balm of Love to cure Man's Grief, 
 And of his Pleafures to become the chief. 
 If therefore /he occafion any Smart, 
 The Blame he merits wholly, or in part : 
 
 For, like fweet Honey, fhe good Stomach plcafes, 
 But pakrs the Body fubjecl to 2>ifeafes. 
 
 Lot 14. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 57 
 
 Lot 14; 
 
 M. 
 
 THE time hath been, that of the Rod 
 Thou wert more fearful than of God* 
 But now, unlefs thou prudent grow, 
 More caufe thou haft to fear a Shrow. 
 
 For from the Rod now thou art free, 
 A Woman (hall thy Torment be. 
 Yet do not thou at her repine, 
 For all the Fault is only thine. 
 
 D 5 Emblem XY. 
 
5B Ctmce EmMemiy 
 
 Emblem XV. 
 
 Cmmrdk Infugerabilk. 
 
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Ttivine and Moral. 59 
 
 THE 
 
 Fifteenth Emblem 
 IlluftratecL 
 
 Where miny Forces joined are r 
 IJmonqutrabU Poifr is there. 
 
 AN Emhlem's Meaning here I thought so- 
 confter, 
 And this doth rather fafhion out a Monfier t 
 Than form an Hieroglyphick i but I had 
 Thefe*F/g?/iK*tf (as you fee them) ready made 
 By others ^ and I mean to moralize 
 Their Fancies, not to mend what they devife, 
 Yet peradventure, with fome vulgar Praife, 
 This Titture (tho* L like it not) difplays 
 
 The- 
 
60 Choice Emblemi r 
 
 The Moral which the Motto doth imply, 
 And thus it may be faid to fignify : 
 
 He that hath many Faculties, or Friends, 
 To keep him fafe (or to acquire his ends) 
 And fits them fo, and keeps them fb together, 
 That fiill as readily they aid each other, 
 As if fo many Hands they had been made, 
 And in one Body ufeful being had 5 
 That Man by their AfTiftance, may at length 
 Attain to an unco?2qzieraMe Strength, 
 And crown his honeft Hopes with whatfoever 
 He feeks for by a warranted Endeavour. 
 
 Or elfe it might be faid, that when we may 
 Make our Affections and our Senfe obey 
 The Will of Reafon, (and fo well agree, 
 That we may find them flili at peace to be) 
 They'll guard us like fo many Armed Hand*, 
 And fafely keep us whatfoe'er withftands. 
 If others think this Figure here infers 
 A better Senfe, let thofe Interpreters 
 
 Unriddle it, and preach it where they pleafe 5 
 Their Meanings may be good, and fo are ihefe. 
 
 Lot 15, 
 
^Divine and Moral. 6i 
 
 Lot 15. 
 
 IF all your Powers you fhou'd unite, 
 In your Defires prevail you might j 
 And.fooner ihou'd effect your ends, 
 If you fhou'd mufter up your Friends. 
 
 But fince your bcft Friends do fufpec\ 
 That you fuch Policy neglect, 
 Your Lot prefenteth to .your View, 
 An Emblem which inftru&eth you. 
 
 Imblem XVI, 
 
6i Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XVL 
 
 Nm Sceftro Jed Tlefiro dueitwr. 
 
 Tte 
 
^Divine and Moral. 6% 
 
 THE 
 
 Sixteenth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 A fckle Woman wanton grown, 
 Prefers a Crowd before * Crown, 
 
 FOOL! Doft thou hope thine Honours or tfey 
 Gold 
 Shall gain thee Love ? Or that thou haft her Hearty 
 Whofe Hand upon thy tempting Bait teles hold? 
 Alas J fond Lover I thou deceived art. 
 She that with Wealth and J/V/^can be won* 
 Or woo'd with Vanities^ will wav'ring be j 
 And when her Love thou moft depended on, 
 A FiMe-Jlick fhall win her Heart from thee. 
 
 To 
 
S4 'Choke Emilems^ 
 
 To Youth and Mufick Venus Jeaneth moft, 
 And (tho* her Hand fhe on the Scepter lay) 
 Let Greatnefs of her Favours never boaft, 
 For Heart and Eye are bent another way. 
 And lo no glorious Purchafe that Man gets, 
 Who hath with fuch poor Trifles woo'd and wonj 
 Her footing on a Sail his Mifirefs fets, 
 Which in a Moment flips, and (he is gone. 
 A Woman meerly with an Out-Jide caught, 
 Or tempted with a Galliard or a Song, 
 Will him forfake (whom fhe moft lovely thought) 
 For Tlayers and for Tumblers e'er't be long. 
 
 You then that wifh your Love fhou'd ever laft, 
 {And wou'd enjoy AffeBion without changing) 
 Love where your Loves may worthily be plac'd, 
 And keep your own AjfeBion ftill from ranging. 
 Ufe noble means your Longings to attain 5 
 Seek equal Minds, and well-befeeming Years-. 
 They are (at beft) vain Fools whom Folly gain j 
 But there is Slifs where Vertue moft endears 1 
 
 And wherefbe'er Affection fhe procures. 
 In fpight of all Temptations it endures. 
 
 Lot tf 3 
 
TXvine and Moral. 65 
 
 Lot 16. 
 
 M. 
 
 IF fome here prefent this had got, 
 They wou'd have blufhed at their Lot » 
 Since very fit the fame doth prove, 
 For one unconftant in his Love $ 
 
 Or one that has a fickle Mate, 
 If you enjoy a better Fate, 
 Yet hearken what your Lot doth fay, 
 Left you hereafter want it may. 
 
 Emblem XVIL 
 
66 Choke 'Emblems, 
 
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 Non ofofl Virtuti Sors. 
 
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fDivke and Moral. 67 
 
 THE 
 
 Seventeenth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 TV Fortune prove true Virtues toe f 
 It cannot work her Overthrow. 
 
 UNhappy Men are they, whofe Ignorance 
 So flaves them to the Fortunes of the time, 
 That they (attending on the Lot of Chance) 
 Negleft by Venue and 2)eferts to climb. 
 Poor Heights they be which Fortune rears unto, 
 And fickle is the Favour fhe beftows : 
 To day fhe makes, to morrow doth undo 5 
 Builds up, and in an inftant overthrows. 
 On eafy Wheels to Wealth and Honours high, 
 She winds Men oft before they be aware, 
 
 And 
 
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 And when they dream of mod Profperity, 
 Down headlong throws them lower than they were. 
 
 Xou then that feek a more aflur'd Eftate, 
 On good and honeft Obje&s fix your Mind % ' 
 And follow Vcmie, that you may a Fate 
 Exempt from fear of Change, or Dangers, find. 
 For he that's vertuous, whether high or low 
 His Fortune feems (or whether foul or fair 
 His 'Path he finds) or whether Friend or tfoe 
 The World doth prove ; regards it not a hair. 
 His Zofs is Gain ; his Poverty is Wealth 5 
 The World's Contempt he makes his 'Diadem $ 
 In Sicknefs he rejoiceth, as in Health 5 
 Yea, Death it felf becometh Life to him. 
 "He fears no Difrefpecl, no bitter Scorn, 
 Nor fubtile Plottings, nor Oppreffion's Force 1 
 Nay, tho' the World fhou'd topfy-turvy turn, 
 It cannot fright him, nor divert his Courfe. ; 
 
 Above all Earthly Pow'rs his Vertuertzrs him, 
 And up with Eagles Wings to Heav'n it bears him. 
 
 Lot 27. 
 
Divine and Moral. 69 
 
 Lot 17. 
 
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 THis Man, whatever he may feem, 
 Is worthy of an high Efteem $ 
 Tho' Fortune may his Perfon grind, 
 She cannot yet difturb his Mind. 
 
 Yea blefs'd and happy fhou'd we be, 
 Were all of us but fuch as he : 
 Read but his Motto which you drew, 
 For that in part the fame will fhew. 
 
 Emblem XVIII- 
 
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 Emblem XVIII. 
 
 Noli Altum Saperel 
 
 The 
 
TXvine md Moral. 71 
 
 THE 
 
 Eighteenth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Above thy JQiowledge do not rifc 9 
 But with Sobriety be wife. 
 
 EXalt thou not thy f elf tho' plac'd thou be 
 Upon the top of that old Olive-Tree, 
 From whence the nat'ral Branches prun'd have bin, 
 That thou the better might'ft be grafted in. 
 Be not fo over-wife as to prefume, 
 The Gard'ner for thy Goodnefs did afTume 
 Thy fmall Crab-Olive \ to infert it there 
 Where once the fweeteft Berries growing were. 
 Nor let thy Pride thofe few old Soughs contemn, 
 Which yet remain upon their antient Stem, 
 
 Becaufe 
 
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 Becaufe thy new-incorporated Sprays 
 Do more enjoy the Sun's refrefhing Rays: 
 But humbled rather, and more awful be, 
 Left he that cutoflE7Zv/#, do break down thee. 
 
 Bfc wife in what may to thy good belong, 
 But leek not Knowledge to thy Neighbour's wrong : 
 Be thankful for the Grace thou haft receiv'd, 
 But j udge not thofe who feem thereof bereav'd 5 
 Nor into thofe forbidden Secrets peep, 
 Which God Almighty to himfelf doth keep. 
 Remember what our Father Adam found, 
 When he for Knowledge fought beyond his bound. 
 For doubtlefs ever fince, both good and ill 
 Are left with Knowledge intermingled ftill 5 
 And (if we be not humble, meek and wary) 
 We are in daily Danger to mifcarry. 
 Large proves the Fruit which on the Earth doth 
 
 lie, 
 Winds break the Twig that's grafted over-high 5 
 
 And he that will beyond his Bounds be wife, 
 Becomes a very Fool before lie dies. 
 
 Lot z8. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 73 
 
 Lot 18. 
 
 THis Lot thofe Perfons alwayt^inds, 
 That have high Thoughts and lofty minds ; 
 Or fuch as have an itch to Jearn 
 That which doth nothing them concern: 
 
 Or love to peep with daring Eyes 
 Into forbidden Myfteries. 
 If any one of thefe thou be, 
 Thine JEmblem better teacheth thee. 
 
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 Emblem XIX. 
 
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 THE 
 
 Nineteenth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 When each Man keep unto his Trade,, 
 Then all Things better will be fnade. 
 
 WE more fhould thrive, and err the feldomer* 
 If we were like this honeft €ar{enter % 
 Whofe Emblem in reproof of thofe is made, 
 That love to meddle farther than their Trade* 
 But moft are now exceeding cunning grown 
 In ev'ry Man's Affairs, except their own : 
 Yea, Coblers think themfelves not only able 
 To cenfure, but to mend Jpelles Table. 
 
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 -Great Men Sometimes will gravely undertake 
 To teach how 'Brooms and Mortar we fhou'd make. 
 Their Indifcretions <Peafants imitate, 
 And boldly meddle with Affairs of State. 
 Some Houfvoives teach their 'Teachers how to pray $ 
 Some Clerks have fhew'd themfelves as wife as 
 
 they 5 
 And in their Callings as difcreet have been 
 As if they taught their Grandames how to fpin. 
 And if thefe Cttftoms laft a few more Ages, 
 All Countries will be nothing elfe, but Stages 
 Of evil-acted and miftaken parts, 
 Or Gallemaufries of imperfect Arts. 
 
 But I my felf (you'll fay) have medlings made 
 In things that are improper to my Trade. 
 No 5 for the MUSES are in all things free, 
 Fit Subject of their Verfe all Creatures be 5 
 And there is nothing nam'd, fo mean or great, 
 Whereof they have not Liberty to treat. 
 Both Earth and Heavn are open unto thefe, 
 And (when to take more Liberty they pleafej 
 
 They Worlds and things create which never were, 
 And when they lift they flay and meddle there. 
 
 Lot. 1 p. 
 
^Divine and Moral.] 77 
 Lot. 1 9. 
 
 IF all be true thefe Lots do tell us, 
 Thou fhould'ft be of thofe prating Fellow*, 
 Who better praclifed are grown 
 In others matters than their own t 
 
 Or one that covets to be thought 
 A Man that's ignorant of nought* 
 If it be fo, thy Moral fhows 
 Thy Folly, and from whence it flows > 
 
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^Divine and Moral. 79 
 
 THE 
 
 Twentieth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 They after Suffering fid be ervwt% 
 In whom a Qonftant Faith is found. 
 
 MArk well this Emblem, and obferve you 
 thence 
 The Nature of true Chrjjlian Confidence. 
 Her Foot is fixed on zfquarcd Stone \ 
 Which, whether fide foe'er you turn it on, 
 Stands faft $ and is that Comer-Jlone which props 
 And firmly knits the ftruclure of our Hoj>es> 
 
 ShesAmys bears a Crofs $ to fignifie, 
 That there was never my Conjlancy 
 
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 Without her 7ryals 9 and that her Perfection 
 Shall never be attained without Jffiittion. 
 
 A Cup fhe hath moreover in her hand, 
 And by that Figure thou may'ft underftand, 
 That fhe hath Draughts of Comfort always near 
 
 her, 
 (At ev'ry brunt) to ftrengthen and to chear her. 
 And lo, her Head is crown' d> that we may fee 
 How great her Glories and Rewards will be. 
 
 Hereby this Venue's Nature may be known j 
 Now pra&ife how to make the fame thine own. 
 Difcourag'd be not, thp' thou art purfu'd 
 With many Wrongs which cannot be efchew'd : 
 Nor yield thou to 'Defpairing, tho' thou haft 
 A Crofs (which threatens death) to be embraced 5 
 Or tho' thou be compell'd to fwallow up 
 The very Dregs of Sorrow's bitter Cup : 
 For whenfoever Griefs or Torments pain thee, 
 Thou haft the fame Foundation to fuftain thee j 
 The felf fame Cup of Comfort is prepar'd 
 To give thee Strength, when/*/>tf/0gjF/fj are fear'd. 
 
 And when thy time of try al is expir'd, 
 Thou (halt obtain the Crown thou haft defir'd. 
 
 Lot 20a 
 

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 Lot so. 
 
 THY Fortunes have been very bad,. 
 For many Suff 'rings thou haft had* 
 And Tryals too, which are unknown. 
 To any but thy felf alone* 
 
 But let nor Lofs, nor Harm, nor Smart, 
 Fromconftant Hopes remove thy Heart z 
 For fee thine Emblem doth forefhew, 
 A good Gonclufion will enfue. 
 
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 THE 
 
 Twenty-firft Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Who Patience temps beyond its Strength y 
 Will tut n't to Furj at the length. 
 
 AUdio* we know not a more patient Creature 
 Than is the Lamb r (or of lefs harmful 
 Nature) 
 Yet, as this Emblera fhews, when childifli Wrong 
 Hath troubled and provok'd him over-long, 
 Me grows enrag'd, and makes the wanton 2?oy$ 
 Be glad to leave their Sports, and run their ways, 
 
 Thus have I feen it with fome Children fare^. 
 Who when thdzTafents too indulgent were, 
 
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 Have urg'd them till their Doting grew to Rage, 
 
 And fhut thern wholly from their Heritage. 
 
 Thus many times a foolifh Man doth lofe 
 
 His faithful Friends, and juftJy makes them Foes. 
 
 Thus froward Husbands, and thus peevifh Wives % 
 
 Do fool away the Comfort of their Lives, 
 
 And by abufing of 'a patient Mate, 
 
 Turn deareft Love into the deadlieft Hate: 
 
 For any wrong may better be excufect, 
 
 Than Kindnefi long and wilfully abufecL 
 
 But as an injur'd Lamb provoked thus, 
 Well typifies how much it moveth us 
 To find our Patience wrong'd 5 fo let us make 
 An Emblem of our felves, thereby totake 
 More heed how God is moved towards them, 
 That his long- fuff y ring and his Love contemn. 
 For as we fomewhat have of ev'ry Creature^ 
 So we in us have fomewhat of his Nature ; 
 Or if it be not faid the fame to be, 
 His < Pi5fures and his Imager are we. 
 
 Let therefore his long- fujf ring well be weigh'd^ 
 And keep us to provoke him ftill afraid. 
 
 Lot 21. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 85 
 
 Lot a 1. 
 
 TJHou haft provoked overlong 
 Their Tatieme, who neglect the Wrong 3 
 And thou doft little feem to heed 
 What hurt it threats if thou proceed,. 
 
 To thee thy Emblem therefore /hows 
 To what abufed Patience grows. 
 Obferve it well, and make thy Peace 
 Before to Fury Wrath increafe. 
 
 Emblem XXII 
 
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 Emblem XXII. 
 
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 In Sf>e fef ' Lahore tranjigo Vitam* 
 
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^Divine and Moral. 87 
 
 THE 
 
 Twenty-fecond Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Our Days, until our Life hath end, 
 In Labour and in Hopes m fpenck 
 
 AS fbon as our firft ^Parents difobey'd, 
 Forthwith a Curfe for their Offence was 
 laid, 
 Inforcing them, and their fucceeding Race r 
 To get their Food with Sweatings of the Face, 
 But afterward, this ^Doom to mitigate, 
 (And eafe the Miferies of their eflate) 
 God gave them Uofe^ that fhe might help then* 
 
 bear 
 The Burthens of their Travail and their Care, 
 
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 A Woman with an Anchor and a Spade t . 
 An Emblem of that My fiery is made : 
 And this Eftate we all continue in, 
 By God's free Mercy and our proper Sin* 
 By Sin the Labour is on us intail'd, 
 By Gr^£ it is that Hoping hath not fail'd 5 
 And if in !£>/£ our Labours we attend, 
 That Curfe will prove a BleJJivg in the end. . 
 
 My Lot is Hope and Labour^ and between* 
 Thefe 7^0 my Life-time hath prolonged been. 
 Yet hitherto the beft of all my <Pain> 
 With moft of all my Hopes have been in vain ^ 
 And to the World-ward I am like to wafte 
 My time in fruitlefs Labours till the lafh 
 
 However, I have {till my Hopes as fair 
 As he that hath no temptings to ^Defpair $ 
 And change I will not my lafi Hours for theirs,. 
 Whofe Fortune more deniable appears 5 
 Nor ceafe to Hope and Labour^ tho'of moft 
 My Hope and Labour be adjudged loft. 
 
 For tho' I lofe the Shadow of my Tains y 
 The Sub fiance of it ftill in God remains. 
 
 Lot £*; 
 
^Divine and Moral. 89 
 
 Lot a a. 
 
 IN fecret thou doft oft complain, 
 That thou haft hop'd and wrought in vain $ 
 And think'ft thy Lot is far more hard 
 Than what for others is prepar'd. 
 
 An Emblem therefore thou haft got, 
 Which fhews it is our common Lot 
 To work and hope, and that thou haft 
 A Blefling by it at the laft. 
 
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 Twenty-third Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 T0 Learning 1 a Love fhould bAve, 
 4lth(? one foot were in the Grave: 
 
 HEre we an aged Man defcribed have, 
 That hath one Foot already in the Grave ; 
 And, if you mark it (tho' the Sun decline, 
 And horned Cynthia doth begin to fhine) 
 With of en Book, and with attentive Eyes, 
 Himfelf to compafs Knowledge he applies : 
 And tho* that Evening end his 1 aft of Days, 
 Yet Iwillftudy, more to learn,\iQ fays. 
 
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 From this we gather, that while time doth Iaft, 
 The time of Learning never will be paft $ 
 And that each Hour, tiil we our Life lay down, 
 Still fomething touching Life is to be known. 
 When he was old wife Cato learned Greek : 
 But we have aged folks that are to feek 
 Of that which they have much more caufe to learn, 
 Yet no fuch mind in them we fhall difcern. 
 For that which they fhou'd ftudy in their grime, 
 Is oft deferred till their latter time' 5 
 And then Old Age unfit for Learning makes them, 
 Or qKq that common Dulnefs overtakes them, 
 Which makes aihamed that it fhould be thought, 
 They need, like little Children, to be taught. 
 And fo out of this World they do return 
 As wife as in that Week when they were bornv 
 
 God grant me Grace to ff end my Life-time fo> 
 That I my T)uty flill may feek to know 5 
 And that I never may fo far proceed, 
 7b think that I more Knowledge do not needy 
 
 $tit in Experience may continue growing, 
 Till I am fill' d with Fruits of pious Knowing. 
 
 Lot 2.3. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 93 
 
 Lot 23. 
 
 BY this your Emblem we difcern, 
 That you are yet of Age to learn $ 
 And that when elder you fhall grow 
 There will be more for you to know* 
 
 Prefume not therefore of your Wit, 
 But ftrive that you may better it $ 
 For of your Age we many view 
 That far more Wifdom have than you, 
 
 Emblem XXIV. 
 
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 Emblem XXIV. 
 
 Tranfow Celer eft, & avolamw>. 
 
 The 
 
'Divine md Moral. 95 
 
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 THE 
 
 Twenty-fourth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Where'er we are the Heavens are near, 
 Let us but fly and we are there. 
 
 WHy with a trembling Faintnefs fhou'd we 
 fear 
 The Face of2)eath* and fondly linger here, 
 As if we thought the Voyage to be gone 
 Lay thro' the Shades of Styx or Acheron ? 
 Or that we either were to travel down 
 To uncouth Dephs, or up fome Heights unknown I 
 Or to fome place remote, whofe neareft end 
 Is farther than Earth's Limits do extend ? 
 
 It 
 
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 It is not by one half that Diftance thither 
 Where 'Death lets in, as it is any whither : 
 No not by half fo far as to your Bed, 
 Or to that Pkce where you fhould reft your Head : 
 If on the Ground you laid your felf (ev'n there) 
 Where at this Moment you abiding are. 
 This Emblem (hews (if well you look thereon) 
 That from your Giafs 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 whatfoever Land we live or die % 
 God is the fame 5 and Heav'n is there as nigh, 
 As in that 'place wherein we moft defire 
 Our Souls with our laft Breathing to expire. 
 Which things well heeding, let us not delay 
 Our Journey when we fummon'd are away, 
 (As thofe inforced Pilgrims ufe to do, 
 Thar know not whither, nor how far they go.) 
 Nor let us dream that we in Time or Place % 
 Are far from ending our uncertain Race. 
 
 But let us fix on Heav'n a faithful Eye, 
 And ftill be flying thither till we die. 
 
 Lot 24. 
 
Divine and Moral. 97 
 
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 TO your long Home you nearer are 
 Than you it may be are aware * 
 Yea, and more eafy is the way 
 Than you perhaps conceive it may. 
 
 Left therefore Death /hou'd grim appear, 
 And put you in a caufelefs Fear, 
 Or out of minding wholly pafs, 
 This Chance to you allotted was* 
 
 Embleip XXV, 
 
 
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 THE 
 
 Twenty-fifth Emblem 
 Xlluftrated 
 
 A Sive of Shelter maketh (how, 
 But ev*ry Storm will thro* it go. 
 
 SOme Men* when for their Actions they procure 
 A likely colour, (be it ne'er fo vain) 
 Proceed as if their VPr-ojefts were as fure, 
 As when found Reafon did their Courfe maintain. 
 And thefe not much unlike thofe Children are, 
 Who thro' a Storm advent'ring defp'rately, 
 Had rather on their Heads a Sive to bear, 
 Than Coverings that may ferve to keep them dry. 
 For at a diftance that perchance is thought 
 A helpful Skelter, and yet proves to thofe 
 
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 Who need the fame, a Toy which profits nought, 
 Becaufe each Drop of Rain quite thro' it goes. 
 So they, whofe foolifti <Projefts for a while 
 Do promife their 'Projectors hopeful ends, 
 Shall find them in the Tryal to beguile, 
 And that both Shame and Want on them attends. 
 
 Such like is their eftate, who (to appear 
 tUcb Men to others) do with inward Pain, 
 A gladfome outward Port defire to bear, 
 Tho' they at laft nor Wealth nor Credit gain. 
 And fuch are all thofe Hypocrites^ who ft rive 
 Falfe Hearts beneath Fair-fpoken-Words to hide 5 
 For they o'ervail themfelves but with a She, 
 Thro' which their Purpofes at length are fpy'd: 
 And then they either wofully lament 
 Their hrutijh Folly , or fo harden'd grow 
 In finning, that they never can repent 5 
 Nay, jeft and fcofF at their own Overthrow. 
 
 But no falfe Vail can f erve (when God will fmite) 
 To fave a Scorner> or an Hypocrite. 
 
 Lot 2. 5. 
 
^Divine and Moral. ios 
 Lot 25. 
 
 TAke heed you do not quite forget 
 That you are dancing in a Net, 
 Many there are your Ways do fee, 
 Altho* you think unfeen you be* 
 
 Your Faults we will no nearer touch, 
 Methinks yoar Emblem blabs too much - 
 But if you mend what is amifs, 
 You. fhall be ne'er the worfe for this, 
 
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 Twenty-fixth Emblem 
 Uluftrated. 
 
 He that enjoys a patient Mind f 
 Can Pleafure in AffliBion find. 
 
 WHat means this Country c Peafant flapping 
 here, 
 Thro' prickling ttiftles with fuch joyful f heer ^ 
 And plucking off their Tops, as tho* for c Pcfie$ 
 He gather'd Violets, or tooth lefs Rofes ? 
 What meaneth it, but only to exprefs 
 How great a Joy well-grounded tPatientnefs 
 Retains in Sufferings ? and what fport fhe makes 
 When iha her Journey thro' dffiffiow takes ? 
 
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 I ofr havefaid (and have as oft been thought 
 To fpeak a "Paradox, that favours nought 
 Of likely Truth) that fome Afflictions bring 
 A Honey-hag which cureth ev'ry Sting, 
 (That wounds the Flejh) by giving to the Mind 
 A pleafing Tafte of Sweetneffes refin'd. 
 Nor can it other be, except in thofe 
 Whofe better part quite ftupified grows, 
 By being cauterized in the Fires 
 Of childifh Fears, or temporal 2)ejires. 
 
 For as the Valiant (when the Coward faoons) 
 With Gladnefs lets the Surgeon fearch his Wounds j 
 And tho' they fmart, yet cheerfully indures 
 The Plaifters and the Probe in hope of Cures : 
 So Men, allured that AffliBions Pain 
 Comes not for Vengeance to them, nor io vain, 
 But to prepare and fit them for the place 
 To which they willingly direct their pace 5 
 In Troubles are fo far from being fad, 
 That of their Suffering they are truly glad, 
 
 Whatever others think, I thus believe 5 
 
 And therefore joy, when they fuppofe I grieve. 
 
 Lot 16. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 105 
 Lot 16. 
 
 I A T your Afflictions you repine, 
 U\ And in all Troubles cry and whine ;: 
 As if tofuffer brought no Joy, 
 But quite did all Content deftroy* 
 
 That you may therefore patient grow* 
 And learn this Virtue's Power to know, 
 This Lot unto your View is brought y 
 Perufe and pra&ife what is taught. 
 
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^Divine and Moral. 107 
 
 THE 
 
 Twenty-feventh Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Deformity within my be f 
 Where outward Beauty xve do fee. 
 
 LOok well, I pray, upon this Beldame here.j 
 For, in her Habit, tho' fhe gay appear^, 
 You thro* her youthful Vizard may efpy, 
 She's of an old Edition by her Eye: 
 And by her Wainfcot-Face it may be feen, 
 She might your Grajjdam's firft jDry-Nnrfe have- 
 been. 
 
 This is an Emblem fitly fhaddowing thofe s . 
 Who making fair and honett outward (haws, 
 
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 Are inwardly deform 'd, and nothing fuch 
 As they to be fuppos'd have ftrived much. 
 They chufe their "words, and play well-a£ted^m, 
 But hidemoft loathfome Projects in their Hearts y 
 And when you think fweet Friendfhip to embrace* 
 Some ugly 'Treafon meets you in the Face* 
 1 hate a painted Brow ; I much diflike 
 A Maiden-biufh dawb'd on a furrow'd Cheek 5 
 And I abhor to fee old Wantons play, 
 And. fujjt themfelves, liks Ladies of the May. 
 But more (yea, moftof all) my Soul defpifeth. 
 A Heart that in Religious Forrns difguifetk 
 Prophane Intentions, and arrays in white 
 The Coal-black Confcience of an Hypocrite. 
 Take heed of fuch as thefe, and (if you may) 
 Before you truft them, track them in their way. 
 Obferve their Footfteps in their private VPatb 3 
 For thefe (as 'tis believ'd the Devil hath), 
 Have cloven Feet, that is, two ways they go,. 
 One. for their ends, and t'other for a/bow. 
 
 Now you thus warned are, Advice embrace, 
 And truft nor gawdy deaths.) nor painted Face,, 
 
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J)wlne and Moral. 109 
 Lot aj. 
 
 Fine Cloaths, fair Words, inticing Face ? , 
 With Mafks of Piety and Grace, 
 Oft cheat you with an outward fhow 
 Of that which proveth nothing fo. 
 
 Therefore your Emblem's Moral reatf; 
 And e'er too far you do proceed, 
 Think whom you deal withal to day, 
 Who* by fair Shews deceive you may. 
 
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 Twenty-eighth Emblem 
 Uluftrated. 
 
 When Magiflrates confined are f 
 They revel who were kept in Fear* 
 
 A Tyrannous, or wicked Magiftrat> 
 Is fitly reprefented by a Cat : 
 For tho' the Mice a harmful Vermine be, 
 And Cats the Remedy 5 yet oft we fee, 
 That by the Mice far lefs fome Houfe-wives leefe, 
 Then when they fet the Cat to keep the Cheefe. 
 A ravenous Cat will punilh in the Monfe r 
 The very fame Offences in the Houfe, 
 Which he himfelf commits 5 yea, for that Vice 
 Which was his own (with praife) he kills the Mice 9 
 
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 And fpoileth not anothers Life alone, 
 Ev'n for that very Fault which was his-Ottft,* 
 But feeds and fattens in the Spoil of them 
 Whom he without Companion did condemn. 
 Kay, worfe than fo, he cannot be content 
 To (laughter them who are as innocent 
 As he himfelf but he muft alfo play 
 And fport his woful ^ris^ners Lives away 5 
 More tort'ring them 'twixt fruitlefs hopes and fears. 
 Than when their Bowels with his Teeth he tears ; 
 For by much Terror, and much Cruelty, 
 He kills them ten times over e'er they die. 
 
 When fuch like ffiagijlrateshave rule obtain'd, 
 The beft Men wifh their Pow'r might be reftrain'di 
 But they who fhun Enormities thro' Fear, 
 Are glad when good Men out of Office are. 
 Xea, whether Governors be good or bad, 
 Qf their Difplacings wicked Men are glad ^ 
 
 And when they fee them brought into Difgraces, 
 They boldly play the Knaves before their Faces.. 
 
 Lot 2&.j 
 
7)ivine and Moral. 113 
 Lot a8. 
 
 M. 
 
 THou art, or elfe thou wert of late, 
 Some great or petty Magiftrate 5 
 Or Fortune thereunto may chance 
 In time to come thee to advanoe. 
 
 But by thine Ennblcm thou may 'ft fee, 
 
 That when reflrainM thy Pow'r /hall be, 
 
 Offenders will thereof be glad, 
 
 And Scoff the Pow'r which thou haft had : 
 
 Obferve it, and be fo upright, 
 
 That thou may'ft laugh at their Defpight. 
 
 Emblem XXIX. 
 
1 14. Choke Emblems*) 
 
 Emblem XXIX. 
 
 Terfequar Extinfiu. 
 
 The 
 
'Divine and Moral. 115 
 
 fp «j»<s flk'jp ay'ia aio flio Ata Aia a<a Ala CvV© O' 
 
 THE 
 
 Twenty-ninth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 ■ — 1 11 1 m 
 
 True Lovers Lives in one Heart Lie j 
 Both Live, or both together Die* 
 
 HE that fhall fay he Loves, and was again 
 So well-belov'd, that neither He nor She 
 Sufpec"ts each other, neither needs to gain 
 New Proofs that they in all Defires agree 5 
 And yet fhall cool again in their Affe6lion y 
 (And leave to Love) or live till they are Lovers 
 The fecond time, it fome grofs Imperfection 
 In One (if not Both) of them difcovers. 
 
 It was not Love which did between them grow, 
 
 But rather fome what like unto the fame 5 
 
 Which 
 
J\6 Choice Emblems, 
 
 Which (having made a fair deceiving Shaw) 
 Obtain'd a while that honourable Name. 
 For falfe AjfeBions will together play 
 So lovingly, and oft fo aft thofe Parts 
 Which real feem, that for a time they may 
 Appear the Children of unfeigned Hearts. 
 Xea, many times rrue Turtles are deceiv'd 
 By counterfeited Tajzons, till their Love 
 Of her true Ohjefi finds her felf bereav'd* 
 And after it is forced to remove. 
 But where true Love begetteth and enjoyi 
 The proper Objeft which fhe doth defire, 
 Nor Time, nor Injury the fame deftroys, 
 But it continues a perpetual Fire. 
 
 Like am'rous Thhle to her < Pyrdmus t 
 On all occafions it continues true, 
 Nor Night, nor Danger makes it timorous, 
 But thro' all Perils it will him purfue. 
 
 Thus both in Life, in "Death, in all eftates* 
 True Lovers will be true JJJbciates. 
 
 JLot *p. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 1 1 7 
 
 Lot 29. 
 
 SOme think you Love $ 'tis true you do, 
 And are as well beloved too : 
 But you {if we the Truth may fay) 
 Love not fo truly as you may. 
 
 To make a perfect Love, there goes 
 Much more than ev'ry Lover knows. 
 Your Emblem therefore mind, and then 
 Begin anew to loveagen. 
 
 Emblem XXX, 
 
1 1 8 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XXX. 
 
 Neyuid Nimis. 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 119 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirtieth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Since over-much mil over-fiB^ 
 ' Pour out enough, but do not fpM* 
 
 IT is this Emblem's meaning, to advance 
 The Love and Pra&ice of true Temperance. 
 Per by this Figure (which doth feem to fill 
 Until the Liquor overflow and fpill) 
 We are, as by Example, taught to fee 
 How fruitlefs our Jntemper antics be : 
 Thus by the Rule of Contrarieties, 
 Some Vermes beft are ftiewn to vulgar Eyes, 
 
 To 
 
iao Choice Emblems^ 
 
 To fee a nafty Drunkard reel and fpew, 
 More moves to Sohernefs than can the view 
 Of twenty civil Men 5 and to behold 
 One Prodigal (that goodly Lands hath fold) 
 Stand torn and louzy begging at the Door, 
 Would make Intemperance abhorred more 
 (And manly Sohernefs much better teach) 
 Than all that fix Thilofofhers can preach. 
 So by the fejfel's overflowing here, 
 True Moderation doth more prais'd appear 
 Than by the Mean it felf : And without fin, 
 That's ficlur'd, which to do had wicked been 5 
 For, tho' to vertuous ends, we do deny 
 The doing III that Good may come thereby. 
 
 From hence let us be taught that careful heed, 
 Whereby we fhould both Mind and Zto^feed. 
 Xet us of our own felves obferve the fize, 
 How much we want, how little will fuffice : 
 And our own Longings rather leave unfilled, 
 Than fuffer any Portion to be fpill'd. 
 
 For what we marr (hall to account be laid, 
 And what we wifely fpnd (hall be repaid, 
 
 Lot 30, 
 
^Divine and Moral. in 
 Lot. 30. 
 
 IF truly temperate thou be, 
 Why fhou'd this Lot be drawn by thee ? 
 Perhaps thou either doft exceed 
 In Clothes, or high doft drink or feed, 
 
 *. 
 
 Beyond the mean. If this thou find, 
 Or know'ft in any other kind, 
 How thou offendeft by excefs, 
 Now leave off thy Intemperatenefs. 
 
 Emblem XXXI. 
 
122 Choice Emllemsy 
 
 Emblem XXXI. 
 
 Bind: Ti- 
 
 Legibm W Armk. 
 
 The 
 
divine and Moral. 1 2 3 
 
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 THE 
 
 Thirty-firft Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Jf 7 &?# L^w 4#af «4m.f together meet, 
 The World Aefcends to kifs their Feet. 
 
 THE Picture of a Crowned King here fknds 
 Upon a G/ofo, and with out-ftretched hands, 
 Holds forth in view, a Law-book and a «£a?0r^ ; 
 Which plain and modern Figures may afford 
 This meaning 5 That a ifeg who hath regard 
 To Courts for pleading* and a Com of Guard, 
 And at all times a due refpecl will carry 
 To pious Laws, and Aft ions military 5 
 Shall not be Monarch only in thofe Lands 
 That are by Birth- right under his Commands, 
 
 G 2 But 
 
1^4. Choice Emblems ) 
 
 But alfo might (if jufl occafion were) 
 Make this whole Globe of Earth his Power to fear $ 
 Advance his Favorites 3 and bring down all 
 His Oppojites below his Pedeftal. 
 
 His conquering Sword in foreign Realms he 
 draws, 
 As oft as there is juil or needful caufe : 
 At home, in ev'ry province of his Lands, 
 At all times armed are his Trained Sands. 
 His Royal Fleets are Terrors to the Seas, 
 At all hours rigg'd for ufeful Voyages. 
 And often he his Navy doth increafe, 
 That Wars Provisions may prolong his (peace. 
 Nor by the Tenure of the Sword alone 
 Delighteth/he to hold his awful Throne^ 
 But likewife labours Mifchiefs to prevent, 
 By wholfome Laws and rightful Government. 
 For where the Sword commands without the Law, 
 A Tyrant keeps the Land in flavifti awe : 
 
 And-where good Laws do want an armed flow' V, 
 Rebellious Knaves their Trinces will devour. 
 
 Lot 31, 
 
Divine and Moral. j 2 
 Lot jr. 
 
 M. 
 
 SOme urge their Princes on to War, 
 And weary of fweet Peace foon are, 
 Some feek tamake them dote on Peace> 
 Till Publick Danger more increafe $ 
 
 As if the World were kept in awe, 
 By nothing elfe but preaching Law, 
 The Moral is 5 If fuch thou art, 
 Then acl a Moderator's part. 
 
 G 3 Emblem XXXII, 
 
1^6 Choice Emblems, 
 
 Emblem XXXII. 
 
 Spes alit j4grkolct&* 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral* 127 
 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-fecond Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 The Husbandman doth fow his Seeds , 
 And then on Hope till Harvefi feeds. 
 
 THE painful Husbandman \ with fweaty brows,. 
 Confumes in labour many a weary Day 5 
 To break tbe ftubborn Earth he digs and ploughs^ 
 And then the Corn he fcatters on the Clay. 
 When that is done he harroivs in the Seeds, 
 And...bty a well-cleans'd Furrow lays it dry 5 
 He frees it from the Worms , the Moles, the Weeds; 
 He on the Fences alfo hath an Eye. 
 And tho' he fee the chilling Winter bring 
 S?w--ws t Floods and Frofts, his Labours to annoy $ 
 C 4 Tho' 
 
ii 8 Choice Emblems, 
 
 Tho* blaftzng Winds do nip them in the Springy 
 And Summers Mildews threaten to deftroy : 
 Yea, tho' not only 'Days but Weeks they are, 
 (Kay, many Weeks and many Months befide) 
 In which he muft with pain prolong his care, 
 Yet conftant in his Hopes he doth abide. 
 Per this refpeel: HOPE's Emblem here you fee 
 Attends the <Pfough, that Men beholding it 
 May be inftrucled, or elfe minded be, 
 What Hopes continuing Labours will befit. 
 Tho' long thou toiled haft, and long attended 
 About fuch workings as are neceffary, 
 And oftentimes, e'er fully they are ended, 
 Shalt find thy pains in danger to mifcarry : 
 Yet be not out of Hope, nor quite dejected. 
 For buried Seeds will fprout when Winter's gone $ 
 Unlikelier things are many times eflfecled 5 
 And G^brings help whenMen their beft have done, 
 
 Yea, they that in good works their Life imploy, 
 Altho' theyfow in Tears, Jhall reap in Joy. 
 
 Lot & 
 
^Divine and Moral. I a 9 
 Lot 33. 
 
 IN many things the worfe thou art, 
 By thy defpairing, fainting Heart- 
 And oft thy Labour and thy Coir, 
 For want of Hopefulness is loft. 
 
 Thou therefore by thy Lot art fen<v, 
 This Indifcretion to prevent,, 
 And by the Plow-man's Hope to fee 
 Thy Fault, and now reform'd to be, 
 
 G 5 Emblem XXXIU*. 
 
130 Choke BmMerns^ 
 
 Emblem XXXIII. 
 
 Emh: WW. 
 
 Turk Mcmiimi 
 
 Tkfe 
 
^Divine and* Moral'. 1 3 r 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-third Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Let him that at Go£s Altar [lands r 
 In Innocemy tvajb his Hinds. 
 
 WHen (Reader) thou haft firft of all ffcrvey'd 
 That Reverend Prieft which here ingra- 
 ven ftands, 
 In all his Holy Veftiments array 'd, 
 Endeavouring for Purified Hands $ 
 Collect from hence, that when thou doft appear 
 To offer Sacrifice ofpraife or Prayer, 
 Thou ought'ft the Robes of Rightewifnefs to 
 
 wear, 
 And by Repentance thy Defers repair, 
 
 Wot 
 
i%i Choke EmMems^ 
 
 For thou that with polluted Hands prefum'ft 
 . Before God's Altar to prsfent thy Face, 
 Or in the Rags of thine own Merits com'ft, 
 Shalt TQ^tDiffleafure where thou look'fl for Grace . 
 
 Then if thou be of thofe that would afpire 
 A <PrieJl or Prelate in God's Church to be, 
 Be fure thou firft thofe Omamciits acquire 
 Which may be fuiting to that high 'Degree.* 
 Intrude not, as perhaps too many do, 
 With Gifts unfit, or by an Evil mean 5 
 Defire it with a right Intention too, 
 And feek to keep thy Converfation clean. 
 For they that have afTum'd this Holy CaVing 
 With Hands impure, and Hearts unfanclify'd, 
 Defame the Truth, give others caufe of Falling, 
 And fcandalize their Brethren too befide. 
 Yea, to themfelves their very -Sacrifice 
 Becomes unhallow'd 5 and their 'Thanks and; 
 
 prayers 
 The God of Turity doth fo defpife, 
 That all their Hofes he turneth to 'Defpairs y 
 
 And all their beft Endeavours countermands. 
 Till they appear with unpolluted Hands, 
 
 Lot 3: 
 
^Divine and Moral. 12? 
 Lot 3 j. 
 
 WHether meerly Chance or no, 
 Brought this Lot, we do not know t 
 But received let it be, 
 As Divinely fent to thee. 
 
 For that merits thy regard, 
 Which thine Emblem hath deckr'd 
 And the beft that are have need 
 Such Advifcments well to heed. 
 
 \ 
 
 Emblem XXXIV. 
 
12^. Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XXXIV. 
 
 WnwTTgWt 
 
 Ferio+ 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 135 
 
 mmmmmmm 
 
 a ' 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-fourth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Be wary who foe* re you be, 
 
 For from Lovers Arrows none are free. 
 
 G All ants, beware $ f<^r here's a wanton Wagg t 
 Who, having Sows and Arrows, makes 
 his brag, 
 That he hath fome unhappy trick to play, 
 And vows to fhoot at all he meets to day* 
 Pray be not carelefs, for the Soy is blind, 
 And fometimes (hikes where moft he feemeth 
 
 kind. 
 This rambling Archer fpares nor one, nor other j 
 Sea, otherwhile, the Monkey fhoots his Mother. 
 
 Tho' 
 
1 36 Choice Emblem^ 
 
 Tho* you be little Children^ come not near,.. 
 For I remember ( though 't be many a year 
 Now gone and paft) that when I was a Lad, 
 My Heart a prick by this young Wanton had 
 That pain'd me feven Years after : nor had I 
 The Grace (thus warn'd) to fcape his waggery 5 
 But many times, ev'n fince I was a Man,. 
 He fhot me oftner than I tell you can : 
 And if I had not been the Wronger hearted,. 
 I for my over-daring might have fmarted. 
 
 You laugh now as if this were nothing fo ^ 
 But if you meet this Blinkard with his Bow, 
 You may, unlefs you take the better care,. 
 Receive a Wound before you be aware. 
 1 fear him not $ for I have learned how 
 To keep my Heart-ftrings fron his Arrows now s 
 And fo might you, and fo might ev'ry one 
 That vain Occctjions truly feeks to fhun. 
 But if you flight my Confels, you may chance 
 To blame at iaft your wilful Ignorance : 
 
 For fome who thought at firft his Wounds but 
 
 fmall, 
 Have died by them in znHofpitp.l 
 
 Lot 34, 
 
divine and MoraV. 13 7 
 Lot 34. 
 
 THIS Lot of yours doth plainly fhow, 
 That in fome Danger now you go 5 
 But Wounds by Steel yet fear you not, 
 Nor Piftolling, nor Canon- Shot j 
 
 But rather dread the Shafts that fly 
 From fbme deep- wounding Wanton's Eye 
 Your greateft Perils are from thence, 
 Get therefore Armour of Defence. 
 
 Emblem XXXV. 
 
138 Choice EmilemSy 
 
 Emblem XXXV. 
 
 EmbTTJ. 
 
 Sapiens dominabitur j4Jlru* 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 139 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-fifth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 He over all the Stars doth reign, 
 That unto Wifoom can attain. 
 
 I Am not of their Mind, who think the Sun, 
 The Moon, the TlanetSy and thofe glorious 
 Lights 
 Which trim the Spheres, do in tht\t Motions run 
 To no more purpofe than to pleafe our Sights : 
 Nor for diftingui foment of Nights and Days y 
 Or of the Seafons and the Times alone, 
 Can I fuppofe the Hand of God difplays 
 Thofe many Stars we nightly gaze upon : 
 
 For 
 
140 Choice Emhlems, 
 
 For both by Reafbn and by common Senfe, 
 We know (and often feel) that from above 
 The <Planets have on us an Influence $ 
 And that our Bodies vary as they move. 
 
 Moreover Holy Writ infers that thefe 
 Have fbme fuch pow'r 5 ev'n in thole places where 
 It names Orion and the Tle'iadcs, 
 Which Stars of much inferior Nature are. 
 
 Yet hence conclude not therefore, that the Mind 
 Is by the Stars conftrained to obey 
 Their Influence 5 or fo by them inclined, 
 That by no means, refift the fame we may. 
 For tho' they form the Body's Temp'rature, 
 (And tho' the Mi?zd inclineth after that) 
 By Grace another Temper we procure, 
 Which guides the Motions offuffc fed Fate. 
 The Soul of Man is nobler then the Spheres^ 
 And if it gain the Place which may be had, 
 Kot here alone on Earth the Rule it bears, 
 But is the Lord of all that God hath made. 
 
 Be wife in him y and if juft caufe there be, 
 The Sun and Moon fhall ftand and wait on thee* 
 
 Lot 5$^ 
 
'Divine and Moral. 1 4. 1 
 Lot 35. 
 
 YO U feek a Lot, which proving bad, 
 Wou'd peradventure make you fad : 
 But this may pleafe $ for you are taught, 
 To mend your Fortune when 'tis naught. 
 
 Being armed with fuch Counfel here, 
 That you no Deftiny need fear ; 
 Now if you come to hurt or Shame, 
 Upon the Stars lay not the blame. 
 
 Emblem XXVI 
 
14.2 Choice Emblems*) 
 
 Emblem XXXVI. 
 
 Nm t$ % fedNummos. 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 14.3 
 
 *&) ^/^O fT^i {^s?^ ^ 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-fixth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Thy feeming Lover falfe will be, 
 And love thy Money more than thee. 
 
 WHAT may the reafon be fo many wed, 
 And mifs the Blefllngs of a joyful Bed, 
 But thofe ungodly and improper Ends, 
 For which this Age moft Marriages intends ? 
 Some love flump fiejh 5 and thofe as kind will be 
 To any gamefom Wanton^ as to thee. 
 Some dote on Honours ; and all fuch will prize 
 Thy Perfon meerly for thy 'Dignities. 
 Some fancy ^leafures 5 and fuch Flirts as they 
 With ev'ry Hohby-horfe will run away. 
 
 Some 
 
144 Choice Emllems\ 
 
 Some (like this Couple in our Emblem here) 
 Wooe hard for Wealth ; and very kind appear, 
 Till they have won their Prize : but then they 
 
 fhow 
 On what their beft Jfffeclions they beftow. 
 
 This Wealthy is that fweet Beauty, which 
 prefers 
 So many to their Executioners. 
 This is that rare ferfetlion, for whofe fake 
 The politician doth his Marriage make. 
 Yea, moft of thofe whom you fhall married find, 
 Were cozen'd (or did cozen) in this kind 5 
 And for fome by-rejpecls they came together, 
 Much more than for the fakes of one another. 
 If this concerns thee now, in any fenfe, 
 For thy Instruction take this warning hence : 
 If thou haft err'd already, then lament 
 Thy pafTed Crime, and bear thy Punifhment 
 If thou, as yet, but tempted art to err $ 
 Then let this Emblem be thy Cotmfeller. 
 
 For I have faid my Mind 5 which if thou flight, 
 Go, and repent it on thy Wedding-Night. 
 
 Lot $tf. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 11.5 
 Lot. 36. 
 
 TH I S Lot may make us ail fufpecT: 
 That fome wrong ObjecT: you affeft. 
 And that where 2)eamefs you pretend, 
 It is not for the nobleft end. 
 
 What Mifchief from fuch Fal/hood flows 
 Your Emblem very truly fhows. 
 And may more happy make your Fate, 
 If this Advice come not too late. 
 
 H Emblem XXXVIL 
 
14.6 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XXXVII. 
 
 Virtute ac Studio per Orhem Fama 
 perpetua comparatur. 
 
 The 
 
Divine and Moral. 14. 7 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-feventh Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Bj Studioufnefs in Virtues vo*ys y 
 Men gain an univerfd Praife. 
 
 WHen Emblems of too many parts confift, 
 Their Author was no choice Emblematifl: 
 But is like thofe that wafte whole Hours to tell, 
 What in three Minutes might be faid as well. 
 Yet when each Member is interpreted, 
 Out of thefe vulgar Figures you may read 
 A Morale (altogether) not unfit 
 To be remember'd, ev'n by Men of wit. 
 And if the Kernel prove to be of worth, 
 >To matter from what Shell we drew it forth. 
 
 Ha The 
 
14.8 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 The Square whereon the Globe is placed here, 
 Muft Vertue be $ That Globe upon the Square 
 Muft mean the World 5 The Figure in the Round 
 (Which in appearance doth her Trumpet found) 
 Was made for Fame 5 The Book me bears, may 
 
 mow 
 What Breath it is which makes her 'Trumpet blow: 
 The Wreath inclofing all, was to intend 
 A glorious <Praife, that never mail have end. 
 And thefe in one fumm'd up, do feem to fay, 
 That (if Men fludy in a vertuous way) 
 The Trumpet of a never- ceafing Fame, 
 Shall thra' the World proclaim their praifeful Name. 
 
 Now, Reader ', if large F<ww* be thy Ambition, 
 This Emblem doth inform on what condition 
 She may be gain'd : But (herein me believe) 
 Thy fiudy for meer Praife will thee deceive : 
 And if thy Vermes be but only thofe 
 For which the vulgar Fame her Trumpet blows, 
 
 Thy Fame's a Blaft 5 Thy Vermes Vices be 5 
 Thy Study's vain, and <Sto£ will follow thee. 
 
 Lot. 57. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 14.9 
 Lot 37. 
 
 THou feek'ft for Fame, and now art fliowsa 
 For what her Trumpet fhall be blown. 
 Thine Emblem alfo doth declare, 
 What Fame they get who Virtuous are* 
 
 For Praife alone ; And what Reward 
 For fuch like Studies is prepar'd. 
 Perufe it $ and this Counfel take, 
 Be Virtuous for meer Virtue's lake. 
 
 H 3 Emblem XXXV lit 
 
150 Choice Emblems, 
 
 Emblem XXXVIII. 
 
 7)eu& nobis bac Otia fecit* 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 151 
 
 la At« «VJ> G),\G> «*AP Q,'A <*,\P <V.& *V'.5> Ck tjC. 3lP <V. 
 
 »W ©YW ««*P Ol« OtW ffl» «TiCl o»w e» 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-eighth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 The Gofpel thankfuttj embrace:, \ 
 For God vouchsafed us this Grace. 
 
 THis modern Emhtem is a mute expre fling 
 Of God's great Mercies in a Modem-bleffing^ 
 And gives me now juft caufe to fing his praife, 
 For granting me my Being in thefe Days. 
 The much-defired Mejtfages of Heav'n, 
 For which our Fathers would their Lives have 
 
 givn, 
 And (in Groves, Caves and Mountains^ once a 
 
 Year) 
 Were glad, with hazard of their Goods, to hear $ 
 H 4 Qx y 
 
J 5^ Choice Emblems, 
 
 Or, in lefs bloody times, at their own homes, 
 To hear in private and obfcured Rooms. 
 Lo ! thofe, thofe joyful Tydings, we do live, 
 Divulg'd in every Village to perceive $ 
 And that the Sounds of Gladnefs eccho may, 
 Thro' all our goodly Temples ev'ry day. 
 
 This was (Oh God) thy doing ; unto thee, 
 AfcriFdfor ever let all 'Praifes be. 
 ^Prolong this Mercy, and vouchfafe the Fruit 
 May to thy Labour on this Vineyard fuit 5 
 Left for our Fruit lefnefs, thy Light of Grace 
 rfkoufrom our Golden Candleftick difplace. 
 
 We do, me-thinks, already. Lord, begin 
 ?"0 wantonize, and let that loathing in 
 Which makes thy Manna t aft lefs : And 1 fear ', 
 ^hat of thofe Chiiftians who more often hear 
 1*1: an fraBife what they know, we have too many: 
 And IfufpeEt my felt as much as any. 
 Oh ! mend mefo, that by amending me, 
 Amends in others may increafed be ; 
 
 And let all Graces which thou haft beftow l d % 
 Return thee honour, from whom firft they 
 flowed. 
 
 Lot 28. 
 
Divine and Moral 1 5 J 
 Lot 38; 
 
 BY this thy Lot thou doft appear, 
 To be of thofe who love to hear 
 The Preacher's Voice : Or elfe of them, 
 That undervalue or contemn 
 
 Thofe daily fhowers of wholfbm Words,, 
 Which God in thefe our times affords* 
 Now which foe're of thefe thou be, 
 Thine Emblem fomething teacheth thee* 
 
 H 5 Emblem XXXIX, 
 
154- Choice Emllents, 
 
 Emblem XXXIX. 
 
 Sfernit Terkula Virtw* 
 
 Tha 
 
^Divine and Moral. 155 
 
 THE 
 
 Thirty-ninth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 • An Innocent no Danger fears, 
 How great Joever it appears. 
 
 WHen fome did feek Avion to have drown \f, 
 He with a valiant heart hisTemples crown 'd $ 
 And when to drench him in the Seas they meant v 
 He plaid on his melodious Injlniment - r 
 To fhew that Innocence difdained Fear j 
 Tho' to be fwallow'd in the Deep it were. 
 Nor did it perifh, for upon her Back 
 A Dolphin took him, for his Miifick's fake ; 
 To intimate, that Vertue fhall prevail 
 With Brutijb Creatures, if with Men it fail- 
 
 Moft 
 
156 Choice Emblems, 
 
 Moft vain is then their Hope, who dream they 
 can 
 Make wretched, or undo an honefi Man : 
 For he whom vertuous Innocence adorns, 
 Infults o're Cruelties, and <Peril fcorns. 
 Yea, that by which Men purpofe to undo him, 
 (In their defpight) mail bring great Honours to 
 him. 
 
 Jlrion-Yike, the Malice of the World \ 
 Hath into Seas of 'Troubles often hurFd 
 Deferving Men 5 altho' no Caufe they had, 
 But that their Words and Works fweet Mujick made* 
 Of all their outward Helps it hath bereft them, 
 Nor means, nor hopes of Comfort have been left 
 
 them, • 
 But fuch as in the Houfe of Mourning are, 
 And what good Confc'ience can afford them there. 
 Yet, 'Dolpbin-Wkz, their Innocence hath rear'd 
 Their Heads above thofe dangers that appeared. 
 God hath vouchfaf 'd their harmlefs Caufe to heed, 
 And ev'n in Thraldom fo their Hearts hath freed, 
 
 That whil'ft they feem'd oppreifed and forlorn, 
 They jofd and fting, and laugh' d the World ta 
 fcorn. 
 
 Lot & 
 
'Divine and Moral. 
 Lot 39. 
 
 157 
 
 YO U have been wronged many ways, 
 Yet Patient are, and that's your Praife, 
 Your Actions alfo feem'd upright, 
 Yet fome there are that bear you fpight, 
 
 Left therefore you difcourag'd grow, 
 An Emblem you have drawn to fhow, 
 What other Innocents have born, 
 And how the Envious World to {corn. 
 
 Emblem XL* 
 
1 158 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XL. 
 
 Emf): 4jo. 
 
 Non uno Sternkur i$u< 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 159 
 
 dMtft iftjfrft JMk j l iJ M Uy U b d l jfe dM I, &fe 
 
 THE 
 
 Fortieth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 By z»4»; firokes the Work is done, 
 Which cannot be performed by one. 
 
 DEfpairnot, Man, in what thou ought'ft to do, 
 Altho' thou fail when one Attemp is made 5 
 But add a New Endeavour thereunto, . 
 And then another, and another add : 
 Yea, till thy Power and Life /hall quite be fpenf, 
 Perfift in feeking what thou fhould'ft defire j 
 For he that falleth from a good Intent, 
 Deferves not that to which he did afpire. 
 Rich tfreafures are by Nature placed deep, 
 And e'er we gain them we muft pierce the Rocks : 
 
 Such 
 
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 Such Terils alfo them as Guardians keep, 
 That none can win them without wounds and 
 
 knocks. 
 Moreover, Glories, Thrones, are fo fublime, 
 That whofocver thinks their Top to gain, 
 Till many thoufand weary fteps he climb, 
 Doth fool himfelf by Mufings which are vain. 
 
 And yet there is a 'Path-nvay which doth lead 
 Above the higheft things that Men can fee 5 
 And (tho* it be not known to all who tread 
 The Common TraB) it may afcended be. 
 As therefore none fhould greater things prefume 
 Than well becomes their Strength 5 fo none 
 
 fhou'd fear 
 (Thro* Folly, Sloth, or Bafenefs) to affume 
 Such things upon them which befeeming are. 
 Since by ^Degrees we many things fee wrought, 
 That feem'd impoffible to have been done, 
 When they were flrft conceived in the thought, 
 And fueh as thefe we may adventure on. 
 
 My Arm I know in time will fell an Oaky 
 But I will ne'er attempt it at at a Stroah 
 
 Lot 40. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 161 
 Lot 40. 
 
 TtH I S Lot befell the for the nonce, 
 For if things come not all at once, 
 Thou to defpairing foon doft run, 
 Or leav'ft the Work that's well begun. 
 
 Which to prevent regardful be, 
 
 Of what thine Emblem counfels thee. 
 
 Emblem XL!. 
 
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 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 163 
 
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 THE 
 
 Forty-firft Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Occasions paft are fought in vsin\ 
 But oft the) wheel about again. 
 
 UNwife are they that fpend their youthful 
 1>rime 
 In Vanities ; as if they did fuppofe 
 That Men at pleafure might redeem the Ijme 5 
 For they a fair Advantage fondly lofe. 
 As ill advis'd be thofe, who having loft 
 The firft Occafions> to defpairing run : 
 For 'Time hath Revolutions 5 and the moft, 
 For their Affairs have Seafons more than one. 
 
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 Nor is their Folly (mall who much depend 
 On Tranjitory things, as if their Power 
 Cou'd bring to pafs what fhou'd not have an End 7 
 Or compafs that which Time will not devour. 
 
 The firft O^^bfl^therefore fee thou take 
 (Which offer'd are) to bring thy hopes about 5 
 And mind thou ftill what Hafle away they make, 
 Before thy fwift-pac'd Hours are quite run out. 
 Yet, if an Opportunity be paft, 
 Defpair not thou, as they that hopelefs be 5 
 Since 'Time may fo revolve again at laft, 
 That New Occajions may be offer'd thee. 
 And fee thou trutt not on thofe fading things, 
 Which by thine own Endeavours thou acquir'fr, 
 For Time (which her own "Births to ruin brings) 
 Will fpare not thee, nor ought which thou deuYft. 
 His Properties and Ufes, what they are, 
 In vain obferv'd will be when he is fled : 
 That they in feafon therefore may appear, 
 Our Emblem thus hath him deciphered 5 
 
 Said fave before, and (tending on a Wheel, 
 A Razor in his Hand, a Winged Heel. 
 
 tot 41, 
 
^Divine and Moral. 1 6 5 
 Lot 4.1. * 
 
 MUch Liberty thou haft affum'd, 
 And heretofore fo much prefum'd 
 On Time, which always rideth poft, 
 That for a while fome Hopes are croft. 
 
 But fee, to keep thee from Defpair, 
 And thy Misfortune to repair, 
 Mark what to thee thy Lot doth tell, 
 And Pradife what is Counfell'd well. 
 
 Emblem XLII. 
 
1 6 6 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XLII. 
 
 Virihm jungenda Sapentia. 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 1 6 7 
 
 THE 
 
 Forty-fecond Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 When great Attempts are undergone. 
 Join Strength and Wifdom both in one. 
 
 IF (Reader) thou defirous be to know 
 What by the Centaur feemeth here in- 
 tended 5 
 What alfo by the Snake, and by the Sow, 
 Which in his hand he beareth alway bended : 
 Learn, that this half-a-man^ and halfe-a-horfe y 
 Is antient Hiercglyj)hick y teaching thee, 
 That Wifdom fhou'd be joyn'd with outward 
 
 Force, 
 If profperous we deflre our Works to be. 
 
 His 
 
1 68 Choice Emblems, 
 
 His Upper Tart the fhape of Man doth bear, 
 To teach that Reafon muft become our Guide : 
 The Hinder Tarts a Horfe's Members are, 
 To fiiew that we muft alfo Strength provide. 
 The Serpent and the "Bow do fignifie 
 The fame (or matter to the fame effect 5) 
 And by two 'Types one Moral to imply, 
 Is doubled a fore-warning of Negletf. 
 When Knowledge wanteth Tower defpis'd we 
 
 grow, 
 And know but how to aggravate our Pain : 
 Great Strength will work its own fad Overthrow, 
 Unlefs it guided be with Wifdonfs Rein. 
 
 therefore, O God, vouch fafe thoufo to marry 
 The Gifts of Soul #7;^ Body both in me, 
 That I may ftill have all things neceffary 
 To work> as I commanded am by thee. 
 And let me not pcffefs them, Lord, alone, 
 But alfo know their life ; andfo well know it> 
 That I may do each Duty to be done 5 
 And with upright Intentions always do it, 
 
 If this be more than yet obtain I may, 
 My Will accept thou for the Deed J pray. 
 
 Jgsot 42. 
 
^Divine and Moral. 169 
 Lot. 41. . 
 
 GReat things to do thou haft a mind, 
 But power thereto thou canft not find 5 
 Sometimes thy Power doth feem to fit, 
 But then thou faileft in thy Wit. 
 
 Such Undertakings therefore chufe, 
 (If thou thy Time wilt not abufe) 
 As to thy Power and Wit agree, 
 And then let both imployed be. 
 
 I Emblem XLIII. 
 
170 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem XLIII. 
 
 Brno. 44 
 
 IrTSikntio & Sj>c. 
 
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divine and Moral. 171 
 THE 
 
 Forty-third Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Jv^ that in Hope ani Silence live, 
 The befi Contentment may atcbieve. 
 
 IF thou denre te cherifh true Content, 
 And in a troublous time thai: ccurfe to take, 
 Which may be likely mifchiefs to prevent, 
 Some ufe of chis our Hieroglyphick make. 
 The Fryer's Habit feemeth to import, 
 That thou (as antient Monks and Fryers did) 
 Shouldft Jive remote frotii places of refort, 
 And in retirednefs lie clofely hid. 
 The claJjpedSook doth warn thee to retain 
 Thy thoughts within the compafs of thy breaft ; 
 
 I a And 
 
1 72 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 And in a quiet Jilence to remain, 
 
 Until thy mind may fafely be expreff-. 
 
 That Anchor doth inform thee, that thou muft 
 
 Walk on in Hope 5 and in thy Pilgrimage 
 
 Bear up (without defpairing or diftrufi) 
 
 Thofe wrongs and fufTerings which attend thine Age. 
 
 For whenfoe'er OpprcJJton groweth rife, 
 Obfcurenefs is more fafe than Eminence 5 
 He that then keeps his Tongue % may keep his Life> 
 Till times will better favour Innocence. 
 Truth fpoken where untruth is more approved, 
 Will but enrage the malice of thy Foes 5 
 And otherwhile a wicked Man is moved 
 To ceafe from wrong, if no man him oppofe. 
 
 Let this our Emblem therefore counfel thee, 
 Thy Life in iafe Ketirednefs to fpend 5 
 Let in thy breaft thy thoughts referved be, 
 Till thou art laid where none can thee offend. 
 
 And whilft moft others give their Fancy fcope % 
 Enjoy thy felf in Silence and in Hope. 
 
 Lot 4$, 
 
^Divine and Moral. 175 
 j Lot 43. 
 
 THou haft in Publick lived long, 
 And overfreely us'd thy Tongue* 
 But if thy fafety thou defire, 
 Be filent and thy felf retire. 
 
 And if thou wilt not be undone, 
 Poflefs thy Joys and Hopes alone. 
 For they that will from harm be free, 
 Mutt quiet and obfcured be. 
 
 I 3 Emblem XLIV. 
 
174 Choice Emblems, 
 
 Emblem XLIV. 
 
 4,4. 
 
 Non eft Mortak quod ofto. 
 
 The 
 
 
^Divine and Moral. 175 
 
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 .THE 
 
 Forty- fourth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 7tffo Wingy my Soul s and mount up higher ; 
 For Earth fulfils not my Dejire. 
 
 WHen Ganymed himfelf was purifying, 
 Great Jupiter^ his naked beauty fpy fog, 
 
 Sent forth his Eagle (from below to take him) 
 Ableft Inhabitant in Heav'n to make him : 
 And there (as Poets feigned) he doth {till, 
 To Jove, and other God- beads, Ne&arfill. 
 
 Though this be but zFahleoi their feigning, 
 The Moral is a real truth, pertaining 
 
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176 Choice Emblems , 
 
 To ev'ry one (which harbours a defire 
 
 Above the Starry Circles to afpire.) 
 
 By Ganymed the Soul is understood , 
 
 That's walhed in the Purifying flood 
 
 Of &crz& Bap ifm (which doth make herfeem 
 
 Both pure and beautiful in God & efteem.) 
 
 The JEgle means that Heav'nly Contemplation, 
 
 Which, after Waftiings of Regeneration, 
 
 Lifts up the Mind from things that earthly be, 
 
 To view thofe Objects which Faith's Eyes do fee. 
 
 The Nztlar which is filled out and given 
 
 To all the blefs'd Inhabit ants of Heaven, 
 
 Are thofe Delights which (Chrijl hath faidj they 
 
 have 
 When fome Repentant Soul begins to leave 
 Her foujnefsj by renewing of her birth, 
 And flighting all the Tleafures of the Earth. 
 
 I afk not, Lord> thofe Bledings to receive, 
 Which asy Man hath pow'r to take, or give $ 
 Kor whar this World affords ; for I contemn 
 Her favours, and have feen the beft of them. 
 
 Kay, Heav'n it felf will unfufficient be, 
 Unlefs T'hou alfo give T'ky felf to me. 
 
 Lot 44. 
 
Divine and Moral. 177 
 Lot 44.; 
 
 THis Lot pertaincth unto thofe, 
 (But who they be, God only knows) 
 Who to the World have no defire, 
 But up to Heavenly things afpire 3 
 
 No doubt but you in fome degree 
 Indu'd with fuch Affe&ions be, 
 And got this Emblem, that you might 
 Encourag'd be in fuch a flight, 
 
 I 5 Emblem XL^, 
 
178 Choice EmMemSy 
 
 Emblem XLV, 
 
 Etrw: 4^- 
 
 ^Dtm Clavum retfttm Teneam* 
 
 The 
 
J)ivine and Moral. 179 
 
 THE 
 
 Forty fifth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 He thtt bis Courfe diretfly fleers, 
 Nor Storms, nor windy Cenfttres fears. 
 
 WE to the Sea this World may well compare ; 
 For every Man which liveth in the fame. 
 Is as a € Pilot % to fome VeJJel there, 
 Of little fize, or elfe of larger frame. 
 
 Some have the Boats of their own Life to guide 
 Some of . whole .Families do row the Barge> 
 Some govern petty Town-fhips too befide, 
 (To thofe compar'd,. which of fmail Barks have 
 charge 5 ) 
 
 Some, 
 
-i8o Choice EmMemSj 
 
 Some others rule great provinces, and they 
 Refcmble Cap t dins of huge Argofes : 
 But when of Kingdoms ', any gain the Sway, 
 To Generals of Fleets we liken thefe. 
 
 Each hath his proper Coitrfe to him aflign'd, 
 His Card, his Compafs, his due T'acklings too $ 
 And if their Bu&nefs, as they ought, they mind, 
 They may accomplifh all they have to do. 
 But moft Men leave the Care of their own Courfe, 
 To judge, or follow, others in their ways 5 
 And when their Follies make their Fortunes worfe, 
 They curfe the \Defliny\ which they fhou'd praife. 
 For Waves and Winds, and that oft- changing 
 
 Weather, 
 Which many blame, as Caufe of all their LoJJes, 
 (Tho'they obferve it not) helps bring together 
 ThofcHopes, which their own Wifdom often crofles. 
 Regard not therefore much what thofe things be, 
 Which come, without thy fault, to thwart thy Way$ 
 JKor how RafJo- Lookers- on will cenfure thee 5 
 But faithfuljy to do thy part aflay. 
 
 For if thou fhalt not from this Connfel vary, 
 Let my Hopes fail me, if thy Hopes mifcarry. 
 
 Lot 45, 
 
'Divine and Moral. i Si 
 Lot 45. 
 
 TH Y Hopes and Fears arc always fuch, 
 That they afflict, and pain thee much • 
 Becaufe thou giv'ft too great a fcope 
 Unto thy Fear % or to thy Hope. 
 
 For they will vex, or pleafure thee, 
 As they enlarged, or curbed be. 
 But fee, thine Emblem , if thou pleafe, 
 Inftrucls thee how to manage thefe. 
 
 Emblem XLVL 
 
182 Choice EmMemSy 
 
 Emblem XLVI 
 
 Uhi Helena^ Hi Trojai 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 183 
 
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 THE 
 
 Forty-fixth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Where Helen is there will be war ; 
 For Death and Lu/l Companions are. 
 
 THeir fooli/h humour I could ne'er affecl, 
 Who dare for any caufe the Stews frequent: 
 And thither, where I juftly might fufpecl: 
 A Strumpet liv'd, as yet 1 never went. 
 For when (as Fools pretend) they go to feek 
 Experience, where more III than Good they fee, 
 They venture for their Kno c wledge i Adam like 5 
 And fuch as his will their Atcbicvements be. 
 
 Let therefore thofe that wou'd loofe Truls detefr, 
 Converfe with none but thofe that nxodeft are 5 
 
 JFor 
 
184. 
 
 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 For they that can tA 'Whoredom make a Jeft, - 
 Will entertain it e'er they be aware. 
 Chafi- Company and ChaJl-2)ifcourfe doth make 
 The Mind more pleafed with it ev'ry day 5 
 And Frequent views of Want onnefs will take 
 The Senfe and Hatred of the Vice away. 
 
 Some I have known by Harlots Wiles undone, 
 Who but to fee their Faflnons firft pretended $ 
 And they that went for Company alone, 
 By fudden Quarrels there their Days have ended. 
 For in the Lodgings of a Luftful Woman 
 Immodeft Impudence hath (till her Being 5 
 There Fury, Fraud and Cruelties are common $ 
 And there is Want, and Shame, and Qifagreeing* 
 Ev'n 'Beauty of it felf ftirs loofe Deflres, 
 Occasioning both Jealoufies and Fears ; 
 It kindleth in the Breaft concealed Fires % 
 Which burn the Heart, before the Flame appears; 
 
 And ev'ry day experienced are we, 
 
 That there, where Helen\$ % Troy's Fate will be. 
 
 Lot 45, 
 
'Divine and Moral. 185 
 Lot 46. 
 
 YOur Lot is very much to blame, 
 Or elfe your Perfon, or your Name, 
 Hath injur'd been 5 or may have wrong 
 By fome loofe Wanton e're't be long. 
 
 Therefore e'er hence you go away, 
 Mark what your Emblem here doth fay 5 
 Perhaps by drawing of this Lot 
 Some Harms prevention may be got. 
 
 Emblem XLVII. 
 
1 86 Choice Emhlems\ 
 
 Emblem XL VII. 
 
 Evib: /L7. 
 
 Confequitur quodcunque petit. 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 1 87 
 
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 THE 
 
 Forty-feventh Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 Who by good means good things would gain, 
 Shall never feek nor ask in vain. 
 
 IN vain fair Cynthia never taketh pains, 
 Nor faints in following her defired Game 5 
 And when at any Mark her Bow fhe ftrains, 
 The winged Arrow furely hits the fame. 
 Her Qifture therefore in this place doth fhew 
 The Nature of their Minds , who, Cynthia-\ike 9 
 With Conflancy their <Purpfes purfue, 
 And faint not till they compafs what they feek. 
 For nought more God- like in this World is found, 
 Then fo refolv'd a Man % that nothing may 
 
 His 
 
1 88 Choke Emblems 9 
 
 His Refohition alter or confound, 
 
 When any tafk othoort^ he cloth affay. 
 
 Nor is there greater Bafenefs than thofe Minds 
 
 That from an honeft purfofe can be wrought 
 
 By ffireatnivgSy Bribes, finooth Gales or boifl'rotts 
 
 Winds, 
 Whatever colour or excufe be brought. 
 
 You then that would with Tleafure, Glory gain, 
 'Di&na like, thofe modeft things require 
 Which truly may befeem you to attain, 
 And floutly follow that which you defire. 
 For changing tho' the Moon to us appear, 
 She holds a firm Depend ance on the Sun, 
 And by a conftant Motion in her Sphere, 
 With him doth in Conjunction oftea run. 
 So conftant Men {till move tkeir hopes to win, 
 But never by a Motion indireEi - y 
 Nor will they flop the Courfe that they are in, 
 Until they bring their purpofe to effect. 
 
 For whofoever Honeft things requires, 
 A Tromife hath of all that he defires. 
 
 Lot 47 
 
'Divine and Moral. 189 
 Lot 4.7. 
 
 IF any thing you do defign, 
 Purfue it with a vigorous mind 5 
 And if you hope to gather fruit, 
 Be Conftaat in your hopes purfuit. 
 
 For by your Emblem you may find, 
 The Stars to you are well inclined : 
 Provided your Attempts be good, 
 For that mult dill be underftood. 
 
 Emblem XLVI II. 
 
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 Emblem XLVIII. 
 
 Ernb: 48 . 
 
 Nufquam tut a fides \ 
 
 The 
 
^Divine and Moral. 191 
 
 IsfexXi 
 
 THE 
 
 Forty-eighth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 ■ K ' 
 
 Vfe Caution xvherefoe'er jou te $ 
 For from Deceit no flace is free* 
 
 SOme write (but on what grounds I cannot tell) 
 That they who near unto the 2)eferts dwell, 
 Where Elepha?2ts are found, do notice take, 
 What trees they haunt, their fleeping flocks to 
 
 make 5 
 That, when they reft againft an half-fawn ftem, 
 It (falling) may betray thofe Beafts to them. 
 
 Now, tho' the part Hiflorical may err, 
 The Moral) which this Emblem doth infer, 
 
j 9^ Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Is over true 5 and feemeth to imply, 
 
 The World to be fo full of Treachery, 
 
 As that no corner of it found can be, 
 
 In which from Falfhoods Engines we are free. 
 
 I have obferv'd the City, and I find 
 The Citizens are civil, grave and kind 5 
 Yet many are deluded by their fhows, 
 And cheated, when they truft in them repofe. 
 I have been oft at Court, where I have fpent 
 Some idle time, to hear them Compliment z 
 But I have feen in Courtiers fuch deceit, 
 That for their Favours I could never wait, 
 I do frequent the Church, and I have hear'd 
 God's judgments by the 'Preachers there declar'd 
 Againft mens falfhoods $ and I gladly hear 
 Their zealous Prayers, and good Counfels there 5 
 But as I live, I find fome fuch as they, 
 Will watch to do a mifchief if they may. 
 Kay, thofe poor fneaking Clowns, who feek their 
 
 living, 
 As if they knew no manner of deceiving, 
 
 Ev'n thofe their wit can (this way) fo apply, 
 That they'll fton cozen wifer men than L 
 
 Lot 49. 
 
divine and Moral. 1 9 3 
 Lot 48. 
 
 SOme Foes for thee do lie in wait, 
 Where thou fufpecteft no Deceit. 
 Yea, many do thy hurt intend, 
 Who yet pretend the Name of Friend. 
 
 Be therefore careful whom you truft, 
 What ways tKou walk'ft, and what thou doft $ 
 For by thine Emblem thou may 'ft fee, 
 That warinefs will needful be. 
 
 K Emblem XLIX. 
 
§94- Choice Emblem^ 
 
 Emblem XLIX. 
 
 Qmnis Caro Foenum. 
 
 The 
 
Divine and Moral. 195 
 
 ,«•=*=■ 
 
 THE 
 
 Forty-ninth Emblem 
 Illuftrated. 
 
 All pleflj is like the withered H*y. 
 
 It [pings ', and grows y and fades away, 
 
 THIS Infant, and this iittle Trufs of Hay, 
 When they are moralized, feem to fay, 
 That Flejb is but a Tuft of Morning Grafs, 
 Both green and wither'd, e'er the Day light pafs. 
 And fuch we truly find it $ for behold, 
 As foon as Man is born, he waxeth old 
 In Griefs, in Sorrows, or Neceffities 5 
 And withers ev'ry Hour, until he dies : 
 Now flourifhing as Grafs> when it is grown, 
 Strait, perilhing as Grafs, when it is mown. 
 
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i$6 Choice Emblems y 
 
 If we with other things Man's Age compare, 
 His Life is but a Day (for equalled are 
 His Tears with Hours $ his Months will Minutes be 
 Fit Parallels $ and ev'ry Breathing we 
 May term a 2tepJ yet fome, ev'n at the Night 
 Of that fhort Day, are dead and wither'd quite. 
 Before the Morning of our Lives be done, 
 The Flejh oft fades : Sometimes it grows till Noon: 
 But there's no Mortal Flejh, that will abide 
 Unparched longer than till Ev'ning-tide. • 
 For in it felf it always carries that, 
 Which helpeth fo it felf to ruinate, 
 That tho' it feel nor Storm, nor fcorching Flame, 
 An inbred Canker will confume the fame. 
 Confidering well, and well remembring this, 
 Account the Flejh no better than it is : 
 Wrong not thine everlafiing Soul, to cherifh 
 A Gourd, which in a Moments time will perifh. 
 
 Give it the tendance fit for fading Crops 5 
 But for Hay-barvejl, lofe not better Hopes. 
 
 Lot 45?, 
 
^Divine and Moral. jyy 
 Lot. 49. 
 
 THY Flelli thou lov'ft, as if it were 
 The chiefeft Objecl of thy Care $ 
 And of fuch Value, as may feem 
 Well meriting thy beft efteem, 
 
 But now to banifh that Conceit, 
 Thy Lot an Emblem brings to fight', 
 Which without FlattVy fhews to thee, 
 Of what Regard it ought to be. 
 
 K 5 Emblem L. 
 
1 98 Choice Emblems^ 
 
 Emblem L. 
 
 ptnb: go. 
 
 Sic tranjit Gloria Mundi. 
 
 The 
 
'Divine and Moral. 199 
 
 THE 
 
 Fiftieth Emblem 
 Uluftrated. 
 
 Ei>'# 4i the Smoke doth pafs away 9 
 So /hall all Worldly Pomp decay. 
 
 SOME better Arguments, than yet I fee, 
 I muft perceive, and better Caufes why 
 To thofe gay things I fhould addi&ed be, 
 To which the Vulgar their Ajfeffions tie. 
 I have confider'd Scepters, Mitres, Crowns, 
 With each Appurtenance to them belonging -, 
 My Heart hath fearch'd their Glories and 
 
 Renowns , 
 And all the pleafant things about them 
 thronging : 
 
 K 4 My 
 
2 co Choice Emblems , 
 
 My Soulhaih truly weigh'd, and took the Meafure 
 OS Riches (which the moft have fo defir'd) 
 I have diftill'd the Quinteffence of ^leafure. 
 And feen thofe Obje&s that are moft admir'd. 
 I like wife feel all <PaJJions and j4Jfeclions, 
 That help to cheat the Reafon, and perfuade 
 That thofe poor Vanities have fome Perfections, 
 Whereby their Owners happy might be made. 
 
 Yet when that I have rouz'd my Underjlanding> 
 And cleans'd my Heart from fome of that 
 
 Corruption, 
 "Which hinders in me Reafotfs free commanding, 
 And (hews things without Vails or Interruption j 
 Then they, methinks, as fruitlefs do appear. 
 As Bubbles (wherewithal young Children play) 5 
 Or, as the Smoke, which in our Emblem here, 
 Now makes a fhovv, and ftrait confumes away. 
 
 Be pleas V, Ob£xod ! my Value may be fuch, 
 Ofev'ry outward BlefTmg here below, 
 tfhat I may neither love them over-much, 
 $Tor underprize the Gifts thou Jb alt be flow ; 
 
 But know the TJfe of all thefe fading Smokes, 
 And be refrefh'd by that which others chokes. 
 
 J-ot ?< 
 
'Divine and Moral. 46 1 
 Lot 50. 
 
 IN outward Pomp thy Pleafures are, 
 Thy Hope of Blifs is placed there t 
 And thou this Folly wilt not leave, 
 Till of Content it thee bereave j 
 
 Unlefs thou timely come to fee 
 How vain all earthly Glories be. 
 An Emblem therefore thou haft gain*d t 
 By which this Knowledge is obtain'd. 
 
 Thefo 
 
aoi Choice Emblems 5 
 
 Tbefe Six following Chances or Lots have no 
 Emblems belonging to them, and therefore 
 
 . you need look no further for them, but make 
 the bejl of what you have got, thefe being 
 only added for Sport and Recreation. 
 
 TH Y Lot no Anfwer will beftow 
 To that which thou defiVft to know s 
 Nor canft thou here an Emblem find 
 Which to thy Purpofe is inclin'd. 
 Perhaps it is too late to crave 
 What thou defireft now to have : 
 Or but in vain to mention that, 
 Which thy Ambition aimeth at. 
 Then take it not in evil part, 
 That with a Blank thou anfwer'd art. 
 52. 
 
 IT proves a Blank - y for to what end 
 Shou'd we a ferious Moral fpend, 
 Where Teachings y Warnings and Advice^ 
 Efteemed are of little Price? 
 Your only purpofe is to look 
 Upon the Pictures of this Book 5 
 When more Difcretion you have got, 
 An Emblem (hall attend your Lot. 
 
 53- 
 
^Divine and Moral. 203 
 
 53- 
 H E S E Lots are almoft five to one 
 
 Above the Blanks, yet thou haft none 5 
 
 If thus thy Fortune ftill proceed, 
 
 'Tis five to one if well thou fpeed. 
 
 Yet if thou doft not much neglecT:, 
 
 To do as Wifdom ftiall direft, 
 
 It is a thoufand unto five, 
 
 But thou in all thy Hopes wilt thrive. 
 
 54- 
 
 YOU may be glad you drew not that, 
 Which in your Mind you gueffed at. 
 For it fo points out that Condition, 
 Whereof you give a great Sufpicion, 
 That had it fuch an Emblem nam'd 
 As fits you right, you had been (ham'd> 
 £ince then your Fault is unreveal'd, 
 Amend, and keep it ftill conceal'd. 
 
 55- 
 
 YOU in your fecret Thoughts defpife } 
 To think an Emblem fhou'd advife, 
 Or give you caufe to mind or heed, 
 Thofe things whereof you may have need, 
 And therefore when the Lot you try'd, 
 An Anfwer juftly was deny'd. 
 Yet (by your leave) there are but few, 
 Who need Good Counfel more than you. 
 
 TTnHE Chance which thou obtained haft, 
 
 I Of all the Chances is the laft. 
 
 And 
 
a 04 Choke Emblems j &c. 
 
 And cafting up the Total Sums, 
 
 We find thy Gain to Nothing comes. 
 
 Yet if it well be underftood, 
 
 This Chance may chance to do thee Good ; 
 
 For it foretels what Portion fhall, 
 
 To ev*ry one at laft befall. 
 
 And warns while fomeching is enjoy'd, 
 
 That it be always well imploy'd. 
 
 CONCLUSIONS. 
 
 i. 
 
 THE Glories of our Birth and State 
 Are Shadows, not fubftantial things. 
 There is no Armour 'gainft our Fate, 
 
 Death lays his Icy Hands on Kings. 
 Scepter and Crown 
 Muft tumble down, 
 And in the Duft be equal laid 
 With the poor crooked Syche and Spade* 
 2. 
 Some Men with Swords may reap the Field; 
 And plant frelh Laurels where they kill. 
 But their ftrong Nerves at length muft yield ; 
 They tame but one another ftill. 
 Early or late, 
 They ftoop to Fate, 
 And muft give up their murm'ring Breath, 
 Whilft the pale Captive creeps to Death. 
 
 The Laurel withers on your Brow, 
 Then boaft no more your mighty Deeds ; 
 For on Death's Purple Altar now, 
 
 See where the Vi&or, Vi&im bleeds. 
 All Heads muft come 
 To the cold Tomb. 
 Only the A&ions of the Jufl: 
 Smell fweec and MofTom in the Duft: 
 
 2)in- 
 
ao5 
 
 'Directions for finding the Chances in 
 the following Lottery. 
 
 TUrn about the Index, upon the following 
 Lottery or Figure, without cafting your 
 Eyes thereupon to obferve where it ftayeth, till 
 your Hand ceafeth to give it motion 5 and then 
 look upon what number it refteth $ then look for 
 the fame number among the Lots, which having 
 read, it direcls you to the Emblem of the fame 
 number like wife $ if the Letter M be fet before 
 the Lot (as it is in three or four places) then that 
 Lot is proper only to a Man, and therefore if it 
 happen to a Woman let her take the next Chance, 
 whether it be Blank or Lot. If it be any num- 
 ber above fifty, there being fifty-fix in all, it is 
 a Blank Chance, and you may look for your Lot 
 at the latter end of the Book among the fix laft 
 Chances which are without Emblems. The 
 Tryal whereof is thus contrived without Dice, 
 left by the Familiar ufe of them they might fome- 
 times occafion expenfive and pernicious Gam- 
 ing. 
 
 But 
 
oo6 'Directions for the Lottery. 
 
 But 
 If King, Queen, Prince, or any one that fprings 
 From TerfonSy known to be derived from Kings, 
 Shallfeekfor Sport fake hence to draw their "Lots; 
 Our Author fays, that he provided not 
 Forfuch as thofe $ jBecaufe it were too much 
 For him, to find oat Fortunes fit for fuch, 
 Wloo, (as he thinks) Jhould rather Aid fup fly 
 For him to mend his evil Fortunes by. 
 To them he therefore pie afed is to give 
 tfhis noble, and this large Prerogative 5 
 ¥hat they fh >all chafe from hence, what "Lotsthey 
 
 pleafe 
 And make them better, if they like not thefe. 
 
 AUother Perfonages, of High Degree, 
 T'hat will profefs our Author's Frie?ids to be, 
 "This Freedom, likewife have, that till they find 
 A Lot, which is agreeing to their mind t 
 "Theyjhall have liberty anew to try 
 7 J heir fought -for Chance: And evry time apply 
 *The Morals they di /liked, unto thofe 
 Which are, ill-quaUfi'd, among their Foes. 
 All others who this Game, Adventure will, 
 Mufi bear their Fortunes, be they Good or lit. 
 
 The 
 
'Directions for the Lottery. 20 j 
 The Figure or Lottery. 
 
 THis Game occafions not the frequent crime 
 Of fwearing, or mifpending of our time, 
 Nor lofs of money, for the Play is fhort, 
 And every Gamefter winneth by thefport: 
 We therefore Judge, it may as well become, 
 The Hally the Parlor, or the Dining Room, 
 As Chefs or Tables 5 and we think the price 
 Will be as low, becaufe it needs no Dice. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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