Choice EMBLEMS Divine & Moral    

Delights for the INGENIOUS, In above Fifty Select and Choice EMBLEMS, Divine and Moral, Ancient and Modern.  
Curiously Engraven upon Copper Plates.  
With Fifty Delightful Poems and Lots for the more Lively Illustration of each Emblem, whereby Instruction and Good Counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation.  
To which is prefixed  
An Incomparable Poem, Entitled Majesty in Misery, or An Imploration to the King of Kings.  
Written by His Late Majesty K. Charles the First, with his own hand, during his Captivity in Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight, 1648. With an Emblem.  
Collected by R. B. Author of the History of The Wars of England, Remarks of London, and Admirable Curiosities, etc.  
LONDON, Printed for Nath. Crouch, at his Shop at the Sign of the Bell in the Poultry. 1684.   

THE AUTHOR UPON THE EMBLEM IN THE FRONTISPIECE  

THis BOOk containing EMBLEMS, 'twas thought fit,  
A Title-page should stand to usher it,  
That's Emblematical: And to that end,  
Our AUTHOR, to the Graver did commend  
A plain Invention; that it might be wrought,  
According as his Fancy had forethought.  
Instead thereof, the Workman brought to light,  
What, here you see; therein mistaking quite  
The true Design: And so (with pains, and cost)  
The first intended FRONTISPIECE, is lost.   

The AUTHOR, was as much displeased, as He  
In such Adventures is inclined to be;  
And half resolved to cast this PIECE aside,  
As nothing worth: but having better eyed  
Those Errors, and Confusions, which may there,  
Blame-worthy (at the first aspect) appear;  
He saw, they fitted many Fantasies  
Much better, than what Reason can devise;  
And that the Graver (by mere Chance) had hit  
On what, so much transcends the reach of Wit,  
As made it seem, an Object of Delight,  
To look on what MISFORTUNE brought to light:  
And here it stands, to try his Wit, who lists  
To pump the secrets, out of Cabalists.   

If any think this Page will now declare  
The meaning of those Figures, which are there,  
They are deceived. For Destiny denies  
The utt'ring of such hidden Mysteries.  
In these respects: First, This containeth nought  
Which (in a proper sense) concerneth aught,  
The presentage: Moreover, 'tis ordained  
That none must know the Secrecies contained  
Within this PIECE; but they who are so wise  
To find them out, by their own prudencies;  
And he that can unriddle them, to us,  
Shall styled be, the second OEDIPUS.   

'tis likewise thought expedient, now and then,  
To make some Work, for those All-knowing men,  
(To exercise upon) who think they see  
The secret-meanings, of all things that be.   

And lastly, since we find, that some there are,  
Who best affect Inventions, which appear  
Beyond their understandings; This we knew  
A Representment, worthy of their view;   

And here we placed it, to be to these,  
A FRONTISPIECE, in any sense they please.    

TO THE READER  
IT is probable, that if some books had not been composed pleasantly, and suitable to mean Capacities, many Persons had not been so delighted in reading, and thereby in time have attained to more useful knowledge. Therefore, though I can say no more to dissuade from vice, or to encourage men to virtue, than hath already been done by many learned Authors, yet these lively Emblems may Chance to bring that oftener to Remembrance, which they have more learnedly expressed, and perhaps by such Circumstances as they would not descend unto, may insinuate farther into some understandings then more applauded Discourses, by stirring up the Affections, winning the Attention, or helping the Memory.  
And since the World is grown so very airy that the Printing of solid and serious Treatises hath many times undone the Bookseller, to advance their Profits, I was moved to invent somewhat which might be likely to please the Populace, and have therefore added Lotteries to these Emblems, to occasion the more frequent notice of the Morals and good Counsels tendered in their Illustrations; hoping that some time or other, some Persons may draw those Lots, which may make them more wise and happy as long as they live.  
Possibly this device may be censured, and reputed as great an Indecorum as erecting an Alehouse at the Church-stile, yet perhaps if the Wisest would sometimes take up this book, and without any Superstitious conceit make Trial what their Lots would remember or give them cause to think on, it might now and then either occasion better Proceedings, or prevent worse mischiefs.  
Some Games were ever in use; and I think ever will be; And for aught I know ever may be without exception; And I believe this Recreation may be as harmless as any, if they be used as they are intended; For my meaning is not, that any one should use it as an Oracle, which can infallibly signify what is divinely allotted, but to serve only for a Moral Pastime; And that I may by no means encourage the secret entertainment of such a Fancy, I do here previously affirm and declare, that none but Children or Idiots may be tolerated to be so foolish without being laughed at.  
Yet if any shall draw those Lots wherein their secret vices are reproved, and some good Instructions proposed, which in their own understandings are conducible and pertinent to their welfare, let not such as those pass them over as mere casualties to them, for whatsoever these Lots are to others, or in themselves, they ought to be particularly regarded and applied by them to their own concerns.  
Some perhaps will think that this Game is purposely invented as a means to reprove men's vices without being suspected to aim at particular Persons; For if any who are Notoriously guilty, by drawing these Chances shall be so fitted, that those vices be thereby intimated to the bystanders, 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 such as are justly suspected of heinous Crimes and Scandalous Conversations, either to forbear these Lotteries; or to excuse me if they be justly shamed by their own act.  
Having thus declared the reason of this Invention, and made these Anticipations every man hath his own Choice whether he will make use of these Lotteries or no, he that will is left to his Chance, of which how he may make Trial, direction is given at the latter end of this Book.   



B●na agere & maia●●●i Regium est.    

Majesty in Misery; OR An Imploration to the King of Kings.  
Written by his late Majesty King Charles the First with his own hand, during his Captivity in Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight. 1648.  

1.  
GReat Monarch of the World, from whose Power springs  
The Potency and Power of Kings,  
Record the Royal woe my suffering sings.   

2.  
And teach my Tongue that ever did confine,  
Its faculties in truths Seraphic Line,  
To tract the Treasons of thy Foes and mine.   

3.  
Nature and Law by thy Divine Decree,  
The only Root of Righteous Royalty,  
With this dim Diadem invested me.   

4.  
With it, the sacred Sceptre, Purple Robe,  
The Holy Unction, and the Royal Globe;  
Yet I am leveled with the life of Job.   

5.  
The fiercest furies that do daily tread  
Upon my Grief, my Grey Discrowned Head,  
Are those that owe my Bounty, for their Bread.   

6.  
They raise a War, and christian it, The cause,  
Whilst Sacrilegious hands have best applause,  
Plunder and Murder are the Kingdoms Laws.   

7.  
Tyranny bears the Title of Taxation,  
Revenge and Robbery are Reformation,  
Oppression gains the name of Sequestration.   

8.  
My Loyal Subjects who in this bad season,  
Attend me (By the Law of God and Reason)  
They dare impeach and punish for High Treason.   

9  
Next at the Clergy do their Furies frown,  
Pious Episcopacy must go down,  
They will destroy the Crozier and the Crown.   

10.  
Churchmen are chained, & Schismatics are freed  
Mechanics preach, and Holy Fathers bleed,  
The Crown is Crucified with the Creed.   

11.  
The Church of England doth all Faction foster,  
The Pulpit is usurped by each Impostor,  
Extempore excludes the Pater noster.   

12.  
The Presbyter and Independent seed,  
Springs with broad blades, to make Religion bleed,  
Herod and Pontius Pilate are agreed.   

13.  
The Corner stone's misplaced by every Pavier;  
With such a Bloody Method and Behaviour,  
Their Ancestors did crucify our Saviour.   

14.  
My Royal Consort from whose fruitful womb,  
So many Princes Legally have come,  
Is forced in Pilgrimage to seek a Tomb,   

15.  
Great Britain's Heir is forced into France,  
Whilst on his Father's head his Foes advance;  
Poor Child! he weeps out his Inheritance.   

16.  
With my own Power my Majesty they wound,  
In the king's name the king himself's uncrowned;  
So doth the dust destroy the Diamond.   

17.  
With Propositions daily they Enchant,  
My People's ears, such as do Reason daunt,  
And the Almighty will not let me Grant.   

18.  
They promise to erect my Royal stem,  
To make me Great, t'advance my Diadem,  
If I will first fall down and worship them.   

19  
But for refusal they devour my Thrones,  
Distress my Children, and destroy my Bones,  
I fear they'll force me to make Bread of Stones.   

20.  
My life they prise at such a slender rate,  
And in my absence they draw Bills of hate,  
To prove the King a Traitor to the State.   

21.  
Felons obtain more Privilege than I,  
They are allowed to answer ere they die,  
'Tis Death for me to ask the Reason, why.   

22.  
But sacred Saviour, with thy words I woe  
Thee to forgive, and not be bitter to  
Such, as thou knowst, do not know what they do.   

23  
But since they from their Lord are so disjointed,  
As to contemn those Edicts he appointed.  
How can they prise the power of his Anointed?   

24.  
Augment my Patience; Nullify my hate,  
Preserve my Issue, and Inspire my Mate.  
Yet, though we perish, Bless this Church and state   
Vota dabunt quae Bella negarunt.   

The Explanation of the Emblem In Latin and English.  

Ponderibus genus omne mali, probrique gravatus,  
Vixque ferenda ferens, Palma ut Depressa, resurgo  
Ac velut undarum Fluctus Ventique, furorem  
Irati Populi Rupes immota repello.  
Clarior è Tenebris, Coelestis Stella, corusco,  
Victor & aeternum felici pace Triumpho.  
Auro Fulgentem rutilo gemmisque Micantem,  
At curis Gravidam Spernendo Calco Coronam.  
Spinosam, at ferri facilem, quo spes mea, Christi  
Auxilio, nobis non est tractare molestum;  
Aeternam, fixis fidei, Semperque beatam,  
In Coelos oculis specto, Nobisque paratam.  
Quod Vanum est Sperno, quod Christi Gratia praebet  
Amplecti Studium est; Virtutis Gloria merces.   

In English.  
THough clogged with weights of Miseries,  
Palm-like Depressed I higher rise.  
And as the unmoved Rock out-braves  
The boisterous Winds, and raging Waves;  
So Triumph I, and shine more bright  
In sad Afflictions Darksome night.  
That Splendid, but yet Toilsome Crown,  
Regardlessly I trample down.  
With Joy I take this Crown of Thorn,  
Though Sharp, yet easy to be born.  
That Heavenly Crown already mine,  
I view with Eyes of Faith Divine.  
I slight vain things; and do embrace,  
Glory the just reward of Grace.    

An Epitaph upon King Charles the first.  
SO falls the stately Cedar, while it stood,  
That was the only Glory of the Wood  
Great Charles, Terrest rial God, Celestial Man,  
Whose life, like others, though it were a span,  
Yet in that span was comprehended more,  
Than Earth hath waters, or the Ocean shore.  
Thy Heavenly Virtues Angels should rehearse,  
It is a Theme too high for Human Verse.  
He that would know thee right then, let him look  
Upon thy rare Incomparable Book,  
And read it o'er; and o'er which if he do,  
He'll find thee King, and Priest, and Prophet too,  
And sadly see our loss, and though in vain,  
With fruitless wishes call thee back again.  
Nor shall oblivion sit upon thy Hearse,  
Though there were neither Monument nor Verse.  
Thy Sufferings and thy Death let no man name,  
It was thy Glory, but the Kingdom's shame.   

Another.  
STay Passenger; behold and see,  
The widowed Grave of Majesty.  
Why tremblest not? here's that will make  
The most stupid, Soul to shake,  
Here lies entombed the sacred Dust.  
Of Peace and Piety, Right and Just.  
The blood (O stait'st thou not to hear!)  
Of a blessed King 'twixt hope and fear,  
Shed, and hurried hence to be  
The Miracle of Misery.  
The Lawgiver amongst his own,  
Sentenced by a Law unknown;  
Voted Monarchy to Death,  
By the course Plebeian breath  
The Sovereign of all Comma  
Suffering by a Common hand.  
A Prince (to make the Odium more)  
Martyred at his very door.  
The Head cut off! Oh, Death to see't,  
In Obedience to the Feet!  
And that by Justice you must know,  
If thou hast faith to think it so;  
We'll stir no further than this sacred clay,  
But let it slumber till the Judgement day.  
Of all the Kings on Earth, it's not denied,  
Here lies the first that for Religion died.   

Another.  
WRitten by the Magnanimous James Marquis of Montross with the point of his Sword.  
Great, Good, and Just could I but rate  
My, Grief, and thy so rigid Fate.  
I'd weep the world to such a strain,  
That it should deluge once again.  
But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies  
More from Briareus hands then Argus Eyes;  
I'll sing thy Elegy with Trumpets sounds,  
And write thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds,    

Emblem I. 
Finis ab Origine pendet.   

THE First Emblem Illustrated.  
As soon as we to Be begun,  
We did begin to be undone.  

WHen some, in former Ages, had a meaning  
An Emblem, of Mortality, to make,  
They formed an Infant, on a Deaths-head leaning,  
And round about, encircled with a Snake:  
The Child so pictured, was to signify,  
That from our very Birth, our Dying springs:  
The Snake, her Tail devouring, doth imply  
The Revolution, of all Earthly things.  
For, whatsoever hath beginning, here,  
Begins, immediately, to vary from  
The same it was; and, doth at last appear  
What very few did think it should become.   

The solid Stone doth molder into Earth  
That Earth, e'er long, to Water, rarefies;  
That Water gives an Airy Vapour birth,  
And, thence, a Fiery-Comet doth arise:  
That moves, until itself it so impair,  
That from a burning-Meteor, back again,  
It sinketh down, and thickens into Air;  
That Air becomes a Cloud; then Drops of Rain  
Those Drops, descending on a Rocky Ground,  
There settle into Earth, which more and more  
Doth harden, still; so, running out the round,  
It grows to be the Stone it was before.   

Thus, All things wheel about; & each Beginning  
Made entrance to its own Destruction hath.  
The Life of Nature entereth in with Sinning;  
And is, for ever, waited on by Death:   

The Life of Grace, is formed by Death to Sin  
And, there, doth Life-eternal, strait begin.    

Lot 1.  

When thou hast changes good or bad,  
O'erjoyed thou art, or oversad:  
As if it seemed very strange,  
To see the wind or Wether change.   

●o therefore to remember thee  
How Changeable things Mortal be,  
Thou art assisted by this Lot,  
How, let it be no more forgot.     

Emblem II. 
Quo me vertam nescio.   

THE Second Emblem Illustrated.  
When Vice and Virtue Youth shall woo,  
'Tis hard to say which way 'twill go.  

MY hopeful Friends at thrice five years & three  
Without a Guide (into the World alone)  
To seek my Fortune, did adventure me;  
And, many hazards, I alighted on.  
First England's greatest Rendezvouz I sought,  
Where VICE and VIRTUE at the highest sit;  
And, thither, both a Mind and Body brought,  
For neither of their Services unfit.  
Both, wooed my Youth: And, both persuaded so,  
That (like the Young man in our Emblem here)  
I stood, and cried, Ah! which way shall I go?  
To me so pleasing both their Offers were.  
VICE Pleasure's best Contentments promised me  
And what the wanton Flesh desires to have:  
Quoth VIRTUE, I will Wisdom give to thee,  
And those brave things, which noblest Minds do crave  
Serve me said VICE and thou shalt soon acquire  
All hose Achievements which my Service brings  
Serve me said VIRTUE, and I'll raise thee higher  
Than VICES can, and teach thee better things.  
Whilst thus they strove to gain me, I espied  
Grim Death attending VICE; and, that her Face  
Was but a painted Vizard, which did hide  
The foulest Deformity that ever was.  
LORD, grant me grace for evermore to view  
Her Ugliness: And, that I viewing it,  
Her Falsehoods and allurements may eschew;  
And on fair VIRTUE my Affection set;   

Her Beauties contemplate, her Love embrace,  
And by her safe Direction, run my Race.    

Lot 2.  

WIth Mary thou art one of those,  
By whom the better part is chose:  
And though thou tempted art astray,  
Continu'st in a lawful way.   

Give God the praise with heart unfeigned,  
That he such grace to thee hath deigned.  
And rein thy Lot where thou shalt see,  
What hag hath laid a Trap for thee.     

Emblem III. 
Vivitur Ingenio, caetera mortis erunt.   

THE Third Emblem. Illustrated.  
By knowledge only Life we gain,  
All other things to Death pertain.  

HOw Fond are they, who spend their precious Time  
In still pursuing their deceiving Pleasures?  
And they, that unto airy Titles climb  
Or tyre themselves in hording up of Treasures?  
For, these are Death's, who, when with weariness  
They have acquired most, sweeps all away;  
And leaves them, for their Labours, to possess  
Nought but a raw-boned Carcase leapt in clay.  
Of twenty hundred thousands, who this hour  
Vaunt much of those Possessions they have got;  
Of their new purchased Honours, or, the Power,  
By which, they seem to have advanced their Lot:  
Of this great Multitude, there shall not Three  
Remain, for any Future-age to know;  
But perish quite, and quite forgotten be,  
As Beasts, devoured twice ten years ago.   

Thou, therefore, who desir'st for ay to live,  
And to possess thy Labours maugre Death,  
To needful Arts and honest Actions, give  
Thy Span of Time, and thy short blast of Breath.  
In holy Studies, exercise thy Mind;  
In works of Charity, thy Hands employ;  
That Knowledge, and that Treasure, seek to find,  
Which may enrich thy Heart with perfect Joy.  
So though obscured thou appear, a while,  
Despised, poor or born to Fortune's low,  
Thy Virtue shall acquire a nobler stile,  
Then greatest Kings are able to bestow:  
And, gain thee those Possessions, which, nor They,  
Nor Time, nor Death, have power to take away    

Lot 3.  

THou dost overmuch respect,  
That which will thy harm effect.  
But some other things there be;  
Which will more advantage thee.   

Search thy heart and thou shalt there  
Soon discover what they are.  
Yea thine Emblem shows thee too  
What to shun, and what to do.     

Emblem IU. 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉   

THE Fourth Emblem Illustrated.  
As to the World I Naked came,  
So naked stripped I leave the same.  

THrice happy is that Man whose Thoughts 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 seem.  
Nay, what poor things are Mitres, Sceptres, Crowns,  
And all those Glories which men most esteem.  
Though he that hath among them, his Delight  
Brave things imagines them (because they blind  
With some false Lustre his beguiled sight) (find.  
He that's above them, their mean-Worth may   

Lord, to that Blessea-Station me convey  
Where I may view the World, and view her so,  
That I her true Condition may survey;  
And all her Imperfections rightly know.  
Remember me, that once there was a Day,  
When thou didst wean me from them with content,  
Even when shut up within those Gates I lay  
Through which the Plague-inflicting Angel went.  
And, let me still remember, that an Hour  
Is hourly coming on, wherein I shall  
(Though I had all the World within my power)  
Be naked stripped, and turned out of all.  
But mind me, chiefly, that I never cleave  
Too closely to my Self; and cause thou me  
Not other Earthly things alone to leave,  
But to forsake my Self for love of Thee:   

That I may say, now I have all things left,  
Before that I of all things, am bereft.    

Lot 4.  

BE not angry if I tell,  
That you love the World too well,  
For this Lot, perhaps you drew;  
That such faults you might eschew.   

Mark to what their Souls aspire  
Who True Blessedness desire;  
For if you can do like those,  
Heaven you gain when Earth you lose.     

Emblem V. 
Ad Scopum, licet Aegre, & frustra.   

THE Fifth Emblem Illustrated.  
A Fool in Folly taketh Pain,  
Although he labour still in vain.  

A Massy Millstone up a tedious Hill,  
With mighty Labour, Sisyphus doth roll;  
Which being raised aloft, down-tumbleth, still,  
To keep employed his afflicted Soul.  
On him, this tedious Labour is imposed;  
And (though in vain) it must be still assayed:  
But, some, by no Necessity enclosed,  
Upon themselves, such needless Tasks have laid.  
Yea, knowing not (or caring not to know)  
That they are worn and wearied out in vain,  
They madly toil to plung themselves in Woe;  
And, seek uncertain Ease, in certain Pain.   

Such Fools are they, who dream they can acquire  
A Mind-content, by Labouring still for more:  
For, Wealth increasing doth increase Desire,  
And makes Contentment lesser than before.   

Such Fools are they, whose Hopes do vainly stretch  
To climb by Titles, to a happy Height:  
For, having gotten one Ambitious-Reach,  
Another comes perpetually in sight.  
And, their stupidity is nothing less,  
Who dream that Flesh and Blood may raised be  
Up to the Mount of perfect Holiness:  
For (at our best) corrupt and vile are we.  
Yet, we are bound by Faith, with Live, and Hope,  
To roll the Stone of Good Endeavour, still,  
As near as may be, to Perfections top,  
Though back again it tumble down the Hill.   

So; What Our Works had never power to do,  
God's Grace, at last, shall freely bring us to,    

Lot 5.  

M.  
DOubtless thou art either wooing,  
Or some other business doing,  
Which you shall attempt in vain,  
Or much hazard all your pain.   

Yet if good your meanings are,  
Do not honest means forbear.  
For where things are well begun,  
God oft works when man hath done.     

Emblem VI. 
Pedetentim.   

THE Sixth Emblem Illustrated.  
His Pace must wary be and slow,  
That hath a slippery way to go.  

A Traveller, when he must undertake  
To seek his passage, o'er some Frozen Lake,  
With leisure, and with care, he will assay  
The glassy smoothness of that Icy-way,  
Lest he may slip, by walking over-fast;  
Or, break the crackling Pavement, by his haste:  
And, so (for want of better taking heed)  
Incur the mischiefs of Unwary-speed.   

We are all Travellers; and, all of us  
Have many passages, as dangerous,  
As Frozen-lakes; and Slipery-ways, we tread,  
In which our lives may soon be forfeited,  
(With all our hopes of Life-Eternal, too)  
Unless, we well consider what we do.  
There is no private Way or public Path  
But rubs, or holes, or slipp'riness it hath,  
Whereby, we shall with Mischiefs meet; unless  
We walk it, with a steadfast-wariness.   

The steps to Honour, are on Pinnacles  
Composed of melting Snow, and Icicles;  
And, they who tread not nicely on their tops,  
Shall on a sudden slip from all their hopes.  
Yea, even that way which is both sure and holy,  
And leads the mind from Vanities and Folly,  
Is with so many other Path-ways crossed,  
As that, by Rashness, it may soon be lost;  
Unless, we well deliberate, upon  
Those Tracts, in which our Ancestors have gone:  
And, they who with more haste, than heed, will run,  
May lose the way, in which they well begun.    

Lot. 6.  
IN slippery Paths you are to go,  
yea, they are full of danger too.  
And if you heedful should not grow  
they'll hazard much your overthrow.  
But you the mischief may eschew,  
If wholesome Counsel you pursue;  
Look therefore, what you may be taught,  
By that, which this your chance hath brought.    

Emblem VII. 
Pro Lege & pro Grege.   

THE Seventh Emblem Illustrated.  
Our Pelican by bleeding thus,  
Fulfilled the Law, and cured us.  

LOok here, and mark (her sickly birds to feed)  
How freely this kind Pelican doth bleed.  
See, how (when other Salves could not be found)  
To cure their sorrows, she herself doth wound;  
And when this holy Emblem thou shalt see,  
Lift up thy soul to him, who died for thee.   

For this our Hieroglyphic would express  
That Pelican, which in the Wilderness  
Of this vast World, was left (as all alone)  
Our miserable Nature to bemoan;  
And in whose eyes, the tears of pity stood,  
When he beheld his own unthankful Brood  
His Favours and his Mercies, then contemn,  
When with his wings he would have brooded them:  
And sought their endless peace to have confirmed,  
Though to procure his ruin, they were armed.   

To be their Food, himself he freely gave;  
His Heart was pierced, that he their Souls might save,  
Because, they disobeyed the Sacred-will,  
He did the Law of Righteousness fulfil;  
And to that end (though guiltless he had been)  
Was offered, for our Universal-sin.   

Let me, Oh God for ever fix mine eyes  
Upon the Merit of that Sacrifice:  
Let me retain a due commemoration  
Of those dear Mercies, and that bloody Passion,  
Which here is meant; and by true Faith, still feed  
Upon the drops, this Pelican did bleed;   

Yea, let me firm unto thy Law abide,  
And ever love that Flock, for which he died.    

Lot 7.  

THis present Lot concerns full near,  
Not you alone but all men here.  
For all of us too little heed;  
His Love who for our sakes did bleed.   

'Tis true, that means he left behind him  
which better teacheth how to mind him.  
Yet if we both by that, and this,  
Remember him, 'tis not amiss.     

Emblem VIII. 
Quid si sic?   

THE Eighth Emblem Illustrated.  
Though he endeavour all he can,  
An Ape will never be a man.  

WHat though an Apish-Pigmy, in attire,  
His Dwarfish Body Giantlike, array?  
Turn Brave, & get him Stilts to seem the higher?  
What would so doing, handsome him I pray?  
Now, surely, such a Mimic sight as that,  
Would with excessive Laughter move your Spleen,  
Till you had made the little Dandiprat,  
To lie within some Auger-hole, unseen.   

I must confess I cannot choose but smile,  
When I perceive, how Men that worthless are,  
Piece out their Imperfections, to beguile,  
By making shows, of what they never were.  
For, in their borrow'd-Shapes, I know those Men,  
And (through their Masks) such insight of them have;  
That I can oftentimes disclose (even then)  
How much they favour of the Fool or Knave.   

A Pigmy spirit, and an Earthly-Mind,  
Whose look is only fixed on Objects vain;   

In my esteem, so mean a place doth find,  
That every such a one, I much refrain.  
But, when in honoured Robes I see it put,  
Betrimmed, as if some thing of Worth it were,  
Look big, and on the Stilts of Greatness, strut  
From scorning it, I cannot then for bear.  
For, when to gross Unworthiness Men add  
Those Deuce, which to the Truest-worth pertain;  
'tis like an Ape, in Humane Vestments clad,  
Which, when most fine, deserveth most disdain:   

And more absurd, those Men appear to me,  
Then this Fantastick-Monkey seems to thee.    

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,   

Expressed by a Mimic Shape;  
Or thou they self art such an ape.  
Now which of these pertains to thee,  
Let them that know the Judges be.     

Emblem IX. 
Fures Privati in Nervo, Publici in Auro.   

THE Ninth Emblem Illustrated.  
Poor Thiefs in Fetters we behold,  
And Great Thiefs in their Chains of Gold.  

IF you this Emblem, well have looked upon,  
Although you cannot help it, yet, bemoan  
The World's black Impudence; and if you can  
Continue (or become) an honest man.  
The poor, and petty Pilferers, you see  
On Wheels, on Gibbets, and the Gallow tree  
Trust up; when they that far more guilty are,  
Pearl, Silk, and costly Cloth of Tissue, wear.   

Good God how many hath each Land of those,  
Who neither limb, nor life, nor credit lose,  
(But, rather live befriended, and applauded)  
Yet, have of all their livelihoods defrauded  
The helpless Widows, in their great distress?  
And of their Portions, robbed the Fatherless?  
Yet, censured other's Errors, as if none  
Had cause to say, that they amiss have done?  
How many, have assisted to condemn  
Poor souls, for what was never stolen by them?  
And persecuted others, for that Sin,  
Which they themselves, had more transgressed in?  
How many worthless men, are great become,  
By that, which they have stolen, or cheated from  
Their Lords? or (by some practices unjust)  
From those, by whom they had been put in trust?  
How many Lawyers, wealthy men are grown,  
By taking Fees for Causes overthrown  
By their defaults? How many, without fear,  
Do rob the King, and God, yet blameless are?   

God knows how many! would I did so, too,  
So I had power to make them better do.    

Lot 9  

We hope no Person here believes,  
That you are of those wealthy Thiefs.  
Who Chains of Gold and Pearl do wear;  
And of those Thiefs that none you are,   

Which wear a Rope we plainly see,  
For you as yet unhanged be.  
But unto God for Mercy cry;  
Else hanged you may be e'er you die.     

Emblem X. 
Fulcrum Tutissimum.   

THE Tenth Emblem. Illustrated.  
We then have got the surest Prop,  
When Heaven alone becomes our hope.  

I Should not care how hard my Fortunes were,  
Might still my Hopes be such, as now they are,  
Of helps divine; nor fear, how poor I be,  
If thoughts, yet present, still may bide in me.  
For, they have left assurance of such aid,  
That, I am of no dangers, now afraid.   

Yea, now I see, methinks, what weak and vain  
Supporters I have sought, to help, sustain  
My fainting heart; when some injurious hand,  
Would undermine the Station where I stand.  
Methinks, I see how scurvy, and how base,  
It is to scrap for favours, and for grace,  
To men of earthly minds; and unto those,  
Who may, perhaps, before to morrow lose  
Their wealth, (or their abused Authority)  
And stand as much in want of help as I   

Me thinks, in this New-rapture I do see  
The hand of God from heaven supporting me,  
Without those rotten-Aids, for which I whined,  
When I was of my t'other vulgar-mind:  
And if in some one part of me it lay,  
Enough, could cut that Limb of mine away.  
Still might I keep this mind, there were enough  
Within myself, (beside that cumbring stuff  
We seek without) which, husbanded aright,  
Would make me Rich, in all the world's despite.  
And I have hopes, that had she quite bereft me,  
Of those few rags and toys, which yet are left me;  
I should on God, alone, so much depend,  
That, I should need, nor Wealth, nor other Friend.    

Lot 10.  

BEcause her Aid makes goodly shows,  
You on the world your Trust repose;  
And his dependence you despise,  
Who clearly on Heaven's help relies.   

That therefore you may come to see,  
How pleased and safe those men may be.  
Who have no Aid but God alone;  
This Emblem you have lighted on.     

Emblem XI. 
Serva Modum.   

THE Eleventh Emblem Illustrated.  
Do not the Golden Mean exceed  
In word, in Passion, nor in deed.  

AS is the headstrong Horse, and blockish Mule,  
Even such, without the Bridle, and the Rule,  
Our Nature grows; and is an mischievous,  
Till Grace and Reason, come to govern us.  
The Square, and Bridle, therefore let us heed,  
And thereby learn to know, what helps we need;  
Lest, else, (they failing, timely, to be had)  
Quite out of Order, we at length, be made.   

The Square, (which is an useful Instrument,  
To shape for senseless Forms) may represent  
The Law: Because Mankind, (which is by Nature,  
Almost as dull, as is the senseless-creature,)  
Is thereby, from the native-rudeness, wrought;  
And in the Way of honest-living taught.  
The Bridle, (which Invention did contrive,  
To rule, and guide the Creature-sensitive)  
May type forth Discipline; which when the Law  
Hath schooled the Wit, must keep the Will in awe.  
And he that can by these, his Passions bound,  
This Emblems meaning, usefully, hath found.   

Lord, let thy sacred Law, at all times, be  
A rule a Master, and a Glass to me;  
(A Bridle, and a Light) that I may, still,  
Both know my Duty, and obey thy Will.  
Direct my Feet; my Hands instruct thou so,  
That I may neither wander, nor mis-do.  
My Looks, my Hearing, and my Words confine,  
To keep still firm, to every Word of thine.   

On thee, let also my Desires attend,  
And let me hold this Temper, till mine end.    

Lot 11.  

YOur wits, your wishes, and your Tongue  
Have run the wild-Goose chase too long.  
And (lest all Reason you exceed)  
You now of Rule, and Reins have need.   

A Bridle therefore and a square,  
Chief Figures in your Emblem are.  
Observe their Moral, and always,  
Be wise and sober as you may.     

Emblem XII. 
Paupertate premor, Sublevor Ingenio.   

THE Twelfth Emblem Illustrated.  
My 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 pictured here you see.  
His winged-Arm, and his up lifted-eyes,  
Declare, that he hath Wit, and Will, to rise:  
The Stone, which clogs his other hand, may show  
That Poverty and Fortune, keep him low:  
And 'twixt these two, the Body and the Mind,  
Such labours, and such great vexations find,  
That, if you did not such men's wants contemn,  
You could not choose but help, or pity them.  
All Ages had (and this I know hath some)  
Such men as to this misery, do come:  
And many of them, at their Lot, so grieve,  
As if they knew, (or did at least believe)  
That, had their Wealth sufficed them to aspire  
(To what their Wits deserve, and they desire)  
The present Age, and future Ages too,  
Might gain have had, from what they though to do.   

Perhaps I dreamed so once: But, God be praised  
The Clog which kept me down, from being raised  
Was chained so fast, that (if such Dreams I had)  
My thoughts, and longings, are not now so mad  
For, plain I see, that had my Fortunes brought  
Such Wealth, at first, as my small Wit hath sought,  
I might myself, and others, have undone;  
Instead of Courses, which I thought to run:  
I find my Poverty, for me was fit;  
Yea, and a Blessing, greater than my Wit:   

And whether, now I rich or poor become,  
'tis nor much pleasing, nor much troublesome.    

Lot 12.  

THou think'st thy wit had made thee Great,  
Had Poverty not been some lot.  
●ut had thy wealth as ample been,  
●s thou didst think thy wit so fine;   

Instead of thy desired height,  
Perhaps thou hadst been ruined quite.  
Hereafter therefore be content,  
With whatsoever Heaven hath sent.     

Emblem XIII. 
Stultorum Adjumenta Nocumenta.   

THE Thirteenth Emblem Illustrated.  
The best good turns that Fools can do us.  
Prove disadvantages unto us.  

A Fool, sent forth to fetch the Goslings home,  
When they unto a River's brink were come,  
(Through which their passage lay) conceived a fear,  
His Dames best Brood might have been drowned there;  
Which, to avoid, he thus did show his wit,  
And his good nature, in preventing it.  
He, underneath his girdle, thrusts their heads,  
And then the Coxcomb through the water wades.   

Here learn, that when a Fool his help intent  
It rather doth a mischief, then befriends;  
And think, if there be danger in his love,  
How harmful his Maliciousness may prove:  
For, from his kindness, though no profit rise,  
To do thee spite, his Malice may suffice.  
I could not from a Prince beseech a boon  
By suing to his Jester or Buffoon:  
Nor any Fools vain humour sooth or serve,  
To get my bread, though I were like to starve  
For to be poor, I should not blush so much,  
As if a Fool should raise me to be rich.   

Lord, though of such a kind my faults may be  
That sharp Affliction still must tutor me,  
(And give me due Correction in her Schools)  
Yet, oh preserve me from the scorn of Fools.  
Those wicked Fools, that in their hearts have said  
There is no God; and rather give me Bread  
By Ravens, LORD, or in a Lion's Den,  
Then by the Favours of such foolish men:   

Lest, if their dainties I should swallow down,  
Their smile might more undo, me then their frown.    

Lot 13.  

THou dost not greatly care by whom  
Thy wealth, or thy Preferments come,  
●o thou may'st get them, Fool or knave,  
Thy Prayers, and thy Praise may have.   

Because thou dost not fear or dream  
What disadvantage comes by them;  
But by thine Emblem, thou may'st see,  
Fools favours mischievous may be.     

Emblem XIV. 
Pueros castigo, virosque.   

THE Fourteenth Emblem Illustrated.  
Behold and mark the Picture here,  
Of what keeps Man and Child in fear.  

THese are the greatest Afflictions, most men have,  
Even from their Nursing-cradle to their Grave:  
Yet, both so needful are, I cannot see,  
How either of them, may well spared be.  
The Rod is that, which most our Childhood fears;  
And seems the great'st Affliction that it bears:  
That, which to Manhood, is a plague, as common  
(And more unsufferable) is a Woman.   

Yet, blush not Ladies; neither frown, I pray,  
That thus of Women I presume to say;  
Nor number me, as yet, among your foes;  
For, I am more your friend, than you suppose  
Nor smile ye Men, as if, from hence, ye had  
An Argument, that Womankind were bad.  
The Birch, is blameless (yea, by nature, sweet,  
And gentle) till, with stubborn Boys, it meet  
But, than it smarts. So, Women, will be kind,  
Until, with froward Husbands, they are joined:  
And then indeed (perhaps) like Birchen boughs,  
(Which, else, had been a trimming, to their House)  
They sometimes prove, sharp whips, and Rods, to them,  
That Wisdom, and Instruction do contemn.   

A Woman, was not given for Correction;  
But, rather for a furtherance to Perfection:  
A precious Balm of love, to cure Man's grief;  
And of his Pleasures, to become the chief.  
If, therefore, she occasion any smart,  
The blame, he merits, wholly, or in part:   

For, like sweet Honey, she good Stomaches, pleases;  
But pains the Body, subject to Diseases.    

Lot 14.  

M.  
THe time hath been that of the Rod  
Thou wert more fearful then of God.  
But now unless thou prudent grow,  
More cause thou hast to fear a Shrew.   

For from the Rod now thou art free,  
A Woman shall thy Torment be.  
Yet do not thou at her repine;  
For all the Fault is only thine.     

Emblem XV. 
Concordia Insuperabilis.   

THE Fifteenth Emblem Illustrated.  
Where many Forces joined are,  
Unconquerable Power is there.  

AN Emblem's meaning, here, I thought to construe;  
And this doth rather fashion out a Monster,  
Then form an Hieroglyphic: but, I had  
These Figures (as you see them) ready made  
By others; and I mean to moralize  
Their Fancies; not to mend what they devise,  
Yet, peradventure with some vulgar praise,  
This Picture (though I like it not) displays  
The Moral, which the Motto doth imply;  
And thus it may be said to signify.   

He, that hath many Faculties, or Friends,  
To keep him safe (or to acquire his ends)  
And fits them so; and keeps them so together,  
That, still, as readily, they aid each other,  
As if so many Hands, they had been made;  
And in One-body, useful being had:  
That man, by their Assistance, may, at length,  
Attain to an unconquerable strength;  
And crown his honest Hopes, with whatsoever  
He seeks for, by a warranted Endeavour.   

Or, else, it might be said; that, when we may  
Make our Affections, and our Sense, obey  
The will of Reason, (and so well agree,  
That we may find them, still at peace to be)  
They'll guard us, like so many Armed bands;  
And safely keep us, whatsoever withstands.  
If others think this Figure, here, infers  
A better sense; let those Interpreters  
Unriddle it; and preach it where they please:  
Their Meanings may be good, and so are these.    

Lot 15.  

IF all your Powers you should unite  
In your desires prevail you might;  
And sooner should effect your ends  
If you should muster up your friends.   

But since your best friends do suspect,  
That you such Policy neglect.  
Your Lot presenteth to your view  
An Emblem which instructeth you.     

Emblem XVI. 
Non Sceptro sed Plectro ducitur.   

THE Sixteenth Emblem Illustrated.  
A Fickle Woman wanton grown,  
Prefers a Fiddle before a Crown.  

FOol! Dost thou hope, thine Honours, or thy Gold,  
Shall gain thee Love? Or, that thou hast her heart,  
Whose hand upon thy tempting Bait lays hold?  
Alas! fond Lover, thou deceived art.  
She that with Wealth, and Titles, can be won,  
Or wooed with Vanities, will wavering be;  
And when her Love, thou most dependest on,  
A Fiddlestick shall win her heart from thee.  
To Youth and Music, Venus leaneth most;  
And (though her hand she on the Sceptre lay)  
Let Greatness of her Favours never boast:  
For, Heart and Eye are bend another way.  
And lo, no glorious Purchase that Man gets,  
Who hath with such poor Trifles, wooed, & won:  
Her footing, on a Ball, his Mistress sets,  
Which in a moment slips, and she is gone.  
A Woman, merely with an Outside caught,  
Or tempted with a Galliard or a Song,  
Will him forsake (whom she most lovely thought)  
For Players and for Tumblers, ere't be long.   

You, than that wish your Love should ever last,  
(And would enjoy Affection without changing)  
Love where your Loves may worthily be placed;  
And keep your own Affection, still from ranging.  
Use noble means, your Longings to attain;  
Seek equal Minds, and well beseeming Years:  
They are (at best) vain Fools, whom Folly gain;  
But, there is Bliss, where Virtue most endears:   

And wheresoe'er, Affection she procures,  
In spite of all Temptations, it endures.    

Lot 16.  

M.  
IF some here present this had got,  
They would have blushed at their Lot,  
Since very fit the same doth prove,  
For one unconstant in his Love.   

Or one that has a frickle Mate;  
If you enjoy a better state,  
Yet harken what your Lot doth say,  
Lest you hereafter want it may,     

Emblem XVII. 
Non obest Virtuti Sors.   

THE Seventeenth Emblem Illustrated.  
Though Fortune prove true Virtues Foe,  
It cannot work her overthrow.  

UNhappy men are they, whose Ignorance  
So slaves them to the Fortunes of the Time,  
That they (attending on the Lot of Chance)  
Neglect by Virtue, and Deserts, to climb.  
Poor Heights they be which Fortune rears unto;  
And fickle is the Favour she bestows:  
Today, she makes; to morrow doth undo;  
Builds up, and in an instant overthrows.  
On easy Wheels, to Wealth and Honours high,  
She winds men oft, before they be aware;  
And when they dream of most Prosperity,  
Down, headlong, throws them lower than they were.   

You, then, that seek a more assured estate,  
On good, and honest Objects, fix your Mind,  
And follow Virtue, that you may a Fate  
Exempt from fear of Change, or Dangers, find.  
For, he that's Virtuous, whether high or low  
His Fortune seems (or whether foul or fair  
His Path he finds) or whether friend or foe,  
The World doth prove; regards it not a hair.  
His Loss is Gain; his Poverty is Wealth;  
The World's Contempt, he makes his Diadem;  
In Sickness, he rejoiceth, as in Health;  
Yea, Death itself becometh Life, to him.  
He fears no disrespect, no bitter scorn,  
Nor subtle plottings, nor Oppressions force;  
Nay, though the World should topsie-turvie turn  
It cannot fright him, nor divert his Course.   

Above all Earthly powers his Virtue rears him,  
And up with Eaglets wings, to Heaven it bears him.    

Lot 17.  

M.  
THis Man whatever he may seem,  
Is worthy of an high esteem.  
Though Fortune may his Person grind,  
She cannot yet disturb his mind.   

Yea blessed and happy should we be,  
Were all of us but such as he.  
Read but his Motto which you drew,  
For that in part the same will show.     

Emblem XVIII. 
Noli Altum Sapere.   

THE Eighteenth Emblem Illustrated.  
Above thy Knowledge do not rise.  
But with Sobriety be wise.  

EXalt thou not thyself, though placed thou be,  
Upon the top of that old Olive-tree,  
From whence the natural branches pruned have been,  
That, thou, the better, mightst be grafted in.  
Be not so over-wise, as to presume  
The Gara'ner, for thy goodness, did assume  
Thy small Crab Olive, to insert it there,  
Where, once, the sweetest-berries growing were.  
Nor let thy Pride those few old-boughts contemn  
Which, yet, remain upon their ancient Stem;  
Because, thy new-incorporated Sprays,  
Do more enjoy the Suns refreshing rays:  
But humbled rather and more awful be;  
Lest he that cut off them do break down thee.   

Be wise, in what may to thy good belong;  
But, seek not Knowledge, to thy neighbours wrong:  
Be thankful for the Grace thou hast received,  
But, judge not those, who seem thereof bereaved;  
Nor into those forbidden secrets peep.  
Which God-Almighty, to himself doth keep.  
Remember what our Father Adam found,  
When he for Knowledge, sought beyond his bound.  
For doubtless, ever since, both good and ill  
Are left with Knowledge, intermingled still;  
And (if we be not humble, meek, and wary)  
We are in daily danger to miscarry.  
Large proves the fruit which on the Earth doth lie;  
Winds break the twig, that's grafted over-high;   

And he that will, beyond his bounds, be wise,  
Becomes a very Fool, before he dies.    

Lot 18.  

THis Lot those Persons always finds,  
That have high Thoughts, and lofty minds:  
Or such as have an itch to learn,  
That which doth nothing them concern.   

Or love to peep with daring eyes,  
Into forbidden Mysteries.  
If any one of these thou be;  
Thine Emblem better teacheth thee.     

Emblem XIX. 
Tractant Fabrilia Fabri.   

THE Nineteenth Emblem Illustrated.  
When each man keeps unto his Trade,  
Then all things better will be made.  

WE more should thrive, and err the seldomer,  
If we were like this honest Carpenter,  
Whose Emblem, in reproof of those, is made,  
That love to meddle farther than their Trade.  
But, most are now exceeding cunning grown  
In every man's affairs, except their own:  
Yea, Cobblers think themselves not only able,  
To censure; but, to mend Apelles' Table.   

Great-men, sometime, will gravely undertake  
To teach, how Brooms & Mortar, we should make.  
Their Indiscretions, Peasants imitate,  
And boldly meddle with affairs of State.  
Some Housewives teach their Teachers how to pray,  
Some Clarks have showed themselves, as wise as they;  
And in their Callings, as discreet have been,  
As if they taught their Grandames how to spin:  
And if these Customs last a few more Ages,  
All Countries will be nothing else, but Stages  
Of evil-acted, and mistaken parts;  
Or, Gallemaufries of imperfect Arts.   

But, I myself (you'll say) have meddlings made  
In things, that are improper to my Trade.  
No; for, the MUSES are in all things free;  
Fit subject of their Verse, all Creatures be;  
And there is nothing named so mean, or great,  
Whereof they have not liberty to treat.  
Both Earth and Heaven, are open unto these,  
And (when to take more liberty they please)   

They Worlds, and things, create, which never were;  
And when they list they play, and meddle there.    

Lot 19  

IF all be true these Lots do tell us,  
Thou shouldest be of those prating Fellows,  
Who better practised are grown,  
In others matters than their own.   

Or one that covets to be thought  
A man that is ignorant of nought.  
If it be so, thy Moral shows  
Thy folly, and from whence it flows.     

Emblem XX. 
Constante Fiducia.   

THE Twentieth Emblem Illustrated.  
They after suffering shall be crowned,  
In whom a Constant Faith is found.  

MArk well this Emblem; and observe you thence  
The nature of true Christian-confidence.  
Her Foot is fixed on a squared-Stone,  
Which, whether side soe'er you turn it on,  
Stands fast; and is that Cornerstone, which props,  
And firmly knits the structure of our Hopes.   

She, always, bears a Cross; to signify,  
That there was never any Constancy  
Without her Trials: and that, her perfection  
Shall never be attained, without Affliction.   

A Cup she hath moreover in her hand;  
And by that Figure, thou mayst understand,  
That she hath draughts of Comfort, always near her,  
(At every brunt) to strengthen, and to cheer her.  
And lo, her head is crowned; that, we may see  
How great, her Glories, and Rewards, will be.   

Hereby, this virtue's nature may be known:  
Now, practise how to make the same thine own.  
Discouraged be not though thou art pursued  
With many wrongs, which cannot be eschewed,  
Nor yield thou to Despairing, though thou hast  
A Cross (which threatens death) to be embraced;  
Or, though thou be compelled to swallow up,  
The very dregs, of Sorrows bitter Cup:  
For, whensoever griefs, or torments, pain thee,  
Thou hast the same Foundation to sustain thee:  
The self same Cup of Comfort, is prepared,  
To give thee strength, when fainting fits are feared.   

And when thy time of trial, is expired,  
Thou shalt obtain the Crown, thou hast desired.    

Lot. 20.  

THy Fortunes have been very bad,  
For many Sufferings thou hast had;  
And Trials too, which are unknown,  
To any but thyself alone.   

Yet not loss, nor harm nor smart,  
From Constant hopes remove thy heart.  
For see thine Emblem doth foreshow;  
A good Conclusion will ensue.     

Emblem XXI. 
Furor fit laesa saepius Patientia.   

THE 21st Emblem Illustrated.  
Who Patience tempt beyond its strength,  
Will turned to Fury at the length.  

ALthough we know not a more patient creature  
Than is the Lamb, (or, of less harmful nature)  
Yet, as this Emblem shows, when childish wrong  
Hath troubled, and provoked him overlong,  
He grows enraged; and makes the wanton Boys  
Be glad to leave their sports, and run their ways.   

Thus have I seen it with some Children fare,  
Who, when their Parents too indulgent were,  
Have urged them, till their Doting grew to Rage,  
And shut them wholly from their Heritage.  
Thus, many times, a foolish man doth lose  
His faithful Friends, and justly makes them foes.  
Thus, froward Husbands, and thus, peevish Wives,  
Do fool away the comfort of their lives;  
And by abusing of a patient-mate,  
Turn dearest Love, into the deadliest Hate:  
For, any wrong may better be excused,  
Than Kindness, long, and wilfully abused.   

But, as an injured Lamb, provoked, thus,  
Well typifies how much it moveth us,  
To find our Patience wronged: So, let us make  
An Emblem of ourselves, thereby to take  
More heed, how God is moved towards them,  
That, his long-suffering, and his Love contemn.  
For, as we somewhat have of every creature,  
So, we in us, have somewhat of his Nature:  
Or, if it be not said the same to be,  
His Pictures, and his Images are we.   

Let, therefore, his long-suffering well be weighed,  
And keep us, to provoke him, still afraid.    

Lot 21.  

THou hast provoked overlong;  
Their Patience who neglect the wrong;  
And thou dost little seem to heed,  
what hurt it threats if thou proceed.   

To thee thy Emblem therefore shows,  
To what abused Patience grows.  
Observe it well, and make thy Peace,  
Before to fury wrath increase.     

Emblem XXII. 
In Spe & Labour transigo vitam.   

THE 22d Emblem Illustrated.  
Our days, until our Life hath end,  
In Labour and in Hopes we spend.  

AS soon as our first Parents disobeyed,  
Forth with a Curse, for their offence, was laid,  
Enforcing them, and their succeeding race,  
To get their Food, with sweatings of the Face.  
But afterward, this Doom to mitigate,  
(And ease the miseries of their estate)  
God gave them Hope, that she might help them bear  
The burdens of their Travail, and their care.   

A Woman with an Anchor, and a Spade,  
An Emblem of that Mystery is made:  
And this Estate, we all continue in,  
By God's free Mercy, and our proper Sin.  
By Sin, the Labour is on us entailed;  
By Grace, it is, that Hoping hath not failed;  
And if in Hope, our Labours we attend,  
That Curse will prove a Blessing, in the end,   

My Lot is Hope and Labour; and between  
These Two, my Life-time hath prolonged been:  
Yet hitherto, the best of all my Pain  
With most of all my Hopes have been in vain;  
And to the World-ward, I am like to waste  
My time in fruitless labours, till the last.   

However, I have still my Hopes as fair  
As he that hath no tempt to Despair;  
And change I will not, my last hovers for theirs,  
Whose Fortune, more desirable appears;  
Nor cease to Hope and Labour, though of most,  
My Hope and Labour be adjudged lost:   

For, though I lose the shadow of my Pains,  
The substance of it, still in God remains.    

Lot 22.  

IN secret thou dost oft complain,  
That thou hast hoped and wrought in vain.  
And think'st thy Lot, is far more hard,  
Than what for others is prepared.   

An Emblem therefore thou hast got,  
Which shows, it is our Common Lot,  
To Work and hope, and that thou hast  
A Blessing by it at the last.     

Emblem XXIII. 
Tamen discam.   

THE 23d Emblem Illustrated.  
To Learning I a love should have,  
Although one Foot were in the Grave.  

HEre, we an Aged man described have,  
That hath one foot, already, in the Grave:  
And if you mark it (though the Sun decline,  
And horned Cynthia doth begin to shine)  
With open book, and with attentive eyes,  
Himself, to compass Knowledge, he applies:  
And though that Evening end his last of days,  
Yet, I will study, more to learn, he says.   

From this, we gather, that, while time doth last,  
The time of learning, never will be past;  
And that, each hour till we our life lay down,  
Still something, touching life is to be known,  
When he was old, wise Cato learned Greek:  
But, we have aged-folks, that are to seek  
Of that, which they have much more cause to learn;  
Yet, no such mind in them we shall discern.  
For that, which they should study in their prime,  
Is, oft, deferred till their latter-time:  
And then, old-age, unfit for learning, makes them,  
Or, else, that common dulness overtakes them,  
Which makes ashamed, that it should be thought,  
They need, like little-childrens, to be taught.  
And so, out of this world, they do return  
As wise, as in that week, when they were born.   

God, grant me grace, to spend my life time so,  
That I my duty still may seek to know;  
And that, I never, may so far proceed,  
To think, that I more Knowledge do not need:   

But, in Experience, may continue growing,  
Till I am filled with fruits of pious-knowing.    

Lot 23.  

BY this your Emblem we discern,  
That you are yet of Age to learn.  
And that when elder you shall grow,  
There will be more for you to know.   

Presume not therefore of your wit;  
But strive that you may better it,  
For of your Age we many view,  
That far more wisdom have then you.     

Emblem XXIV. 
Transitus Celerest, & avolamus.   

THE 24th Emblem Illustrated.  
Where e'er we are the Heavens are near,  
Let us but fly and we are there.  

WHy, with a trembling faintness, should we fear  
The face of Death? and fond linger here,  
As if we thought the Voyage to be gone  
Lay through the shades of Styx or Acheron?  
Or, that we either were to travel down  
To uncouth Depths, or up some heights unknown?  
Or, to some place remote, whose nearest end  
Is farther than Earth's limits do extend?   

It is not by one half that distance, thither  
Where Death lets in, as it is any whither:  
No not by half so far, as to your bed;  
Or, to that place, where you should rest your head,  
If on the ground you laid yourself (even there)  
Where at this moment you abiding are.  
This Emblem shows (if well you look thereon)  
That, from your Glass of life, which is to run,  
There's but one step to Death; and that you tread  
At once, among the Living, and the Dead.   

In whatsoever Land, we live or die,  
God is the same; And Heaven is there as nigh  
As in that place, wherein we most desire  
Our Souls, with our last breathing, to expire.  
Which things, well heeding; let us not delay  
Our Journey, when we summoned are away,  
(As those enforced Pilgrims use to do,  
That 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 Heaven, a faithful eye,  
And still, be flying thither, till we die.    

Lot 24.  

TO your Long-Home you nearer are,  
Than you it may be are aware.  
Yea and more easy is the way,  
Than you perhaps conceive it may.   

Lest therefore death should grim appear,  
And put you in a causeless fear.  
Or out of minding wholly pass,  
This Chance to you allotted was.     

Emblem XXV. 
Transe at.   

THE Twenty fifth Emblem Illustrated.  
A Sieve of Shelter maketh show,  
But every Storm will through it go.  

SOme Men, when for their Actions they procure  
A likely colour, (be it ne'er so vain)  
Proceed as if their Projects were as sure,  
As when Sound Reason did their Course maintain:  
And these not much unlike those Children are,  
Who through a Storm adventuring desperately,  
Had rather on their Heads a Sieve to bear,  
Then coverings, that may serve to keep them dry.  
For, at a distance that perchance is thought  
A helpful Shelter; and yet, proves to those  
Who need the same a Toy, which profits nought;  
Because, each drop of Rain quite through it, goes.  
So they, whose foolish Projects, for a while,  
Do promise their Projectors hopeful ends,  
Shall find them, in the Trial, to beguile;  
And that both Shame and Want on them attends.   

Such like is their estate who, (to appear  
Rich men to others) do, with inward-pain,  
A gladsome outward Port desire to bear;  
Though they at last nor Wealth nor Credit gain.  
And such are all those Hypocrites, who strive  
False Hearts beneath Fair spoken Words to hide:  
For, they o'revail themselves but with a Sieve,  
Through which, their purposes at length are spied.  
And then, they either woefully lament  
Their Brutish-folly, or so hardened grow  
In Sinning, that they never can repent,  
Nay, jest and scoff at their own Overthrow.   

But no false Veil can serve (when God will smite)  
To save a Scorner, or an Hypocrite.    

Lot 25.  

TAke heed you do not quite forget,  
That you are dancing in a Net.  
Many there are your Ways do see,  
Although you think unseen you be.   

Your Faults we will no nearer touch,  
Methinks your Emblem blabs too much,  
But if you mend what is amiss,  
You shall be ne'er the worse for this.     

Emblem XXVI. 
Gaudet Patientia duris.   

THE Twenty sixth Emblem Illustrated.  
He that enjoys a quiet mind,  
Can pleasure in Affliction find.  

WHat means this Country peasant, skipping here  
Through prickling Thistles with such joyful cheer?  
And plucking off their tops, as though for Posies  
He gathered Violets, or toothless Roses?  
What meaneth it, but only to express  
How great a joy, well grounded Patientness  
Retains in Sufferings? and what sport she makes,  
When she her Journey through Affliction takes?   

I oft have said (and have as oft been thought  
To speak a Paradox, that savours nought  
Of likely truth) that some Afflictions bring  
A Honey bag, which cureth every Sting,  
(That wounds the Flesh) by giving to the Mind,  
A pleasing taste of Sweetnesses refined.  
Nor can it other be, except in those,  
Whose Better part, quiet stupifyed grows,  
By being cauterised in the Fires  
Of childish Fears, or temporal Desires.   

For, as the Valiant (when the Coward 'swounds)  
With gladness lets the Surgeon search his Wounds;  
And though they smart, yet cheerfully endures  
The Plasters, and the Probe, in hope of Cures:  
So, Men, assured that Afflictions pain  
Comes not for vengeance to them, nor in vain;  
But, to prepare, and fit them for the place,  
To which, they willingly direct their pace;  
In troubles, are so far from being sad,  
That, of their Suffering, they are truly glad.   

What ever others think, I thus believe;  
And therefore, joy, when they suppose I grieve.    

Lot 26.  

AT your Afflictions you repine,  
And in all troubles cry and whine.  
As if to suffer, brought no Joy,  
But quite did all content destroy.   

That you may therefore Patient grow,  
And learn this Virtue's power to know  
This Lot unto your view is brought,  
Peruse and Practise what is taught.     

Emblem XXVII. 
Bella in Vista, Dentro Trista.   

THE Twentyseventh Emblem Illustrated.  
Deformity within may be,  
where outward Beauty we do see.  

LOok well, I pray, upon this Beldame, here,  
For, in her habit, though she gay appear,  
You, through her youthful vizard, may espy  
She's of an old Edition, by her Eye:  
And by her wainscot face, it may be seen,  
She might your Grandams first dry nurse have been.   

This is an Emblem, fitly shadowing those,  
Who making fair, and honest outward shows,  
Are inwardly deformed; and nothing such,  
As they to be supposed, have strived much.  
They choose their words, and play well-acted parts,  
But hide most loathsome projects in their hearts  
And when you think sweet Friendship to embrace,  
Some ugly Treason meets you in the face.  
I hate a bainted Brow; I much dislike  
A maiden-blush, daubed on a furrowed Cheek:  
And I abhor to see old Wantoness play,  
And suit themselves, like Ladies of the May.  
But more (yea, most of all) my soul despiseth  
A Heart, that in Religious forms disguiseth  
Profane intentions; and arays in white  
The coalblack conscience of an Hypocrite.  
Take heed of such as these; and (if you may)  
Before you trust them, tract them in their way.  
Observe their footsteps, in their private path:  
For these (as 'tis believed, the Devil hath)  
Have cloven feet; that is, two ways they go;  
One for their ends, and t'other for a show.   

Now, you thus warned are, advice embrace;  
And trust nor gaudy Clothes, nor painted Face.    

Lot 27.  

FIne Clothes, fair words, enticing Face,  
With Masks of Piety and Grace,  
Oft cheat you with an outward show,  
Of that which proveth nothing so.   

Therefore your Emblems Moral read,  
And ere too far you do proceed.  
Think whom you deal withal to day,  
Who by fair Shows deceive you may.     

Emblem XXVIII. 
Captivum impune Lacessunt.   

THE Twenty eighth Emblem Illustrated.  
When wicked Men confined are,  
They revel who were kept in fear.  

A Tyrannous, or wicked Magistrate,  
Is fitly represented by a Cat:  
For, though the Mice, a harmful vermin be,  
And Cats the remedy; yet, oft we see,  
That, by the Mice, far less, some housewives lose,  
Then when they set the Cat to keep the Cheese.  
A ravenous Cat, will punish in the Mouse,  
The very same Offences, in the house,  
Which he himself commits; yea, for that Vice,  
Which was his own (with praise) he kills the Mice,  
And spoileth not another's life alone,  
Even for that very fault which was his own,  
But feeds, and fattens, in the spoil of them,  
Whom he, without compassion, did condemn.  
Nay worse than so; he cannot be content,  
To slaughter them, who are as innocent,  
As he himself; but, he must also play,  
And sport his woeful Prisoners lives away;  
More torturing them, 'twixt fruitless 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, ere they die.   

When, such like Magistrates have rule obtained  
The best men wish their power might be restrained:  
But, they who eat enormities, through Fear,  
Are glad when goodmen out of Office are.  
Yea whether Governors be good or bad,  
Of their displacing wicked-men are glad;  
And when they see them brought into disgraces,  
They boldly play the Knaves before their faces.    

Lot 28.  

M.  
THou art, or else thou wert of late,  
Some Great or Petty Magistrate,  
Or Fortune thereunto may chance,  
In time to come thee to advance.   

But by thine Emblem thou mayst see,  
That when restrained thy Power shall be,  
Offenders will thereof be glad,  
And Scoff the Power which thou hast had;  
Observe it, & be so upright,  
That thou mayst laugh at their despite.     

Emblem XXIX. 
Persequar Extinctu.   

THE Twenty ninth Emblem Illustrated.  
True Lovers Lives in one heart lie,  
Both Live, or both together Dye.  

HE that shall say he Loves, and was again  
So well-beloved, that neither He nor She  
Suspects each other, neither needs to gain  
New proofs, that they in all Desires agree;  
And yet, shall cool again in their Affection,  
(And leave to Love) or live till they are Lovers  
The second-time; It some gross Imperfection  
In One (if not in Both) of them discovers.   

It was not Love which did between them grow;  
But, rather somewhat like unto the same;  
Which (having made a fair deceiving Show)  
Obtained, a while, that honourable Name.  
For, False Affections will together play  
So lovingly; and oft, so act those Parts  
Which real seem; that, for a time, they may  
Appear the Children of Unfeigned-Hearts:  
Yea, manytimes, true Turtles are deceived  
By counterfeited Passions, till their Love  
Of her true Object finds herself bereaved;  
And after it, is forced to remove:  
But where True-Love begetteth, and enjoys  
The proper Object, which she doth desire,  
Nor Time, nor Injury the same destroys;  
But it continues a Perpetual Fire.   

Like amorous Thisbe to her Pyramus,  
On all occasions, it continues true:  
Nor Night, nor Danger, makes it timorous;  
But, through all Perils, it will him pursue.   

Thus, both in Life, in Death, in all estates,  
True Lovers will be true Associates.    

Lot 29.  

SOme think you Love; 'tis true you do,  
And are as well beloved too.  
But you (if we the truth may say)  
Love not so truly as you may.   

To make a perfect Love there goes,  
Much more than every Lover knows,  
Your Emblem therefore mind, and then,  
Begin a new to love again.     

Emblem XXX. 
Nequid Nimis.   

THE Thirtieth Emblem Illustrated.  
Since overmuch will overfill,  
Pour out enough; but do not spill.  

IT is this Emblems meaning, to advance  
The love and practice, of true Temperance.  
For, by this Figure (which doth seem to fill,  
Until the liquor overflow, and spill)  
We are, as by example, taught to see  
How fruitless our Intemperancies be:  
Thus by the Rule of Contrarieties,  
Some Virtues, best are shown to vulgar eyes.   

To see a nasty Drunkard, reel and spew,  
More moves to Soberness, than can the view  
Of twenty civil men; and to behold  
One Prodigal, (that goodly lands hath sold)  
Stand torn and lousy, begging at the door,  
Would make Intemperance abhorred more,  
(And manly Soberness, much better, each)  
Than all that six Philosophers can preach:  
So, by the Vessels overflowing, here,  
True Moderation doth more praised appear,  
Than by the mean itself: And without sin,  
That's pictured, which to do, had wicked bit,  
For, though to virtuous ends; we do deny  
The Doing-ill, that Good may come thereby.  
From hence, let us be taught, that careful heed  
Whereby we should both Mind and Body fee●  
Let us, of our own selves, observe the size;  
How much we want, how little will suffice;  
And our own longings, rather leave unfilled,  
Than suffer any portion to be spilled:   

For, what we mar, shall to account be laid  
And, what we wisely spend, shall be repaid    

Lot 30.  

IF truly temperate thou be,  
Why should this Lot be drawn by thee?  
Perhaps thou either dost exceed,  
●n clothes; Or high dost drink or feed.   

Beyond the mean; If this thou find,  
Or knowst in any other kind.  
How thou offendest by excess,  
Now leave off thy Intemperatness.     

Emblem XXXI. 
Legibus & Armis.   

THE Thirtieth First Emblem Illustrated.  
When Law and Arms together meet,  
The world descends to kiss their feet.  

THe Picture of a Crowned-king, here, stands  
Upon a Globe; and with outstretched hands,  
Holds forth, in view, a Law-book, and a Sword:  
Which plain and modern Figures may afford  
This meaning; that a King, who hath regard  
To Courts for pleading, and a Court of Guard,  
And at all times, a due respect will carry,  
To pious Laws, and Actions military;  
Shall not be Monarch, only in those Lands,  
That are by Birth right under his commands  
But, also might (if just occasion were)  
Make this whole Globe of earth, his power to fear  
Advance his Favourites; and bring down all  
His Opposites, below his pedestal.   

His conquering Sword, in foreign Realms, he draws  
As oft, as there is just, or needful cause:  
At home, in every Province of his Lands,  
At all times, armed are his Trained Bands.  
His Royal Fleets, are terrors to the Seas;  
At all hours, rigged, for useful Voyages:  
And often he his Navy doth increase,  
That Wars Provisions may prolong his Peace.  
Nor, by the tenure of the Sword, alone,  
Delighteth he to hold his awful Throne,  
But, likewise, labours Mischiefs to prevent,  
By wholesome Laws, and rightful Government.  
For, where the Sword commands, without the Law,  
A Tyrant keeps the Land in slavish awe:   

And where good Laws do want an Armed power,  
Rebellious Knaves their Princes, will devour.    

Lot 31.  

M.  
SOme urge their Princes on to War,  
And weary of sweet Peace soon are  
Some seek to make them dote on Peace,  
Till Public danger more increase.   

As if the world were kept in awe,  
By nothing else, but preaching Law.  
The Moral is; If such thou art,  
Then Act a Moderators part.     

Emblem XXXII. 
Spes alit Agricolas.   

THE Thirty second Emblem Illustrated.  
The Husbandman doth sow his seeds,  
And then on Hope till Harvest feeds.  

THe painful Husbandman, with sweaty brows,  
Consumes in labour many a weary day:  
To break the stubborn earth, he digs and ploughs,  
And then, the Corn, he scatters on the clay:  
When that is done, he harrows in the Seeds,  
And by a well-cleansed Furrow, lays it dry:  
He frees it from the Worms, the Moles, the Weeds;  
He, on the Fences, also hath an eye.  
And though he see the chilling Winter bring  
Snows, Floods, and Frosts, his Labours to annoy;  
Though blasting-winds do nip them in the Spring  
And Sammers' Mildews threaten, to destroy:  
Yea, though not only Days, but Weeks, they a●  
(Nay, many Weeks, and many Months beside)  
In which he must with pain, prolong his care,  
Yet, constant in his hopes he doth abide.  
For this respect, HOPE'S Emblem, here you, see  
Attends the Plough, that men beholding it,  
May be instructed, or else minded be,  
What Hopes, continuing Labours, will befit.  
Though, long thou toiled haste, and long attended  
About such workings as are necessary;  
And oftentimes, ere fully they are ended,  
Shalt find thy pains in danger to miscarry:  
Yet, be not out of hope, nor quite dejected:  
For, buried Seeds will sprout when Winter's gone;  
Unlikelier things are many times effected;  
And God brings help, when men their best have done.   

Yea, they that in Goodworks their life employ;  
Although they sow in tears, shall reap in joy.    

Lot 32.  

IN many things, the worse thou art,  
By the despairing, fainting heart.  
And oft thy labour, and thy cost,  
For want of Hopefulness is lost.   

Thou therefore by thy Lot art sent,  
This Indiscretion to prevent,  
And by the Ploughman's hope to see  
Thy fault, and now reformed to be.     

Emblem XXXIII. 
Puris Manibus.   

THE Thirty third Emblem Illustrated.  
Let him that at God's Altar stands,  
In Innocency wash his hands.  

WHen (Reader) thou hast first of all survaid  
That Reverend Priest which here engraven stands,  
In all his Holy Vestments arrayed,  
Endeavouring for Purified-Hands;  
Collect from hence, that, when thou dost appear  
To offer Sacrifice of Praise or Prayer,  
Thou oughtest the Robes of Righteousness, to wear,  
And by Repentance, thy defects repair.  
For, thou, that with polluted Hands presum'st  
Before God's Altar to present thy Face;  
Or, in the Rags of thine own Merits comest,  
Shalt reap Displeasure, where thou look'st for Grace.   

Then, if thou be of those that would aspire  
A Priest, or Prelate, in God's Church to be;  
Be sure, thou first those Ornaments acquire,  
Which may be suiting to that High Degree.  
Intrude not, as perhaps too many do,  
With Gifts unfit, or by an Evil mean:  
Desire it with a right Intention too;  
And seek to keep thy Conversation clean.  
For, they that have assumed this Holy-Calling,  
With Hands impure, and Hearts unsanctifyed,  
Defame the Truth; give others cause of Falling,  
And scandalise their Brethren, too beside:  
Yea, to themselves, their very Sacrifice  
Becomes unhallowed; and their Thanks and Prayers,  
The God of Purity, doth so despise,  
That all their Hopes, he turneth to Despairs:   

And all their best Endeavours, countermands,  
Till they appear with unpolluted Hands.    

Lot 33.  

WHether merely Chance or no,  
Brought this Lot, we do not know.  
But received let it be,  
As Divinely sent to thee.   

For that merits thy regard,  
Which thine Emblem hath declared.  
And the best that are have need  
Such Advisements well to heed.     

Emblem XXXIV. 
Fero.   

THE Thirty fourth Emblem Illustrated.  
Be wary whosoever thou be,  
For from Love's Arrows none are free.  

GAllants, beware; for here's a wanton Wagg,  
Who, having Bows and Arrows, makes his brag  
That he hath some unhappy trick to play;  
And vows to shoot at all he meets to day.  
Pray be not careless; for the Boy is blind,  
And sometimes strikes, where most he seemeth kind.  
This rambling Archer spares nor one, nor other:  
Yea, otherwhile, the Monkey shoots his Mother.   

Though you be little Children, come not near;  
For, I remember (though't be many a year  
Now gone and passed,) that, when I was a Lad,  
My Heart, a prick, by this young wanton had,  
That pained me seven years after: nor had I  
The grace (thus warned) to escape his waggery;  
But many times, even since I was a man,  
He shot me, oftener than I tell you can:  
And if I had not been the stronger-hearted,  
I for my overdaring, might have smarted.   

You laugh now, as if this were nothing so;  
But, if you meet this Blinkard with his Bow,  
You may unless you take the better care,  
Receive a wound, before you be aware.  
I fear him not; for I have learned how  
To keep my heartstrings from his Arrows now:  
And so might you, and so might every one  
That vain Occasions truly seeks to shun.  
But if you slight my Counsels, you may chance  
To blame at last, your wilful ignorance:   

For, some, who thought, at first, his wounds but small,  
Have died by them, in an Hospital.    

Lot 34.  

THis Lot of yours, doth plainly show  
That in some danger now you go,  
But wounds by steel, yet fear you not,  
No Pistolling nor Canon Shot,   

But rather dread the Shafts that fly  
From some deep wounding Wantoness eye,  
your greatest perils are from thence,  
Get therefore Armour of Defence.     

Emblem XXXV. 
Sapiens dominabitur Astris.   

THE Thirty fifth Emblem Illustrated.  
He over all the Stars doth reign,  
That unto wisdom can attain.  

I Am not of their Mind, who think the Sun,  
The Moon, the Planets, and those glorious Lights,  
Which trim the Spheres, do in their Motions run  
To no more purpose, then to please our Sights.  
Nor for distinguishment of Nights and Days,  
Or of the Seasons, and the Times, alone,  
Can I suppose the Hand of God displays  
Those many Stars we nightly gaze upon:  
For, both by Reason, and by Common sense  
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 these  
Have some such power; even in those Place● wher●  
It names Orion, and the Pleyades;  
Which Stars of much inferior Nature are.   

Yet, hence conclude not therefore, that the M●●…  
Is by the Stars constrained to obey  
Their Influence; or, so by them inclined,  
That, by no means resist the same we may.  
For, though they form the Body's temperature,  
(And though the Mind inclineth after that)  
By Grace, another temper we procure,  
Which guides the Motions of Supposed Fate.  
The Soul of Man is nobler than the Spheres;  
And if it gain the Place which may be had,  
Not here alone on Earth, the Rule it bears,  
But, is the Lord of all that God hath made.   

Be wise in him; and if just cause there be,  
The Sun and Moon, shall stand and wait on the●    

Lot. 35.  

YOu seek a Lot which proving bad,  
Would peradventure make you sad;  
●t this may please; for you are taught,  
●o mend your Fortune, when 'tis naught.   

Being armed with such Counsel here,  
That you no Destiny need fear;  
Now if you come to hurt or shame,  
Upon the Stars lay not the blame.     

Emblem XXXVI. 
Non te, sed Nummos   

THE Thirty sixth Emblem Illustrated.  
Thy seeming Lovers false will be,  
And love thy Money more than thee.  

WHat may the reason be, so many wed,  
And miss the blessings of a joyful-Bed,  
But those ungodly, and improper ends,  
For which, this Age most Marriages intends?  
Some love plump-flesh; and those as kind will be  
To any gamesome Wanton, as to thee.  
●ome, dote on Honours; and all such will prise  
Thy Person merely, for thy Dignities.  
●ome fancy Pleasures; and such Flirt's as they,  
With every Hobby-horse, will run away.  
Some (like this Couple in our Emblem, here)  
Woe hard for Wealth; and very kind appear,  
Till they have won their prize: but then the● sho●  
On what their best Affections they bestow.   

This Wealth, is that sweet Beauty, which prefer  
So many to their Executioners.  
This is that rare Perfection, for whose sake,  
The Politician doth his Marriage make.  
Yea, most of those whom you shall married find  
Were cous'ned, (or did cousin) in this kind;  
And for some by-respects, they came together,  
Much more, than for the sakes of one another  
If this concerns thee, now, in any sense;  
For thy instruction, take this warning hence  
If thou hast erred already, then lament  
Thy passed crime, and bear thy punishment.  
If thou, as yet, but tempted art to err;  
Then, let this Emblem be thy Counsellor:   

For, I have said my mind; which if thou slight  
Go, and repent it, on thy wedding night.    

Lot 36.  

THis Lot may make us all suspect,  
That some wrong Object you affect.  
And that where Dearness you pretend;  
It is not for the noblest end.   

What mischief from such falsehood flows,  
Your Emblem very truly shows.  
And may more happy make your Fate;  
●f this advice come not too late.     

Emblem XXXVII. 
Virtute ac Studio per Orbem Fama perpetua comparatur.   

THE Thirty seventh Emblem Illustrated.  
By Studiousness in Virtues ways,  
Men gain an universal Praise.  

WHen Emblems of too many parts consist,  
Their Author was no choice Emblematist,  
But is like those that waste whole hours, to tell  
What, in three minutes, might be said as well.  
Yet, when each member is interpreted,  
Out of these vulgar Figures, you may read  
A Moral, (altogether) not unfit  
To be remembered, even by men of wit.  
And if the Kernel prove to be of worth,  
No matter from what shell we drew it forth.   

The Square whereon the Globe is placed, here  
Must Virtue be; That Globe upon the Square,  
Must mean the World; The Figure, in the Round,  
(Which in appearance doth her Trumpet sound)  
Was made for Fame; The Book she bears, may show,  
What Breath it is, which makes her Trumpet blow:  
The Wreath, enclosing all, was to intend  
A glorious Praise, that never shall have end:  
And these, in one summed up, do seem to say;  
That, (if men study in a vertuous-way)  
The Trumpet of a never-ceasing Fame,  
Shall through the world proclaim their praiseful Name.   

Now Reader, if large Fame, be thy ambition,  
This Emblem doth inform, on what condition  
She may be gained. But, (herein, me believe)  
Thy study for meer-praise, will thee deceive:  
And if thy Virtues, be but only, those  
For which the vulgar Fame, her Trumpet blows,   

Thy Fame's a blast; Thy Virtue's Vices be;  
Thy Study's vain, and shame will follow thee    

Lot 37.  

THou seekest for fame and now art shown,  
For what her Trumpet shall be blown.  
Thine Emblem also doth declare,  
What Fame they get who Virtuous are,   

For Praise alone; And what reward,  
For such like Studies is prepared.  
Peruse it; And this Counsel take,  
Be Virtuous for mere Virtues sake.     

Emblem XXXVIII. 
Deus nobis haec Otia fecit.   

THE Thirty eighth Emblem Illustrated.  
The Gospel thankfully embrace,  
For God vouchsafed us this Grace.  

THis modern Emblem, is a mute expressing  
Of God's great Mercies, in a Modern-blessing;  
And gives me, now, just cause to sing his praise,  
For granting me, my being, in these days.  
The much-desired Messages of Heaven,  
For which, our Fathers would their lives have given,  
And (in Groves, Caves, and Mountains, once a year)  
Were glad, with hazard of their goods to hear;  
Or, in less bloody times, at their own homes;  
To hear, in private, and obscured rooms.  
Lo; those, those Joyful-tydings, we do live,  
Divulged, in every Village, to perceive;  
And that the sounds of Gladness echo may,  
Through all our goodly Temples, every day,   

This was (Oh God) thy doing; unto thee,  
Ascribed, for ever, let all Praises be.  
Prolong this Mercy and vouchsafe the fruit,  
May to thy Labour, on this Vine-yard, suit:  
Lest, for our fruitlesness, thy Light of grace,  
Thou from our Golden candlestick, displace.   

We do, me thinks, already, Lord, begin  
To Wantonise, and let that loathing in,  
Which makes thy Manna tasteless; And I fear,  
That, of those Christians, who, more often hear,  
Then practice, what they know, we have too many  
And, I suspect my self, as much as any.  
Oh! mend me so, that, by amending me,  
Amends in others, may increased be:  
And, let all Graces, which thou hast bestowed,  
Return thee honour, from whom first they flowed    

Lot 38.  

BY this thy Lot thou dost appear,  
To be of those who love to hear  
The Preachers voice; Or else of them,  
That undervalue or Contemn   

Those daily showers of wholesome words,  
Which Heaven in these our times affords.  
Now which soe'er of these thou be,  
Thine Emblem something teacheth thee.     

Emblem XXXIX. 
Spernit Pericula Virtus.   

THE Thirty ninth Emblem Illustrated.  
An Innocent no danger fears,  
How Great soever it appears.  

WHen some did seek Arion to have drowned;  
He, with a valiant heart, his Temples crowned;  
And when to drench him in the Seas they meant,  
He played on his molodious Instrument;  
To show, that Innocence disdained Fear,  
Though to be swallowed in the Deeps it were.  
Nor did it perish: For, upon her Back  
A Dolphin took him, for his music's sake:  
To intimate that Virtue shall prevail  
With Brutish Creatures, if with Men it fail.   

Most vain is then their Hope, who dream they can  
Make wretched, or undo, an Honestman:  
For, he whom Virtuous Innocence adorns,  
Insults o'er Cruelties; and Peril scorns.  
Yea, that, by which Men purpose to undo him,  
(In their despite) shall bring great Honours to him   

Arion-like, the Malice of the World,  
Hath into Seas of Troubles often hurled  
Deserving Men, although no Cause they had,  
But that their Words & Works sweet Music made  
Of all their outward Helps it hath bereft them  
Nor means, nor hopes of Comfort have been lef● them,  
But such, as in the House of Mourning are,  
And what Good-Conscience can afford them there  
Yet, Dolphin-like, their Innocence hath reared  
Their Heads above those Dangers that appeared  
God hath vouchsafed their harmless Cause to heed  
And even in Thraldom, so their Hearts hath freed   

That, whilst they seemed oppressed & forlorn  
The Joyed, and Sung, and Laughed the World to scorn    

Lot 39  

YOu have been wronged many ways,  
Yet Patient are, and that's your Praise.  
Your Actions also seemed upright,  
Yet some there are that bear you spite.   

Lest therefore you discouraged grow,  
An Emblem you have drawn to show,  
What other Innocents' have born,  
And how the Envious world to scorn.     

Emblem XL. 
Non uno Sternitur Ictu.   

THE Fortieth Emblem Illustrated.  
By many strokes the Work is done,  
Which cannot be performed by one.  

DEspair not Man, in what thou oughtest to do,  
Although thou fail when one Attempt is made;  
But, add a New-Endeavour thereunto,  
And then another, and another, add:  
Yea, till thy Power and Life shall quite be spent,  
Persist in seeking what thou shouldst desire;  
For, he that falleth from a good Intent,  
Deserves not that to which he did aspire.  
Rich Treasures are by Nature placed deep;  
And ere we gain them, we must pierce the Rocks:  
Such Perils, also, them, as Guardians keep,  
That none can win them without wounds and knocks.  
Moreover, Glories, Thrones, are so sublime,  
That whosoever thinks their Top to gain,  
Till many thousand weary steps he climb,  
Doth fool himself, by Muse which are vain.   

And yet, there is a Path way, which doth lead  
Above the highest things that Man can see;  
And (though it be not known to all who tread  
The Common-Tract) it may ascended be.  
As therefore, none should greater things presume  
Then well becomes their strength; So none should fear  
Through Folly, Sloth, or Baseness) to assume  
Such things upon them, which beseeming are  
Since by Degrees we many things see wrought,  
That seemed impossible to have been done,  
When they were first conceived in the thought  
And such as these, we may adventure on.   

Mine Arm, I know, in time will fallen an Oak;  
But, I will ne'er attempt it, at a Stroke.    

Lot 40.  

THis Lot befell thee for the nonce,  
For if things come not all at once.  
Thou to despairing soon dost run,  
Or leav'st thy work that's well begun.   

Which to prevent regardful be,  
Of what thine Emblem Counsels thee.     

Emblem XLI. 
Ne tenear.   

THE Forty first Emblem Illustrated.  
Occasions past are sought in vain,  
But oft, they wheel about again.  

UNwise are they that spend their youthful Prime  
In Vanities; as if they did suppose  
That men, at pleasure, might redeem the Time;  
For, they a fair advantage fond lose.  
As ill-advised be those, who having lost  
The first Occasions, to Despairing run:  
For, Time hath Revolutions; and the most,  
For their Affairs, have Seasons more than one.  
Nor is their Folly small, who much depend  
On Transitory things, as if their Power  
Could bring to pass what should not have an End  
Or compass that which Time will not devour.   

The first Occasions, therefore, see thou take  
(Which offered are) to bring thy hopes about  
And mind thou, still, what Haste away they make  
Before thy swift-paced hours are quite run out,  
Yet, if an Opportunity be past,  
Despair not thou, as they that hopeless be;  
Since, Time may so revolve again, at last,  
That New-Occasions may be offered thee.  
And see, thou trust not on those fading things,  
Which by thine own Endeavours thou acquir'st  
For, Time (which her own Births to ruin brings  
Will spare, nor thee, nor aught which thou desir'st  
His Properties, and Uses, what they are,  
In vain observed will be, when he is fled:  
That, they in season, therefore may appear,  
Our Emblem, thus hath him deciphered;   

Bald save before, and standing on a Wheel;  
A Razor in his Hand, a Winged Heel.    

Lot 41.  

MUch Liberty thou hast assumed,  
And heretofore too much presumed.  
On Time, which always rideth post,  
That for a while some hopes are crossed.   

But see to keep thee from despair,  
And thy Misfortune to repair.  
Mark what to thee thy Lot doth tell,  
And Practise what is counselled well.     

Emblem XLII. 
Viribus jungenda Sapientia.   

THE Forty second Emblem Illustrated.  
When Great Attempts are undergone,  
Join Strength and Wisdom both in one.  

IF (Reader) thou desirous be to know  
What by the Centaur, seemeth here intended;  
What, also by the Snake, and by the Bow,  
Which in his hand, he beareth always bended:  
Learn, that this half-a man, and half-a horse,  
Is ancient Hieroglyphic, teaching thee,  
That, Wisdom should be joined with outward force,  
If prosperous we desire our works to be.  
His Upper-part, the shape of Man, doth bear;  
To teach, that Reason must become our guide.  
The hinder-parts a Horses Members are;  
To show, that we must also strength provide.  
The Serpent, and the Bow, doth signify  
The same (or matter to the same effect)  
And by two Types, one Moral to imply,  
Is doubled a forewarning of neglect.  
When Knowledge wanteth Power, despised we grow  
And know but how to aggravate our pain:  
Great strength, will work its own sad overthrow,  
Unless, it guided be with Wisdoms rain.   

Therefore, Oh God, vouchsafe thou so to marry  
The gifts of Soul and Body, both, in me,  
That, I may still have all things necessary,  
To work, as I commanded am, by thee.  
And, let me not possess them, Lord, alone,  
But, also know their use; and so well know it,  
That, I may do each duty to be done;  
And with upright Intentions, always do it.   

If this be more, than yet obtain I may,  
My will accept thou, for the deed, I pray.    

Lot 42.  

GReat things to do, thou hast a mind,  
But power thereto, thou canst not find;  
Sometimes thy Power doth seem to fit,  
But then thou failest in thy wit.   

Such undertake therefore choose,  
(If thou thy Time wilt not abuse)  
As to thy Power and wit agree,  
And then let both employed be.     

Emblem XLIII. 
In Silentio & spe.   

THE Forty third Emblem Illustrated.  
They that in Hope and Silence live,  
The best Contentment may achieve.  

IF thou desire to cherish true Content,  
And in a troublous time that course to take,  
Which may be likely mischiefs to prevent,  
Some use of this our Hieroglyphic, make.  
The Friar's Habit, seemeth to import,  
That, thou (as ancient Monks and Friars did)  
Shouldst live remote, from places of resort,  
And in retiredness, lie closely hid.  
The clasped-Book, doth warn thee to retain  
Thy thoughts within the compass of thy breast;  
And in a quiet silence to remain,  
Until thy mind may safely be expressed.  
That Anchor doth inform thee, that thou mu●●  
Walk on in Hope; and in thy Pilgrimage,  
Bear up (without despairing or distrust)  
Those wrongs, and sufferings, which attend thir● Ag●   

For, whensoe'er Oppression groweth rife,  
Obscureness, is more safe than Eminence;  
He that than keeps his Tongue, may keep his Life  
Till times will better favour Innocence.  
Truth spoken where untruth is more approved,  
Will but enrage the malice of thy foes;  
And, otherwhile, a wicked man is moved  
To cease from wrong, if no man him oppose.   

Let this our Emblem, therefore, counsel thee  
Thy Life in safe Retiredness, to spend:  
Let in thy breast, thy thoughts reserved be,  
Till thou art laid, where none can thee offend.   

And whilst most others, give their Fancy scope,  
Enjoy thyself, in Silence, and in Hope.    

Lot 43.  

THou hast in Public lived long,  
And overfreely used thy Tongue.  
But if thy safety thou desire,  
Be silent and thyself retire;   

And if thou wilt not be undone,  
Possess thy Joys and Hopes alone.  
For they that will from harm be free,  
Must quiet and obscured be.     

Emblem XLIV: 
Non est Mortal quod opto.   

THE Forty fourth Emblem Illustrated.  
Take wing my soul, and mount up higher,  
For Earth fulfils not my desire.  

WHen Ganymed, himself was purifying,  
Great Jupiter, his naked beauty spying,  
Sent forth his Eagle (from below to take him)  
A blessed Inhabitant in Heaven to make him:  
And there (as Poets feigned) he doth still,  
To Jove, and other God heads, Nectar fill.   

Though this be but a Fable, of their feigning,  
The Moral is a Real truth, pertaining  
To every one (which harbours a desire  
Above the Starry Circles, to aspire.)  
By Ganymed the Soul is understood,  
That's washed in the Purifying flood  
Of sacred Baptism (which doth make her seem  
Both pure and beautiful, in God's esteem.)  
The Eagle means that Heavenly Contemplation,  
Which, after Washings of Regeneration,  
Lifts up the Mind, from things that earthly be,  
To view those Objects, which Faith's Eyes do see.  
The Nectar, which is filled out, and given  
To all the blessed Inhabitants of Heaven,  
Are those Delights, which (Christ hath said) they have,  
When some Repentant Soul begins to leave  
Her foulness; by renewing of her birth,  
And slighting all the Pleasures of the Earth.   

I ask not, Lord, those Blessings to receive,  
Which any Man hath power to take, or give;  
Nor what this World affords; for I contemn  
Her Favours; and have seen the best of them;   

Nay, Heaven itself, will unsufficient be,  
Unless Thou also give Thyself to me.    

Lot 44.  

THis Lot pertaineth unto those,  
(But who they be, God only knows)  
Who to the world have no desire,  
But up to Heavenly things aspire;   

No doubt but you in some degree,  
Endued with such Affections be,  
And got this Emblem, that you might  
Encouraged be in such a flight.     

Emblem XLV. 
Dum Clavum rectum Teneam.   

THE Forty fifth Emblem Illustrated.  
He that his course directly steers,  
Nor storms, nor windy Censures fears.  

WE to the Sea this World may well compare;  
For, every Man which liveth in the same,  
Is as a Pilot, to some Vessel there,  
Of little size, or else of larger frame.   

Some have the Boats of their own Life to guide,  
Some, govern petty Town ships too beside  
Some of whole Families row the Barge,  
(To those compared, which of small Barks have charge)  
Some others rule great Provinces; and they  
Resemble Captains of huge Argosies:  
But when of Kingdoms, any gain the Sway,  
To Generals of Fleets we liken these.   

Each hath his proper Course to him assigned,  
His Card, his Compass, his due Tackle, too;  
And if their Business, as they ought they mind,  
They may accomplish all they have to do.  
But most Men leave the Care of their own Course,  
To judge or follow others, in their ways;  
And when their Follies make their Fortunes worse,  
They curse the Destiny, which they should praise.  
For, Waves and Winds, and that oft-changing Wether,  
Which many blame, as cause of all their Losses,  
(Though they observe it not) helps bring together  
Those Hopes, which their own Wisdom often crosses.  
Regard not, therefore much, what those things be,  
Which come, without thy fault, to thwart thy Way;  
Nor, how, Rash-Lookers-on will censure thee;  
But, faithfully, to do thy part, assay:   

For, if thou shalt not from this Counsel vary,  
Let my Hopes fail me, if thy Hopes miscarry:    

Let 45.  

THy hopes and Fears are always such,  
That they afflict, and pain thee much,  
Because thou giv'st too great a scope,  
Unto thy Fear, and to thy Hope.   

For they will vex, or pleasure thee,  
As they enlarged, or kerbed be.  
But see, thine Emblem, if thou please,  
Instructs thee how to manage these.     

Emblem XLVI. 
Ubi Helena, ibi Troja.   

THE Forty sixth Emblem Illustrated.  
Where Helen is, there will be war,  
For Death and Lust Companions are.  

THeir foolish humour I could ne'er affect,  
Who dare, for any cause, the Stews frequent:  
And thither, where I justly might suspect  
A Strumpet lived, as yet, I never went.  
For, when (as Fools pretend) they go to seek  
Experience, where more Ill than Good, they see,  
They venture for their Knowledge, Adam like;  
And such as his, will their Achievements be.   

Let, therefore those that would lose Trulls detest,  
Converse with none, but those that modest are;  
For, they that can of Whoredom make a Jest,  
Will entertain it ere they be aware.  
Chast-Company, and Chast-Discourse, doth make  
The Mind more pleased with it, every day;  
And Frequent views of Wantonness will take  
The Sense and Hatred of the Vice away.   

Some, I have known, by Harlot's Wiles undone,  
Who, but to see their Fashions, first pretended;  
And they that went for Company, alone,  
By sudden Quarrels, there their Days have ended.  
For in the Lodgings of a Lustfull-Woman,  
Immodest Impudence hath still her Being;  
There, Fury, Fraud, and Cruelties are common:  
And there, is Want, and Shame, and Disagreeing.  
Even Beauty, of itself, stirs loose Desires,  
Occasioning both Jealousies, and Fears;  
It kindleth in the Breast, concealed Fires,  
Which burn the Heart, before the Flame appears:   

And every day, experienced are we;  
That, there where Helen is, Troy's Fate will be.    

Lot 46.  

YOur Lot is, very much to blame,  
Or else your Person, or your name,  
Hath injured been; Or may have wrong,  
By some loose Wanton, creed be long.   

Therefore ere hence you go away,  
Mark what your Emblem here doth say;  
Perhaps by drawing of this Lot,  
Some Harms prevention may be got.     

Emblem XLVII. 
Consequitur quodcunque petit.   

THE Forty seventh Emblem Illustrated.  
Who by Good Means Good things would gain,  
Shall never seek nor ask in vain.  

IN vain fair Cynthia never taketh pains,  
Nor faints in following her desired Game;  
And when at any Mark her Bow she strains,  
The winged Arrow surely hits the same.  
Her Picture, therefore, in this place doth show  
The Nature of their Minds who Cynthia like,  
With Constancy their Purposes pursue,  
And faint not till they compass what they seek.  
For, nought more Godlike in this World is found  
Then so Resolved a man, that nothing may  
His Resolution alter or confound,  
When any task of Worth, he doth assay.  
Nor, is there greater Baseness, than those Minds,  
That from an Honest purpose can be wrought  
By threatenings, Bribes, Smooth-Gales or Boisterous, Winds,  
Whatever colour or excuse be brought.   

You then, that would with Pleasure, Glory gain,  
Diana like, those modest things require,  
Which truly may beseem you to attain;  
And stoutly follow that which you desire:  
For, changing though the Moon to us appear,  
She holds a firm Dependence on the Sun;  
And by a Constant-Motion, in her Sphere  
With him, doth in Conjunction often run:  
So, Constant-men, still move their hopes to win  
But never by a Motion-indirect;  
Nor will they stop the Course that they are in,  
Until they bring their purpose to effect.   

For, whosoever Honest things requires,  
A Promise hath of all that he desires.    

Lot 47.  

IF any thing you do design,  
Pursue it with a vigorous mind;  
And if you hope to gather fruit,  
Be constant in your hopes pursuit.   

For by your Emblem you may find,  
The Stars to you are well inclined.  
Provided your attempts be good,  
For that must still be understood.     

Emblem XLVIII. 
Nusquam tuta fides.   

THE Forty eighth Emblem Illustrated.  
Use Caution wheresoever you be.  
For from deceit no place is free.  

SOme write (but, on what grounds, I cannot tell)  
That they, who near unto the Deserts dwell,  
Where Elephants are found, do notice take,  
What trees they haunt, their sleeping stocks to make;  
That, when they rest against an half-sawn stem  
It (falling) may betray those Beasts to them.   

Now, though the part Historical, may err,  
The Moral, which this Emblem doth infer,  
Is over true; and seemeth to imply,  
The World to be so full of Treachery,  
As that no corner of it, found can be,  
In which from Falsehoods Engines, we are free.   

I have observed the City, and I find,  
The Citizens, are civil, grave and kind;  
Yet many are deluded by their shows,  
And cheated, when they trust in them repose.  
I have been oft at Court; where I have spent,  
Some idle time, to hear them Compliment:  
But I have seen in Courtiers such deceit.  
That for their Favours, I could never wait.  
I do frequent the Church; and I have heard  
God's judgements, by the Preachers, there declared,  
Against men's falsehoods; and I gladly hear  
Their zealous Prayers, and good Counsels there;  
But as I live, I find some such as they,  
Will watch to do a mischief, if they may.  
Nay those poor sneaking Clowns, who seek their living,  
As if they knew no manner of deceiving,   

Even those, their wit, can (this way) so apply,  
That they'll soon cousin wiser men, than I    

Lot. 48.  

SOme Foes for thee do lie in wait,  
Where thou suspectest no deceit.  
Yea many do thy hurt intend,  
Who yet pretend the name of friend.   

Be therefore careful whom you trust,  
What ways thou walkest and what thou dost,  
For by thine Emblem thou mayst see,  
That wariness will needful be.     

Emblem XLIX. 
Omnis Caro Foenum.   

THE Forty ninth Emblem Illustrated.  
All flesh is like the withered Hay,  
It springs, and grows, and fades away.  

THis Infant, and this little Truss of Hay,  
When they are moralised, seem to say,  
That Flesh is but a tuft of Morning - Grass,  
Both green, and withered, ere the daylight pass.  
And such we truly find it; for behold,  
Assoon as man is born, he waxeth old,  
In Griefs, in Sorrows, or Necessities;  
And withers every hour, until he dies:  
Now flourishing as Grass, when it is grown,  
Strait perishing, as Grass, when it is mown.   

If we with other things, man's Age compare,  
His Life is but a Day (For equalled are  
His Years with Hours: His Months will Minutes be  
Fit parallels; and every breathing we  
May term a Day) yet, some even at the Night  
Of that short Day, are dead, and withered quite.  
Before the Morning of our lives be done,  
The Flesh oft fades: Sometime, it grows till Noon:  
But there's no mortal Flesh, that will abide  
Unparched longer, than till Evening-tide.  
For in itself it always carries that,  
Which helpeth so itself to ruinate;  
That though it feel, nor storm, nor scorching flame,  
An inbred Canker, will consume the same.  
Considering well, and well remembering this,  
Account the Flesh no better than it is:  
Wrong not thine everlasting Soul, to cherish  
A Gourd, which in a moment's time will perish.   

Give it the tendance fit for fading Crops;  
But for Hay-harvest, lose not better hopes.    

Lot 49.  

THy flesh thou Lov'st, as if it were  
The chiefest object of thy care;  
And of such value as may seem,  
Well meriting thy best esteem.   

But now to banish that conceit,  
Thy Lot an Emblem brings to sight.  
Which without Flattery shows to thee,  
Of what regard it ought to be.     

Emblem L. 
Sic transit Gloria Mundi.   

THE Fiftieth Emblem Illustrated.  
Even as the smoke doth pass away,  
So shall all worldly pomp decay.  

SOme better Arguments, than yet I see,  
I must perceive; and better causes, why  
To those gay things I should addicted be,  
To which the vulgar their Affections tie.  
I have considered Sceptres, Mitres, Crowns,  
With each appurtenance to them belonging;  
My heart, hath searched their Glories, and Renowns,  
And all the pleasant things about them thronging:  
My Soul, hath truly weighed, and took the measure  
Of Riches (which the most have so desired)  
I have distilled the Quintessence of Pleasure,  
And seen those Objects, that are most admired.  
I likewise feel all Passions, and Affections,  
That help to cheat the Reason, and persuade  
That those poor Vanities have some perfections,  
Whereby their Owners, happy might be made.   

Yet when that I have roused my understanding,  
And cleansed my Heart from some of that Corruption,  
Which hinders in me Reason's free commanding,  
And shows things without vails or interruption;  
Then they, methinks, as fruitless do appear,  
As Bubbles (wherewithal young-childrens play)  
Or, as the Smoke, which in our Emblem, here,  
Now makes a show, and strait consumes away.   

Be pleased, Oh God, my value may be such  
Of every Outward-blessing here below,  
That I may neither love them overmuch,  
Nor underprise the Gifts, thou shalt bestow:   

But know the use of all these fading Smokes:  
And be refreshed, by that which others chokes.    

Lot 50.  

IN outward Pomp thy Pleasures are,  
Thy hope of Bliss is placed there.  
And thou this folly wilt not leave,  
Till of content it thee bereave:   

Unless thou timely come to see  
How vain all earthly Glories be  
An Emblem therefore thou hast gained,  
By which this knowledge is obtained.     

These six following Chances or Lots have no Emblems belonging to them, and therefore you need look no further for them, but make the best of what you have got, these being only added for sport and Recreation.  

51.  
THy Lot no answer will bestow  
To that which thou desir'st to know:  
Nor canst thou here an Emblem find  
Which to thy purpose is inclined.  
Perhaps it is too late to crave  
What thou desirest 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 answered art.   

52.  
IT proves a Blank; For to what end,  
Should we a serious Moral spend.  
Where Teachings, Warn and Advice,  
Esteemed are of little price.  
Your only purpose is to look  
Upon the Pictures of this book;  
When more discretion you have got,  
An Emblem shall attend your Lot.   

53.  
THese Lots are almost five to one  
Above the Blanks; yet thou hast none,  
If thus thy fortune still proceed;  
'Tis five to one, If well thou speed.  
Yet if thou dost not much neglect,  
To do as wisdom shall direct,  
It is a thousand unto five,  
But thou in all thy Hopes wilt thrive:   

54.  
YOu may be glad you drew not that,  
Which in your mind you guessed at.  
For it so points out that condition,  
Whereof you give a great suspicion,  
That had it such an Emblem named,  
As fits you right you had been shamed.  
Since than your fault is unrevealed,  
Amend, and keep it still concealed.   

55.  
YOu in your secret thoughts despise,  
To think an Emblem should advise,  
Or give you cause to mind or heed,  
Those things whereof you may have need.  
And therefore when the Lot you tried,  
An answer-justly was denied.  
Yet (by your leave) there are but few,  
Who need good Counsel more than you.   

56.  
THe Chance which thou obtained haste,  
Of all the Chances is the last.  
And casting up the Total sums,  
We find thy Gain to Nothing comes.  
Yet if it well be understood,  
This Chance may Chance to do thee good.  
For it foretells what Portion shall,  
To every one at last befall.  
And warns while something is enjoyed,  
That it be always well employed.    

CONCLUSIONS.  

1.  
THe Glories of our Birth and state,  
Are shadows, not substantial things.  
There is no Armour 'gainst our fate,  
Death lays his Icy hands on Kings.  
Sceptre and Crown  
Must tumble down,  
And in the dust be equal laid,  
With the poor crooked Sith and Spade.   

2.  
Some men with swords may reap the field,  
And plant fresh Laurels where they kill.  
But their strong Nerves at length must yield,  
They tame but one another still.  
Early or late,  
They stoop to fate:  
And must give up their murmuring breath,  
Whilst the pale Captive creeps to Death.   

3.  
The Laurel withers on your Brow,  
Then boast no more your mighty Deeds.  
For on Death's Purple Altar now,  
See where the Victor, Victim bleeds.  
All heads must come,  
To the cold Tomb.  
Only the Actions of the Just,  
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.    

Directions for finding the Chances in the following Lottery.  
TUrn about the Index, upon the following Lottery or figure, without casting your eyes thereupon to observe where it stayeth, till your hand ceaseth to give it motion; and then look, upon what number it resteth; Then look for the same number among the Lots, which having read it directs you to the Emblem of the same number likewise; If the Letter M be set before the Lot (as it is in three or four places) than 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 number above fifty, there being fifty six in all, it is a Blank Chance, and you may look for your Lot at the latter end of the Book among the six last Chances which are without Emblems. The Trial whereof is thus contrived without Dice, lest by the Familiar use of them they might sometimes occasion expensive and pernicious Gaming.  
But  

If King, Queen, Prince, or any one that springs  
From Persons, known to be derived from King,  
Shall seek, for Sport sake, hence todraw their Lots;  
Our Author says, that he provided not  
For such as those; Because it were too much  
For him, to find out Fortune's fit for such,  
Who, (as he thinks) should rather Aid supply  
For him to mend his evil Fortunes by.  
To them he therefore pleased is to give  
This noble, and this large Prerogative;  
That they shall choose from hence, what Lots they please  
And make them better, if they like not these.   

All other Personages, of High degree,  
That will profess our Author's friends to be,  
This Freedom, likewise have, that till they find  
A Lot, which is agreeing to their mind,  
They shall have liberty, anew to try  
Their sought for Chance: And every time-apply  
The Morals they disliked, unto those,  
Which are, ill-qualified, among their Foes.  
All others who this Game, adventure will,  
Must bear their Fortunes, be they Good or Ill    

Directions for the Lottery.  

The Figure or Lottery.   
THis Game occasions not the frequent crime  
Of swearing, or mispending of our time,  
Nor loss of money, for the Play is short,  
And every Gamester winneth by the sport,  
We therefore Judge, it may as well become,  
The Hall, the Parlour, or the Dining Roem,  
As Chess or Tables; and we think the price  
Will be as low, because it needs no Dice.  
FINIS.   

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