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 EMBLEMS, 
 
 NATURAL, HISTORICAL, 
 FABULOUS, MORAL, and DIVINE; 
 
 For the Improvement anr* Pallime of 
 
 Y U T H: 
 
 DISPLAYIXG THE 
 
 Beauties and Morals of the Ancient Fabulifls : 
 
 The Whole calculared to convey the 
 GOLDEN LESSONS of INSTRUCTION 
 
 Under a new and more delightful Drcfs. 
 For the Ufe of SCHO O L S. 
 
 Written for the Amulemcnt of a Young Nobleman, 
 THE SEVENTH EDITION. 
 
 «' Say, fhould the philofophic mind difdain 
 
 " That good, which makes each humbler bofom vital 
 
 '' Let fchool-taught pride di/Temble all it can, 
 
 *» Thefe little tb^nis are great to little man." 
 
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 FOR 
 
 K. NEWBERT, CORNER OF ST. PAUl's-CUURCU-YARD, 
 
 M D C C X C I 1 I . 
 
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 ( vii ) 
 
 TO THE 
 
 RIGHT HONORABLE 
 
 Lady ELIZABETH KERR, 
 
 ELDEST DAUGHTER OF 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Lord ANCRAM. 
 
 MADAM, 
 
 YOUR Ladyfhip will im- 
 mediately perceive, that 
 the author of the fublequeiit 
 Allegories has availed himfelf 
 of the honour of your permif- 
 lion to this Dedication. 
 
 A 4 So 
 
( viii ) 
 
 So gracious a condefcenfioii 
 is ftill the more pleafing to him, 
 as it "gives a peculiar propriety 
 to the addrefs of this pubhca- 
 tion, which, while it aims to 
 recommend Religion, Morality, 
 and all the Virtues, is honoured 
 with the Patronage of Nobility, 
 and the Prote6lion of Innocence. 
 
 Naturalists, my Lady, 
 acquaint us, that the Rofe, in^ 
 its uifant ftate, while in its bud, 
 contains in epitome, all the na- 
 tive fweetnefs, bloom, and beau- 
 ty of maturity : — Thofe who beft 
 know your Ladyfhip, can never 
 accufe me of flattery, while I 
 prefume to prophecy, from the 
 evidence of your difpofition, 
 
 that 
 
( ix ) 
 
 that the latent hereditary orna- 
 ments of your illuftrious fami- 
 ly, will, in you, one day (hine 
 out with fuperior brightnefs, 
 and juftly entitle you, not only 
 a bleffino; to vour inferiors, a 
 glory to your fex, but, in a 
 word, a pattern to the nobility, 
 your contemporaries. 
 
 These inftruftive Emblems, 
 written for the amufement of 
 your noble brother, the Right 
 Honorable the Lord Newbat- 
 tie, claim a particular attention, 
 from your Ladyihip, as they re- 
 commend the immediate paths 
 to happinefs, both here and 
 hereafter. 
 
 A 5 Be 
 
( X ) 
 
 Be tjiis Eliza's care, let thi$ 
 Ker earliefl: thoughts engage ; 
 Be this the buiinefs of her youth. 
 And comfort of her age, 
 
 Attentive then, confult the Mufe, 
 And each fair path purfue ; 
 Let's mend a world, by Precept I, 
 And by Example You. 
 
 Your Ladyfhip's fmcere, 
 and moft obedient 
 t humble fervant. 
 
 The author, 
 
 INTRO- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 -z\lL the happinefs and glory of a 
 ftate, fays a celebrated writer, de- 
 pend on the Education of Youth ; 
 and, it may be added, there Is not a 
 more important duty incumbent on a 
 parent, rh m the early cultivation of 
 
 their tender offspring. However 
 
 little the following trifles may appear 
 on the firft view, it is humbly pre- 
 fumed, that, on their perufal, they 
 will be found to contribute fomewhat 
 towards that great and defir^ ble end. 
 The author of the following flieets 
 A 6 has 
 
( -^ii ) 
 
 has taken nature for his principal 
 guide, and it has been his fole aim to 
 defcribe her in the pureft forms; in 
 which he has not fo much at heart 
 to be confidered an elegant Poet, as 
 to be approved for a good Moralift. 
 
 Fable has already employed many 
 learned and ingenious pens, both an- 
 cient and modern ; and, as the Em- 
 blematical Hieroglyphic Devices of 
 the Hebrews, Egyptians, and other 
 Ancients, feem to afford fit fubjedls for 
 inftrudion, it has been the Author's 
 endeavour to fend many of thefe into 
 the world under a modern habit. — If 
 fome of them are found to be too pue- 
 rile for the learned eye, it mull be re- 
 membered, that they were written for 
 the amufement of a young nobleman* 
 not -^ more than nine years old. 
 
 * The Ri. Hon. Ld. Newbattle, now Ld. Ancrara. 
 
 Yet 
 
( ^iii ) 
 
 Yet, in the words of the celebrated 
 Mr. Gay, do not 
 
 The daily labours of the Bee 
 Awake my foul to indullry ? 
 AVho can obferve the careful Ant, 
 And not provide for future want ? 
 My Dog, the truftieft of his kind, 
 With Gratitude inflames my mind! 
 I mark his true, his faithful way, 
 And in my fervice copy Tray ; 
 In Conflancy and Nuptial Love, 
 I learn my duty from the Dove j 
 The Hen, who from the chilly air, 
 With pious wing protects her care, 
 And every fowl that flies at large, 
 Inftru£l me in a parent's charge. 
 Do not we jufl abhorrence find 
 Againft the Toad and Serpent kind ? 
 But Envy, Calumny, and Spite, 
 Bear ftronger venom in their bite. 
 Thus every objecr of creation, 
 Can furnifti hints for contemplation ; 
 And from the moH minute and mean, 
 A Virtuous Mind can Morals glean. 
 
 In 
 
( xiv ) 
 
 In fhort, many of the brute crea- 
 tures feem fo formed by inftind, as 
 to make up an univerfal fatire on 
 
 mankind." For where is the Un- 
 
 dutiful Child but muft be alhamed 
 to fee himfelf outdone by the Stork, 
 in Filial Duty and AfFeftion ? the 
 Faithlefs Servant, by the Fidelity of 
 the Dog ; the Sluggard, by the Lark ; 
 or the Man of Indolence by the Bee 
 
 and Woodpecker ? The Falfe 
 
 Friend, the Inconftant Lover, may 
 here find proper leiTons to copy from. 
 In fine, there are fcarcely any per- 
 fons in life who may not find fome- 
 what here to fult their particular fitu- 
 ations, or inculcate in their minds 
 the mod neceiTary Virtues. 
 
 VERSES 
 
[ XV ] 
 
 VERSES 
 
 ADDRESSED TO THE 
 
 Author of Choice Emblems 
 
 A, 
 
 ^C C E P T, fweet Bard, the tributary Song; 
 To drains like thine, fuperior praife belong! 
 Warm from the heart thy pleafing Morals glow • 
 Warm from the heart thefe grateful Numbers flow • 
 The humble Mufe aflumes no higher claim, 
 Than (till to follow in the Path to Fame. 
 
 O friend to Virtue in a waning age, 
 PleasM ftill for Youth to pen th' inilruftive page ; 
 Sure friend to Truth, of no proud title vain, 
 Thy Emblems fimple, as their Moral plain! 
 Labours like thine fhall wear old Time away. 
 And live when lofty monuments decay ! 
 
 FamM was the ancient Sage of other times. 
 Who brought his myfJic lore to Grecian climes j 
 Who all the brevity of ftyle pofTefsM, 
 And facred Truth in various Fables drefs'd : 
 
 Greatly 
 
[ xvl ] 
 
 Greatly obfcure, till more enlightened days 
 Explained his morals, and infur'd his praife, 
 ^3ot fuch thy aim, in each familiar line, 
 Where fweet fimplicity and Virtue fhine 
 Alike Cunfpicuous ; nought appears obfcure, 
 But plain thy Morals, as thy Diftates pure. 
 
 For this^ O friendly Bard, thy only care, 
 Juit thy defcriptions, as thy leflbns fair : 
 In thy inftriiftive work each youth and maid. 
 May view great Nature's volume wide difplay'd. 
 OfBeafiS, Birds, Fifhes, Plants, the tribes may know > 
 And fcan the Heavens above, the earth below. 
 Th' hiftoric ^ages trace of ancient lore, 
 And in few moments travel ages o'er. 
 
 Thus the wife Hebrew Prince, in Virtue's rule 
 Traia'd up and ripen'd in fair Wifdom's School, 
 With curious fearch enquired of Nature's laws, 
 And trac'd all beings to their firfl: great caufe. 
 From the tall trees on Lebanon that rofe, 
 To humble Hyflbp by the wall that grows ; 
 From vail Leviatlian's unwieldy fize, 
 To the fmall Emmet in the earth that lies, 
 And treafures wintry florts ; all thefc he knew; 
 From this vail fource his fund of knowledge drew • 
 The moft that man could boaft in this abode, 
 A gift indeed divine, and worthy of the God 
 
 But 
 
[ xvll ] 
 
 But thou proceed to form ih' expanding mind, 
 By Wifdora rsiis'd, by Sentiment refin'd ; 
 Proceed inftruftive, nor the taflc forego, 
 While grateful -wc the juft earned wreath beflow, 
 And with our honourM worthies place thy name, 
 As jufl: diflinguifh'd in the lift of Fame. 
 While ftill thy precepts in thy writings fhine, 
 And ev'ry friend to ev'ry Mufe is thine. 
 
 Clapham-i 
 March, 10, 1775. D. S- 
 
 TABLE 
 
TABLE 
 
 O F 
 
 G O NTENTS. 
 
 EMBLEM I. 
 C/ F Filial Duty and Affeaion 
 
 EMBLEM n. 
 Of Silence .... 
 
 EMBLEM in. 
 Of the Danger of Pleafure 
 
 EMBLEM IV. 
 Of Fidelity .... 
 
 EMBLEM V. 
 Of Purity .... 
 
 I 
 
 10 
 
 Of 
 
[ ^Ix ] 
 
 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 VI. 
 
 
 Of Guilt 
 
 . 
 
 i6 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 VII. 
 
 
 OfConJlant Affcdlon 
 
 . 
 
 19 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 VIIL 
 
 
 Of Neccffary Confidence 
 
 • 
 
 22 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 IX. 
 
 
 Of Zeal toivards God 
 
 . 
 
 25 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 X. 
 
 
 Of the Cares of Greatnefs 
 
 • 
 
 28 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XI. 
 
 
 Of Brotherly Love 
 
 • 
 
 32 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 xn. 
 
 
 OfForefight 
 
 . 
 
 36 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XIII. 
 
 
 OfSenfualky 
 
 • 
 
 39 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XIV. 
 
 
 Ofmjdom 
 
 . 
 
 41 
 
 E M B L E IM 
 
 XV. 
 
 
 Of Inf ability 
 
 . 
 
 44 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XVI. 
 
 
 Of Improu'cment 
 
 • 
 
 47 
 0/ 
 
[ XX ] 
 
 E 3M B L E M 
 
 XVII. 
 
 
 Of Deceit 
 
 . 
 
 50 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 
 Of Ind'ifcretion 
 
 , 
 
 sz 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XIX. 
 
 
 Of Temperance 
 
 • 
 
 56 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XX. 
 
 
 OfFalfe Frlendfhip 
 
 • 
 
 59 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XXI. 
 
 
 Of Education 
 
 . 
 
 63 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XXII. 
 
 
 Of refift'ing the Evil Principle 
 
 66 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 xxin. 
 
 
 Of Fortitude 
 
 . 
 
 69 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 
 Of the Ufe of Self -Denial 
 
 . 
 
 72 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XXV. 
 
 
 Of the Danger of Temptation 
 
 . 
 
 75 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XXVL 
 
 
 Of Perfeve ranee 
 
 . 
 
 78 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 XXVII 
 
 , 
 
 Of Fain Purfuits 
 
 
 82 
 
 Of 
 
[ xxi ] 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 M 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 Of Ambition 
 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 • 85 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 IM 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 Of the Reward of Vice 
 
 . 88 
 
 E M B. 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 M 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Of Brutality 
 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 91 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 M 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 Of Precipitation 
 
 
 
 • 94 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 M 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 Of the Chang. 
 
 fi of Human Affairs 97 
 
 E M B L 
 
 , E 
 
 , ]M 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 Of the Snares of Vice 
 
 . 
 
 100 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 M 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 OfPaficn 
 
 
 
 . 
 
 103 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 lAI 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 OfChaftity 
 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 106 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 M 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 Of the Vanity 
 
 e/- 
 
 Plet 
 
 ifures 
 
 109 
 
 E -M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 M 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 Of the Imprc 
 
 vement 
 
 ofLfe 
 
 112 
 
 E M B 
 
 L 
 
 E 
 
 u 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 Of Induftry 
 
 
 • 
 
 ' 
 
 "5 
 Of 
 
[ xxli ] 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 Of Evil and It I Funijhment 
 EMBLEM 
 Of F ride 
 
 EMBLEM 
 OfJpplaufe 
 
 EMBLEM 
 Of Opprcjfion 
 
 EMBLEM 
 Offelf'Love 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 Of the Danger of Greatnefs 
 E M B L E ]M 
 
 Of Heavenly Love . 
 EMBLEM 
 
 Of Falfe Appearances 
 E M B L E 
 
 OffVar 
 
 E M B L E 
 
 Of Dijftpatlon 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 Ihe Oyjier and Pearl 
 
 M 
 
 M 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 117 
 
 XL. 
 
 119 
 
 XLL 
 
 XLII. 
 
 122 
 
 125 
 
 XLIIL 
 
 128 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 131 
 
 XLV. 
 
 134 
 
 XLVL 
 
 136 
 
 XLVIL 
 
 XLVIIL 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 139 
 
 [. 
 
 142 
 
 145 
 Of 
 
[ xxiii ] 
 EMBLEM L. 
 
 OfTiiAth 
 
 . 148 
 
 E M B L E xM 
 
 LL 
 
 Of Envy 
 
 151 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LIL 
 
 Of Melancholy 
 
 . 154 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LIII. 
 
 Of Parental Affedion 
 
 157 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LIV. 
 
 Of Content 
 
 160 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LV. 
 
 Of Loft Reputation 
 
 . 163 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LVI. 
 
 Of Unanimity . • 
 
 . 165 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LVII. 
 
 Of Obedience 
 
 167 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LVIII. 
 
 Of Humility 
 
 170 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LIX. 
 
 Of Retirement 
 
 173 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 LX. 
 
 jHemorial of Virtue 
 
 . 176 
 
 
 Of 
 
[ xxiv ] 
 
 EMBLEM LXI. 
 OfDetraB'im . . . l8o 
 
 EMBLEM LXn. 
 
 Of Human Grandeur . . 183 
 
 EMBLEM LXIIL 
 
 Of the Uje of Time . . 187 
 
 EMBLEM LXIV. 
 
 The Frailty of Sublunary Thi 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 I, 
 
 Of Filial Duty and AffeBion, 
 
 LO, the young Stork his duteous wing prepare 
 His a^ed Sire to feed with conftant cares ; 
 Cer hills and dales his precious load conveys, 
 And the «^reat debt o^ Filial Duty pays; 
 Grateful return I by Nature's felfdefi^u'd, 
 A fair example fet to human kind. 
 
 * MORAL. 
 
 Should'ft thou refufe thy parents needful aid, 
 The very Stork might the foul rnme i braid: 
 Be mindful ho-.v they reared thy t:nder youth, 
 Be?r with their frailtieS; ferve them flill whh truth : 
 So may'ii; ;hou wirh long life and peace be blsft, 
 ' JillHeav'n fliall qA\ thee to eieinal reft: 
 
 S T H I S, 
 
_ [ 2 ] 
 
 THIS bird is generally efteemed an Em- 
 blem of Filial Love ; inlbmuch, that it has 
 ever acquired the name of pious, from the 
 juil regard it is faid to pay to a6ls oi filial 
 ■piety and duty. 
 
 Storks live to a very advanced age : the 
 confequence of which is, that their limbs 
 grow feeble, their feathers fall off, and they 
 are no ways capable of providing for their 
 own food or fafety. Being birds of palTage, 
 they are under another inconvenience alfo, 
 which is, that they are not able to remove 
 themfelves from one country to another at 
 the ufual feafon. In all thefe circurallances 
 it is reported their young ones aflift them, 
 covering them with their wings, and nourifh' 
 ing them with the warmth of their bodies ; 
 even b.inging them provifions in their beaks, 
 and carrying th«m from place to place on 
 their backs, or fupporting them with their 
 wings ; in this manner returning, as much 
 as lies :n their power, the care which was 
 bellowed on them when they were young ones 
 in the neft. A ftriking example oi filial piety ^ 
 infpi^'ed by inflinft ; from which rea/onkkK 
 needs not be afhamed to take example. 
 
 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy 
 days may be long in the land^jich the Lord thy 
 
 God 
 
[ 3 ] 
 Cod gfjeth thee, was zn exprefs command- 
 ment, and the on'y one to which a promifc 
 was annexed. — Among the Ifraelites, the 
 flighteft otfence a gai nil a parent was punifned 
 in the moll exemplar^' manner. 
 
 Certainly nothing can be more juft or rea- 
 fonable, than that we (hould love, honour, 
 and fuccour thofe who are the very author? 
 of our being, and to whofe tender care (un- 
 der Heaven) we owe the continuance of it, 
 during the helplefs ftate of our infancy. 
 
 L©ve, Charity, and an intesrcourfe of good 
 offices, are what we imdoubtedly owe to all 
 mankind ; and he that emits them is guilty 
 of fuch a crime as generally carries its pun- 
 ifhment with it ; — but to our Parents, more, 
 much m.orethan -11 this, is due ; and, when 
 wearefervingthcm, we ought to reflecl:, that 
 whatever difficulties we go through for their 
 fakes, we cannot do more for them than they 
 have done for us ; and that there is no dan- 
 ger of our over-paying the vail debt of gia- 
 titude they have .iiid us under 
 
 In fine, we Aiould confider that it is a duty 
 moft peculiarly infiftcd en by Heaven itfelf; 
 and, if we obey the command, there is no 
 doubt but we fhall alfo receive the reward 
 annexed to it, 
 
 Bz EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 Of Silence, 
 
 II. 
 
 O ! here the portrait of that ancient powV, 
 ^ Which fwayM before the world's great natal hour; 
 
 Silence ! the flill Companion of the wife, 
 That flirouds e'en folly in its deep diiguife: 
 «f A living death that is of nothing made, 
 «« In noon-day's fun wrapt up in thickefl fhade ;'' 
 Blufh not good youth to court his friendly aid: 
 He fliall your fecrets keep, your friends retain, 
 Improve your hononr, and fecure your gain. 
 
 } 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Be not too rafh in fpeech, left others find 
 The depth and fecrets of your inmoft mind : 
 Silence may oft times make your fenfe extolPd, 
 Bur utter'd words can never be recallM. 
 
 SILENCE 
 
.[ S ] 
 
 SILENCE was a quality fo much revered 
 among the ancients, that the:r prieits and 
 philolbphers tried their initiates and difci- 
 ples by enjoining them Taciturnity for a 
 certain ftated period, teaching it as the firft 
 of all fciences. 
 
 They likevvife paid divine honours to Si- 
 lence, worfhipping it as a deity, under the 
 nam.e of Harpocrates, who was reprefented 
 as in the Emblem, and whofe figure was 
 fufficiently exprellive of the moral they meant 
 to inculcate. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Silence is a fare friend in difficulties; it 
 is a charm againft anger, and a kind of talif- 
 man which often gains its owner a knowledge 
 of the thoughts of others, while it leaves him 
 entirely mafter of his own. Though it is ufe- 
 ful to thofe of weak parts, yet need not the 
 wifell be afiiamed of it. In effe^l, it has 
 this- bcft of qu.ditics, that it may do much 
 good, but is entirely incapable of harm. 
 
 Hovj heaiitiful is a nvord in duefeafon, fays 
 
 the wife man ; but he who is perpetually 
 
 talking is not likely to reap fuch praife, 
 
 becaufe he minds no feafon \ whereas, one 
 
 B 3 that 
 
[ 6 J 
 
 that knows how to keep fiUnce^ may eafily 
 know alfo, by his obfervations on the dif- 
 courfe of others, when to fpeak ; and his 
 words being few, are hkely to be more 
 properly applied, and will be more ef- 
 teemed by the hearers.— But, in a multi- 
 tude of words there is often a multitude of 
 errors ; and to rule that little member, the 
 tongue^ is often more difficult than to go- 
 vern a city% 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
E M B L E jNI 
 
 III. 
 
 Of the Danger cf Pleafure. 
 
 BEHOLD x.\\Q Boy, forbidden fvreets to prove, 
 Wich lucklefs hand ibe honhi Hive remove : 
 Strait with an angry hum that founds to arras, 
 Forth rufh the winged tribe in all their fwarms; 
 Too latCj alas ! they make th' offender find. 
 That pleasure's Honey leaves a fling behind. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Learn htnce, ye heedlefs train, rvho gai'y glide 
 In youch's trj;-n bark, dov.n life's uncertain tide. 
 That death oft iurks beneath fome g,ildcd toy, 
 And poifan mir.gles in the cup of joy. 
 
 B4 
 
 THE 
 
f 8 ] 
 
 T H E thoiJghtlefs child overturns the 
 Hive, in order to get at the Honey ; he 
 knows the Bees have Sweets, but he forgets 
 that they have alfo Stings. When he has 
 done the mifchief, he perceives it too late ; 
 for the indullrious people fhew him that 
 they will not be difluibed with impunity ; 
 and he finds it impoffible to get the Honey, 
 unlefs he w^ere able to deflroy thofe who 
 guard it. 
 
 Amazed at the confequence of his adlion, 
 he flies with precipitation, but is overtaken 
 by the/mfeds, who fettling upon. him, leave 
 behind them their flings, the anguifli of 
 which may ferve as a perpetual memorial of 
 his rafimefs, and warn him how he attempts 
 llolen fweets for the future. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 In many people of a more mature age, 
 we fee the r.mblem veiified ; and though 
 common experience might prevent the evil, 
 yet o carelefs are fome, that they will make 
 ufe of no experience but their own, which 
 is always dearly bought, and often comes 
 too late to have the eiteft defired by every 
 rauonal and thinking perfun. 
 
 The 
 
[ 9 .]. 
 
 The wild and unthinkin':; always ima- 
 gine forbidiUn pkajures to be Uveet ; and, 
 proceeding on this maxim, often plunge 
 themfelves into the moil ruinous circum- 
 ilances, and repent only when it is too late 
 to amend them. 
 
 But they will overturn the Hive ; they 
 muft have the Honey, while they little ex- 
 pert the Sting : — when they feel it (like 
 the Boy in the Emblem), furp^ize is added 
 to their aSictlon, and their dillrefs is dou- 
 bled, by their being no ways provided to 
 fullain the accident. 
 
 If you would be wife, take not the Honey 
 wniic '.lie iiiVc ia lUr'alinin^ j -C^ HOt your 
 Plcafures be mixed with Guilt ; and then 
 you may reft fecure that they will leave no 
 Sting behind them. 
 
 B 5 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 IV. 
 
 Of Fidelity, 
 
 BEHOLD the faithful bcafl, refolvM to die, 
 Near where his much-lovVl m?.fter''s alhes lie j 
 Emblem of Conl'rancy, he yields his breath 
 For arxient love, and keeps his Faith by daatb. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Hence learn Fidelity ;— with grateful mind 
 Repay the courteous; to your friends be kind; 
 Whatever fortune on your life attend, 
 The beft of treafures is a faithful fntnd* 
 
 THE 
 
[ ■> ] 
 
 THE Dog is of all animals the moft 
 faithful and fugacious. There are few things 
 he may not be taught to lerve his mafter ; 
 and, if he be well ufed, there are fewer ftill 
 he will not do to defend him. 
 
 We have many inftances, both in ancient 
 and modern hiflory, of the Fidelity of thefc 
 creatures, and of fome of them having been 
 the caufe of difcovering their mailer's murder, 
 by obftinateiy refuting to fiir from his corpfe. 
 They have often fa ved men's lives, by inter- 
 pofing againfl thofe who offered them vio- 
 lence ; and have proved both ufeful and faith- 
 ful guards to their perfons and properties. 
 
 Homer tells us, that after Troy was de- 
 flroyed by the Grecians, UlyfTes. returning 
 from the fiep:e in mem apparel, having gone 
 through vaiious dangers, and been absent 
 twenty years, was unknown to bis queen, 
 and every one in his palace, except his Dog, 
 who recognized him. 
 
 Forgot by all his own domeiHc crew, 
 
 The faiihfui Dog alone his mailer k".ev.' ; 
 Unfed, unhoused, negiefted on the clay, 
 Like an old fervant now calhi<?.-'d he lay : 
 Touch'd \\ith resentment to ungrarcful man, 
 And }on;Ting to behold his anc ent lord again; ' 
 Him when he faw, he rofc andcravl'd :^ meet, 
 \T\vas all he conld) jnd fx^vu'd z:.d iick'd his feet : 
 Seiz'd with dumb joy— .hen falUng by his fide, 
 Owa'd his leiurning lord, look'd up and died. 
 
 -A P P L I- 
 
[ 12 3 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Gratitude and Fidelity to our friends, 
 are the beft qualities that can adorn our na- 
 ture : the Emblem of the Dog is a very ftri- 
 Icing one in this regard, and is calculated 
 to convey the fevereil fatire on falfe friends, 
 and ungrateful perfons. 
 
 There is nothing in which a man (liould 
 be more cautious and deliberate than in the 
 choice of a friend ; but, having once chofen 
 him, he fliould repofe in him all manner of 
 coniidence, and in his turn keep his fecrets, 
 and be ever ready to do him any fervice that 
 is conliilent with the rules of Religion and 
 "Virtue : he that requires anything contrary 
 to thefe, can never be a true friend : for, 
 properly fpeaking, no friendfhip can exift 
 that is not founded on a n)irtuous bafis ; it 
 is only a connexion of interell, which the 
 iirfl puff of adverfe fortune will blow away, 
 and fcatter to the winds of Heaven. — Bur, - 
 when you have really got a true friend, 
 
 < Grapple him to your foul with hooks of fleel I' 
 Abide by him alike in profperity and adver- 
 fity, and let no change of circumiiances alter 
 your regards or fer vices : fo may you expect 
 afliftonce In the hour of diftrefs, and a com- 
 forter in the day of trouble. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM V. 
 
 Of Purity • 
 
 SO nicely formed by Nature''s bidden laws, 
 Lo ! from the touch the confcioxis Plant withdraws: 
 Emblem of Purity ; which flill retires 
 From the rude glowing of unhallowM fires; 
 Yet ftill more weak the frequent touch it trieSj 
 Droops in approaching, and by prefllire dies. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Shun Evirs firft advance ; be timely wife; 
 Shrink at th' appearance ; fly the name of vice ; 
 Like this fair Plant th* crapoifon'd touch avoid, 
 Nor be by too much confidence deftroy'd. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE Senfit've Plant is fo conftrufted by 
 •Nature, that it fhrinks from the warmth of 
 the human touch. A property fo extraor- 
 dinary, for which various caufcs are affigned 
 by philofophers, occafioned fome ftrange Ho- 
 lies to be told of this wonderful vegetable : 
 one of which was, that it would not bear the 
 touch of any but chafte perfons ; however, 
 the truth is, that it retires alike from the ap- 
 proach of any hand, as has been often expe- 
 rienced. Among fome papers of a late cele- 
 brated poet, there is a £.ble concerning it, 
 on the plan of that of Apollo and Daphne, in 
 Ovid. He relates, that a certain nymph, 
 flying from the embraces of Pan, the God of 
 the woods, juft as he was on the po'nt of 
 overtaking her, was changed into this plant, 
 and- flill retained, in a vegetable, the fame 
 nice chaftity for which Ihe had been cele- 
 brated when a nymph. The llory is pretty, 
 and the metamorphofis aptly turned. This 
 Plant is to be found in the gardens of the 
 curious, and is generally much efleemed by 
 thofe who delight in enquiries into the na- 
 ture of the vegetable world : but it is not 
 allowed to be often handled, becaufe fre- 
 quent touching hurts its delicate texture, 
 and in time, it is fuppofed, would quite 
 deftroy it. 
 
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 APPLICATION. 
 
 In this Vegetable we may fee the fymbol 
 of a truly virtuous peifon, who fhuns even 
 the fliadow of evil, and ftarts at the thoughts 
 of vice. Thofe who fland in their own 
 flrength can never be fure they fhall not fall ; 
 and no diilance can be too far to be removed 
 from the habitations of the wicked. 
 
 To become familiar with the name of 
 vice, is the firft introduction to the practice 
 of it ; and to fee ill adions, unmoved, is the 
 firil flep towards committing them, 
 
 Accuftom yourfelf, therefore, to fhrink, 
 like the Plant ia the Emblem, whenever 
 vice approaches you. Prevent evil in its 
 firft ftage, and you will fave yourfelf man v 
 periods of unhappinefs. AlTume a habit of 
 virtue, and it will grow every day eafier to 
 you : fo may you be enabled to refill temp- 
 tation ; for, be aflured, you can never boaft 
 the lead degree of freedom from any fin, 
 till you fliudder at the leafl fhadow of aa 
 incitement to commit it. 
 
 E M B L E ai 
 
EMBLEM VI. 
 
 Of Guilf, 
 
 SEE where, with drovvfy wing the Bird of Night , 
 Bends from the Riling Sun her fullen flight ; 
 Opprefs'd and weaken'd by the morning ray, 
 She leeks in fliadesto llumber out the day : 
 "While the blyth Lark, afcending, cheers the eye, 
 Sings as he mounts, and feeks the dillant fky. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Thus confcious Guilt its head detefted hides, 
 
 Nor Heav'ns, nor man's, nor day's broad eye abides ; 
 
 While virtue, ftill undaunted and lerene, 
 
 With chearful brow, in open light is feen. 
 
 THE 
 
[ '7 ] 
 
 THE Bat is a Bird fo much accufiomcd 
 to Darknefs, that it generally flies only by 
 Night ; and if at any time it is found abroad 
 in the Day, impelling it towards the Sun, to 
 whofe beams it has a particular averfion, is 
 a fure method of furprizing and taking it. 
 
 This creature partakes parcly of the na- 
 ture of a beaft, and partly of that of a bird, 
 his body being formed fomewhat like that 
 of a moufe, though it has wings wherewith 
 it mounts in the air : but its flight is always 
 fluggifli and heavy, and its whole form is 
 frightfully difagreeable. 
 
 APPLICATION, 
 
 That the Bat, which in its firfl: creation 
 was formed a Bird of Night, flioyld fliun 
 the fun Ihine, is by no means to be won- 
 dered at. Ir follows its nature, and confe- 
 quently fuliih, in every point, the end tor 
 which it was made. 
 
 How much more do we admire the 
 fprigwily Lark, who with his morning fong 
 awakes the day, and ibars towards Heaven 
 upon expanded wing ! 
 
 Would 
 
[ i8 ] 
 Would you apply the Emblem ? In tkc 
 Lark, behold the chearful opcnnefs of the 
 virtuous and pious man, who is always 
 found in the fair face of day, and (while 
 the drunkard is retiring to his bed) is feen 
 early rifmg to falute the morn : and after the 
 due tribute rendered to his Maker, who 
 preferred him through the perils of dark- 
 nefs, he goes chearfuUy about his temporal 
 concerns, and never feeks the fliades, but 
 when repofe invites him to it. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM VII. 
 
 Of Conjtant Jffeclion. 
 
 WITH plaintive cooings, lo I the Turtle-dove, 
 Laments the fate of his departed levc ; 
 His mate once loft, no comfort now he knows. 
 His little breaft with inward anguifh glows ; 
 isor lawns nor groves his throbbing heart can cbanis, 
 Kor other love his languid bofom warm : 
 Opprefs'd with grief, he yields his lateft breath. 
 And proves at Jafl his Conilancy in death, 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 A proper hflbn to the fickle mind. 
 
 An Emblem apt of lendernefs refinM; 
 
 Affection pure, and andiilembled love, 
 
 Which ab.ence, time, nor death, caa ne'er remore. 
 
 TEE 
 
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 THE Dove is the moil: gentle and loving 
 ©f Birds — for which qualities the ancient 
 Heathens feigned, that the chariot of Venu3 
 the Goddefs of Love, was drawn by Turtle- 
 doves. The Conlkncy of the Dove is fuch, 
 that it is become a proverb ; and when one 
 of a pair dies, the other generally pines it- 
 felf to death : fo true is then- love, and fo 
 far are they from a defire of changing.— 
 A very flriking inflance of the power of in- 
 ftind, and an example worthy imitation. 
 
 The Dove and Lamb are fo remarkable 
 for their Gentlenefs, that they have been 
 adopted as fyrabols of our moft holy 
 religion, and are always reprefented in the 
 facred writings, as the moll perfe6l Emblems 
 of virtue and innocence. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Constancy whether in Love or Friend- 
 fliip is certainly one of the mofl fliiking 
 proofs of a great and noble mind, as fickle- 
 nefs is of the contrary ; Love is but a more 
 refined, a more tender friendfjiip ; and when 
 that love is llrengthened by the more facred 
 ties of marriage, it ought to be equally lail- 
 ing and inviolate. 
 
 Ill 
 
C 21 ] 
 
 In fuch a ftate, the joy or grief of either 
 party muft be fh.ired by the other ; they 
 muil be both as one, or happmefd can never 
 be expeded. 
 
 In order to promote this agreeing will, 
 conftancy, tendernefs, and an allowance for 
 the frailties of humanity, are indifpenfably 
 neceflary. Where thefe are united, there 
 may truly be faid to be an union of fouls, 
 which is the greatefl felicity on earth. 
 
 The Emblem of the Dove is one of thofe 
 leflbns drawn from Nature, whereby the 
 beft among us may profit ; fince we may 
 well be afhamed to be outdone, either in 
 conftancy or tendernefs, by any of the 
 brute creation. 
 
 Thus like the Dove, let Conftancy and truth, 
 And fpotlefs innocence, adorn your youth ; 
 In every {tate ihc fame blefsM temper prove, 
 B« fix'd in Fritdjhipi and be true to Love. 
 
 E M B L E M 
 
EMBLEM VIII. 
 
 Of 'NeceJJary Confidence. 
 
 HOPE is the firft great b'eiTing here below, 
 The only balm to heal corroding woe : 
 It is the ftafF of age, the lick man''s health, 
 The pris^ner^'s freedom, and the poor man's wealth*, 
 The Tailor's fafety ; lalling as our breath. 
 It ftill holds on, nor quits us e'en in death. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Encourage Hope , which heals all human care, 
 The leaft mad folly is a fad Defpair : 
 If you are wife, that dreadful evil fhun, 
 Nor fall unpitied, by ^/o^^r/c//" undone. 
 
 IT 
 
[ ^3 ] 
 
 IT is faid in the old heathen fable, that 
 when Pronietheus dole fire from heaven, 
 with which he animated mortal bodies, Ju- 
 piter, in an^^er to mankind, gave Pandor^a 
 box, which was clofe fhut; but her curiofity 
 (which the God forefaw) promoting her to 
 open it, out flew a variety of plagues and 
 evils, which immediately difperfed them- 
 fclves over the world. — Confounded and 
 aftoniihed, Pandora at length fhut the fatal 
 box again, w^cn all the refl of its contents 
 being fie J, Hope alone remained at the bot- 
 tom, which proved the only confolation to 
 mankind for the plagues that Jove had fent 
 amongll them. 
 
 Hope, according to our fyftem, Is deemed 
 one of the Chriftian virtues, and is repre- 
 fented as in the Emblem, leaning upon an 
 Anchor, whereby is aptly exprefTed her ftea- 
 dinefs and trufl. — In religious pi6turcs fhe 
 is, moreover, generally painted with her eyes 
 turned up towards Heaven in token of her 
 confidence in that help which comes only 
 from above, and which is indeed the only 
 fure aid to trufl to, when man forfakes us, 
 and when the llorms of this world beat hard 
 upon our bark, and threaten to wreck it. 
 
 p p L I- 
 
[ H ] 
 
 > I C A 1 
 
 Alas ! without Hope, of what value 
 would our mortal exlilence prove ?' How 
 fliould we be enabled to bear up under at- 
 fnctions ? What cordial lliould we have to 
 Oppofe to the thoufand heart-corroding cares 
 which this frail life abounds with ? 
 
 It is then we avail ourfelves of this An- 
 chor; and, oix.h.t three Chrijiian graces, are 
 moft relieved by Hope, which leads on, 
 through Faith, to the promife of happier 
 days here, or a better ftate hft"eafter. 
 
 To be without Hope is the moll dreadful 
 of all earthly pURifliments : it is the refuge 
 of the poor and needy, ail^jf enders trie di- 
 ftribution of our lots below n^pre equal. 
 Since the high and low, the rich and poor, 
 cannot, with jullice, be deemed fo widely 
 different in their eilates, when we confide r, 
 that 
 
 Thcic arc placM in Hape and thme in Fc^r, 
 Hope is, in fliort, our bell companion 
 here ; it leads us as it were, by the hand, 
 through all difficulties and dangers; and, 
 it may juftly be faid of it, as has been ob- 
 ferved of love ; that it is 
 
 The cordial drop Heav'n in cur cup has thrcvvn. 
 
 To make the naufeous draught of life go down. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM IX. 
 
 Of Zeal ton}:arcli God, 
 
 m 
 
 LO ! to the golden fun's euliv'ning rays, 
 The grateful Plant itj opening leaves difplays 5 
 Rejoicing in his beams and radience bright, 
 Expands and opens with approaching light : 
 But when dim night Extends her dufky fhade. 
 Its clofir-g beauties licken aJl^ aiid fade ! 
 The Flow'r which Phcebus' warmth firit bade to rife, 
 Lives in Ids beams, and in hh abfeiice dies. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Each human bread may this example move 
 To a£ts of Gratitude and Heavenly Love, 
 To HIM who gives us all our hearts to raife, 
 Live ia his light, and trixmph in his praife. 
 
 HE 
 
[ ^6 ] 
 THE Sun-flower was, according to the 
 heathen fable, a nymph called Clytie; who 
 loved, and was at firll: beloved, by Phoebus, 
 or the Sun, and afterwards by him changed 
 inib a Flower, which, ever mindful of the re- 
 gard fhe once bore to him, always turns it- 
 lelf to his beams.—This Plant, as it has al- 
 ways been remarl^ed for its property of par- 
 ticularly turning to the Sun, <b has it like- 
 wife been ever efleemed an Emblem of Gra- 
 titude in general ; and in particular of that 
 which is owing to God our Creator, in whom 
 we Uve, and move, and have our being. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Man may \ea.rn gratitui^e from the brutes, 
 and often even from the inanimate part of 
 iJie creation ; and, indeed. Nature herfclf 
 does not fail to teach him this lelTon, which 
 he* muft take great pains to eradicate from 
 his heart, before he can be fo bafe as to be- 
 come ungrateful. 
 
 Ingratitude (fays the fcripture) is nuorfe 
 than the Jin of Witchcraft^ which mufl be a 
 heinous cfime indeed, to be fpoken of in 
 fuch terms in the lacred writings. 
 
 He who can return evil for goody or who 
 can even negledt to retura a good office 
 
 , when 
 
. t '7 .] 
 when it is in his power, is To far from ever 
 deferving. again to be obliged or affifled, 
 that he docs not even deferve to live. 
 
 If the gratitude we owe to our friends be 
 fuch an indifputable duty, how much greater. 
 is that which we owe to God, to whole 
 paternal care we are indebted for all we 
 are, and all we ever fliall be ? 
 
 How much does it behove us to turn to 
 Him as to our Sun, in whofe beams we live, 
 and whofe face being withdrawn, we fhould 
 return to our primitive nothing. 
 
 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth ^ 
 was the precept of the wifeft of mortals ; 
 of one who well knew that this was not a 
 fi-uitlefs duty, but fuch a one as would be 
 returned by unnumbered bleilings fhowered 
 on the head of thofe who attached them- 
 felves to it. 
 
 Then like the Flower which to the Sun difplays 
 Its orient colours, and invokes his rays, 
 Still turn your heart to him \\1io reigns above, 
 Whofe yolre is Freedom, and whofe tribute Love ! 
 
 Ca EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM X. 
 
 Of the Cares of Greatnefs* 
 
 LO ! where Ambition's Emblem fit appears, 
 That great reward which pays the toil of years; 
 i^dorn'd with all the pomp of ftate, behold, 
 With jewels blazing rich the Giown of Gold: 
 >Tear, ah i too near, its fure companion lies, 
 The dire attendent on the dazzling prize. 
 The Crown of Thorns, vvhofe fliarpeft flings await, 
 On the vain pageantry of Regal State. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Care follows Greatnefs ; guilt or fear annoys 
 The ScepterM Prince, and all his peace deitroys : 
 And he who to poflefs a Crown is born, 
 For cv''ry gUtt'ring Jewel fiods a Thorn, 
 
 AMBITIOUS 
 
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 AMBITIOUS men can conceive no g^ood 
 or happinefs but that which they imagine 
 is derived from greatnefs \ yet he is often 
 the object of their Envy, who (if the fecrets 
 of his heart were known) might more pro- 
 perly be faid to deferve their Pity. 
 
 Of all the purfuits of Ambition, a Crown 
 is reckoned the moft noble and valuable : 
 and, in the opinion of fome men, all human 
 felicity is centered in the circle of it. — But, 
 where they exalted to the dignity they fo 
 much covet, it is certain they would foon 
 find their error, and be compelled, by ex- 
 perience, to confefs, that the Cronxjn of 
 Gold\% infeparable from a Cro~vn of Thorns^ 
 which is for ever galling the brow of Ma- 
 jefly, and poifoning all the joys a IMonarch 
 can expert to tafle. 
 
 The reflections which Shakefpeare puts 
 into the mouth of Prince Henry, (after- 
 wards the great Henry V. who conquered 
 the French at Agincourt) are very applica- 
 ble to this purpofe. Seeing the Crowa 
 
 lying on his father's pillow, he breaks out 
 j»to the following exclamation : 
 
 C 5 Why 
 
[ 3° ] 
 
 Why doth the Crown lie there upon his pillovr, 
 Being fo troublefome a bed-fellow ? 
 O polifh'd Perturbation ! Golden Care ! 
 Thou keep'ft the ports of fluinber open wide 
 To many a watchful night ! — He fleeps with''t now"! 
 Yet not fo found, not half fo deeply fweet 
 As he whofe brow with homely biggen bound 
 Snores out the watch at night. — O Majefty! 
 When thou doll pinch thy bearer, thou doll fit 
 Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, 
 That/fd/(/j wiihfafdy. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 That to be ^reat is to be happy^ is one of 
 thofe errors which have almoll in all ages 
 prevailed among the generality of man- 
 kind. But, that to be ^^W is to be Z'^^/j', 
 is a fccrer referved for the wife and virtuous 
 few, v\ ho are the grace and ornament of 
 themfelves, their friends, and their country. 
 
 An exalted flation always brings with it 
 a weight of cares ; and he is happier, who 
 in the humble vale of life, purfues his way 
 in the paths of Reafon and Virtue, than 
 he who fhares the favours of a Prince, or 
 the applaufe of a giddy multitude. 
 
 A monarch, if he is a tyrant, mufl be 
 in perpetual fear of his fubje^ts ; if a good 
 prince, he mufl be involved in perpetual 
 
 carss. 
 
.[ 3' ] 
 carfs hrthem: either way he Hands a chance 
 never to tafte of real happinefs ; and thofe 
 Princes who have gone through the world 
 with the greatefl eclat, have been ready to 
 declare, that the Croivn of Gold was ever 
 accompanied by a Crown of Thorns-, and 
 that he who refolves to gratify his ambition^ 
 mufl always expcd to facrifice his happinefs. 
 
 C4 EMBLEM 
 
Emblem xi. 
 
 Of Brotherly Love% 
 
 BEhold the valiant twins, whofe glorious name 
 The poets confecratc to endlcfs fame ! 
 Two bodies fsvay'd by one agreeing mind ; 
 Loving in life, and not in death disjoined. 
 For feats of arms thro' all the world renown'd, 
 For friendfhip more^ the brother chiefs were found: — 
 Thro"' life's whole race one common fate they fhare ; 
 Al:ke united, or in peace or war ; 
 For Pollux^ Castor fiHits; in battle flain, 
 Pollux for Castor begs new life in vain : 
 Yet half Aij days at length allow'd to give, 
 Alternately they die, alternate live. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Learn hence true Friendfhip and Fraternal Lovc ; 
 An oft 'ring grateful to the Throne above. 
 
 CASTOR 
 
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 CASTOR and POLLUX are fald to have 
 
 been the fons of Leda ; the former, being 
 
 begotten by Tyndarus, was mortal; but 
 
 the latter, being the offspring of Jupiter, 
 
 Ihared in his father's immortality. 
 
 The ftrict Friendfhip, and more than 
 Brotherly Love, which fublifled between 
 thefe chiefs, was mofl remarkable. Whe- 
 ther in peace or war, they were always to- 
 gether; they had the fame defigns, the 
 fame purfuits, and were fwayed by the 
 fame fpirits — infomuch, that none could be 
 Pollux's fr end without being beloved by 
 Caftor; none could be Caftor's foe, with- 
 out being alfo the enemy of Pollux. 
 
 Thefe chiefs atchieved together many no- 
 ble adventures, and were the companions of 
 Jalbn when he failed to fetch the Golden 
 Fleece from Colchis ; at which time, when 
 the Ihip Argo was in danger from a florm, 
 two Ih-ange fires were feen harmlefsly play- 
 ing round the heads of thefe youths ; after 
 which a calm enfued. — They took the city 
 of Athens, and recovered their fifler Helena 
 who had been flolen away by Thefeus, being 
 at the fame time fo merciful, that they fpared 
 
 all the citizens. After this, in a battle 
 
 they fought with Lyncaeus and Ida, the fons 
 C5 of 
 
of Alpharcus, near the mountain Taygettfs, 
 Caflor (the mort:;l brother) was llain by 
 Lyncasus, as Lyncceus was by Pollux; who, 
 not confoled by revengmg his brother's 
 death, begged of Jupiter to make him im- 
 mortal ; which requeft not being granted, 
 he intreated that he might beftow half his 
 own immortality upon him, fo that they 
 might live and die by turns; to which Ju- 
 piter aflented; but they were both after- 
 wards received into heaven, and ranked 
 with the Gods ; and, being placed among 
 the ftars, were known by the name of 
 G 
 
 emini. 
 
 Thus far the Fable, which has carried 
 Friendjhip and Brotherly Love to the great- 
 eft height pollible .--As to the truth of the 
 flory it may feem, that thefe brother chiefs 
 were remarkable for their agreement in 
 every thing, and, by their union, perform- 
 ed many great exploits. — At length, Caftor 
 was flain in battle, and Pollux, h.v/ing 
 killed Lync3EUS, who flew him, Aiding it 
 impoffible'to live without his brother, fought 
 the firft occafion of falling in war ; and thus 
 fhared in his death, to whom all his wdfhes 
 could not reflore life, once departed. 
 
 * Or the Twins. 
 
 A P P L I- 
 
t 3S ] 
 
 APPLICATIOX, 
 
 Tkis is a fit Emblem oi Brotherly LovC'^ 
 and the advantages arifing from focial con- 
 nexions.— -Man was by Nature framed for 
 fociety, and there can be no happinefs be- 
 low without its benefits. — It is by this that 
 we mutur.Uy fupply each others wants, and 
 enjoy tho'e bleffings of life, which without 
 it we could never purchafe. 
 
 Friendfhip is the deareft of all focial ties, 
 and adds the higheft relilli to thefe bleirings. 
 There is not in the world fo unhappy a man 
 as he who has not a Friend; whiie he who 
 is pofleiled of fuch a jewel as a true one, may 
 bear up under the ftorms of Affl.dion, and 
 rife fuperior to the frowns of Fortune. 
 
 C6 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XII. 
 Of Forejight, 
 
 THE wary God with iouhh front is grac'd, 
 One face furveys the prefent, one \.\\tpa(h^ 
 With equal looks his watchful eyes appear, 
 To mark th' expiring^ and the rifng year : 
 All plans of nnoment own his guardian care. 
 He fhews to rule the doubtful chance of war: 
 Emblem of Forejight, (till in danger known, 
 By which great a<ftions are atchiev'd alone. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Seek ftill that Prudence, which to Virtue join'd 
 Makes the beft treafure of the human mind; 
 Confider well each deed you mean to do. 
 But oacc refolvM, with carneft zeal purfuc. 
 
 THIS 
 
[ 37 ] 
 
 THIS figure is a good reprefentation of 
 Prudence and Forefight ; which, by coni- 
 paring the Paft with the Prefent, is enabled 
 to look forward to the Future, and thus to 
 judge of the confequence of things; as for 
 us, it is not within the compafs of human 
 power to do fo. 
 
 Janus was an ancient deity, to whom the 
 Romans in particular paid divine honours ; 
 his temple was always open in time of war, 
 and fhut in time of peace ;^the latter cir- 
 cumftance happened but three times in the 
 courfe of many centuries, the laft, and moll 
 remarkable of which was in the reign of 
 Octavius, better known by the name of 
 Auguftus Csefar, in whofe reign the Saviour 
 of the World was born. 
 
 It is not certainly known who this Janus 
 was ; but, according to the bcft authors of 
 him, it feems he was a king of Etruria, who 
 was famous for his Wifdom and Prudence j 
 and who, by the-llrength of his judgment, 
 forefaw fo well the events of many under- 
 takings, both of his own and others, that 
 he was fuppofcd by many to poflcfs fome 
 fupernatural knowledge. 
 
 Though nothing of this kind was true, yet 
 he was a very wife man, and a good prince. 
 He taught his people the culture of the vine 
 
 and 
 
[ 38 ] 
 
 and olive, together with many other ufeful 
 and neceflary arts of life : he alfo inflru6ted 
 them to raife temples to the deity, whom 
 they worfhipped before oa hills, and in 
 groves. It is no wonder the heathens, who 
 made gods of tyrants, (hould, after his death, 
 pay divine honours to this prince, whofe 
 fymbolical figure was deligned to reprefent 
 his great wifdom and extraordinary abilities. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 It is a truth that can never be too much 
 inculcated, that prudence is a moft proper 
 guard to prote(^l people through life. In 
 youth, in maturer years, in old age, it is 
 equally necelfary ; but it becomes particu- 
 larly fo to iuch as are engaged in any con- 
 cerns of importance to others, who muft 
 otherwife fufter by their want of it, and will 
 too late have occahon to repent the confi- 
 dence they placed in them. 
 
 Though experience belongs properly only 
 to Age^ yet leli'uns oi prude?ice may be learn- 
 ed in Touth ; ano, indeed, they can fcarcely 
 be too early inculcated, as with the Toung^ 
 it mull fland in the place of that experience^ 
 and is one of the betl guides they can trull 
 to, to conduct them through the dangerous 
 road of life. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XIII. 
 
 Of Senfuality, 
 
 THAT monftrous fhape behold with threai'ning bow, 
 Whofe ardent eyes wiih favage ardor glow ; 
 That doub e-foim'd, whom neither race can claim • 
 Who yet, trefumptiious, fcoris all fenle of fliamc; 
 Glorying in brutal ftrength and brutal deeds, 
 'Till unexf-efted punifhment fucceeds: 
 Such cs once Thefeus dealt the favage train, 
 >^nd fent th-ra roaring to the wilds again; 
 When at the Marriage Feafl they darM intrude. 
 To Ilain the feftive hail with ftreams of blood. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 If you would {hun that punifhment, their due. 
 Be timely wife; — fhun 'heir cxceffes too; 
 Heav'n ftill with anger will your crimes regard, 
 Which fooa or late ^ill meet their fure reward. 
 
 ANCI£>'T 
 
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 ANCIENT fable fays the Centaurs were 
 Moiiflers ; the oft'spring of Ixion, by a Cloud 
 whom he miftook for Juno; for which crime 
 he was condemned to be bound perpetually 
 to a wheel in Tartarus. It feems, how- 
 ever, that the Centaurs were a people of 
 ThefTaly, the lirlt who tamed horfes fo as to 
 ride upon them ; but being alfo a very bru- 
 tal race, they were (from that circumftance, 
 and their ftrange appearance when on horfe- 
 back) fuppofed to be half man and half beaft. 
 Being invited to the wedding of Pirithoiis, 
 one of them attempted to foice away the 
 bride j but being oppofed by Thefeus, the 
 infeparable friend of the bridegroom, a (kir- 
 milh enfued, which was fucceeded by a war, 
 wherein that hero, affifled by the Lapithas, 
 totally exterminated them ; almoft an age 
 before the famous liege of Troy was under- 
 taken by the confederate Greeks. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Such are the effeds of Drunhnnefs and 
 DlJJipation ; fuch the reward of Cruelty and 
 Brutality ; which, though they may leem 
 triumphant for a while, will at laft certain- 
 ly meet their doom, when they will remain, 
 to the lateftpofterity, as dreadful monuments 
 of the wrath of Heaven, 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XIV. 
 
 Of Wifdom, 
 
 BEhold, with graceful mien, the heav'niy maid. 
 Shines forth in ftrong and glict'ring arms array'd! 
 The power of Wifdom in her looks flie fhows, 
 Arid {lands the terror of an Hoft of Foes. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Let PALLAb* arts your ev'ry aftion guidf, 
 And more in Wiflom than in Strtngih confide ; 
 If you with Virtue and with Prudence arm, 
 No fraud can reach you, and no flrength can harm; 
 Safe in yourfelf, your foes you may def 
 
 And vice and folly from your face fhall fly. 
 
 PALLAS 
 
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 PALLAS, or Minerva, was faid to be 
 the daughter of Jupiter ; llie fprang out of 
 his head in a full affembly of the Gods. She 
 fcon gave evident tokens of her divine de- 
 fcent by her nx:ifdnny the ctFefts of which 
 were feen both in heaven and earth. She 
 alMed her father Jupiter in his war with the 
 Giant Titan. — When Ihe had a difpute with 
 Neptune, God of the Sea, which of them 
 Ihould name a city, it was agreed, which- 
 foever produced the moft beneficial thing, 
 fhould have the privilege ; on which Nep- 
 tune prefented them with a Horfe, an Em- 
 blem of Strength and Courage ; but Pallas 
 gave them an Olive, an Emblem of Peace 
 and Plenty ; whereupon it was determined in 
 her favour, and (lie called the city Athens. 
 
 Thus far the Fable; — the Moral is plain: 
 Wifdom fprang from the Supreme Being ; 
 and by that Wifdom He overcomes Evil. — 
 By Wifdom, Peace and Plenty flourlfli in ci- 
 ties and civil focieties; and, by its means, 
 private men may be enabled to enjoy do- 
 meflic happinefs. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 When the Almighty gave king Solomon 
 his choice of blefTmgs, he afked for W'ifdom 
 and Length of days ; Riches and Honour 
 
 were 
 
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 were added to them, becaufe God was pleafed 
 with his requeft, as he a&ed only that which 
 was fit and necelTary. 
 
 The man who is armed with true Wifdom, 
 has little to fear from the aflaults of his ene- 
 mies, becaufe he finds his refource in him- 
 felf'j while he that depends only on the help 
 oi ot/jersy is often defertcd at his need, and 
 finds his millake when it is too late to rec- 
 tify it. 
 
 Wifdom is the companion of Vi*-tue, as 
 Folly is the fifter of Vice; but it is impof- 
 lible for a wickfed man to be truly wife j for 
 if he were fo, he would fee the folly of hi» 
 evil ways, and turn from them.— Wifdom is 
 a Safeguard^ and a T(nver of Defence -, and 
 he that trufls to her, will never have reafon 
 to repent his confidence. 
 
 Be 'Virtuous, be nvife, and be happy ; for 
 in the true fenfe of the words, they are 
 the fame thing; from Virtue and Prudence, 
 all the good we can hope for in this world 
 is derived ; without them we muft expect 
 nothing but mifery and anxiety. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 XV- 
 
 Of Inflalility, 
 
 THIS is the Syren, vvhofe enchanting fong 
 Draws the unthinking multitude along; 
 That feeds with faithlefs hopes and luring bait, 
 The poor deluded wretch (he means to cheat I 
 Men call herfalfe, inconllant, cruel, vain. 
 Yet feek her favours with unwearied pain. 
 Th' unhappy bear her Frowns, (till led away 
 With expe»5lation of a better day; 
 Th' ambitious court her fmiles ; but {till the wife, 
 Do her and all her gilded pomp defpife. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Her fairy kingdom, her fantaftic good 
 Avoid ; and by more certain hopes purfu'd, 
 Truft not to fickle Fortune's partial powV, 
 Eut, timely wife, employ the prefent hour. 
 
 FORTUNE 
 
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 FORTUNE \V2S among the ancient hea- 
 thens, of all powers reprelented as the mofl 
 partial. The old Romans uorfliipped her a» 
 a deity ; but at the fame time it is to be ob- 
 fcrved, that they reprefented her as blind, 
 and flanding on a wheel. Her hlindnefs re- 
 prefents her undifcerning partiality^ and the 
 "■joheel h^r JiLklenefs \ juft Emblems of her 
 conduift in the diflribution of thofe favours 
 wh'ch the wife will always learn to contemn. 
 
 That the heathen world, who made deities 
 of almoft every thing, fhould afcribe divine 
 honours to Fortune, is not at all wonderful j— 
 but in this more enlrghtened age it is moft 
 ridiculous to make a Goddefs of her; and 
 yet, what lefs do they, who leave all to her 
 power, and let the feafons pafs away ? Day 
 and night fucceed to each other, without 
 ever thinking how properly to employ them ; 
 trufting all to Fortune and Chance ; forget- 
 Ing that fuccefs attends an honeft induflry ; 
 and that Poverty is the infeparable compa- 
 nion of Idlenefs. 
 
 APPLICATION, 
 
 There is not a jufter maxim, than that 
 ' Fortune is the Deity of Fools ,* they wor- 
 fhip oi>l) her; they leave every thing in her 
 power ; while the wife and good man, who 
 
 truiU 
 
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 trufls nothing to her but what he cannot 
 help, bears her fmilcs with equanimity, and 
 her frowns with fortitude. 
 
 Fools, on the other hand, not only wor- 
 fliip, but in fome fenfe, according to the 
 old adage, make Fortune j that s, they 
 truft all to chance^, and then complain of 
 thofc, whereof themfelves are authors. 
 
 Thofe who would be candidates for fuc- 
 cefs in life, fhould never rely on fo fickle a 
 patronefs ; in fliort, they fhould confider 
 that there is no fuch thing as chance^ but 
 that every thing depends on their own in» 
 duftryy accompanied by the blelfing of Pro- 
 vidence, which generally attends the Wife 
 and Virtuous ; and is far more proper to 
 truftto, than fuch a fickle friend as Fortune, 
 who 
 
 Undifcerning fcatters crowns and chains. 
 
 EMBLEM ♦ 
 
EMBLEM XVI. 
 
 Of Improvement* 
 
 THE wife induftrious Bee employs the hours. 
 In lipping fragrance from the various flow'rs. 
 No plant, no herb, that Nature's hand prepares. 
 But yields her Honey to reward her cares. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Learn by the Bee from each event to find 
 Some hint of ufe or profit to your mind : 
 Nothing fo fmall but you may draw from thence, 
 Irrfprovement for your Virtue or your Senfe. 
 Honey like this life's evils will afluage, 
 And yields you fweels in your declining age. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE Bee is a noble pattern of induJlTy 
 and prudence* She fettles upon every plant 
 and flower, and makes the moft infignifi- 
 cant, nay, even the moft hurtful of them, 
 ufeful to her purpofe. — Thus flie toils all 
 the Summer, while the days are fair, in 
 ordertogetaftock, which (lie lays by toferve 
 for Winter, when the herbs and flowers arc 
 dead, the trees deprived of their leaves, and 
 the weather bad and unfavourable. 
 
 Then the Bees retire to their Hive, which 
 is formed like a little ftate, and governed by 
 a Queen, who difpenfes jultice to her fub- 
 je6ls. It is faid they bury th eir dead, punilh 
 criminals, and drive the Idle (which are 
 called Drones) from their Hives. — They 
 keep a regular order, whether in war or 
 peace ; and, as foon as their Queen dies, 
 appoint another to iucceed her, and rule 
 their little ftate, which may ferve as a pat- 
 tern for a well-ordered community. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 The Bee is one of the apteft Emblems of 
 Indujiry^ and the arc of extra6ling_§-o<?^out 
 of e'viU that can be found in Nature. It 
 is endued with an i7ifiin5l^ that reafon itfelf 
 needs not be atiiamea to copyj as its 
 perjeverance is an admirable example for 
 the wifeft of us to follow. 
 
 As 
 
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 As the Bee; in the Summer, provides for 
 
 itfelf that, which may fervc for its fupport ia 
 Winter, fo fliould we, in the Summer of our 
 days, take care to lay in a (lore of profitable 
 virtue?, and good quilities, which may ren- 
 der us juflly admired in age, and enable us 
 to fet a good example to pofterity. 
 
 Like that induflrious Infect, llkewife, we 
 fhould learn to make every occurrence of 
 life ferviceable to us ; for nothing is fo fmall 
 or minute but it may be made of ufe ; no- 
 thing fo bad in Nature, but we may draw 
 from it fome profit or inilru6tion; and thus, 
 by chufing the Good, and avoiding the Evil, 
 we may purchal'e to ourfeh'cs, Peace here, 
 and the Hopes of a brighter Reward here- 
 after. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Of Deceit, 
 
 WOuld'll: thoujunthmking, to the beafl draw near, 
 Caugbt by his plainti veCry, andfiaudfulTear ? 
 Ah ! fiy in time the dreadful ftroke of Fate, 
 Nor ftay to feel it, and be wife too late. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Deceitful men, and all tbelr mazes fhun, 
 J^or by diflcmblcd forrows be undone: 
 If much they feem their aftions to deplore, 
 Forgive their crimti^ but truft their -worii no more* 
 
 THE 
 
THE Crocodile is reported to weep over 
 its prey, and to fend forth a piteous and dif- 
 trefsful cry, in order to allure men or beafls 
 to its haunts, that it may feize and devour 
 them. This ftory is variouily told — Some 
 fay it devours whatever it catches, all but 
 the head, and then weeps becaufe no more 
 is left to fatisfy its rapacious appetite. It 
 is moil likely, on comparing the different 
 accounts, that this animal makes a noife, 
 which other creatures take for a complaint, 
 though probably it is only a found It com- 
 monly fends forth over its prey, as .the 
 grovvling of a cat over a moufe. However 
 that be. Crocodile's Tears are become a 
 Proverb; and a moral of found prudence 
 may by drawn from the Emblem, 
 
 APPLICATI. ON, 
 
 As it is man's greateft praife " to be Wife 
 as a Serpent, aad as Innocent as a Dove,'* 
 fo, h.e who fuffers himfelf to fall into the 
 fnares of deligning men, will quickly put 
 it out of his own power to be of fervice to 
 the good and v rtuous. 
 
 No principle is more noble than that of 
 
 forgiving injuries— nothing fo wicked or 
 
 D a unpro- 
 
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 iinprontablc as a rancorous revenge. Hea- 
 %xn itfelf commands us to forgive our ene- 
 mies ; but it is the height of tolly to truft 
 thofe who have injured us. 
 
 There are fome people, who, like the 
 Crocodile in the Emblemj will even feem 
 to lament their former injuries, in order to 
 have it in their power to do you frefh ones. 
 Of fuch perfons beware: do them no harm, 
 but take care not to put it into their power 
 to doyou any. 
 
 If you would pafs through life with any 
 degree of fatisfadion, it is necefTary that 
 you be good and priidejit, Wifdom is the 
 iifter of Virtue ; join them both in your 
 condudt ; and, If it fliould happen that you 
 do not enjoy all the felicity you might ex- 
 peft, you will at leaft have the comfort to 
 defer ve it. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
 / 
 
EMBLEM XVIII. 
 
 Of Indifcretion, 
 
 npH E bufy infeft hov'ring round the light, 
 
 PieasM with the taper's beams which gild the night, 
 Siill round and round in giddy circles files, 
 Till caught within the Icorching blaze, it dies. 
 Ah ! filly thing, the fource of all thy joy, 
 (A beauteous mifchief!) (bines but to deflroy : 
 EVn fo the youth who burns with wild defircs. 
 Oft falls the riftim of unhallowM fires. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Avoid the glitt'ring evil, Ihun the fnare, 
 Which Sin and Guile for artlefs youth prepare ; 
 Left with the Moth one common fate you prove. 
 And perilh by th' exccfTes which you love. 
 
 D3 THE 
 
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 THE Moth, allured by the Brlghtnefs of 
 the Candle, plays round the Flame, till at 
 lafl it is confumed by its heat. A fit Emblem 
 of thofe unwary ones who play round the 
 verge of Evil, till at length they precipitate 
 themfelves into infamy and ruin. 
 
 The Fly, and many other winged infeds, 
 have the fame propcnfity to hovering round 
 any luminous body, and frequently die by 
 the heat, which is infeparable from that 
 brlghtnefs they fo much defire ; but none fo 
 frequently find their fate in the Blaze, as 
 the Moth, which is almoft as fure to perifh 
 by the Candle, as to perceive its light. The 
 Moth feeds chiefly upon cloth and woollen 
 itufFs ; and is an animal of fo delicate a tex- 
 ture, that a flight touch crufhes it to pieces ; 
 it is therefore the lafl creature in the world 
 to fuftain the attacks of fo terrible an enemy 
 as fire ; yet this enemy, in the refemblance 
 ofa friend, courts it to draw near, and after- 
 wards works its inevitable deflrudtion, 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 What an .unhappy flate is theirs, who 
 will not take warning by the end of others, 
 nor avoia the mifchiefs which have proved 
 fatal to fo many. 
 
 What 
 
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 What numbers have experienced the fi.mc 
 fate with the Infedl in the Emblem ; and yet 
 what numbers are daily running on, in the 
 fame manner, to their ruin, Iporting with 
 Vice and Folly, and, as it were, making 
 Danger their playfellow; — they cannot, or 
 will not fee, that the endofthefe things is death ; 
 they g:i on from one ilep to another, till it 
 is too late to recede, and fink into the gulph 
 of mifery ; leaving behind them freflie:sam- 
 ples of what was already well enough known, 
 but always too little regarded. 
 
 If you are wife, fliun all temptntions, and 
 be not deceived by appearances ; Vice, Fol- 
 ly, and Danger, ofren lurk under the mofl 
 inviting forms ; but try the Tree ; not by- 
 its appearance but by its Fruit, you ihall 
 know it. 
 
 Sweeteft leaves the Rofe adorn, 
 Yet beneath them lurks the Thorn; 
 Fair and fiow'ry is the brake, 
 Yet it hides the fpeckled fnake. 
 
 ConTder, and beware ; for he who would 
 avoid forrow, muftbe wary in his lleps; and 
 he who would fhun misfortune, muH be care- 
 ful to take Wifdom for his com.panion. 
 
 D4 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XIX. 
 
 Qf Temperance % 
 
 WHILE drownVl in Luxury yon fellal train, 
 Court this frail world's felicity in vainj 
 R'thold the Cynic from his Tub derides 
 Their idle mirth, and laughing fhakes his fides ! 
 He, who the world's great mafter* could contemn, 
 Might fit at eafe, and laugh at Vice and them : 
 Few were his Wants, and therefore few his Woes ; 
 He who has nought to lofe, no terrors knows: 
 Not riches, but Coritentment, muft procure 
 Our peace below, and make our blifs fecure. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Learn nought to covet; — prize what is your own, 
 And you're more blefl: than he who fills a throne. 
 * Alexunder the Great. 
 
 DIOGENES 
 
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 DIOGENES was a Grecian philofophcr, 
 who much admired Poverty, and placed hia 
 chief happinefs in Content. His (method of 
 living, however, was extraordinary; for, 
 inftead of a houfe, he dwelt in a Tub, from 
 whence he laughed at the luxuries of the 
 Great, and even went fo far as to fpeak 
 againfl the ufe of what are generally deemed 
 the necelTaries of life ; almoll all of which 
 he contrived to fubliii without; infomuch, 
 that one day feeing a boy drink out of the 
 hollow of his hand, he broke his pitcher, 
 faying, that nothing wasneceflary to him, 
 which it was poffible for any one to do 
 without. 
 
 When Alexander, for his conquefls fur- 
 named the Great, the fon of Philip, king 
 of Macedon, once made him a vilit, anj 
 alked him what he fliould do for him ? 
 ** Nothing, replied the Cynic, but iland out 
 of my funfliine, and do not deprive me of that 
 which thoucan'ft not give me." — In fo little 
 eflimation did he hold princes, or their fa- 
 vours. To fay the truth, his chief aim being 
 Content, and his condudl being founded 
 on the maxim, " That he who has leaft 
 Wants is the happieft man," if his wants 
 were reaUy as few as the fapplies he afforded 
 D 5 them, 
 
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 them, he might, not unreafonably be fup- 
 
 pofed to be as happy as any one. 
 
 He was a great declaimer againfl Vice ia 
 general, and Luxury in particular; and his 
 raillery, and that of his feft, was fo Iharp, 
 that their countrymen called them Cynics, 
 that is, Snarlers ; and this is the apellation 
 by which they are known, wherever their 
 names are mentioned in hiftory. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 There can be no doubt, but that the 
 happinefs of every man mufl, in a great 
 meafure, depend on the difpoiition of his 
 mind ; elfe we fhould not every day fee fome 
 people unhappy with every thing that, to 
 all outward appearance, could contribute to 
 their felicity, whilft others, fcarcelypofleffed 
 «f neceflaries, feem merry and happy. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XX. 
 
 Of Falfe Friendjhip, 
 
 TH E Stag once wounded, 'tis in vain he flies, 
 In vain to mingle with the herd he tries ; 
 The herd avo d hira as markM out for death, 
 Till in defpair he draws his latefl breath ; 
 His wayward fate all frie'-d'y aid denies ; 
 Deferted as his utmoft nted, he dies. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 So thofe falfe friends whom worldly int'refts fway, 
 When Milcbief threatens will fly far away; 
 Baflc '.n thy fuiilhine ; but in evil times, 
 And lowVing days, feek out for warmer climes. 
 Chufe then with caution, if hou would'ft fucceed ; 
 A Friend in Poverty 's a Friend icdecd. 
 
 D6 IT 
 
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 IT has often been remarked of the Stag, 
 that, being wounded by the hunters, he at- 
 temps to take fhelter among the firft herd 
 of Deer that he efpies; while thefe, on their 
 part, like falfe friends, as induflrioufly avoid 
 him ; and, to keep off from danger them- 
 felves, abandon him to his fate. The de- 
 fertion of his fpecies is beautifully pit^ured 
 by Shakefpeare, in his play, called, As You 
 Like it ; in the following lines : 
 
 •- A poor fequefterM Stag 
 
 That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, 
 Did come to languifli there; 
 The wretched animal heavM forth fuch groans, 
 That their difcharge did ftrctch his leather coat, ' 
 Almoft to burfting; and the big round tears 
 CoursM one another down his innocent nofe 
 In piteous chace : — Anon a carelefs herd 
 Full of the palture, jump'd along by him, 
 i^nd never ftay'd to greet him. 
 
 This creature, if he efcapes the hunters, 
 generally lives to a great age — Some au- 
 thors fay he attains to 300 years ; but this 
 feems to be a fable : however, that he is a 
 very long-lived animal, is clear, from many 
 circumllances inconteftibly authenticated : 
 Nature has endued him with a remarkable 
 fwiftnefs of foot, and the branches which 
 vegetate from his head, are equally ufeful 
 and ornamental. 
 
 A P P L I- 
 
[ 6. ] 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 There cannot be a fitter Emblem oifalfe 
 Friendjkip^ than that which is here exhi- 
 bited — The flag is wounded ; he flies from 
 his purfuers, who have marked him out for 
 death ; he feeks, by mingling with the 
 croud, to efcape their notice. Where fhould 
 he hope for fhelter, but among his own 
 kind — perhaps, the very herd of which he 
 was once the leader ? he throws himfelf 
 therefore upon their protedion : but, alas, 
 how vain are his deligns ! refolved not to 
 fliare in his misfortunes, they fly, and teach 
 him, too late, how little he has to hope 
 from their kindnefs,— He falls— the con- 
 fequence of which is, that among all thefe, 
 every one in his turn experiences the fame 
 treatment from his fellow. 
 
 Juft fo it fares with thofe Friendfliips 
 which are founded only upon Interefl, 
 which have neither Piety, Virtue, nor mu- 
 tual Benevolence for their balls. — Inprofpe- 
 rity, thefe men will be ever ready at your 
 command, either becaufe you do not want 
 them, or becaufe they know you will over- 
 pay their fervices. Change the fcene to 
 Adverfity, and they change with it— they 
 
 defert 
 
[ 6i ] 
 
 defcrt you— you will fiad no flielter with 
 them ; but like the Deer in the Fable, each 
 will Ihift for himfelf, and leave you to your 
 fate. 
 
 Be careful then how you chufe a Friend, 
 which is the greatefl of all earthly acquili- 
 tions ; and, above all things, remember, 
 that can be no real Frlendfhip, which is 
 founded merely upon Intei'eft. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXI. 
 
 Of Education* 
 
 qEE in what evil plight yon Vine appears, 
 
 ■^ isor fpreading leaves, nor purple clufters bears; 
 
 But if around the Elm her arms fhc throws. 
 
 Or by fome friendly Prop fupported grows, 
 
 Soon fhall the ftem be clad with foliage green, 
 
 And cluiter'd Grapes beneath the leaves be leen. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Thus prudent care muft rear the youthful mind, 
 By Love Supported, and with toil refin'd : 
 'Tis thus alone the Human Plant can rife ; 
 UnproppM it droops, aod uofupported, dies. 
 
 THfi 
 
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 TKE Vine never flourifiies without a 
 Prop or Support. Like the fruit it bears, it 
 is of a fo^lal nature, and rewards the friend- 
 ly Ihade which fupports it, with its purple 
 tre^fures. But if it is fuffered to creep 
 along without a Prop, it will moil certainly 
 difappoint the hopes of the planter, and 
 prove barren and ufelefs. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 This is a fit Emblem of Youth, which, 
 if left to Itfelf, will never grow up in Wifdom 
 or in Virtue, — To Education alone, muft 
 children be indebtfr for their Morals, and 
 the Care of the Parents is always vifible in 
 the CoiTdu6t of their Offspring. 
 
 When a Youth has received a virtuous and 
 liberal Education, no gratitude can be fuffi- 
 cient to difcharge the debt he owes to his pa- 
 rents; fmce he is notonlyindcbtedtothemfor 
 bis Being, but alfo for all his hopes of peace 
 here, and of eternal happinefs hereafter. 
 
 On the other hand, he who has been neg- 
 lected in his youth, has a heavy accufafon to 
 bring againft thofe who reared him, when he 
 comes to years of maturity. Evil inclinations, 
 if not checked, will grow amazingly upon 
 us, while good ones, if they be not properly 
 encouraged, will fade and die away ; and that 
 
 will 
 
will be too late deplored in age, which might 
 have been remedied in our earlier years. 
 
 How careful then ought Parents and 
 Guardians to be of their charge, of which 
 they mud one day render up an account, 
 where no idle excufes will be admitted : no 
 evafion nor equivocation can avail them ! 
 
 If it be then found that they have been 
 careiefs in this great work, how poignant 
 will be their fhame, and how fevere their 
 punlfiiment ! 
 
 But if they have faithfully difcharged this 
 truft, committed to them by Heaven itfelf, 
 how great will be their honour, how glorious 
 the cro.vn of their reward! 
 
 The Education of Children is indeed a 
 matter of fuch confequence, that it con- 
 cerns not only private perfons, but the pub* 
 lie in general ; and that nation will always 
 be the moll virtuous, and the moft refpe^l- 
 ablc, whofe youth are educated with the 
 greateft care, and are earliell inftru<fted in 
 the duties of Men, and of Chriflians. 
 
 Thefe, like the generous Vine, will fully 
 repay the pious care of the Planter ; and, 
 while they are known by their Fruit, will 
 refle£t honour upon the hands that reared 
 them. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 XXII. 
 
 Of refijling the evil Principle* 
 
 By great Apollo's arm the Python flain, 
 O'er many a rood lies Itretched upon the plain ; 
 The world rejoices from the Monfter freed; 
 The Godhead triumphs in the glorious deed. 
 For feats like thefe, heroic chiefs of old, 
 In Fame's bright temple higheft honour hold. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 With valiant heart proceed in Virtue's ways, 
 And gain the tribute of immortal praife : 
 The Monfter Vice with all your pow'rs engage, 
 And rife the Phoebus of another age. 
 
 THE 
 
[ 6; ] 
 
 THE Serpent Python was a Monfler, 
 \vhich, according to the fabulous account, 
 fprung from the mud and llagnated waters 
 that the General Deluge left behind. 
 
 This Monfter, the God Apollo (who is 
 alfo called Phoebus) engaged, and deflroyed 
 with his unerring arrows I tor which fervicc 
 divine honours were paid him, and the Py- 
 thian Games were eft^bllihed. He had a ce- 
 lebrated temple at Deiphos, where Oracles 
 were delivered in his name, by a prieftefs 
 called Pythia, and was, next to Jupirer, the 
 mofl efteemed of all Heathen Gods. 
 
 The Fable fignifies, that the Deluge left 
 behind it certain ftagnate waters, and thefe 
 produced peftilential vapours, which, how- 
 ever, at length, the beams of Apollo, Phoe- 
 bus or the Sun, exhaled, and deilroyed their 
 noxious quality. 
 
 The Moral is, that Vice and Oppreffion 
 ought to be courageoufly refilled ; and that 
 thole who do good to their fellow-creatures, 
 deferve to receive public honours at their 
 hands. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 If we mean to atchieve praife-worthy ac- 
 tions, we muft not be daunted at difficulties, 
 nor terrified by oppofition. We mult re- 
 
 folve 
 
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 folve to vanqiilfli thefe obftades which may 
 arife, and this refolution will be half the 
 viftory. 
 
 We muft, moreover, be ever ready pre- 
 pared, on every occalion, to refill the Evil 
 Principle, which, like the Python in the 
 Emblem, lays all waile before him. Chd 
 in the armour of Virtue, we muft advance 
 boldly TO the combat; we muft conquer all 
 bad inclinations, and, with the aiTiftance of 
 the Divine Grace, make war upon the de- 
 pravity and wickednefs of our own nature. 
 This is the conqueft we fhall find hardeft to 
 gain ; but, when obtained, it will fully re- 
 compence our toils ; fince he that has his 
 paffions at command, is greater than he 
 who rules a kingdom ; and the man that 
 vanquiflies himfelf, is greater than he who 
 triumphs over an enemy. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXIII. 
 Of Fortitude, 
 
 qAFE in its ftrength, the Rock's broad bafe derides 
 
 *^ The roaring Tcmpefts, and the raging Tides : 
 
 Unmov'd, tho' Boreas blufter from oh high, 
 
 Or Ocean lift his billows to the fky : 
 
 Its fixt foundations, which by Heaven were caft 
 
 When Time began, with Time itfclf fhall laft, 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Be flrong, be ftedfaft, in fair Virtue's caufe, 
 Nor fear reproof, nor covet vain applaufe : 
 Heed not of evil tongues the envious ftrife, 
 Nor the loud ftorms that rage thro' human life: 
 On Truth's firm bafis let your Hopes remain. 
 And Seas may rage, and Tempefts roar in vain. 
 
 A ROCK 
 
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 A ROCK in the midft of a troubled 
 Ocean, attacked by Tempcfts, and beaten 
 by the foaming furgc, is a juft refemblance 
 of a virtuous man bearing up under the 
 florms of affli6tion, and refifting every temp- 
 tation to abandon his innocence. This is 
 he who has built his houfe on a Rock : the 
 Rains and the Winds may come, and beat 
 upon it, but in vain : becaufe its Foun- 
 dation is ftedfaft, and cannot be removed. 
 But he whofe Conftancy is not proof againft 
 the florms of Adveriity, is indeed, like one 
 who has founded his houfe on the Sand, 
 which the firft Tempeil will be likely to 
 overthrow, and to fweep away its remem- 
 brance from under Heaven. To fuch a man, 
 what avails it that he has been accounted 
 virtuous, if he falls off in the day of trial ; 
 if at length, when he is weighed in the ba- 
 lance, he is found wanting? — His good 
 deeds will be forgotten, but his offence will 
 be had in perpetual remembrance. 
 
 APPLICATION, 
 
 Adversity is the teft of Conftancy ; it i% 
 the fiery trial, which, when the virtuous 
 have gone through, they are found as pure 
 gold, neither diminilhed in weight nor value. 
 
 It 
 
[ 7' ] 
 
 It is an eafy thing for a man to poflefs him- 
 fclf in the fummer and funlhine of life ; it 
 is eafy for him to boaft that Virtue which 
 never yet was tried, and to exult in that 
 Fortitude which he has never yet had occa- 
 fion to exert ; but true magnanimity and 
 greatnefs of foul are found in fupporting 
 Evils with Refignation, and refifling Temp- 
 tations with Rcfolurioii. 
 
 It is by the tefl of misfortune that the 
 greateil and beft of men have been proved ; 
 it is to their noble behaviour under it, that 
 they owe the titles of Good and Great.— 
 The faints and martyrs among the primitive 
 chriflians, and So rates among the heathens, 
 dying for the teft mony of truth, are cha- 
 racters which will ever be juflly admired in 
 this world, as doubtlefs they were rewarded 
 in a better flate. 
 
 Learn then to copy fuch great examples, 
 and hold lafl: the Truth, even to death; this 
 is to lay yowx foundation on arock^ which de- 
 fies the Tempeit, and itands i'ecure amidfl 
 the Roaring Waves of the Ocean, which 
 endeavour m vain to (hake it, becaufe itg 
 bafis is ftedtafl and immovable. 
 
 EMBLEM' J/ 
 
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 >^ 
 
EMBLEM XXIV. 
 
 Of the Ufe of Self Denial. 
 
 WITH hafty fleps, at the firfl: dawn of day, 
 The chearful traveller purfues his way ; 
 But tir'd at noon, he feeks a fliady grove 
 Of lofty trees, whofe branches meet above : 
 Conceal'd beneath the Grafs the Serpent lies, 
 The Iwain draws near, and by his venom dies. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Thus he, who leaving Virtue's facred ways, 
 
 Securely thro' the paths of Pleafure flrays: 
 
 Wounded by Vice, his Peace and Honour loft, 
 
 Buys late experience at too dear a coft: 
 
 To him who perjeveres alone are giv'n 
 
 Fair fame on eartb, and endlels blifs in Heav'n. 
 
 A SER- 
 
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 A SERPENT concealed In the Grafs, 
 13 ail apt Emblem of Fraud arvi Vice, con- 
 cealed under fpccious appearances. — The 
 Traveller goes on his road with chearful- 
 nefs, during the morning hours : he doubts 
 not but he fliall foon get to his journey's 
 end, and expeds not to meet with the leaft 
 obflacle in his way. 
 
 But when he feels the heat increafing, 
 his vigour begins to relax. When the hour 
 of noon arrives, he is abfolutely weak and 
 faint. He beholds a wood fpread its invit- 
 ing fiiade ; he confiders not that to enter is 
 to deviate from his road j he thinks not 
 what danger he may encounter there : all his' 
 attention is taken up in relieving himfelf 
 from a prefent inconvenience. 
 
 He enters the grove, and lofes himfcIf 
 among its cool and agreeable windings. 
 When he would return, he finds himfelt 
 perplexed, as in a maze, and before he can 
 regain the road, he is bitten by a venemous 
 reptile, which was concealed from his fight 
 among the grafs — He now wifhes he had 
 borne the heat of the day ; his blood is con- 
 fumed with fires more intolerable. He fal- 
 ters— finks under his pains, and falls a vie- 
 urn to his own imprudeacet 
 
 E A P P n« 
 
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 APPLICATION. 
 
 Virtue is never fafe but when fhe is fc- 
 cured by the guard of Prudence : Difcre- 
 tion is her handmaid, and Wifdom her 
 counfellor and inltruftor. 
 
 Caution is a neccflary leffon to be learned 
 by Youth ; and Perfeverance one of the bell 
 qualities they can be indowed with. 
 
 When Fortune fmilcs upon us, it is not fo 
 difficult to go on in the pradice of Virtue : 
 •—a man may eafily obtain the reputation 
 oi ht'ing gooi^f when he is fo circumftanced, 
 that he muft become a monfter of Vice to 
 be nvicked. 
 
 But you who would attain to the end of 
 your labours, be virtuous, and to your vir- 
 tue join prudence I be prudent alfo, and to 
 your prudence ]om perfeverance ; fo Ihall you 
 not fall into the Snares of Pleasure j nor 
 feci the envenomed Sti.iga of Guih and 
 Remorfc, whofe fangs are fliarper than rhofe 
 of the Serpent, and wiiofe polfon is more 
 deadly than that of the venomout. Adder, 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXV. 
 Of the Danger of Temptation » 
 
 ripHE filly fifli, while playing in the brook, 
 ■*• Hatb gorgM ard fwallowM the deltrufti ve hook • 
 In vain he flounces on the auiv'ring hair, 
 Drawn panting forth to breathe the upper air : 
 Caught by his folly in the glittVing bait, 
 He meets his. ruin, and fubmits to fate, 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Avoid bafe bribes; the tempting lure difplayM, 
 If once you leize, you perifh fe'f-betray'd. 
 Be ilow to take when ftracgers hafte to give, 
 Left of your ruin you the price receive. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE fimple Fifh fports on the furfacc 
 of the clear flreams, while the wily Angler 
 plies his Rod and Line ; — the timid animal 
 often approaches the bait, and as often 
 returns from it ; till at lall, juft as the fun 
 fhrouds his radiance behind a cloud, he 
 ventures to jump at the fiditious fly, fwal- 
 lows it at once, and with it fvvallows the 
 bearded hook. That moment fcals his ruin : 
 Smarting from the wound, he fbuggles and 
 endeavours to free himfelf, but in vain. 
 The Angler, giving full play to the Line, 
 permits him to run away with it. But this 
 ftruggle only tends to make his ruin more 
 certain. He is foon tired out, and then, 
 being lifted out of the water, proves an eafy 
 prey to his foe. He pants, he expires in 
 agonies, yet ow^s his deitrudion to ^.Jlender 
 hah-: fo often do fceming trifles tend to 
 Ruin and Perdition. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 What a fit Emblem is this of thofc 
 heedlefs perfons who fufFer themfelvcs to be 
 deluded by glittering temptations, or drawn 
 into fnares by the artifices of the vicious 
 and defigning. 
 
 If, for a while, like the fifh they play 
 about the Hook, yet, in fome unguarded 
 
 moment 
 
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 moment, when the light of their realon it 
 obfcured, they I'cize the fpecious Bait, and 
 then they find all their flruggles ineffectual. 
 He who has had the art to catchy like the 
 Angler in the Emblem, has generally the 
 judgment lofecure his Prey. Such an one 
 will but fmile at their vain attempts tore- 
 cover their liberty", while he is fenfible thefe 
 only ferve ftill farther to enthral them. The 
 dye is cafl, and they become the vicftims of 
 their own imprudence. 
 
 The ofifers of fome men are dangerous ; 
 be not therefore led away by fpecious ap- 
 pearances: think before you act; and let 
 the character oi xht giver, and the condi- 
 tions he is likely to exad, be well confidered 
 before you receive the gift. If it be the 
 price of vice ov folly, Ihun it, as you hope, 
 for peace and h:?ieji fame : each Tempta- 
 tion you have avoided, will, by reflection, 
 ilrenthen you againit the next ; cuilom 
 will make the moft difficult fclf-denials eafy, 
 and by one victory, you will be cnabied 
 to gain another. You will thus be delivered 
 from the fnares o(vice, and folly fhall never 
 triumph over your tall. 
 
 E 3 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXVI. 
 
 Of P erf ever ance, 
 
 JASON, a bold adventurer failM to claim, 
 The precious prize which rais'd his country's famC 
 His velTel bore the flowV of ancient Greece 
 To Colchis' ftiore to claim the Golden Fleece : 
 But firft the Brazen-footed Bulls he train'd, 
 And vath hard yokes their {lubborn necks reftrain'd ; 
 Sow'd Serpent's Teeth, from which immediate rofe 
 A grove of lances, and a hod of foes; — 
 And charm'd the Watchful Dragon to repofe. 
 Thefe toils o'erpaft, in peace he ends his days. 
 And gains the tribute of immortal praifc. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Be refolute in Good, and you will find 
 All evils flirink before a Conftant Mind. 
 
 » 
 
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 THE Golden Fleece was fald to be the 
 fliin ofa Golden Ram which had been offered 
 up to Jupiter, and was kept at Colchis ; 
 but on the condition of being furrendered 
 to any man who could tame the King's 
 Brazen-footed Bulls, which belched out fire 
 and fmoke ; gain the victory over an Armed 
 Troop that were to rife out of Serpent's 
 Teeth, fown in the earth ; and charm to 
 flccp a Wakeful Dragon which guarded the 
 fplendid prize. 
 
 To a^chieve this adventure, feveral Gre- 
 cian heroes failed for Colchis, the chief of 
 whom was Jafon, the fon of ^Efon, a chief 
 renowned for courage and fortitude ; who, 
 by the aiEftance of certain charms which he 
 received from Medea, the Colchian mo- 
 narch's daughter, yoked the Bulls, overcame 
 the armed Men by a flratagem, caufed the 
 Dragon to fall into a deep fleep, and brought 
 away the Golden Fleece, together with the 
 Princefs who helped him to obtain it. 
 
 The velTelthey failed in was called Ar^^o, 
 from whence thefe adventurers were termed 
 Argonauts. This is fuppofed to have been 
 the firfl expedition of any confequence the 
 Greeks ever undertook; and thofe who 
 E 4 were 
 
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 were concerned in it, were fome of the mofl 
 famous heroes in fabulous hillory. 
 
 This is the tenor of the ftory, which is 
 greatly mixed with fable. The truth feems 
 to be, that Jafon and his companions failed 
 to ellablifh a gainful commerce at Colchis, 
 In this their expedition they met with many 
 obflacles from the favage manners of the 
 people they had to deal with, but at laft, by 
 perfeverance, overcame them, and happily 
 returned to their native country, crowned 
 with ail the fuccefs their warmeft wifhcs 
 could have induced them to exped. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Examples like thefe, of Fortitude and 
 Perfeverance in all laudable undertakings, 
 for the benefit of ourfelves, our friends, or 
 our country, carry their application with 
 them, which can never be too much incul- 
 cated, or attended to. 
 
 If, like Jafon, we would bear away the 
 Prize, like him we muft learn to deferve it; 
 we muft hazard ourfelves againft the^erce; 
 nor muft we be afraid to oppofe the Jiroiig^ 
 •when Virtue, and the duty we owe to Hea- 
 ven and to our country, demand it. Above 
 all things, we muft learn to curb our immo- 
 derate 
 
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 derate PafllonS} thefe are the ^ery Bulls we 
 muft break to the yoke. We mufl conquer 
 the /joj? of Temptations, and charm to ileep 
 the e^vil principle in our nature, which is 
 always ready to moleft us. 
 
 Finally, we mull never hope to vanquifli 
 the flubborn temper of others, till we have 
 firfl learnt to fubdue our own ; nor mufl we 
 ever expe£l to atchieve any great actions, 
 unlefs we are endowed with an unconquer- 
 able Firmncfs and Perfeverance, 
 
 E5 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXVII. 
 
 Of Vain Purfuits, 
 
 "pROM fultry noon, till night's dull fhades dcfcead, 
 
 Behold the Boy his fruiilefs chafe attend ! 
 To gain the Infeft's painted wings he flies, 
 And pleas'd, at laft, obtains the gaudy prize \ 
 But whilft its beauties he furvcys with joy, 
 Tbcfe hands which feize thena, fatally deftroy. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Even fo thofe Pleafures which we wifli to gain, 
 
 A»d facrifice our quiet to obtain, 
 
 With gaudy flutt'rings tempt us to purfuc, 
 
 But, while we grafp them, vanifh from our view; 
 
 Or gain'd, but ill reward our labour paft, 
 
 Cfufti'd, as -wc leize thcno, by our eager hafte, 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE fimpleBoy, fmitten with the gaudy 
 colours of the Butte ifly, chaces it from 
 flower to flower, with the utmoft eageniefs. 
 —The fluttering infcd llill flies before him, 
 flill eludes his purfuit. When he thinks he 
 has it juft within his grafp, it flips away, 
 and foars aloft in air ; at another time, it 
 ikulks behind the leaves of a plant, and 
 hides itfelf from his curious fearch. 
 
 The hours Hip away unperceivcd, and 
 the wanton lofes himfelf while he is purfu- 
 ing his prey. — The chafe began at noon : 
 he fuftains the heat of the meridian hours ; 
 the day declines, and he is not yet at the 
 €nd of his labour. 
 
 Bur, at length, juft at the time of the 
 fun's fetting, he furprifes the gay fluttering 
 infed in the cup of a blue-bell. Eagerly he 
 haftens to catch it, he fqueezes the fides of 
 the flower together, to prevent the efcape of 
 his captive ; he does indeed moft effectually 
 prevent it, but at the fame time he oefcats 
 his own end, for he cruflies the infe6l to 
 pieces; and thus, by his own eagernefs^ 
 lofes the fruit ot his toil, and deftroys that 
 beauty he coveted fo much to poli'efs. 
 
 E 6 APf LICATIOiV. 
 
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 APPLICATION. 
 
 This Is an apt Emblem of the impetuo- 
 fity of Youth, which, with a blind precipi- 
 tancy, purfues vain pleafures that never can 
 afford axij folid enjoyment, 
 
 Paflion is ever fierce, headftrong, and re- 
 gardlefs of confequences ; it is ready to en- 
 counter all oppofition, to run through every 
 danger for the moil: trifling acquifition ; and 
 its hurry often deftroys the objects on which 
 its wiflies have been fct, by no other means 
 than its eagernefs to polfefs them. 
 
 Paffion thus indulged, cari never contri- 
 bute any thing to f'elicity ; and he who 
 knows not what it is to oe moderate in the 
 purfuit of Pleafures, will never know what 
 it is truly to enjoy them. 
 
 And, moreover, we fhould ever 
 
 Avoid to take the life we cannot give, 
 Since all things have an equal right to live. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXVIIL 
 
 Of Ambition* 
 
 "trrHY would yon Eagle proudly foar fo high, 
 
 ^ i\nd ftrivc to emulate thediflant fky ? 
 What; fees Ihe not the weight and llraight'nitig band, 
 That all her pow'r with double force withstand ! 
 In vain, fond bird, your pinions you extend, 
 CheckM'in your flight, to earth you muft defcend: 
 Ev'n fo would mad Ambition widely tow'rj 
 Boundlcfs his wiih, but limited his pow'r. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Remember all things have a certain bound, 
 Which, once obtained, your neplui ultras found : 
 Ambition fhun, if you would tafte of peace. 
 For while its views extend, its forrows ftill increafc. 
 
 THX 
 
[ 86 ] 
 
 THE Eagle is generally eftcemed tlie 
 chief of birds : it flies higher than all ochers, 
 and builds its ncfl in the tops of the loftieft 
 trees, or on high rocks, poifing it with 
 ftones, in the former cafe, to prevent its 
 falling. The long life, and fharp fight of 
 this bird, have been much exaggerated : it 
 has been reported to live more than a cen- 
 tury, and to fly always diredly againfl the 
 fun, fixing his eyes on him in its greatcft 
 fplendor. Thus much, however, is certain ; 
 that the Eagle poflefles a very piercing light 
 and lives to a great age. It is a bird of prey, 
 like the Vulture, and others of that kind; 
 and will, fometimes, even attack hving 
 quadrupeds. 
 
 The Eagle has ever been reckoned an 
 Emblem of Ambition. It was efleemed 
 facred to Jupiter, among the heathens, as 
 being fet to carry his thunder; and was 
 always reprefented as one of the fymbols of 
 that god. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 In the Emblem before us we have an apt 
 leprefentation of Ambition, which, in fpite 
 of all its towering, mufl: fl:ill be confined to 
 limits ; a circumftance perfe6tly againfts its 
 nature, and which never fails of adminiilcr- 
 ing caufe of anxiety to its poffcflbr. 
 
 Can 
 
f ^7 I . 
 Can there be more flriklng inflances of 
 
 this truth, than thofc which are exhibited to 
 
 us in the perfon of Alexander, furnamed 
 
 the Greats fon of Philip, King of Macedon ? 
 
 —This prince was contented to renounce 
 
 his father, and travel over burning defarts, 
 
 to get himfelf acknowledged the fon of the 
 
 god Jupiter.— The fame prince, having 
 
 over-run Pcrfia and India, and moft of thofc 
 
 parts, known to the Greeks, wept, bccaufe 
 
 he fuppofcd there was no more to conquer. 
 
 Ridiculous madnefs! infatiable ambition! 
 
 this fon of the great Jove died of a furfeit 
 
 at Babylon, in the bloom of his years ; and, 
 
 being too proud to admit that any one de« 
 
 ferved to fucceeded him, he left his empire 
 
 to be divided and torn with inteftine broils, 
 
 which, in a courfe of years, occafioned its 
 
 becoming) a prey to the Romans, who led 
 
 the laft King of Macedonia in triumph 
 
 through the flreets of Rome, and at length 
 
 llarvedhim to death in a dungeon. 
 
 Such are the fruits of Ambition ! It was 
 
 the firft, and continues to be one of the 
 
 greatefl of follies — for, hy that Jin fell the 
 
 angels; how can man then ever hope to be 
 
 a gainer by it ? 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXIX. 
 
 Of the Regard of Vice. 
 
 T O, here the nymph, by her own father's doom, 
 ^ Condemn''d alive to perifh in her tomb, 
 Becaufe fhe yrelded to a flattVing tale, 
 And over her Virtue let her love prevail ; 
 Her groans no pity from a parent claim. 
 She finks, at once bereft of life and fame. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Thofe who qtiit Virtue, Heaven itfelf forfakes, 
 And of their fuffVings no compaffion takes ; 
 Whom Heaven forfakes, mufl: feek relief in vain, 
 From their own parents and their kindred train: 
 ShunnM like a thing accurs'd, in duft they fall, 
 The dread of many, and the fcorn ot all. 
 
 LEU- 
 
[ 89 3 
 LEUCOTHOE was the daughter of 
 Orchamus, King of Perfia. With her the 
 5^od Apcllo is iaid to have been in love. 
 She was not virtuous or prudent enough to 
 relift his Iblicitations, and they carried on a 
 correfpondence together, which they thought 
 to be private; but this being difcovered by 
 one of Apollo's old favourites, the king, 
 her father, was foon made acquainted with 
 it. Being a haughty prince, he could not 
 endure the difgrace which was put on his 
 family by this accident; and therefore, not- 
 withftanding all his daughter's prayers and 
 tears, he commanded her to be buried alive. 
 This terrible fentence was accordingly exe- 
 cuted, without her receiving any relieffrom 
 her lover. However, after her death, the 
 fable fays, Apollo, whofe aid was too late to 
 fave her, caufed the Frankincenfe Tree, 
 which weeps perpetually, to fpring out of 
 her grave. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 There is a fine contraft between Daph- 
 ne's ftory, and this of Leucothoe : the for- 
 mer eluded the fnares of Vice, and perfe- 
 vering in defence of her Virtue, was beloved 
 amd honoured in her end ; but the latter, 
 
 yielding 
 
[ oo ] 
 yielding 'to unlawful folicltations, periflies 
 miferably, neglected and defpifed by all, at 
 the exprefs command of her father, without 
 having received the aid fhe ringht have cx- 
 pedcd from her lover, who appears, but too 
 late to fave her, and only pays a fort of 
 mournful tribute to her memory. 
 
 If we delire to be had in eflimatlon by 
 others, or aflifted by them in time of dif- 
 trefs, we mull firfl learn what is due to our- 
 felves, and a6t up to the dignity of our own 
 nature, by not being defiled with Vice ; and 
 fo rendering ourfelves unworthy of fupport 
 and ailiilance. 
 
 Finally, if we expeft or defire that Hea- 
 ven Ihould not forfake us, we fhould not 
 forfake Heaven; and, if we (hudder at the 
 puniiliment of an offender, we fhould leam 
 betimes to avoid the crimes which occafion- 
 cdit. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
I M B I, E M XXX. 
 
 Of Brutality. 
 
 »THE grov'ling bead, whofc favagc flrength deflroyi 
 
 The floVry gardes that the fwain enjoys; 
 Shews, that when in his beaftly paftime flain, 
 His death alone caa be his maftcr's gain. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 The wicked, felfifh man, who gripes the peer. 
 
 And rates the injured orphan from his door. 
 
 Like the bafc Swine, his neighbour's peace dcftroyi, 
 
 And all his powV in evil ftiil employs. 
 
 When all bis riches he has left behind, 
 
 Dyings alone, he benefits mankind. 
 
[ 92 ] 
 
 THE Hog is of all bcafts, the moH fa- 
 vage and untrat-^able ; it is fvvayed by no- 
 thing but a favage fiercenefs, and a ftupid 
 Gluttony. Of moft other creatures made 
 for the ufeofman, fome profit may be gained 
 in their life. This in its death alone is 
 ufeful ; and then it is more profitable than 
 any animal of its own dimenfions. 
 
 When boars run wild in the woods, they 
 are the moft dreadful of ail beafts ; firft, bc- 
 caufeof their great fiercenefs; and, fecondly, 
 on account of their ftupidity, which is fo 
 great, that it makes them difregard their 
 fafety, and rufh on their own certain deftruc- 
 tion, in order to accomplifh that of thofe 
 whom they engage with. — In fiiort, it is 
 become fuch a proverb, by which to exprefs 
 Ohftinacy, Gluttony^ and many evil qualities, 
 that to be faid to refemble a Swine, is the 
 worft comparifon a man can be fubjeft to. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Natupe feems to have fet us examples 
 of good and evil qualities even among the 
 hrute creation* Thus, the Lamb for Inno- 
 cence ; the Hoife for Courage ; the Ox for 
 Patience; the Serpent for Deceit; and the 
 
 Swine 
 
[ 93 ] 
 
 Swine, in the Emblem betorc us, for Fierce- 
 nefs and Senfuality. 
 
 It is a melanchoUy confideration, that 
 fome men feem to have taken pattern by 
 this groveling beaft, as they lead a life of 
 Gluttony, and Drunkennefs, are entirely wrapt 
 up in Self-Love, and loft to every thought 
 of Charity and Godd-uuill to their neigh- 
 bours. 
 
 Such men, indeed, can do no other good 
 to the world, but by their deaths ; when, if 
 they have any riches, they may, perhaps, 
 leave them to others, who will make a better 
 ufe of thofe gifib than they have done. 
 
 Therefore, if you would have men wifli 
 you life and profperity, live in fuch a man- 
 ner as to be ferviceable to fociety; for, de- 
 pend upon it, if you copy the manners of 
 the Swine, you will fhare the fame fate; that 
 none will be forry for your misfortune or 
 your death, while they can reap nothing but 
 injury from your life and profperity. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXXI. 
 
 Of Precipitation* 
 
 WHAT means that rafli and heedlefs charioteer, 
 Down the ftecp rock to urge his mad career ? 
 Sees he not round him various dangers grow, 
 High cliffs above, and yawning deeps below? 
 Yet down the dreary, dreadful path he hies, 
 Madly meets ruin, and defpairing dies. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 So fomc wild youth to PafTion gives the rein. 
 And buys fhort Pleafures with an age of Painj 
 Fot him Deftruftion fprcads the fatal fnarc, 
 Ke Hnks is gulphs of rnisVy and defpair. 
 
 THIS 
 
[ 95 ] 
 
 THIS Emblem has formerly been adopted 
 by Plato, the Greek phiiofopher. He 
 ufed to fay, that the foul or reafon of man 
 reprefented a Charioteer, and hit paiTions 
 wild horfcs, which it was his bufinefs to 
 reftrain, left they fhould hurry him on to 
 ruin and deftrudion. 
 
 Certainly it is but a fad con fide ration, 
 that fome men {hould not have fo much go- 
 vernment overthemfelves, as by habit they 
 acquire over their beafts— thefe are feen ge- 
 nerally to turn, to ftand ftill, to proceed 
 this way or that, or to ftop in the midft of 
 their career, as the driver would have them ; 
 and, if he be a Ikilful man, it is feldom that 
 we have an inftance of his falling in go- 
 verning them. 
 
 But how many inftanccs have we of mens 
 paffions not fubmitting to the government 
 of their reafon ? A fad example of peoples 
 negleding great matters to attend to fmall 
 ones, who think it lefs worth their while 
 to mind the management of themfclves, 
 than that of their hones. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 If you would ever wlfh to enjoy peace 
 here or hereafter, you muft learn that great 
 
 and 
 
[ 96 ] 
 
 and ufeful lefTon, to controul yourPaiTions ; 
 —like fire and ivater^ they are good fcr- 
 vants, but terrible matters ; if you do not 
 learn early to command them, they will 
 certainly command you ; and, in the end, 
 lead to inevitable deftru6lion. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXXII. 
 
 Of the Changes of Human Affairs, 
 npHE beauteous Moon renews her faded light, 
 
 Not with her own, but borrovv'd luftre bright : 
 Uncertain Planet ! whofe great changes ihow, 
 Th' unftable {late of all tilings here below: 
 Tho* now but half her radiant form fhe fliows, 
 Her waxing luflre every moment grows; 
 Till to the Sun her glowing face fhe turns, 
 Drinks all his beams, and in full glory bums* 
 
 M O R ^ L. 
 Thus all things change with Time's revolving round 
 And nothing permanent on earth is found* ' 
 
 Tho' now but half thy wiihes thou can'ftfharc 
 Succeeding times thy fortune may repair. ' 
 
 But whate'er chance on thy concerns await, -j 
 
 Scorn to do ill, in order to be great ; ' L 
 
 The njced of Virtue is as fixt as fate. J 
 
 F THE 
 
t 98 ] . 
 
 The Moon, though a beautiful and ufeful 
 Planet, receives all her iight from the Sun, 
 «nd is but as a miirouror looking-glafs to re- 
 fled his beams— yet flie gives us light in his 
 abferice ; rules the ebbing and flow ng of the 
 tides j and is particularly attended to by 
 phyficians in the treatment of theii- patients. 
 
 Her periods of Change in the Month, are 
 dividedintoFour. T\\tJirJI(iuarter, whenflie 
 flievvs but half her face, in the increafe — The 
 fully when fhe is entirely enlightened — The 
 lafi quarter, when only half her face is again 
 to be feen, in the decreafe — And the Neixj 
 Moon begins immediately after her being en- 
 tirely darkened. — All thefe are occafioned 
 by her pofltlonwith regard to the Sun ; the 
 more of his beams flie receiver, the more light 
 fhe is in a condition of giving; and it is, con- 
 fequently, when fhe turns her whole face ex- 
 actly oppolite to him, that flie is faid to be at 
 the Full, and reflects the flrongefl luflre. 
 
 In the Emblem flie appears as jull before 
 flie enters the Firft quarter; at which time, 
 though flie does not impart half the light of 
 the Full Moon, yet flie gives figns of her in- 
 creafe ; from whence we may conclude, that 
 we fliall loon fee her in her greateft glory. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 The Moon has ever been reckoned a 
 
 fy mbol 
 
[ 99 ] 
 
 fynibol of inconjlancy^ from her perpetual 
 changes ; yet thefe are fuch as God and 
 Nature have appointed for her; and her va- 
 rious courfe :s, doubtlefs, as necelTary for 
 the Univerfe, as the ccnflancy of the moll 
 f^eady fixed ftnr we can obferve, or any 
 t)ther principle in Nature. 
 
 Why the^ may we nor conclude the fame 
 of Fate, whofe partiality we are fo ready to 
 accufe, when it does not favour us ? — But 
 who was ever heard to accufe fste for the 
 good dealt to him, though, for aught he 
 knew, many worthy people might be the 
 worte for it ? 
 
 On this Emblem we may found a fyllem 
 of rational phllofophy, fince it teaches thofe 
 who polTefs much, not to be too proud of 
 what they may foon be deprived of: it com- 
 forts thofe who have but little, that a day 
 may come, when their forro.vs fliall have an 
 nd ; and if not fo, that Time certainly muft 
 by its Revolution, bring them eafe, and 
 change their condition and life together. 
 
 Defpond nor, therefore, though thou art 
 not arrived to the polTeliion of thy wiflies— • 
 think on thefe Morals, and be wife — above 
 ail things, ftick to Virtue, for that will be 
 
 I "found unchangealJe, and will certainly carry 
 its reward with it, either here or hereafter. 
 , F a EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXXIII. 
 
 Of the Snares of Fice, 
 
 \ H I fee you yonder Bird, devoid of care, 
 •^*" Which lang and fluttcrM near the Fowler's fnare !• 
 Too foon, alas! her flate flie will deplore, 
 Boom'd to a lonefome cage, to mount no more ; 
 But plaintive notes, imprifonM ftill to try, 
 And wifh in vain for naiivt liberty^ 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Beware of Vice, whofe empire will contro«l, 
 The native freedom of a gen'rous foul; 
 Avoid her fnares, where certain mifchiefs wait, 
 Nor rufh, unthinking, on deftruftiv&fatc. 
 
 BEHOLD 
 
[ loi ] 
 
 BEHOLD the filly Bird ftruggllngin the 
 Snare which the artful Fowler has contrived 
 for its dellrucVicn. — Too late the poor 
 flutterer finds its fatal error, too late repents 
 its raflinefs, when confined in a w*Iry 
 prifon, and obliged to pour its complaints 
 in folitude; fit Emblem of a man, who, by 
 his Vice or Follies, has forfeited that chief 
 of all blelTmgs, Heaven-born Liberty. 
 
 A celebrated Englifh traveller in France, 
 mentions a very peculiar flory of a Bird in a 
 Cage, which (juft at the time when he was 
 reflecting on the nature of Confinement) 
 fuddenly cried, ** 1 can't get out."— This 
 fo flruck him, that it at once convinced 
 him of the blelUng of Liberty, which he 
 was now difpofed to give the poor Bird 
 alfo, which^ftiil continued its note ; and as 
 the gentleman was complaining, that he 
 could not open the cage, the Starling flill 
 cried, *' No, I can't get out," which ffill 
 more confirmed him in his love of Native 
 Freedom. 
 
 APPLICATIOX. 
 
 Liberty is, indeed, one of the moft va- 
 luable blcffings in the world ; and Life itfclf 
 F 3 is 
 
t lOS ] 
 
 is of little worth without it. For this, wife 
 men have argued, heroes have died, and left 
 the glorious prize to potlerity. 
 
 Yet, after all, it is in vain for any one to 
 fuppofe hlmfelf Free, who is not alfo Fir- 
 tuous J when once we give way to our paf- 
 fions, like the Bird in the Emblem, we arc 
 caught in the fatal fnare which muft entangle 
 lis, and deprive us of our Real Liberty. 
 
 The flaves of P^ice and PaJJion can never 
 be deemed Free j and a Slave he ever will be^ 
 who fuffers his own bad inclination to get 
 the better of him. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXXIV. 
 
 Of PaJJion, 
 
 T)EHOLD the furious beafl, more fierce he grows, "> 
 
 When the clear itream his proper image fliews ? r 
 
 For for his own the hideous figure knows. ^ 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 So could we fee how Paflion'siireadful florm. 
 And madding Fury all our fouls deform ; 
 Erafe God'*s image planted in our breaft, 
 And change the Mm into zjavarc besji ; 
 Ourfelves we Hiould abhor, the fhape difown, 
 A.id hate the fiend that put our likenefs on. 
 
 F4 THE 
 
[ I04 ] 
 
 THE Lion, the Bull, and other fierce 
 creatures are particularly enraged at viewing 
 their own fl/ape in water, or a glafs ; it is 
 a circumflance which doubles their Fury, 
 iince they there behold a diflorted figure, 
 which inftinft impells them to war upon. 
 
 To thefe animals it is not given to know, " 
 that the fhape they are fo much offended 
 with, is their own : they are not fenlible that 
 their own Rage makes them fuch frightful 
 figures; they t::ke the 'hateful image for 
 another fierce creature, and immediately 
 commence a fight with it. 
 
 Heaven not having beftowed on the Lion 
 and the Bull, the facred gift of Reafon, 
 their miftake is natural, as their fury is ex- 
 cufablc. In both thefe points, they a6t 
 iuft as they were orda'ned, and fixU up that 
 neceflary part ot the creation, which, for 
 wife ends, they were created to occupy : 
 Man alone is blameable when he runs 
 counter to Reafon^ and reduces himfelf to 
 the fituation of the favage animal, w^hofe 
 Fury and evil qualities he is abfurd enough 
 to imitate. 
 
 APPLICATION". 
 
 The is not a fiercer fi.end than Anger, 
 when indulged, nor a Paffion, fo deteftable 
 
 in 
 
[ ^°; ] 
 
 in the fight both of God and Man — It leads 
 to all manner of Evil ; its way is in Wicked- 
 nefs, and to thofe who encourage it, its end 
 muft be certain deftrudion. 
 
 The diftinction of father, mother, bro- 
 ther, filler, friend, and every tender tie of 
 humanity, are loft when it rages ; and it 
 tempts men to commit in a moment, fuch 
 enormities, that an age of repentance is not 
 fufficient to attone for. 
 
 It is a fhort Madnefs, whofe effects are 
 equally terrible in thofe who indulge it, as 
 in thofe who are the objects of its rage ; it 
 has often led to real Madnefs, to Ruin^ and 
 to Death J and he who gives way to it caa 
 no more anfwer for his actions, than if he were 
 Drunk, or Lunatic, or poffelfed with an Evil 
 Spirit, at the time he is angry and enraged. 
 
 In fine, Anger is a Fice of fuch a caft, that 
 it debafes God's image, which is ftamped 
 upon our nature, making us rather referable 
 Daemons than Human Creatures ; if paffio- 
 nate men could have a juft and full view of 
 themfelvcs, in all their deformity, both of 
 foul and body, they muft hate themfelvcs; 
 and, like the Lion in the Emblem, make 
 War with their own Image; than which 
 nothing in Nature can be more hideous and 
 deteftable* 
 
 £5 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 D 
 
 Of Chaftity, 
 jAPHNE, the faireft of the woodland train, 
 Apollo long had \voo"'d, but wooM in vain, 
 At length the God furpriz''d her in the fliade, 
 And Ilrove to gain with promisM gifts, the Maid • 
 Her, ftill relifting, o'er the plains he chac'd ; 
 But when he thought the Nymph to have embrac'd, 
 Inftead of Daphne j bright in blooraing charms, 
 Surpriz'd, he clafp'd a Laurel in his arms. 
 Tlie Tree belov'd, flill bears his honoured name, 
 £mblem of Conqueft, and ofdeathlefsFame. 
 
 M O R A, L. 
 
 Avoid Temptation, tbo' the giliei halt 
 
 JBe deck'd with all the pomp of guilty /fate ; 
 
 Uor with the Tempter ilrive to try your might : — 
 
 Retire betimes J — your Conqueft is in flight. 
 
 DAPHNE, 
 
[ 107 ] 
 
 DAPHNE, fabled to be the daughter of 
 the River God, Peneus, was Co beautiful, 
 that Apollo, or Phoebus, the God of Day, 
 was fmitten with her, and made her many 
 offers if Hie would confent to his fuit ; but 
 flie flill relifling, he ftrove at laft to accom- 
 plifli by force, that which was denied to his 
 requeft. But Daphne, finding his purpofe, 
 fought her fecurity in flight. Apollo followed 
 with a fwiftnefs not to be matched by 
 mortals, and was jufl upon the point of 
 overtaking her; when, in the midfl of her 
 diftrefs, .flie prayed moft earneftly, that fhe 
 might be enabled to preferve her Chaflity— 
 Her prayer was heard, and at the inftant 
 her purfuer came up with her, he found 
 her changed into a Laurel. 
 
 Apollo, though difappointed of his^«r- 
 po/e, could not but admire her conjlancy, 
 he therefore pronounced the Tree his own, 
 and confecrated it ns facred to the reward of 
 virtuous actions. — The Laurel has ever fincc 
 been efteemed an Emblem of excellency, 
 either in arms or arts, to thofe who were 
 crowned with it ; And what was once Apol- 
 lo's lonje^ has always been coafidered as his 
 Tree-^-So far the ancient fable, 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Th£ application is plain and ftriking. 
 
 Nothing 
 
[ 108 , ] 
 Nothing ought to be held fo dear as our 
 Innocence ; and, in feme cafes, we fhould 
 be content to part even with our own being 
 itfelf, to preferve it. 
 
 Daphne fled from Apallo : flie loft her 
 Life^ t)ut fhe preferved her Honour, Her 
 fair fame furvivcd her mortal body, and fhe 
 remained a monument oiFlrtue to poflerity. 
 
 She challenged refpecl even from him 
 who was mofl difappointed ; and, at the 
 very time he found hirafelf lolled, he bore 
 tefllmony to her Honour and rewarded her 
 generous Conjlancy. 
 
 Even they who feek to draw us into the 
 fnares oi Fke, cannot help fecretly applaud- 
 ing us, when they fee, that in fpite of all 
 their arts we flill proceed in the paths of 
 Virtue. The harder the trial, the greater 
 will be the reward of thofe who perfevere. 
 
 But above all things, it is necelTary for 
 us to fly from Temptation. There are none 
 who fbnd fo flrong, but that it is poffible 
 they may fall ; how unwife then is it for us 
 to approach to the brink of a precipice, 
 merely to try whether he can bear to look 
 down from it with a fleady eye ! Thofe who 
 feek a danger they may Ihun, deferve the 
 confequences of their folly, when they meet 
 it, and mufl: fall unpitied, if the evil is of 
 their own fceking. EMBLEM 
 
E M B L E ^I 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 Of theFanity of Pleafures, 
 
 BEHOLD the beanty of yon Damafk Rofc, 
 Joy of the eye, in gaudy pride it blow^ ; 
 The fetting fun fhall fee its bloom decay, 
 ^nd all its boaited beauties fade away : 
 The envious Thorns its fragrant leaves furrounc^ 
 Proteft the bloffbm, and th' unwary wound. 
 Pleafure mud coft too dear when bought with pain ! 
 The Rofe Iliail wither, when the Thorns rcniaifl. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 With cautious hand pluck the vain flowV of/'<y, 
 Left hiMcH evil fliould your foul suuioy. 
 
 THE 
 
[ no 1 
 
 THE Rofe, the pride of the garden, is 
 furrounded with fharp pricklts ,: and he who 
 is too eager to pluck the former Hands a 
 chance of being injured by the latter. 
 
 Yetafterall, when the Flower is obtained 
 in a few fliort hours it muft wither and 
 die ; its beauty is loft, and it is defpifed and 
 rejedcd by thofe who prized it before. The 
 Thorns will remain, even when the Rofe is 
 withered, and their fharpnefs ends only with 
 their exiftence : be cautious then, how you 
 pluck the Flower, and forget not the Thorn 
 which guards it. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Even fuch, fo tranlient, are the joys of 
 life, which feemfo inviting, and court us, as 
 it were, to tafte them : they quickly wither 
 and die, but are furrounded with Thorns, 
 wh.ofe fmart is too often felt long after the 
 fenfe of the pie afu re is loft and extinguiflied. 
 
 Yet neither Virtue nor Prudence declare 
 againft the moderate enjoyment of the plea- 
 fares of life; but we are admoniihed not to 
 be too eager in our purfuit of them, left we 
 injure our health, our fortune, our reputa- 
 tion, or, which is ftill worfe, our Virtue. 
 
 The 
 
 I 
 
[ III ] 
 
 The difference between a moderate man, 
 and one who purfues after pleafure to an ex- 
 treme, is thus beautifully defcribed by the 
 poet; where he fays, that 
 
 — Eager this its objefts would devour ; 
 
 That tafte the Honey but not wound the FlowV. 
 
 Learn then to fet no more than a due va- 
 lue on the things of this world ; but not over 
 hafty to gain them ; and when you poflefs 
 them, be moderate in your enjoyment; fo 
 fliall you be gratified -vvith the beauty of the 
 Rofe, without wounding yourfelf whith its 
 Thorns ; fo fliall you enjoy the Honey of 
 Pleafure, while you avoid the Sting and 
 Venom of Remorfe. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXXVII. 
 Of the Improvement of Life, 
 
 rpIME's an hands-breadth; 'tis a tale ; 
 -* 'Tis a veflel under fail • 
 'Tis an eagle in its way, 
 Darting down upon its prey j 
 'Tis an arrow in its flight ; 
 Mocking the purfuing fight ; 
 'Tis a fliort-Jiv'd fading flower ; 
 'Tis a rainbow on a fhower ; 
 'Tis a momentary ray, 
 Smiling in a winter's day ; 
 'Tis a torrent's rapid ftream ; 
 'Tis a Ihadow ; 'tis a dream ; 
 'Tis the clofing watch of night, 
 Dying at the rifing light ; 
 'Tis a bubble ; 'tis a figh ;— 
 Be prepar'd, Man to die. 
 
 TIME 
 
[ 113 ] 
 
 Tl^IE is the great deliroyer of all things. 
 There is nothing in this world, which muft 
 not, Iboner or later, fubmit to his llroke ; 
 none ftrong enough to re lift, fo cunning 
 as to evade, his power. 
 
 Yet this great dejiroycr Heals on us, as it 
 were, unperceived : days^ months^ andj'^^^i, 
 roll on, while we content ourlelves with 
 faying '* Time pafTes," without confider- 
 ing, that our time aifo paiTes with it, and 
 that every moment brings us nearer to 
 Eternity, 
 
 How much more priife-worthy would it be 
 to mark each day of our exiftence with fomc 
 a6l of Religion or Vinue, the remembrance 
 of which might live when we ourfelves are 
 departed, and make our memory dear to the 
 good, and our deeds approved by Heaven. 
 
 Titus Vefpafian, Emperdr o.-Rome, (tho' 
 a heathen) was a man of fo good a difpofi- 
 tion, that recollecting one night as he fat at 
 fupper, he had not done one good adion 
 that day, cried out " Friends I have loft a 
 day." This prince was furnamed by his 
 people, The Delight of Mankhid, Happy 
 are they who know fo u^ll the value of 
 Time, and make fo good an ufe of it. 
 
 A P P L 1- 
 
[ 1-4 ] 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 How many are there amongft us, who 
 are for ever exclaiming againft the fhortnefs 
 of life, and yet are not afliamed, with the 
 fame breadth, to complain, that their Time 
 hangs heavy on their hands, and that they 
 know not how to employ it ? 
 
 But what an idle complaint is this, when 
 we conlider, that there cannot be any pcr- 
 fon, in whatfoever flation of life, who has 
 not an opportunity of fpending his days in 
 the exercife of fomething that is inftru6live 
 or ufeful to himfelf or others ! — Go to the 
 ^nt, thoujluggardl Conjider her njoays-, and 
 he *wife / 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XXXVIII. 
 
 Oflnduftry. 
 
 "tTt tITH what hard toil, with what unceafing care^ 
 ^^ The Woodpecker his fcanty meat prepares: 
 Tho' fmall the feaft that mufl reward his pains, 
 Sweet is that raeal which heneft Labour gains. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 "Rt frugal, be ir.li/flriouif if you're wife, 
 
 The road to plenty through thefe maxims lies. 
 
 The iilc to ill ftars afcribe their Hate, 
 
 But FoqU mikc FertunCj and deferve their Fate. 
 
 THE 
 
[ ii6 ] 
 
 THE Woodpecker is a fmall bird, with 
 fhort legs, long bill, a tongue fharp like a 
 horn, and fortified with feveral little points. 
 With this it makes holes in the branches of 
 trees, and then utters a cry not unlike a 
 whiftle, the intent of which is to difturb in- 
 fei^s that may harbour in the wood ; which, 
 i^hen put into commotion, it eafily catches 
 and devours. 
 
 So much pains doth this bird take to come 
 at a few minute reptiles, which Nature or- 
 dains for its prey ; on which alone, inconfi- 
 derable as they feem, it is deflined to fublift, 
 
 A pattern of Indujiry^ and an example of 
 Perfcverance^ which man need not be afhamed 
 to copy ; as the Idle may learn an ufeful 
 leflbn from the labours of this little animal. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 As Idlenefs is the root of Mi/chief, fo is 
 an honeft Indufiry the fource of the moH 
 laudable and ingenious undertakings. 
 
 It is to this principle chiefly that we owe 
 thofe arts and manufadures which at this 
 day flourifli amongft us, and which add to the 
 convenience and grandeur of the great, while 
 they maintain numbers of the lower clafs of 
 people, who without them rauft be reduced 
 to a flarving condition, or have recourlc to 
 begging, in order to procure a fubliilance. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
M B L E M 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 OfEi'ily and its Funijhment. 
 
 'ITIT'HILE the fwcet Bird chaants forth its tuneful layS^ 
 
 Her warbling throat the hidden ncft betrays ; 
 Eager to feize it haftes the thoughtlefs boy, 
 And all the mother's comfort to deflroy ; 
 Whenlo! the fiithlefs branch in pieces broke, 
 His limbs are Ihatter'd with the dreadiul ftrokc, 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 So, when we feeW fome dear-prizM joy to gain, 
 Aud buy our Pleafure with an'<lhtT% Pain; 
 Our flipp'ry fteps to evil are betray'd. 
 We fall unpiticd in the fnarc we made. 
 
 THE 
 
[ i'8 ] 
 
 THE fweet warbler of the grove chears 
 the liient plains with her melodious fong ; 
 —and anfwering woods repeat the harmo- 
 nious trillings of her voice ; when lo ! the 
 wanton boy draws near ; he liflens a while, 
 and foon difcovers whence it comes. Eager 
 for the prize, he hailens ;to rob the mother 
 bird of her neftj but as he climbs the lofty 
 tree, the bough gives way and throws him 
 on the ground. He mourns his fall with 
 tears, and is at once difabled and difcou- 
 raged from his enterprize, 
 
 APPLICATIO N.\ 
 
 They who feek their own good at the 
 expence of that of others, often meet with 
 a bitter difappointment, and lament too late 
 the evils which themfelves have occafioned. 
 
 If every man would do to others, as he 
 would wiih to be done by, Evil would be 
 banifhed from the world; Peace and Righ- 
 teoufnefs would flourifh ; Man would draw 
 nearer to the Divine Nature ; and Earth 
 would be a repreferitatlon of Heaven. 
 
 But while people will follow their own 
 evil inclinations, they have no right to com- 
 plain of the ills they fuilain; fiace, as Vir- 
 tue makes Happinefs, Vice, muft, at one 
 time or another, end in Mifery. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
E M B L E IM 
 
 XL. 
 
 Of Pride. 
 
 VjEHOLD the fiily bird, how proudl)*vain 
 Of the bri^rfat colours of his gaudy train ? 
 Ev'n to a proverb gro\Mi his idle pride, 
 By outward fhew alone in worth fuppiy'd; 
 For no harmonious found, no chearful note, 
 Mull ever illue from that hideous throat; 
 Nor of the Hundred Eyes that grace his tail, 
 Can one for Hgnr, or real ufe avail. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 O fon of Vanity ! be wife in time ! 
 Apply the Moral of this homely" rhyme 5 
 To real Txorth alone fhould praife be givc-'^ 
 And rcjliKOrth inherits it fron; Heaven. 
 
 JUK© 
 
[ 120 ] 
 
 JUNO, fays the fable, having fet Argus, 
 who had an hundred eyes, to guard and tor- 
 ment the damfel 16, who was transformed 
 into a young heifer, Hermes (or Mercury) 
 commillioned by Jupiter, defcended from 
 Heaven to delivc her. 
 
 He found Argus bufily employed about 
 his charge ; but fitting down by him, began 
 to tell him flories ; by virtue of which^ and 
 of his charming rod, he at length lulled all 
 his hundred eyes to flcep; which being done 
 he flew him, by cutting off his head. — On 
 which Juno took the eyes of her fervant, and 
 placed them in the tail of the Peacock, a 
 bird efteemed facred to her, who was, in a 
 great meafure, the Goddefs of Pride and 
 Splendour. — So far Ovid. — As to the Pea- 
 cock, it is a bird known to moft countries 
 for its fine plumage, which, indeed, feems 
 to be all it has to boaft of; for as to its 
 voice, it is a moft frightful one ; and the. 
 flefli of it, though a rarity, is generally faid 
 to have no very delicate flavour. The pride 
 this bird takes in its plumage, and the ill 
 tone of its voice, are both become equally 
 proverbs; and it is worth while to obferve, 
 that the fonner circumftance has fervcd to 
 make the latter more remarkable, 
 
 A p P L I- 
 
[ t2l ] 
 A?PLICATION. 
 
 Like the proud Peacock, is the fon of 
 Vanity — and lurely it is more ridiculous 
 in a rational creature to indulge this pride, 
 than in an unreafoning animal. 
 
 But what is the vain-glorious man proud 
 of? — his drefs? — furely the Peacock has 
 more reafon to be proud of what Nature 
 gave her, than man of that covering, for 
 which, at belt, he is obliged to the brutes, 
 or to the vegetable creation. 
 
 Is it of the beuuties or his perfon any 
 on€ is vain ? Let him confider how Ihortly 
 ficknefs or accident may, and how certainly 
 old age mvji^ if he attains it, deprive him of 
 thofe. Let him confider, likewiie, at befl, 
 how worthlefs they are, without the Beau- 
 ties of the Mind. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 Of AppUufc. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 1} 
 
 < ttAME ! that ftrange powV, which ev'ry mo- 
 
 * ■'• ment grows, 
 
 * And gathers flrength and vigour as fhe goes, 
 
 * Firfl frnall with fear, flie fwells to wondVous Hze, 
 
 * Andftalks on earth, or tovvVs above the fkies; 
 
 * Beneath her various plumes fhe ever btars, 
 « A thouland piercing eyes and lift'ning ears, 
 
 * And with a thoufand mouths and babblin.c 
 
 tongues appears-'' 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 1.0! to thisGoddefs evVy mortal bends, 
 
 And (till from pole to pole her tyrant race extends. 
 
 Wifdom and Virtue will for ever claim, 
 
 The deathlefs honours of an hoJieft fame : 
 
 Where thefe are wanting, weak is lie, who draws, 
 
 Sis fund of gloiy from a vain applaufe, 
 
 FAME, 
 
[ 1^3 1 
 
 FAME, as reprefented in the Emblcrft, 
 was one of the deities of the ancients, wh(* 
 defcribed her as a monftrous figure, and 
 reported her to be the daughter of the giant 
 Enceladus, who warred with Jupiter. They 
 fay, Terra, or the Earth, being angry with 
 the gods for having deftroyed her offr^pring, 
 brought forth this laft of monfters, which 
 fhc fent into the world to publifh their 
 Vices. 
 
 Thus far the fable.— Of this fitlious 
 being the poets have given the moft lofty 
 and extraordinary defcriptions— 
 
 ——Some fhe difgrac'd, »nd fomc with honoHiB 
 
 crown"'d. 
 Unlike Ricceflcs equal merits found : 
 Thus her blind fifter, fickle Fortune reigns. 
 And, undifcerning, fcatters crowns and chains. 
 
 But it needs not be wondered at, that 
 the heathens, whofe lupreme, Jupiter, wa« 
 defedtivc, (hould fuppofe all the fubfcrvicnt 
 deities to be impcrfe^^ 
 
 APPLICATION, 
 
 The Love of Fame is juftly IBlcd the 
 
 Vniverjal FaJ/ion^h\\ men fecm poffeflcd 
 
 Gfl of 
 
of it; — but, in their purfuit of Apphufe, 
 as in that of Happiiiefs, it falls out, that va- 
 rious people take different roads to attain it. 
 
 In the defile itfelf there is certainly no- 
 thing ami's; it is implanted in our nature 
 as an incentive to Virtue, and, doubtlefs, to 
 this we owe many of the bell and greatefi: 
 aftions which have been performed ; — if it 
 were taken away, the world would become 
 worfe than it is, as the force ot example, in 
 the caufe of Virtue, would be far lefs pre- 
 valent. 
 
 But, as there is an excefs, and Ikewi'e a 
 pcrverlion of all things, fo it is in regard to 
 Fame : men often m.itake glaring charac- 
 ters for 'Virtuous ones ; and hence has arofe 
 the falfe glory which has been too often 
 attributed to the deftroyers of mankind. 
 This is the perverfion of Fame. — An excefs 
 in courting her favours is alfo an abufe too 
 frequent. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XLIL 
 
 Of Opprefion. 
 
 Tj^ROM airy heights the rav'nous bird furvey 
 ^ With matchlels fwiftnefs darting on her prey; 
 The hclplcfs flruggling viftim ftrives in vain. 
 From fuch a foe, its freedom to regain ; 
 Proudly fectire, fhe fkims the fkies along, 
 And haftens ho'Tie to feed her hungry young; 
 But when the wily Serpent's ftrength fhe tries, 
 And ftrives to bear aloft her fcaly prize, 
 At once the viftor, with the vanquifh'd, dies. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Beware of Vice with lawlefs might combin'd • 
 All ills ?re eafy to a wicked mind: 
 But if an ufefal leflbn you will prove. 
 Be -wife as Serpents, harmlejs as the Dove. 
 
 G3 THE 
 
 \ 
 
[ i«6 ] 
 THE Eagle, as we have already obferved^ 
 is one of the flrongeft of the feathered kind :. 
 — it is likewife the moft voracious. — It has., 
 been reported of the Lion, that he will not 
 prey upon carcafes ; but the contrary is; 
 true of the Eagle, which, notwithftanding, 
 is no lefs fierce in its attacks upon living- 
 animals —Birds, Beafts, and even Serpents,^ 
 are its prey; and if the Dove often falls a 
 ▼i(fVim to this feathered tyrant, the Hare, 
 with all its fwiftnefs, cannot always efcapc 
 it pounces : ftooping, as it were from the 
 clouds, the deftroycr feizes on the timorous 
 creature, and carries her off with incredible 
 fwiftnefs.— But when the Eagle and the 
 Serpent meet, the combat is long and 
 doubtful; for, though borne through the 
 air by a force fuperior to his own, the wily 
 yeptile, ftruggling, curls his angry fpires^ 
 and often, even in that fituation, mortally 
 wounds his conqueror; fo that he either 
 cfcapes, or both fail down dead together. 
 Thus his cunning ferves either to deliver or 
 revenge him; while the poor innocent Hare 
 falls an eafy vi6Um to the great opprefTor. 
 
 AJ^PI^.IC.'LTIDN- 
 
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 APPLICATION* 
 
 It is thus that unfufpe£tmg innocence is 
 often loft and ruined : it is thus that guilty 
 greatnefs triumphs in deftru(5lion. Virtue 
 alone cannot always be fafe from the dan- 
 ger of Slander or Opprellion. — Caution is 
 therefore a good companion, and a necef- 
 fary guard to keep us from the force or 
 fraud cf arbitrary or deligning men. 
 
 It is a great millake of thofe uho fiippoie 
 Prudence to be incompatible with Good- 
 nefs. — A low and vicious cunning may in- 
 deed juftly be deemed fo; but fome of the 
 moft virtuous charaders that have graced 
 humanity, have alfo been the moft remark- 
 able for Wildom, which has been conrpi- 
 cuous in all their conduct, even to thn end 
 of their days, and tranfmitted in. their wri^ 
 tings topoftcrity. 
 
 G 4 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XLIII. 
 
 Of Self 'Love. 
 
 /I' HE felf-enamourM fair NarcifTus oft retires, 
 **■ When the warm fun darts forth meridian fires. 
 To the clear fountaia, there enraptur'd lies, 
 In vain to catch the fleeting fhadovv tries, 
 And fmit with hopelefs love, defparing dies. 
 The Theban nymphs a ruftic tomb prepare, 
 Rend their fair garments, tear their golden hair: 
 But to a FlowV transform'd, the corpfe remains, 
 Which Hill his name and memory fuflains. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 \ 
 
 The felf-aimtring Youth, whofe weaker mind 
 Is ftill to childlefs vanity inclin'd. 
 Will find too late, by the vain fhew betray''d. 
 He courts indeed, the shadow of a shade. 
 
 NAR- 
 
C i^9 ] 
 
 NARCISSUS (according to Ovid) was 
 a beautiful youth, who deli-hted in hunt- 
 ing, and was beloved by Eccho, then a 
 nymph. However, he equally llighted her 
 and all his admirers ; at length, viewing hi.*' 
 own face in a fountain, he fell in love witt 
 himfelf, andconftantly reforted to the flream 
 to court his own (hadow. 
 
 But when he perceived the beautiful form 
 retire as often as he withdrew, and mock 
 his purfuit when he ftretched out his arms 
 to embrace it, he fell into the greateft ago- 
 nies of paffion, and with vain prayers in- 
 voked the infubftantial form. 
 
 Though convinced at laft of his miftake, 
 and affurcd that the figure he faw was only 
 the reflection of himfelf, yet he could not 
 conquer his unhappy paffion, but ftill con- 
 tinued to pine with a prepofterous love of 
 his own perfon. — Thus his form wafted, his 
 beauty decayed, and the breath oflifeatlaft: 
 forfook him ; but when his body was fought 
 for to be interred, in its ftead they found a 
 flower, which ftill retains his name, and 
 perpetuates his memory. 
 
 G5 A P f L I- 
 
r I so ? 
 
 APPLICATION,, 
 
 There is not a greater Vanity or Foily 
 than that of Self-admiration ; he who in- 
 clines to it will court a vain fliadow, and 
 will ever, like the Youth in, the fable, find 
 himfelf difappointed. 
 
 But it happens to too many perfons of 
 weak minds, as it did to NarcilTus, that 
 they fufFer themfelves to be led away by 
 fuch vanities, before they know that they 
 are poflelTed by them, and are far gone in. 
 the intoxication of Self-Lo've before they 
 are aware of it. The ill habit, ftrengthened 
 by cullom^ thus grows too powerful for 
 their reafon ; and the confeqiience is, that 
 they often become the authors of their own 
 misfortunes, only by loving themfelves too 
 •well; and thus may be faid, like Narclfllis 
 in the fable, to fall vidims to their Self* 
 t^miration» 
 
 EMBLEMi 
 
EMBLEM XLIV. 
 
 Of the Banger ofGrcatnefs. 
 
 WITH dreadful force the lofty Tree of Jove, 
 Is ftruck and rent by Lightning, from above: 
 Molly and old its fhivcr'd trunk appears, 
 The growth of ages, yet unhurt by years; 
 Long had it flouriih'd, and with (lately pride 
 The utmod force of fighting winds defy'd : 
 But yet in duft its honours (tretchM at lafl. 
 In dreadful ruin by th' cethereal blaft: 
 While the low Shrub, in far more humble Hate, 
 Unknown to Greatnefs, flands fecure from Fate. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Would yovifccurity and /cjc^ obtain. 
 Contented in 2i private liate remain. 
 G6 
 
 THE 
 
[ i3» ] 
 
 THE Oak is one of the ftrongeft trees of 
 the foreil. It has been faid to be a whole 
 century in growing; to continue a century 
 in perfection ; and to be a century more in 
 decaying. — However this account may be 
 exaggerated, yet it is certain that it flou- 
 rilhes a long time ; of which we have many 
 inftances in this land — This tree is generally 
 found to refill the greateft tempefts ; except 
 when, as in the Emblem, it is flruck by 
 Lightning, which fometimes cleaves it to 
 the ground. 
 
 The Oak was eftcemed facred among the 
 Romans. — It ftood at Caefar's gate, together 
 with the Laurel, which was held in high ve- 
 neration ; and they even pretended to have 
 had fome which delivered oracles.— The 
 Ancient Britons, the firft inhabitants of thefe 
 Iflands, alfo held it facred, as they did the 
 IVlifletoe, andfome of their Druids or Priefts, 
 are faid to have delivered their le£lures on 
 the religion of their country, from the fprea- 
 ding branches of this lofty tree. 
 
 /PPLlCATiaN. 
 
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 A. P PLICATION. 
 
 This Emblem is well adapted to repre- 
 fcnt the Dangers generally infeparable from 
 Greatnefs, and the fccurity of a private and 
 obfcure flation. To be Great, is to be fet 
 as a mark for all the fhafts of misfortune, 
 to be expofcd to all the florms of adverfe 
 Fate, which generally delights in fporting- 
 with perfons in exalted flations. Content 
 dwells not with power, neither is Security 
 the child of wealth and honours. If thou 
 wouldfl tafle the ferene joys of life, fly far 
 from Greatnefs, and make thy abode witk 
 the ^diW^itv oi Simplicity, 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XLV. 
 Of Heavenly Love, 
 
 npHE tender Pelican with ceafelefs cares, 
 
 Protedls her young oncS, and their food prepares ; 
 From her o\vn breaft the nonriihment proceeds, 
 With which, as with her blood, her brood flic feeds'^ 
 Emblem of Hearen's furpernal graces known, 
 And parents'* love to dearefl children fhewn.. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 To God above, and to your friends bel 
 Still let your breaii with zeal and duty 
 MitchXo your Pdrenisy more to Heaven 
 
 low, -^ 
 
 glow; C 
 
 ^ you owe. \ 
 
 THE 
 
r i3> ] 
 
 THE Pelican is a bird known to moft 
 people. It has given rife to many ftrange 
 llories, the principal of which is, that of 
 feeding its young with its blood; which, 
 upon examination, has not proved true. 
 But it has a bag, or pouch, in which it puts 
 provifion to fupply their wants; doubtlefs, 
 the manner of the female's taking it from 
 that repofitory, appeared, to the firfl ob- 
 fervers of it, as if flie had made an opening' 
 in her breall:, and nouriflied them with her 
 blood ; from whence it has been made a. 
 fymbol of Chriftianity, 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 In this Emblem is expreffed the ftate of 
 dependence we are in, on the one h .ud, 
 and the great goodnefs of God on the other, 
 who fent his only Son to be apropitiarion 
 for our fins, who, as it were, noariihe:. us 
 with his blood, and hy ivhofe Jiripcs ive are 
 
 healed. The Pelican, indeed, iffl.ehad: 
 
 granted this fupply from her own vitals, 
 would have done ir only to her brooJ ; but 
 the great author of our falvation did this. 
 for wicked offenders ; he died even for his 
 greateft enemies; and bore our fins to be 
 made righteoufnefs for us, that we might 
 proceed from grace to grace, till at lait we 
 were made heirs of his glorious inhencarne. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XLVI. 
 
 OfFalfe jippcarances, 
 
 qEE the gay Tulip, dippM in various dyes, 
 •^ Blooms in full pride beneath the vernal Ikies; 
 But when the wintry clouds deform the year, 
 How faded will that beautious form appear ! 
 Not fo the Myrtle, deck'd in chearful green. 
 The humble plant among the flowers is fcen ; 
 What tho' it boaft no varied colours bright. 
 That drink Sol's radiance, or refleft his light ; 
 Yet ever greeny and fragrant it remains, 
 J^ or change of feafons, nor of time fuftains. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Emblem of real worth, whofe gloomiefl hour, 
 Tranfcends the blaze oipotnpy excels the pride of/owV. 
 
 THE 
 
157 1 
 
 THE Tulip is reckoned by the florifts 
 one of the moft beautiful flowers our gardens 
 produce j its colours fliining in the fun with 
 all the glows of variegated beauty. — But this 
 is only afliort-lived excellence ; it is not cal- 
 culated to ftand the change of feafons, nei- 
 ther has it any fragrance to boail: of. Its 
 worth confiding only in its hues, which fa- 
 ding, it is paiTed by up.regarded, becaufe it 
 has nothing intdnfic to recommend it. 
 
 But the Myrtle difperfes a fweet fragrance 
 round about it : and though it produces no 
 various coloured flowers to glitter in the fun- 
 beams, yet it always preferves (Nature's own 
 hue, and fiourifhing an Ever-green through 
 the year, is admired for its coriflancy^ that 
 renders it preferable to all thofe gaudy tints 
 of the Tulip which only bloom to fade, and 
 are equally devoid oi fragrance, as they are 
 of continuance, 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 We are not always to trufl to appearances, 
 nor to conclude on the merit of perfons, or 
 the worth of things, from tht'ir out^'ar J form 
 and flicw; fince there is nothing more com- 
 mon in the world, than for people to affect 
 
 being 
 
[ '38 I 
 
 being what they are not ; and thofe often^ 
 piakethegreateflfliew of worth, who have, 
 in reality, the leall to recommend them. 
 
 Not only pomp ?ir\6.fplendour^ nxjit and 
 talents^ but even 'virtue and religion^ are 
 too often afFeded, by fuch as are far from 
 being pofTelTed of either : and he who is led 
 away by the dazzling appearance, in either 
 of thefe cafes, prefers the Tulip to the Myr- 
 tle, and mullexpedtofucceed accordingly,* 
 
 * Ihis fubjeft is beautifully dcfcribed, jfl t^ 
 Fables of FcwerSiL 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XLVII. 
 
 Of War. 
 npHE God of War, who vfakes to loud alarmSjj 
 
 Stands here before you, terrible in arms : 
 Mark with what fires his favage eye-balls glow^ 
 Comets prefaging dire diftrefs and woe !— 
 The powV of battles thus his force employs; 
 Foe to fweet peace, and all domedic joys ; 
 Hateful his mien, more hateful are the fires;. 
 Wiih what contending boforas he infpircs; 
 ^rts, fcience, commerce, all fly far away^ 
 And itaik and ruin mark his horrid way. 
 
 MORAL. 
 Fly far from War^ unlefe your country calls^ 
 To ftand a champion for your native walls ; 
 
 Strife is but evil ; let all contefts ceafe, 
 
 "JEhe. real jpys of life, are joys of Ptacu 
 
 MARS, 
 
[ MO ] 
 MARS, according to the Heathens, was 
 the God of War : he was generally, repre- 
 fented in complete aimour, an.! hii firft 
 temple is fald to have been in Thrace ; from 
 the model of which the plan for all the reft 
 were taken. His char.ot was drawn by 
 Lions, as fymbo s of his Ferocity ; he was 
 generally fuppofed to be preceeded by the 
 Furies, and followed by Terror and Fa- 
 mine, in order to fhew the evil confe- 
 quences of War, and its concomitants. 
 Homer has been very diftufe in the defcrip- 
 tion of this God, whom however, notwith- 
 llanding his power, he has thought fit to re- 
 prei'ent as fometimes foiled, and even woun- 
 ded by a mortal, — Minerva, he has charac- 
 teiifed as his particular opponent, and has 
 always, in fuch cafes, crowned her with fuc- 
 cefs, which indeed is no^ more than jufl ; as 
 Wifdom is generally averfe to entering into 
 warlike contefts at all, yet, when engaged, 
 it is likely to prevail over brutal force, and 
 to bear off the Laurel and honours of the 
 day. 
 
 Ai'PLICATION, 
 
[ I4t ] 
 
 APPLICATION-, 
 
 It fliould be the policy^ as well as Wr- 
 tufy both of princes, and of private men, 
 never to enter into any mortal contells, 
 when there Ts the leaft poffibility of avoiding 
 it J but having been unavoidably engaged 
 in any thing of the kind, they fhould adopt 
 HfAfdom rather than forcc^ and depend not 
 fo much on Mars, as on Minerva. The 
 events of war are, at beft, always uncer- 
 tain ; but, next to pro'vidence^ prudence alone 
 can be expefted to give any affurance of 
 them. Difputes of a private kind partake 
 of the feme nature ; and he who thinks to 
 carry a point againfl his adverfary by 
 mere dint of force, will generally find him- 
 felf difappointed. — As in the difpute be- 
 tween Ajax and UlylTes, he will find that 
 Minerva will bear away the palm front 
 Mars, and Wifdom prevail Q\'tx f.rength and 
 military pro'joefs, 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM XLVIIL 
 
 Of Dijipation, 
 
 -15EHOLD the man, who, as old fables tell, 
 ^ By Dian'swralh, for his intrulion fell : 
 At noon retired from Phcebus' fultry belms, 
 He view'd her bathing in the limpid flreams: 
 For this th' unhappy Hunter flie difgrac'd, 
 And fpreading antlers on his forehead placM ; 
 Him, as a Stag, his own fwift Hounds purfuM, 
 Unknowing feizM, and fhed their mafter''s blood-; 
 Yet had their Lord not reared the Park in vain, 
 JJotDian's felf had ftretch'd him on the plain. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 *Tk DiJJlpation that th' unwife annoys, 
 And, lik© Aaaeon's Hounds, vmpkij'urt ftiU dcflroy*. 
 
 THIS 
 
[ 143 ] 
 THIS IS a fit Emblem of the evil effecbi 
 of extravagance and dijfipation, which will 
 ever, fooner or later, bring the unwar)- to a 
 fruitlefs repentance, when fame, pleafurcy 
 fortune, and health itfelf are loft ; and they 
 find they muft at laft fall the vidtims of their 
 own folly. 
 
 AcTy^oN" (fays the Fable) was a famous 
 Hvmter, who kept the fineft hounds for his 
 pleafurc, which he purfued at all events, 
 through woods and at all hazards alike, 
 over hills and dales ; no' place was fo dan- 
 gerous that he would nor attempt to pafs, no 
 reccfs fo fecret that he would not venture to 
 explore, when in purfuit of this his favo- 
 rite diverfion. 
 
 One day, retiring from the heat of the 
 Chace, he ftraycd into a cool rccefs, where 
 moft unexpc<3:edly he furprized Dlan, the 
 Goidels of Hunting, with her nymphs, 
 bathing in a clear fountain. The offended 
 jx)wer was refolved firft to wreak her ven- 
 geance upon him.— She therefore changed 
 his form *m fuch a manner, that horns grew 
 vpon his head, which refembled that of 
 a Stag. Now, firft ftruck with imufual 
 fears, he flies when he hears the diftant 
 fiiouts of the Huntfmen, and the cries of 
 
 tht 
 
[ H4 ] 
 the Hounds ; at length, furveying his fcnn 
 fn a limpid ftream, he too late difcovers his 
 change; yet to fly, was ftill all that was left 
 him, his own domefticks purlue him with 
 his own pack of hounds ; at length they 
 overtake, and tear him in pieces, while he 
 is in vain endeavouring to make them 
 fenlible that it is their Lord they are thus 
 cruelly deflroying. 
 
 APPL ICATION. 
 
 The extravagance of many has proved 
 their ruin ; nay, there have been thofe, who, 
 like Adaeon in the fable, have been eaten up 
 by their own Dogs, i, e, have ruined their 
 fortune to fupport them. — To all fuch the 
 Moral of the Emblem fpeaks for itfelf. 
 When men run into exccjfes^ they frequently 
 are ruined by them ; while thole whom 
 they formerly maintained, like the unhappy 
 Hunter's hounds and dogs, know them no 
 longer for their former benefadors, but are 
 the firft, without remorfe, to join in accom- 
 pliihing their deftru6tion. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 The Oyjer and Pearl. 
 
 ■pEARLS of great price from frnall beginnings rifC; 
 ■*■ Which feems of no account in vulgar eyes ; 
 But yer, when npen'd by th' indulgent clime, 
 NursM by old Ocean, firft maturM by Time, 
 And Poliih'd by th'' indultrious artifls hands, 
 Among the firlt of precious gems it ilands; 
 By ealfern beauties valued for its worth, 
 And chiefs renown'd throughout the (pacions earth. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 How hard foc'er your prcfent (tate you find, 
 Nought to th' induftrious hand and virtuous naind 
 Is yet impoflible : Heav'n Itill may raife 
 Your low eitate, and blefs your latter days. 
 
 H HE 
 
[ 146 ] 
 
 HE who views the felt fame Pearl, which 
 once wasinclofed In the (liell of a fitb, adorn- 
 ing the necks of princelTes, may well own 
 the Emblem to be well adapted, when he 
 conliders, how things of little worth often 
 change their fituation. — A grain of fand, 
 fays a certain author, (fpeaking in the Eaft- 
 ern ftyle) once complained of the inconfi- 
 derable ftation it occupied in the fcale of in- 
 animate beings ; but benig often fliifted, it 
 owned its o;vn ignorance and prefumptlon ; 
 when at laft, after frequent changes, it be- 
 came a Diamond of the fineft water, and 
 was deftined to adorn the crown of one of 
 the greateft Monarchs in the world. 
 
 The Pearl fiflicry is carried on in the Eaft 
 Indies, and is generally efteemed a very va» 
 luable one : As to the Pearls themfelves, fomc 
 have efteemed them to be only a dew-drop, 
 while others allert, that they are in reality 
 a fpecies of diftemper in, or excrelcence of, 
 the Pearl Oyfler. Thefe are generally taken 
 by a man who dives for them, binding a 
 ftone live inches thick, and a foot long, un- 
 der his body ; each diver carrying w ith him 
 lilfo a net to hold the Oyfters, one end of 
 which is faftencd to the boat from which he 
 (iefcends, holding h^s breath, though fome- 
 
 times 
 
[ '47 ] 
 times fixty feet under water; and, furpriA 
 
 ing as it may fecm, in this manner he con- 
 tinues to tear the Oyflers from the folii 
 rock, on which they grow, and put them 
 into his net or bag ; then pulling the rope 
 by which he has been let down, thofe in 
 the boat, talking the %nal, hoill him up 
 again, and the work is compleated. The 
 Pearls thus obtained, are of various values : 
 Tavernier mentions one for which the 
 crown of Perfia paid one hundred thoufand 
 pounds fterling. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Learn from this Emblem, that it is as 
 highly improper, as it is impious, to com- 
 plain of the difpenfations of Heaven ; and 
 that how low foever you maybe, if you per- 
 fevere in Indujiry and Virtue by the blef- 
 fing of Heaven, you may ftill be rewarded 
 and exalted. 
 
 H z EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 L. 
 
 Of Truth. 
 
 QEE where fair Truth has made her glorious fland, 
 
 And bears the faithful Mirror in her hard; 
 The good man's boall:, and fraud's eternal foe, 
 The bel> of gifts Heav'n canon man beflow; 
 Where %ht is found, bright Virtue (till refides, 
 And equal jujiice every aftion guides. 
 ]n the I'Ure heart and fpotlefs mind file reigns, 
 And with mild power her happy fway maintains; 
 The Attribute of God himfelf confefl, 
 That ilamps his image on the hunaan breaft. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Whatever betides thre-igh life's dark dangerous way, 
 If Truth dircas, you cannot go aftray. 
 
 OF 
 
[■49 ] 
 
 Of ^11 the qualities that adorn the human 
 mind, Truth is the molt refpeiftable. It is 
 a rich, though a llmple orn^tment ; and he 
 who is not pofTjf.ed of it, let his rank and 
 qualities be what they may, will be for ever 
 defpicable in the fight of all the good and 
 wife. 
 
 It is reported of Cyrus, when young, that 
 being afeed what was the firll thing he 
 learned, he answered, it was ' to tell the 
 truth,'' which was indeed, 
 
 Though no fcience, fairly worth the feven. 
 When the wife men were commanded by 
 the king to declare what was the flrongell 
 power upon earth, fuch as exceeded even 
 that of the monarch himfelf, they were all 
 at a lofs to anfwer ; at length, one faid IFo- 
 men^ another declared for Wine ; but neither 
 of thefe anfwers proving fatisfadory, the 
 prophet Daniel was confulted, who, being 
 endued with wifdom from on high, anfwered, 
 that Truth was the ftrongeft, and fup- 
 ported his aflertion with fuch weighty ar- 
 guments, that nobody could controvert 
 them ; thus his underftanding was approved 
 by the king, and all the fages wer« humbled 
 in his prcfence. 
 
 H 3 APPLICATION, 
 
[ '50 ] 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 There is nothing can render a man move 
 refpedable in this world, or more accept- 
 able to Heaven, than a flrid adherence to 
 Truths and an unalienable regard for fin- 
 cerity. We are naturally led to uiflike 
 thoie who are always intent upon deceiving 
 us. Whereas, on the contrary, we make 
 no fcruple to confide in thoie who are fin- 
 cere, becaufe we know ourfelves to be fafe 
 in their hands. They will be either con- 
 llant friends, or open enemies ; and even if 
 through human frailty, they are fometimes 
 led into errors yet their generous acknow- 
 ledgment of them makes amends, in a great 
 degree, and is a good token of their avoid- 
 ing them in future. 
 
 To conclude, Truth is one of the Attri^ 
 lutes of the Almighty ^ who will moft certainly 
 punifli fiich as deviate from it, either in 
 this world or in the next. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
E 
 
 EMBLEM LI. 
 
 Of Envy, 
 
 KVY, that fiend, dire fource of human woe, 
 Who draws her birth from difmal fliades below, 
 Dares to bright worth her horrid eyes to raife, 
 And on her human heart rcraorfelefs preys: 
 Lofbto a.11 fhara? file pines with black dcfpair, 
 At aught of good, of virtuous, or of fair, 
 That fav ourM man enjoys; their wee and pain, 
 Havock and lofs, and ruin are her gain. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Would you be happy here, and bleft above, 
 Be rich in deeds oi Charity and Lo-ue\ 
 But Envy fhun, if you would tafte oi Peace, 
 Or with your days your forrows will increafe. 
 
 Ha envy 
 
ENVY hai ever been looked upan, by 
 tbc wifefl and beft of men, in all ages, as a 
 principle equally hateful and contemptible. 
 The poets placed her in the infernal re- 
 gions, and drew her as a hag wafted to 
 a fkeleton, with gloomy eyes and fnaky 
 locks, preying upon a human heart, pining 
 at the good of others, and never enjoying a 
 gleam of comfort, but fuch as arifes from 
 the misfortunes of mankind ; a confideration, 
 fay they, which is of itfelf fufficient to 
 make her nateful both to God and man. 
 
 A PPLICATION, 
 
 Of all the evil difpofitions that ever in- 
 fpired the human breaft, furely Eufvy is the 
 wonl, and produces the moft uneafy fenfa- 
 tions. The envious man is, in effect, the 
 foe of all the world ; he cannot therefore 
 reafonably expeft any where to find a Friend, 
 He, contrary to the reft of mankind, is 
 pleafcd only at his neighbour's misfortune ; 
 but this is a gloomy kind of pleafure, in 
 comparifon of which, the very afiiictions of 
 the virtues may be termed felicity. But 
 
 what 
 
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 what are the feelings of this wretch when 
 any thing falls out to another's advantage ? 
 he is reftlefs ; he is tormented with a thou- 
 fand anxieties, and pines, unpitied, in all 
 the miieries of extreme defpair. The an- 
 cient fabuliil has well depictured the na- 
 ture of his palEon, where he has reprefented 
 the envious man as being contented to lofe 
 one of his o^n eyes^ on condition that his 
 neighbour lliould lofe both his» Of all the 
 things in nature, fure fuch a temper mail 
 be moll deteftable ; and he who encourages 
 it, neither defervcs, nor will gain any thing, 
 but unhappinefs in this world, and inevita- 
 ble mifery hereafter. 
 
 To avoid incurring thefe, indulge not an 
 envious thought as to the eflate of others, 
 but be ever contented with your own ; and 
 you will never fail, in every lituation of 
 life, to meet with fomc kind of fuccour and 
 confolatron# 
 
 H 5 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LII. 
 
 Of Melancholy, 
 
 J O ! where the fweet-ton'd Nightingale complains, 
 •*-' Her mufic echoing thro^ the lonely plains; 
 "What time the Quttn of Night her car has driven, 
 Withfo emn Itillnefs, upth' afcent of Heaven: 
 Sweet bird, her notes, tho' drawn from inward woe, 
 In lovelieft melody are taught to flo%v ; 
 And while (he mourns in vain her ravilh'd young, 
 < The pow'r of mulic dwells upon her tongue/ 
 
 MORAL. 
 Tho' worn by grief, and heart-corroding care, 
 Yet never ihould the Virtuous know defpair ; 
 Pour your due ibrrows o'er the filent urn, 
 But Itil! W'th Hope, with Moderation mourn; 
 Fc Heav\i with anger views immodVato-grief, 
 But to each heart refiga'd imparts the wiih'd relief. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE Nightingale was faid to be once the 
 
 daughter of Fandion, king of Athens. She 
 was abufcd by Tereus, king of Thrace, who 
 afterwards married her filler. This tyrant 
 afterwards deprived her of her tongue, that 
 (he might not tell her griefs; but fhe found 
 her way to his court, and worked the ftory 
 in a fampler, which ftie prefented to her 
 iillcr Procne, who revenged her hi {band's 
 barbarity, by killing the fen fhe had by 
 him* Philomela, after this, being purfued 
 by him, who threatened her for being con- 
 cerned in the death of his offspring, took 
 wing, and was changed into a Ni^hringale ; 
 which bird, ((iiys the poet) mindful of its 
 former ftate, continues ever to fing mourn- 
 ful notes in folitary places. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 This is the fable of Philomela ; the moral 
 is fuch as fhews the impropriety of defperate 
 courfes taken in times of misfortune, grief, 
 or afflidtion. — The Nightingale laments, 
 ever bments the lofs of her young ; but 
 her lamentations are all in foothing ilralns, 
 H 6 not 
 
i ii;6 J 
 
 not in notes of terror and deftra6lion : plt^^ 
 indeed is often awakened by her fojig. but 
 horror never, 
 
 She all night long 
 
 Chaunts to the liftning woods her moumfirfiale; 
 but Ihe chaunts it in' fuch a manner,' that 
 
 Night's fair Queen 
 
 Liltens attentive from her throne ferene. 
 
 From this fweet Bird let \is take our 
 lefTon ; at leaft fo far as to moderate our 
 complaining ; for though nothing is more 
 humane than to dilTolve in forrrow for the 
 death or misfortunes of our friends or rela- 
 tipnsj yet nothing is more abfurd than to 
 let thjat forroyv. dege-rierate^ into a difguHf ul 
 gloom in our behaviour towards men, or a 
 prefiimptuous arraignment of the difpenfa- 
 tions of Heaven. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LIII. 
 
 Of Parental Affe^ion, 
 
 TtARK ! loudly chauntingfiom the vernal fpray, 
 ■^^ The joyful Linnets pour the ruftic lay ! 
 Sweer, feathered warblers of the vocal grove, 
 Tliey -^rain their tuneful throats to ling of love. 
 Their tender brood they fofter with delight, 
 Supply with food, and prune their wings for flight, 
 WakM by whofe cries they quit their peaceful homej 
 And far abroad to feek provifions roam : 
 Nor flay in lawns, in groves, or verdant fields, 
 To.tafte the various fweets the feafon yields ; 
 But to their young with eager hade repair, 
 And prove trtie Emblems ^f paternal care. 
 
 TH£ 
 
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 THE Linnet is a bird of fine plumage, 
 but yet more excellent note ; it is juflly 
 cfleemed one of the fweeteft of the feathered 
 warblers, and %led the Englifli Canary- 
 bird, In the beautiful mornings of the 
 Spring he makes the woods rcfound with 
 his note, and heightens their vernal delight 
 and joy by his ruftic melody. 
 
 This bird breeds about the month of 
 Auguft, and is particularly tender of its 
 young. There is fomething very remark- 
 able in the attachment of the feathered 
 creation to their offspring, which they 
 nurfe with the tenderell care, providing 
 them with food at all hazards, and, if they 
 think their ncfts are likely to be found out, 
 decoying their purfuer to fome other fpot, 
 and thereby faving what they hold dearer 
 than their own lives. With fuch a power- 
 ful and fagacious inftin6l has Providence 
 fvrrniflied them for the prefervation of their 
 fpecies. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
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 APPLICATION. 
 
 Thebe is fcarcely any fpecies of ani- 
 mals generally noticed by mankind, from 
 whence fomcthing may not be learnt. The 
 creation is a large book written by the hand 
 of God, wherein we may read, and fcan 
 his works. Scripture itfelf has bade us 
 learn from the creatures ; and furely this 
 quality in the birds deferves our attention; 
 whilft it is to be expetted, that the parent 
 who copies the Linnet in their care for 
 their offspring, will find the latter imitats 
 the Stork * in duty and offeBiorK 
 
 * See Emblem I. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LIV. 
 
 Of Content, 
 
 TjERE, far remote from cities, courts, and care, 
 •*--■■ The Chili o/A^jf^rc breaths the bahny air ; 
 The rural fcene, the field and fliady grove, 
 Whi^h Dryads haunt, and which the mufes love, 
 Attraft his wnfh, who feeks not to renaain 
 In pop'lous cities, or the haunts of raen. 
 
 M OR A L. 
 The fimple fwain bis pleafing charge attends, 
 Cr o'er the brook in contemplation bends. 
 Serene at op'ning dawn, or clofing light, 
 Calm are his thoughts by day, his dreams by night ; 
 No anxious doubts perplex his happy breaft. 
 His Conjcicnct quiet, and his heart at refl. 
 Contenfs befl: Emblem ; — in ail ftates refignM, 
 He lives and dies — a pattern for fnankind. 
 
 PHILOSOPHERS 
 
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 PHILOSOPHERS In all ages have gf*- 
 nerally concluded a rural ilate to be the moft 
 virtuous, and, conlequently, moil happy. 
 Poets have agreed with them, and illullra- 
 tcd their maxims, by giving U3 the moft 
 enchanting pidures of the pkaiures of a 
 country life. 
 
 In the Goltlcn ^ge in Saturn's reign, we 
 are informed men lived in the greatell fim- 
 plicity — they frequented groves and lawns, 
 and had all things in common among them : 
 then fraud and treachery were unknown, and 
 men were happy, becaufe they were goo J. 
 
 It is a melancholy truth, that great cities 
 too much abound with great vices, A rural 
 retreat is the nurfe of contemplation, where, 
 by frequently converfmg with our own 
 hearts, we are moft likely to gain a portion 
 of that feif-know ledge, which is juftly 
 efleemed the moft valuable of all fciences. 
 
 Eeiides, if we compare all the beauties of 
 art with thofe oijimple yiature^ we {hall find 
 the former to be but faint copies of the 
 latter ; and, when put in competition with 
 the works of the Great Archited, there is 
 no wonder that they fljould fuik in the 
 comparifon, 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
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 APPLICATION. 
 
 Content, which is one ot the greateft 
 bleffings on earth, is, above all, to be , ex- 
 pected in /weet r.ural reth-cment. She flies 
 from palaces and popuious cities, to the 
 fcenes oijimpk nature, where llie abides with 
 the fimple fwain, and the village maid. 
 Here, too, the Philofopher muy befl woo 
 her to his arms, and, bV'felorting to Na- 
 tureU haunts^ may embrace the felicity he 
 admires. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LV. 
 
 Of Lojl Reputat'ioiu 
 
 nr HE well-formM Bell, which formerly was found 
 **• To charm the ear with its loud pealing found, 
 Thus crack'd, no more can of its mufic boaft, 
 Ics pow'r of melody for ever loft : 
 Its notes no longer fill the ambient air 
 With founds of joy, or call to facred pray'r. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Thus Reputtiion^ while preferved, will, raife. 
 The conftant tribute of a well-earn'd praife ; 
 Her fame, like fweeteft mufic, far is borne, 
 And echoes plcas'd, the grateful notes return : 
 But flaw'd, or fully'd once, here ends ker f\s-ay, 
 The notes furceale, the mufic dies away. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE Bell, which fends forth a folemn 
 found, to invite to prayers, and a ftill more 
 doleful one, to ring the funeral knell, is 
 alfo ufed for triumphs and rejoicing; and, 
 when the joyful fires blaze, and the feftal 
 bowl goes round, heightens the mirth, and 
 increafes the pleafures of thofe who are dif- 
 poied to feftivity. 
 
 The pealing found of the Bell is heard at 
 a diftance, and often proves an admonition 
 to us to think of that time which we wafte, 
 and which can never be regaiiied. 
 
 APPLICATION, 
 
 He that fets lightly by his character, is 
 generally a man little to be trufted ; and he 
 who cares not what the world fays, will be 
 likely to care little what he does. We fhould 
 not be anxious about every idle report, but 
 it becomes us all to endeavour to prefervc 
 our Reputation, 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
E IM B L E M 
 
 LVI. 
 
 Of Unanimity, 
 
 T tNITED thus in one v el!-chofen band. 
 
 Aid I^rongly grafp'd by the fui^porting hand, 
 Tne fler.der fliafcs all ilr;n2;th aflaijsin vain, 
 Firm and unbroke ftiil they \\-i)l remain; 
 Forfaken by that hand, dilTolv'd the Tie, 
 Strewn on the ground the glitt'ring fragments lie. 
 
 MORA L. 
 
 FnxttTTitWnion thus will ftrength impart, 
 SufHcien: to repel nil force and art : 
 Yet ft:!! oa^ head ih" united band muft claim, 
 Aud find proieftio . ft cm a parent's aame : 
 Depriv'd of thir, they lofe their ancient boad. 
 Their Union breiJts, and all their hopes are loft. 
 
 WE 
 
[ i66 ] 
 
 We learn from ancient hiflory, and from 
 modern examples, that Union^ the bond 
 of fello'wJJjip, will ever be the beft means 
 of fecuring us againlt the attacks of our 
 enemies. Fraternal Union deferves parti- 
 cularly to be recommended — The Unity of 
 Bretheren is, above all others, the raoft happy 
 and compleat, where it takes place j yet 
 how many families do we fee, in which the 
 neareft and deareft relations are at variance, 
 to their own difgrace, and frequently to the 
 ruin of their houfe. 
 
 The old fable is well known. Vis unita 
 fortior^ (Itrength unted requires more vi- 
 gour) is a plain leffon : but., in order to 
 render their vigour more refpedable, and to 
 preferve the band inviolate, it is necefTary 
 to have a perfon to confirm the connexion ; 
 where Brothers are concerned, who is fo pro- 
 per as a Parent^ who may fettle all their lit- 
 tle difputes, and, with the bleffings of Hea- 
 ven, confirm their unity in the Bondof Peace* 
 
 APPLICAT ION. 
 
 If we take all thefe things into our con- 
 iideration, we Ihall find, that a parent who 
 properly difcharges his duty to his children, 
 is the only perlon to whom they can look 
 up for prote6tion, and forms the only Bond 
 of their Fraternal Union* 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LVII. 
 
 Of Obedience, 
 
 rpHE facred Tables of the Law \Tere made, 
 
 By all of mortal race to be obey'd ; 
 Awd but for thf fe what were our baplefs ftate, 
 Tlie fport of Fortune, as the prey of Fite : 
 Well is it he.e, tha; in the righteous caufe, 
 The pow'r of Justice can fupport her Laixi. 
 For ever bonour'd be her high beheft, 
 Which aweful bdsall human kind bebleft; 
 And let the wicked dread th' aven;^ing hand, 
 That punilhes the breach of Virtue's Bind' 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Who breaks her Rula, breaks Unions and will fiad, 
 Tne Sworimuft punifh ihofc nO Ljui can hlni. 
 
 THESE 
 
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 THER 3 imot a greater happinefs than 
 for a people to be governed by juft and er»ul- 
 tuble laws; nor is there among the whole 
 catalogue of illuftrious characters, one that 
 is equal to that of a wife and good. An- 
 cient hiflory has immortalized thofe, who, 
 by the promulgation of good laws, have 
 contributed to the fervice of their country. 
 Sages have honoured, Poets have fung 
 them, and their memory is as a fweet 
 fmelling favour, grateful to all the world. 
 The name of Solon aud Lycurgus * will be 
 had in honour, as long as the recording 
 page of the hiftorian fliall continue to tranf- 
 init the catalogue of ancient worthies to 
 pollerity. 
 
 The harmony refulting from a well or- 
 dered flate, has often been compared to the 
 melody of fine mufic. Hence, perhaps 
 arofe the fable Ox Amphlon's building the 
 walls of Thebes, merely by playing on his 
 harp.f He is reprefented indeed as a great 
 mulician ; but the moral feenib to indicate 
 that he was rather a great law-giver, who 
 
 * See the Univerfal Hiaory. 
 
 f Amphion thus the loud creative Lyre 
 Strikes, and behold a fudden Thebds sdpire, 
 
 drew 
 
[169] 
 
 drew men from their woods and wild?, and, 
 by his perfuafive manner, induced them to 
 fubied themfelves to laws, and live in har- 
 mony and fellowfliip with each other. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 SuEORPixATioN' Is the life of fociety, 
 and muft be enjoined by all good laws. 
 Thofe who will not obferve it are fit only 
 to live in defarts, as they break that Union 
 which is neceirary in all communities. 
 The idea that all men Ihould be equal, is 
 as pernicious as it is abfurd. It tends to 
 fubvert all order ; and where it takes place 
 for one inftant of time, muft be changed in 
 another; fince all men are neither equally 
 ftroag, valiant, nor prudent. As to thole 
 reftlefs fpirits, who pretend to defpife all 
 laws, and excite others to refift the legal 
 government, and break through the rules 
 prefcribed by the conllituticn of their 
 country, the Sword in the Emblem, is juftly 
 applicable to fuch, as it is better they 
 Ihould perifh, than that, by their rafhnefs, 
 the whole community fhould be endan- 
 gered. 
 
 I EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 LVIIL 
 
 Of Humility, 
 
 •nENE ATH the friendly far extended fhad-, 
 The lowly Violet lifts her blooming head; 
 No fwelling pride her gentle boCom knows, 
 The' rich in Spring's perfume fhe beauteous grows : 
 Content flie views tlie lofty tree afpire, 
 Which gives her fhelter from the Solar Fire : 
 Averts the Ilorms thai threaten from on high, 
 And all the fury of th'inclement iky. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Emblem of thofe, who in an humble flate, 
 Stand flielter'dfrom the ftorms of adverfe Fate; 
 Who ftill fubmifllve to fuperior fway, 
 Eniw proteftien, and in Peace obey. 
 
 THERE 
 
[ i;i ] 
 
 THERE is fomechirg very ilnking- lo 
 tlni) Emblem, which ought to be par:icu- 
 larly attended to by young people, ho^v 
 are too apt to afpire, a-^.d frequently look 
 with an eye jof diliike on the very power 
 that is ufed for their protedion. 
 
 The Violet is one ot the moft fragrant 
 child len of the early fpring, from wh.ch 
 the Bee extracts the choiceft fweetci; and 
 her fragiance is become a proverb. She 
 boafts not the dyes of the Tulip, nor the 
 variegated tints of the Carnation ; yet her 
 charms are acknowledged by all, nor is (he 
 difgraced by her Humility. 
 
 When file blooms in the fliade, (he is beft 
 protected from aflailing tempefts, yet fhc 
 lofes not any thing of her fragrance ; fhe is 
 ftill grateful to the fenfe, and is ftill ad- 
 mired by all thofe who pr-efer real worth to 
 
 the pageantry of empty (how. 
 
 I 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 This is a proper Emblem of Humility, 
 which will ever be honourable, and of 
 that S'-ibmilTion, which w"Jl ever engage 
 the protection of thofe whofe place it is 
 to afford it. Rulers, Parents, Kindred, 
 I 2 Friends, 
 
[ n^ ] 
 
 Friends, will alike refpecl this quality. 
 Submiliioii is the life of fociety; witho u 
 this, neither public nor private tranquility 
 can be eftabliflied. Thus the headftrong 
 youth is feldom known to become a good 
 member of the commonwealth. A fub- 
 miffion to Rulers, Parents, and Teachers, 
 fliould therefore be early taught, and ftrictly 
 attended to by the pupil, who can never 
 be the lofer by the progrefs he makes in 
 Humility, while he finds himfelf rewarded 
 by that protection w^hich is always to be 
 expected by thofe who fubmit to the Rules 
 »f Suhordination, 
 
 EMBLEiM 
 
EMBLEM LIX. 
 
 A 
 
 Of Retirement. 
 
 LAS ! too ofi the perfect, goodj and fair, 
 Mi'taken hee, provt- caufe of mortal care-. 
 The garden Lily, proud of outward Ihow, 
 Her boCm whi'e as is the fieecy fnowj 
 Amonglt fweci Flora's faireft train is found, 
 i^nd by her pow'rs with flatiVing glories crown'd. 
 hr\% yet fhe droops, iranfplanted from the fpot, 
 Where once /he found a liunabler, happier lot. 
 Ah! hapleli Flowerl no pomp can give relief 
 7o drooping health, or inward heart-felt j^rief. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Attend the Moral, fo the liin.wle {train, 
 ^or we ihali pen, nor you ^u'-fue :n vain. 
 
 I 3 THERE 
 
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 THERE is nothing for which cnortals 
 are more remarkable, than for their wifli 
 to change their lituation, n ot being con- 
 tented with that lot which Heaven has af- 
 ligned them, in order to fulfil that circle 
 which is juft marked out for every created 
 being. 
 
 The Lily, in the Emblem, isfeen droop- 
 ing in the Giirden, where {he feems to be 
 the Queen of Flowers ; but however juftly 
 efteemed, flie droops ; and being plucked, 
 foon fades ; and, confequently, is in a flate 
 by no means to be envied. 
 
 Thus do we often find a female,, who. 
 might remain happy in a peaceful Retire 
 rient^ running a thoufand hazards for the 
 fake of fhewing, and the ^dea of improving 
 her accomplifliments. She has heard, that 
 great ciiics are the places where people 
 iline moft — flie conceives, that to fhine 
 IS to be happy — and entertaining thefe 
 notions, there is no wonder that fhe fliould 
 endeavour to put her favourite project in 
 execution. 
 
 Thus influenced, {lie leaves the country ; 
 file quits the fcenes of fimple nature; tli^s 
 to the capital; endeavours to fee, and be 
 feen, and to mix in all the trifling (if not 
 
 criminal 
 
[ ■75 ] 
 
 criminal) pleafures of the gay world. I£ 
 fhe has a fortune, flie ealily d lliputes what, 
 if well managed, might contribute to her 
 happinefs, and perhaps to that of numbers 
 of her tellow creatures. If fhe had no fuch 
 depend.ince, her caufe may probubly be ftlU 
 mere depJorible. She is likely, in this 
 cafe, to faci i'^ice her health and reputation, 
 to forego her claims to honour and fair 
 name, from the idea of making herfelf 
 more refnecled. — ^^er Vanity meets its re- 
 ward, and ruin is the confequence of her 
 raflmefs. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 I -V DEED, we generally find, that fplen- 
 dor, noife, and crowds, are not favourable to 
 Virtue. She often flouriflies even in a rag- 
 ged fo 1, beneath an apparently inclement 
 cl mate, yet droops beneath the influence 
 of too warm a fun. 
 
 Let ihofe who are not contented with 
 their ftation, conlider, that Providence is 
 the beft judge of their welfar-e ; and they 
 will not become like the drooping Lily, 
 fecking an ideal happinefs at the expence 
 of their intemalpeace and tranquility. 
 
 1 4 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM 
 
 LX. 
 
 Memorial of Virtue* 
 
 T O! where the Cyprefs with the Palm Branch 
 
 •*-' crownM, 
 
 The trueft Emblem of our end is found. 
 
 The mournful Cyprefs and the Palm unite ! 
 
 For virtue ne'er can fmk in endlefs night. 
 
 MORAL. ^ 
 
 Thro' death's dark gates each mortal once muft pafs, 
 
 Frail our exiltence, for all flefh is grais; 
 
 Vain man's the pageant of a moment made, 
 
 Blooms but to ixiiher^ flouriflies \o fait. 
 
 But for the good all honetl hearts fliall mourn, 
 
 And '* Palms eternal floarifli round their urn." 
 
 AS 
 
[ '77 ] 
 
 AS tUe Cyprefs was the Emblem of 
 Funeral Rites, fo was the Palm the token 
 of Victory. The latter being ufed in 
 triumphs with the Laurel, " meed of 
 mighty conquerors." 
 
 No man is tried, no man can be faid to 
 be victorious or happy, till his end. The 
 greateft heroes have fuUied their Virtues, 
 and thofe have turned to vice and felly 
 who once were remarkable for religion and 
 'virtue; but to thofe that perfeveie to the 
 end, the Croivn ofReivarJ (hall be given. 
 
 Scripture and Phik>fophy alike inform 
 \is, thst Death is the Gate of Life, and that 
 the Righteous fliall always be had in re- 
 membrance. It is in this view that n^.en can 
 face death with fortitude, as Martyrs, 
 Heroes, Patriots, braving the King of 
 Terrors, while they are obeying the dictates 
 of Heaven, in fulfillmg their duty to God, 
 their Friends, or their Count y . 
 
 To theie the funeral Jhade has nothing 
 really dreadful. The wicked and the 
 foolifh indeed may be afraid to venture into 
 
 the gloom of the Grave. Thofe who are 
 
 confcious that they ha e behaved ill in life, 
 
 cannot be fuppofed ready to meet death.— 
 
 Is But 
 
[ >78 ] 
 
 But he who can look back on marly years 
 well fpent, confiding in Heaven's mercir?, 
 looks forward to a better Itate hereafter, 
 and juftly expefts his memory to become 
 dear to the woife and virtuous in this fab- 
 lunary ftate. 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 The Lo've of Fame,, if kept within proper 
 bounds, is certainly as ufeful^ as it feems 
 to be an univerfal pajjicn-y and the honours 
 ■which the juft receive after death, ought by 
 no means to be contemned. Sages, Legilla- 
 torp, and the firft of men in all ages have 
 had fome refped to this pofthumous re- 
 ward. There is a duty the furvivors owe 
 to thofe who have diftinguiflied themfclves, 
 which cannot be better difcharged than by 
 paying a proper refped to their memory. 
 As when the perfons are dccea'ed, interefl 
 is not fuppofed to interfere ; and that muft 
 be the grolTeit of flattery indeed, which is 
 carried beyond the grave. 
 
 Death, which at laft flamps the bullion of 
 nature with its real worth, as it precludes 
 envy^ can have little to fear from adulation. 
 But it is the part of every wife and right- 
 eous 
 
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 cous perfoD, tp perpetuate the manory of 
 the worthy part of mankind, and by that 
 me:hod to encourage othcs to follow their 
 illuftrious example. The Cyprefs being 
 thus twined with the Palm branch, men 
 will learn, that even here below their light 
 will (hine, as it were in darknefs, and 
 virtue, in every ftate, will not fail of meet- 
 ing with its due reward. 
 
 1 6 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LXI. 
 
 OfDetraHion. 
 'pHE Telefcope, for noblelt ends defign'd, 
 
 Has he]p'd, with Scierxe, to adorn the mind ; 
 Brings diftant objefts full upon the view, 
 Explores one world, and points out thoufandsnew, 
 Its ufe well known, with double powV indu'd, 
 T' enlarge or leflen cv''ry objed; view'd ; 
 One end with forms enlarged, engage our eyes, 
 The other fhews them of diminifhM iize. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Emblem of human judgment, weak and vain, 
 Whxh mil muft err where Paffion holds the reigni 
 Partial to felf, while life's dark maze we fcan, 
 Small is the knowledge of mankind of man : 
 Wbillt other's faults at once enlarged are fhewn. 
 The changM Perfpeaive fcarcely marks our own. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE Telefcopc is amongft the mod 
 ufeful of mo.'ern inventions. By this we 
 are enabled to travel through the vaft fields 
 of .Ether, and become acquainted with other 
 worlds. By this we are enabled to make 
 cbfervations on the heavenly bodies, which 
 are ufeful to the inhabitants of the eai th. 
 The various phoenomena which we remark 
 in the Coelcllial Regions, are always to 
 be confidered as the difplay of Almighty 
 power, the volume in which we are to 
 read his works ; and the Divine Archite<5t 
 has fo fully difplayed himfelf in the great 
 edifice he has erected, and 
 
 Has built 
 So fpacious, and his line ftretch'd out fo far, 
 That men may know he dwells not in his own. 
 
 This amazing ftructure may well be term- 
 ed glorious. How great and glorious then 
 is he who built it r — The Telefcope may 
 be reckoned as the medium through which 
 we are acquainted with his works, and as 
 fuch deferves our particular attention. 
 
 APPL^- 
 
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 APPLICATION, 
 
 With regard to the Emblem itfelf, the 
 Moral is clear enough. We are too apt to 
 view through the magnifying glafs the 
 faults of others, while our own are always 
 feen through the diminiftiing end of the 
 Perfpe^tive. Of all knowledge, felf-know- 
 ledge is certainly the beft, at the fame 
 time that we muft own it the hardeft to 
 attain. Happy is he that can gain fuch an 
 empire over himfelf, as to hold the rein 
 of his paffions, and to view his own faults 
 in their true light, which is generally the 
 firft Hep towards amendment. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LXII. 
 
 Of Human Grandeur, 
 
 TOEHOLD how facrcd Majefly is torn 
 ■'-' With racking pains, with care and auguifh worn. 
 While the poor Shepherd-boy the time beguiles, 
 "With rural fports ar.d unafFeftcd fmilcs. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 *Tis not 'm grandeur peace of mind to give, 
 Nor arc thofe happiefl who in fpUndor live; 
 Content alone thofe blefTings can beftow, 
 Which teach the mind with heart-felt joy to glow, 
 Banifh vain care, and all her difmal train, 
 >nd give true pleafure, unallay'd by pain. 
 
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 HAPPINESS is not to be bought with 
 goJdy nor fecured by the charms oi grandeur. 
 Sehold here the Queen opprelled with grief, 
 flies to folitary and melancholy fliades, 
 whe^re fhe fits, overwhelmed with forro'vj^ 
 and is almoU perfuaded to put an end to 
 her own exiflence. — Her ftate divided by 
 Fa6lions, and her private Peace of Mind 
 deflroyed by public cares, llie remains a me- 
 lancholy inftance of the troubles that attend 
 on greatne/s, and the Sacrifice thofe make, 
 who exchange their tranquility for Cronjons 
 and Sceptres, and their Peace for the Splendor 
 of Dominion, 
 
 Not fo the Shepherd-Boy; he, though 
 poor, is contented ; he riles in health, and 
 lies down in happiaefs. — The fun is now 
 fet ; he has folded his flock, and returns 
 home whiftling over the plains ; — Majefty 
 beholds his ruHic gaiety, and fiekens at the 
 fight. She cannot taflc thofe Pleafures 
 which dilate his breaft, nor ftiare in his 
 Ruftic Joy. — The event is, that flie pines 
 to death with forrow, while he lives happy 
 in rural fimplicity, and in the enjoyment 
 of his wiflies, becaufe all his wifhcs arc 
 moderate t 
 
 APFLI' 
 
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 APPLICATION, 
 
 FELICITY dwells not with Princes ;— 
 flic is not the gueil of the great ones of the 
 earth. It is long fince (lie flea from palaces 
 and retired to the fcenes of fimple nature, 
 to dwell in rural quiet, and become the 
 companion of the harmlefs village fwain. 
 
 Yet not there alone does fhe refide : 
 Would you trace her dwelling, you muft 
 follow the footfteps of Conte?it, and the 
 track will lead you to her peaceful manfion. 
 
 But forget not, that as Contetit is never 
 to be found except in the Paths of Virtue^ 
 if you deviate from Her ways, you muft 
 never expert to find the Road to Happi- 
 nefs : — you will become a Wanderer, and 
 the hope of your Piigiimagc will be loft. 
 
 For thefe three are as inieparable as, fire, 
 light, and heat ; where the one i?, there 
 you will find the others ; and the reward 
 Ihall be fuch as will far tranfcend the pains 
 you may be at in acquiiing fuch an inefti- 
 raabie Treafure. 
 
 In 
 
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 In the mean time, envy not the acqt 
 tions of others; for that is bafe and feifiih*; 
 neither fay within yourfelf, Such an one is 
 happy ^ nxihilfl I am expo fed to adverjify. 
 
 For you know not the fecrets of mens 
 hearts ; and it may be, that the perfon 
 whom you efteem happy^ is a prey to corrod- 
 ing grief -i and pines in fecret anxiety. At 
 leaft, know this, That the ftatc of no 
 .human being can be determined, till Death 
 cloff s the fcene ; — and the lall end of the 
 Goodo^Xy can be Happy, Emulate their 
 virtues^ and, doubtlcfs, you fiiall fliarc in 
 their felicfiy* 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LXIII. 
 
 Of the U/e of Time, 
 
 '^RUE to the Sun the Dial ftil! abides, 
 
 And points Time's cou'fe minutely as it glides; 
 Th's bids us haflen to be wife, and fhow 
 How rapid in their courfe the minutes uow ; 
 Seize on the winded hours without delay, 
 Njr trufl to-morrow v/hile you Jive to-day. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Time well em^loy'd is a moft- certain giif^j 
 Eaincil: of pleafure, remedy for pain; 
 The chief of biefljnjrs on its courfe attends, 
 Sicce on its uFe Eternity depends. 
 
 BEHOLD 
 
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 BEHOLD how true the Dial is to the 
 Sun, and how exa/lly it marks the hours, 
 whofe courfe might otherwife pafs unno- 
 ticed or unknown. 
 
 This ufeful invention we owe to the ma- 
 thematicians, of ancient days, who thus fur- 
 niflied men with the means of accurately 
 diftinguifhing the difierent parts of the day, 
 and dividing them into equal portions, 
 whereby labour and reft, ft.udy and amufe- 
 ment, were better regulated, and the wafte 
 of time feen in a moment, without the trouble 
 of tedious calculations. 
 
 The Romans (mafters of the world) were 
 at one time fo ignorant of the ufe of Dials, 
 that having taken one at the liege of an 
 enemy's city, the Conful ordered it, without 
 any alteration, to be fixed up at Rome ; but 
 as it was not calculated for the meridian of 
 that place, it went wrong, a thing wh-ch 
 furprifed every body ; till at laii a mathe- 
 matician told them the reafon of it, and 
 remedied the defcd. Dials, and various 
 other methods of marking the hours, were 
 ufed in Rome ever afterwards. 
 
 ATPL I- 
 
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 APPLICATION, 
 
 Nothing can be more uieful to us than 
 that which points out the fwift flight of 
 Time^ and fhews us how our days dratv on 
 to aconclulion, even while we arc revelling 
 in the fummer and the pride of life. 
 
 The Dial is a kind of filent monitor, 
 which, by informing us how the hours fleet 
 away, feems to exort us to make a proper 
 ufe of them, and not to wafte thofe precious 
 moments, which an hour will come, when 
 we fliall think of more worth than all the 
 riches of the earth, and which, then, all the 
 riches of the earth will not be fufficient to 
 purchafe for us. 
 
 EMBLEM 
 
EMBLEM LXIV. 
 
 Of the Frailty of Suhlunary Things, 
 
 rpHE lofty pi'e that rearM its head To high, 
 ■■■ Afpiiing (lill, and pointing to the Iky, 
 The boaft of ages, but their boaft is vain; 
 OVturn'd at laft, and levelM with the plain. 
 So falls the pride of life: fb worlds mud fall. 
 And one long, laft oblivion, bury all. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Time conquers all things; would you Time furvive, 
 Be good, and in your virtuous anions live; 
 For Virtue fliall refift the tyrant's fway, 
 And bloom, and flourifh in eternal day. 
 
 THUS 
 
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 THUS muft the moft lofty, and tnc 
 ftrongeft edifices decay ; if they efcapc 
 frorms, tempcfts, and earthquakes, yet 
 muft they yield at hft to Time, and their 
 glories be buried in the dufl. 
 
 Pyramids are juftly reckoned the greaieft 
 inftaiue of the tolly and vani:;y of man- 
 kind. — The life for which thofe famous 
 ones in Egypt v^eie erected, was only for 
 their kings to be interred in. — And it is 
 even fuid by fome writers, that a monarch, 
 who had built one of them for this purjx)fe, 
 was not afrer de '.th fuffered to be laid in 
 this hi monument, becaufe he had been a 
 g-eat tyr.;nt in life; and, among otherac- 
 cu "acions brought ag unft him, was that 
 of having caufed a number of innocent men 
 to lofc their lives in executing this magnifi- 
 cent plan ; — a Uriking inftance of the vanity 
 of mens defirt-s, who often defeat, by 
 their vices and follies, thofe ends they are 
 piompted to purfue by their ambition. 
 
 Take a view of the ruins of Antiquity, 
 and remember, O man ! the frail flate of thy 
 mortality !— Art thou rich and great; is thy 
 name known throughout the world ; and do 
 thy lofty buildings afpire to the clouds ? 
 
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 yet a little while, and thou flialt link iit 
 dull ! Thy edifices and thy monuments too, 
 muft at lengtn decay, and leave no traces 
 behind them ! 
 
 Where now is Babylon ? Where is the 
 feat of Solomon ? Where is wife Athens ? 
 and where ancient Rome, the miflrcfs of the 
 >yorld ? Where are thofe mighty cities, once 
 fo famous upon earth ? — Of fome there is 
 not left even a ftone wpon a Hone, and 
 others are remembered only in their ruins. 
 
 E'en as an infubflantial pageant faded 
 
 The cloud-capt towVs, the gorgeous palaces, 
 The folemn temples, the great globe itfelf ! 
 Yea, all which it inherit, fliall difTolve, 
 And, like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion, 
 Leave not a wreck, behind. 
 
 Be alfured then, O man, who glorieft in 
 thy ftrength and might, that there is no- 
 thing folid but peace of mind, nothing 
 permanent but Virtue : Ihc alone fliall laft 
 through the ages, and grow brighter 
 through the endlefs fucceffion of Eternity, 
 
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