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A35217	Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select and choice emblems, divine and moral, ancient and modern curiously ingraven upon copper plates : with fifty delightful poems and lots for the more lively illustration of each emblem, whereby instruction and good counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation : to which is prefixed an incomparable poem, entituled Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of Kings, written by His late Majesty K. Charles the First, with his own hand, during his captivity in Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle or Wight, 1648 : with an emblem / collected by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, Remarks of London, and Admirable curiosities, &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Majesty in misery.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1684 (1684)	Wing C7312; ESTC R8820	41,002	244

Robe The Holy Unction and the Royal Globe Yet I am levelled with the life of Job 5. The fiercest furies that do daily tread Upon my Grief my Gray Discrowned Head Are those that owe my Bounty for their Bread 6. They raise a War and Christen it The cause Whilst Sacrilegious hands have best applause Plunder and Murder are the Kingdoms Laws 7. Tyranny bears the Title of Taxation Revenge and Robbery are Reformation Oppression gains the name of Sequestration 8. My Loyal Subjects who in this bad season Attend me By the Law of God and Reason They dare impeach and punish for High Treason 9. Next at the Clergy do their Furies frown Pious Episcopacy must go down They will destroy the Crozier and the Crown 10. Churchmen are chain'd Schismaticks are freed Mechanicks preach and Holy Fathers bleed The Crown is Crucified with the Creed 11. The Church of England doth all Faction foster The Pulpit is usurpt by each Impostor Extempore excludes the Pater noster 12. The Presbyter and Independent seed Springs with broad blades to make Religion bleed Herod and Pontius Pilate are agreed 13. The Corner stone 's misplac'd by every Pavier With such a Bloody Method and Behaviour Their Ancestors did crucify our Saviour 14. My Royal Consort from whose fruitful womb So many Princes Legally have come Is forc'd in Pilgrimage to seek a Tomb 15. Great Britains Heir is forced into France Whilst on his Fathers head his Foes advance Poor Child he weeps out his Inheritance 16. With my own Power my Majesty they wound In the kings name the king himself 's uncrown'd So doth the dust destroy the Diamond 17. With Propositions daily they Enchant My Peoples ears such as do Reason daunt And the Almighty will not let me Grant 18. They promise to erect my Royal stem To make me Great t' advance my Diadem If I will first fall down and worship them 19. But for refusal they devour my Thrones Distress my Children and destroy my Bones I fear they 'l force me to make Bread of Stones 20. My life they prize at such a slender rate And in my absence they draw Bills of hate To prove the King a Traytor to the State 21. Felons obtain more Priviledg than I They are allow'd to answer ere they dye 'T is Death for me to ask the Reason why 22. But sacred Saviour with thy words I woo Thee to forgive and not be bitter to Such as thou know'st do not know what they do 23 But since they from their Lord are so disjointed As to contemn those Edicts he appointed How can they prize the power of his Anointed 24. Augment my Patience Nullify my hate Preserve my Issue and Inspire my Mate Yet though we perish Bless this Church and state Vota dabunt quae Bella negarunt The Explanation of the Emblem In Latin and English Ponderibus genus omne mali probrique gravatus Vixque ferenda ferens Palma ut Depressa resurgo Ac velut undarum Fluctus Ventique furorem Irati Populi Rupes immota repello Clarior è Tenebris Coelestis Stella corusco Victor aeternum felici pace Triumpho Auro Fulgentem rutilo gemmisque Micantem At curis Gravidam Spernendo Calco Coronam Spinosam at ferri facilem quo spes mea Christi Auxilio nobis non est tractare molestum Aeternam fixis fidei Semperque beatam In Coelos oculis specto Nobisque paratam Quod Vanum est Sperno quod Christi Gratia praebet Amplecti Studium est Virtutis Gloria merces In English THough clogg'd with weights of Miseries Palm-like Depress'd I higher rise And as the unmoved Rock out-braves The boistrous Winds and raging Waves So Triumph I and shine more bright In sad Afflictions Darksom night That Splendid but yet Toilsom Crown Regardlesly I trample down With Joy I take this Crown of Thorn Though Sharp yet easy to be born That Heavenly Crown already mine I view with Eyes of Faith Divine I slight vain things and do imbrace Glory the just reward of Grace An Epitaph upon King Charles the first SO falls the stately Cedar while it stood That was the only Glory of the Wood. Great Charles Terrest rial God Celestial Man Whose life like others though it were a span Yet in that span was comprehended more Than Earth hath waters or the Ocean shore Thy Heavenly Virtues Angels should reherse It is a Theam too high for Human Verse He that would know thee right then let him look Upon thy rare Incomparable Book And read it o're and o're which if he do He 'l find thee King and Priest and Prophet too And sadly see our loss and though in vain With fruitless wishes call thee back again Nor shall oblivion sit upon thy Herse Though there were neither Monument nor Verse Thy Suff'rings and thy Death let no man name It was thy Glory but the Kingdoms shame Another STay Passenger behold and see The widdow'd Grave of Majesty Why tremblest not here 's that will make The most stupid Soul to shake Here lies intomb'd the sacred Dust Of Peace and Piety Right and Just The blood O stait'st thou not to hear Of a blest King 'twixt hope and fear Shed and hurried hence to be The Miracle of Misery The Lawgiver amongst his own Sentenc'd by a Law unknown Voted Monarchy to Death By the course Plebeian breath The Soveraign of all Comma Suffering by a Common hand A Prince to make the Odium more Martyr'd at his very door The Head cut off Oh Death to see 't In Obedience to the Feet And that by Justice you must know If thou hast faith to think it so We 'll stir no further than this sacred clay But let it slumber till the Judgment day Of all the Kings on Earth it 's not deni'd Here lies the first that for Religion dy'd Another WRitten by the Magnanimous James Marques of Montross with the point of his Sword Great Good and Just could I but rate My Grief and thy so rigid Fate I 'de weep the world to such a strain That it should deluge once again But since thy loud-tongu'd blood demands supplies More from Briareus hands then Argus Eyes I 'le sing thy Elegy with Trumpets sounds And write thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds Emblem I. Finis ab Origine pendet THE First Emblem Illustrated As soon as we to Be begun We did begin to be undone WHen some in former Ages had a meaning An Emblem of Mortality to make They form'd an Infant on a Deaths-head leaning And round about encircled with a Snake The Child so pictur'd was to signify That from our very Birth our Dying springs The Snake her Tail devouring doth imply The Revolution of all Earthly things For whatsoever hath beginning here Begins immediately to vary from The same it was and doth at last appear What very few did think it should become The solid Stone doth molder into Earth That Earth e're long to Water rarifies That Water gives an Airy

of the Devil 3. Remarkable predictions and presages of approaching death and how the event has been answerable 4. The wicked lives and woful deaths of several Popes with the manner how King Henry 2. was whipt by the Popes Order by the Monks of Canterbury and how the Queen of Bohemia was swallowed up in the Earth alive with all her followers c. 5. Fearful Judgments upon bloody Tyrants Murderers c. also how Popiel King of Poland a Cruel Tyrant his Queen and Children were devoured by Rats and how a Town near Tripoly in Barbary with the Men women Children Beasts Trees Walls Rooms Cats Dogs Mice and all that belonged to the place were turn'd into perfect Stone to be seen at this day for the Horrid Crimes of the Inhabitants c. 6. Admirable Deliverances from imminent Dangers and Deplorable Distresses at Sea and Land Lastly Divine Goodness to Penitents with the Dying Thoughts of several famous Men concerning a future state after this Life Imbellished with divers Pictures Price One Shilling VII HIstorical Remarks and Observations of the Ancient and Present state of London and Westminster shewing the Foundations Walls Gates Towers Bridges Churches Rivers Wards Halls Companies Government Courts Hospitals Schools Inns of Court Charters Franchises and Priviledges thereof with an account of the most remarkable Accidents as to Wars Fires Plagues and other Occurrences for above Nine hundred years past in and about these Cities and among other particulars the Rebellion of Wat Tylor who was slain by the Lord Mayor in Smithfield and the Speech of Jack Straw at his Execution The Murder of King Hen. 6. and likewise of Edw. 5. and his Brother by Richard 3. called Crook-back The Insurrection in London in King Henry 8. time and how 411 Men and Women went through the City in their shifts and Ropes about their Necks to Westminster-Hall where they were pardoned by the King with several other Remarks to the Year 1681. and a description of the manner of the Tryal of the late Lord Stafford in Westminster-Hall Illustrated with Pictures with the Arms of the 65 Companies of London and the time of their Incorporating Price One Shilling VIII THe Fourth Edition of the Wars in England Scotland and Ireland being near a third part enlarged with very considerable Additions containing an Impartial Account of all the Battles Seiges and other Remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which have happened from the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First 1625. to His Majesties Happy Restauration 1660. And among other particulars the Debates and Proceedings in the Four first Parliaments of King Charles 1. The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham by Felton The Tumults at Edenburgh in Scotland The Insurrection of the Apprentices and Seamen and their assaulting of A. B. Lauds House at Lambeth Remarks on the Life of the E. of Strafford and his last Speech The Death of Archbishop Laud Duke Hamilton Lord Capel Mr. Love Dr. Hewet and others The illegal Tryal of King Charles 1. at large with his last Speech at his Suffering And the most considerable matters which happened till 1660. with Pictures of several remarkable Accidents Price One Shilling IX THE Young Mans Calling or the whole Duty of Youth in a serious and compassionate Address to all young Persons to remember their Creator in the days of their Youth Together with Remarks upon the Lives of several excellent Toung Persons of both Sexes as well ancient as modern who have been famous for Virtue and Piety in their Generations namely on the Lives of Isaac and Joseph in their youth On the Martyrdom of seven Sons and their Mother and of Romanus a young Nobleman with the invincible courage of a Child of seven years old who was martyred On the Matyrdom of divers holy Virgins and Martyrs On the Life of that blessed Prince King Edw. 6. with his ingenious Letter to his Godfather A. B. Cranmer when but 8 years old and his last words and Prayer On the Life and Death of Queen Jane as her learned Dispute with Fecknam a Priest about the Sacrament her Letters to her Father the Duke of Suffolk to her Sister and others On the Life of Queen Elizabeth in her Youth with her many Sufferings and Dangers from bloody Bonner and Gardiner and her joyfull Reception to the Crown On the Religious Life and Death of the most Noble and Heroick Prince Henry eldest Son to King James And also of the young Lord Harrington c. with 12 curious Pictures Illustrating the several Histories Price Eighteen pence X. A Guide to Eternal Glory Or Brief Directions to all Christians how to attain to Everlasting Salvation To which are added several other small Tracts As 1. A short Directory for that necessary duty of Self-Examination whereby a serious Christian may every Evening Examine himself 2. A Brief Dialogue between a Learned Divine and a Beggar discovering Man's True Happiness 3. Cordial Meditations or Beams of the spirit Enlivening Enlightning and Gladding the Soul Lastly Divine Hymns upon the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper with some others Price Six Pence XI EXcellent Contemplations Divine Moral Written by The Magnanimous and truly Loyal Arthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham Together with some Account of his Life and his Letters to several Persons whilst he was Prisoner in the Tower vigorously asserting the Royal Cause against all the Enemies thereof and earnestly endeavouring to prevent the Horrid Regicide of K. Charles the First Likewise his Affectionate Letters to his Lady the day before his Death and his Couragious and Heroick Behaviour and last Speech at his suffering in the Palace Yard at Westminster March 9. 1648. Also the Speeches and Carriages of Duke Hamilton and the Earl of Holland who suffered with him With his Pious Advice to his Son the Late Earl of Essex Price One Shilling All Eleven sold by Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1684. FINIS

Vapour birth And thence a Fiery-Comet doth arise That moves untill it self it so impair That from a burning-Meteor back again It sinketh down and thickens into Air That Air becomes a Cloud then Drops of Rain Those Drops descending on a Rocky Ground There settle into Earth which more and more Doth harden still so running out the round It grows to be the Stone it was before Thus All things wheel about each Beginning Made entrance to its own Destruction hath The Life of Nature entreth in with Sinning And is for ever waited on by Death The Life of Grace is form'd by Death to Sin And there doth Life-eternal straight begin Lot 1. When thou hast changes good or bad O'rejoy'd thou art or oversad As if it seemed very strange To see the wind or Weather change ●o therefore to remember thee How Changeable things Mortal be Thou art assisted by this Lot How let it be no more forgot Emblem II. Quo me vertam nescio THE Second Emblem Illustrated When Vice and Virtue Youth shall wooe 'T is hard to say which way 't will go MY hopeful Friends at thrice five years three Without a Guide into the World alone To seek my Fortune did adventure mee And many hazards I alighted on First Englands greatest Rendevouz I sought Where VICE and VERTUE at the highest sit And thither both a Mind and Body brought For neither of their Services unfit Both woo'd my Youth And both perswaded so That like the Young man in our Emblem here I stood and cry'd Ah! which way shall I go To me so pleasing both their Offers were VICE Pleasures best Contentments promist me And what the wanton Flesh desires to have Quoth VERTUE I will Wisdom give to thee And those brave things w ch noblest Minds do crave Serve me said VICE and thou shalt soon acquire All hose Atchievements which my Service brings Serve me said VERTUE and I 'le raise thee higher Then VICES can and teach thee better things Whil'st thus they strove to gain me I espyd Grim Death attending VICE and that her Face Was but a painted Vizard which did hide The foul'st Deformity that ever was LORD grant me grace for evermore to view Her Ugliness And that I viewing it Her Falsehoods and allurements may eschew And on fair VERTUE my Affection set Her Beauties contemplate her Love embrace And by her safe Direction run my Race Lot 2. WIth Mary thou art one of those By whom the better part is chose And though thou tempted art astray Continu'st in a lawful way Give God the praise with heart unfeign'd That he such grace to thee hath deign'd And rein thy Lot where thou shalt see What hag hath laid a Trap for thee Emblem III. Vivitur Ingenio caetera mortis erunt THE Third Emblem Illustrated By knowledge only Life we gain All other things to Death pertain HOw Fond are they who spend their pretious Time In still pursuing their deceiving Pleasures And they that unto airy Titles clime Or tire themselves in hording up of Treasures For these are Death's who when with weariness They have acquired most sweeps all away And leaves them for their Labors to possess Nought but a raw-bon'd Carcass lapt in clay Of twenty hundred thousands who this hour Vaunt much of those Possessions they have got Of their new purchas'd Honours or the Power By which they seem to have advanc't their Lot Of this great Multitude there shall not Three Remain for any Future-age to know But perish quite and quite forgotten be As Beasts devoured twice ten years ago Thou therefore who desir'st for ay to live And to possess thy Labours maugre Death To needful Arts and honest Actions give Thy Span of Time and thy short blast of Breath In holy Studies exercise thy Mind In works of Charity thy Hands imploy That Knowledge and that Treasure seek to find Which may enrich thy Heart with perfect Joy So though obscured thou appear a while Despised poor or born to Fortunes low Thy Vertue shall acquire a nobler stile Then greatest Kings are able to bestow And gain thee those Possessions which nor They Nor Time nor Death have power to take away Lot 3. THou dost overmuch respect That which will thy harm effect But some other things there be Which will more advantage thee Search thy heart and thou shalt there Soon discover what they are Yea thine Emblem shews thee too What to shun and what to do Emblem IV. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Fourth Emblem Illustrated As to the World I Naked came So naked stript I leave the same THrice happy is that Man whose Thoughts do rear His Mind above that pitch the Worldling flies And by his Contemplations hovers where He views things mortal with unbleared eyes What Trifles then do Villages and Towns Large Fields or Flocks of fruitful Cattle seem Nay what poor things are Miters Scepters Crowns And all those Glories which men most esteem Though he that hath among them his Delight Brave things imagines them because they blind With some false Lustre his beguiled sight find He that 's above them their mean-Worth may Lord to that Blessea-Station me convey Where I may view the World and view her so That I her true Condition may survey And all her Imperfections rightly know Remember me that once there was a Day When thou didst wean me from them with content Ev'n when shut up within those Gates I lay Through which the Plague-inflicting Angel went And let me still remember that an Hour Is hourly coming on wherein I shall Though I had all the World within my power Be naked stript and turned out of all But mind me chiefly that I never cleave Too closely to my Self and cause thou me Not other Earthly things alone to leave But to forsake my Self for love of Thee That I may say now I have all things left Before that I of all things am bereft Lot 4. BE not angry if I tell That you love the World too well For this Lot perhaps you drew That such faults you might eschew Mark to what their Souls aspire Who True Blessedness desire For if you can do like those Heaven you gain when Earth you lose Emblem V. Ad Scopum licet Aegre frustra THE Fifth Emblem Illustrated A Fool in Folly taketh Pain Although he labour still in vain A Massie Mil-stone up a tedious Hill With mighty Labour Sisyphus doth roll Which being rais'd aloft down-tumbleth still To keep imployed his afflicted Soul On him this tedious Labour is impos'd And though in vain it must be still assayd But some by no Necessity inclos'd Upon themselves such needless Tasks have laid Yea knowing not or caring not to know That they are worn and weary'd out in vain They madly toil to plung themselves in Wo And seek uncertain Ease in certain Pain Such Fools are they who dream they can acquire A Mind-content by Lab'ring still for more For Wealth encreasing doth encrease Desire

indulgent were Have urg'd them till their Doting grew to Rage And shut them wholly from their Heritage Thus many times a foolish man doth lose His faithfull Friends and justly makes them foes Thus froward Husbands and thus peevish Wives Do fool away the comfort of their lives And by abusing of a patient-mate Turn dearest Love into the deadliest Hate For any wrong may better be excused Than Kindness long and wilfully abused But as an injur'd Lamb provoked thus Well typifies how much it moveth us To find our Patience wrong'd So let us make An Emblem of our selves thereby to take More heed how God is moved towards them That his long-suffering and his Love contemn For as we somewhat have of every creature So we in us have somewhat of his Nature Or if it be not said the same to be His Pictures and his Images are we Let therefore his long-suffering well be weigh'd And keep us to provoke him still afraid Lot 21. THou hast provoked overlong Their Patience who neglect the wrong And thou dost little seem to heed what hurt it threats if thou proceed To thee thy Emblem therefore shows To what abused Patience grows Observe it well and make thy Peace Before to fury wrath increase Emblem XXII In Spe Labore transigo vitam THE 22d Emblem Illustrated Our days until our Life hath end In Labour and in Hopes we spend AS soon as our first Parents disobey'd Forth with a Curse for their offence was laid Inforcing them and their succeeding race To get their Food with sweatings of the Face But afterward this Doom to mitigate And ease the miseries of their estate God gave them Hope that she might help them bear The burthens of their Travail and their care A Woman with an Anchor and a Spade An Emblem of that Mystery is made And this Estate we all continue in By God's free Mercy and our proper Sin By Sin the Labour is on us intail'd By Grace it is that Hoping hath not fail'd And if in Hope our Labours we attend That Curse will prove a Blessing in the end My Lot is Hope and Labour and between These Two my Life-time hath prolonged been Yet hitherto the best of all my Pain With most of all my Hopes have been in vain And to the World-ward I am like to wast My time in fruitless labours till the last However I have still my Hopes as fair As he that hath no temptings to Despair And change I will not my last houers for theirs Whose Fortune more desirable appears Nor cease to Hope and Labour though of most My Hope and Labour be adjudged lost For though I lose the shadow of my Pains The substance of it still in God remains Lot 22. IN secret thou dost oft complain That thou hast hop'd and wrought in vain And think'st thy Lot is far more hard Than what for others is prepar'd An Emblem therefore thou hast got Which shews it is our Common Lot To Work and hope and that thou hast A Blessing by it at the last Emblem XXIII Tamen discam THE 23d Emblem Illustrated To Learning I a love should have Although one Foot were in the Grave HEre we an Aged man described have That hath one foot already in the Grave And if you mark it though the Sun decline And horned Cynthia doth begin to shine With open book and with attentive eyes Himself to compass Knowledge he applies And though that Evening end his last of days Yet I will study more to learn he says From this we gather that while time doth last The time of learning never will be past And that each hour till we our life lay down Still something touching life is to be known When he was old wise Cato learned Greek But we have aged-folks that are to seek Of that which they have much more cause to learn Yet no such mind in them we shall discern For that which they should study in their prime Is oft deferred till their latter-time And then old-age unfit for learning makes them Or else that common dulness overtakes them Which makes ashamed that it should be thought They need like little-children to be taught And so out of this world they do return As wise as in that week when they were born God grant me grace to spend my life time so That I my duty still may seek to know And that I never may so far proceed To think that I more Knowledge do not need But in Experience may continue growing Till I am fill'd with fruits of pious-knowing Lot 23. BY this your Emblem we discern That you are yet of Age to learn And that when elder you shall grow There will be more for you to know Presume not therefore of your wit But strive that you may better it For of your Age we many view That far more wisdom have then you Emblem XXIV Transitus Celerest avolamus THE 24th Emblem Illustrated Where e're we are the Heavens are near Let us but fly and we are there WHy with a trembling faintness should we fear The face of Death and fondly linger here As if we thought the Voyage to be gone Lay through the shades of Styx or Acheron Or that we either were to travel down To uncouth Depths or up some heights unknown Or to some place remote whose nearest end Is farther then Earths limits do extend It is not by one half that distance thither Where Death lets in as it is any whither No not by half so far as to your bed Or to that place where you should rest your head If on the ground you laid your self ev'n there Where at this moment you abiding are This Emblem shews if well you look thereon That from your Glass of life which is to run There 's but one step to Death and that you tread At once among the Living and the Dead In whatsoever Land we live or die God is the same And Heav'n is there as nigh As in that place wherein we most desire Our Souls with our last breathing to expire Which things well heeding let us not delay Our Journey when we summon'd are away As those inforced Pilgrims use to do That know not whither nor how far they go Nor let us dream that we in Time or Place Are far from ending our uncertain Race But let us fix on Heav'n a faithful eye And still be flying thither till we die Lot 24. TO your Long-Home you nearer are Than you it may be are aware Yea and more easy is the way Then you perhaps conceive it may Lest therefore death should grim appear And put you in a causeless fear Or out of minding wholly pass This Chance to you allotted was Emblem XXV Transe at THE Twenty fifth Emblem Illustrated A Sieve of Shelter maketh show But every Storm will through it go SOme Men when for their Actions they procure A likely colour be it ne're so vain Proceed as if their Projects were as sure As when Sound Reason

Blank Chance and you may look for your Lot at the latter end of the Book among the six last Chances which are without Emblems The Tryal whereof is thus contrived without Dice lest by the Familiar use of them they might sometimes occasion expensive and pernicious Gaming But If King Queen Prince or any one that springs From Persons known to be deriv'd from King Shall seek for Sport sake hence todraw their Lots Our Author says that he provided not For such as those Because it were too much For him to find out Fortunes fit for such Who as he thinks should rather Aid supply For him to mend his evil Fortunes by To them he therefore pleased is to give This noble and this large Prerogative That they shall chuse from hence what Lots they please And make them better if they like not these All other Personages of High degree That will profess our Authors friends to be This Freedom likewise have that till they find A Lot which is agreeing to their mind They shall have liberty anew to try Their sought for Chance And ev'ry time-apply The Morals they disliked unto those Which are ill-qualifi'd among their Foes All others who this Game adventure will Must bear their Fortunes be they Good or Ill. Directions for the Lottery The Figure or Lottery THis Game occasions not the frequent crime Of swearing or mispending of our time Nor loss of money for the Play is short And every Gamester winneth by the sport We therefore Judg it may as well become The Hall the Parlor or the Dining Roem As Chess or Tables and we think the price Will be as low because it needs no Dice FINIS There are Lately Published Eleven very useful pleasant and necessary Books all sold by Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside I. TWo Journies to Jerusalem containing first A strange and True Account of the Travels of two English Pilgrims some years since and what Admirable Accidents befel them in their Journey to Jerusalem Grand Cairo Alexandria c. 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