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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

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

that they amiss have done How many have assisted to condemn Poor souls for what was never stoln by them And persecuted others for that Sin Which they themselves had more transgressed in How many worthless men are great become By that which they have stoln or cheated from Their Lords or by some practices unjust From those by whom they had been put in trust How many Lawyers wealthy men are grown By taking Fees for Causes overthrown By their defaults How many without fear Do rob the King and God yet blameless are God knows how many would I did so too So I had pow'r to make them better do Lot 9. We hope no Person here believes That you are of those wealthy Thieves Who Chains of Gold and Pearl do wear And of those Thieves that none you are Which wear a Rope we plainly see For you as yet unhanged be But unto God for Mercy cry Else hang'd you may be e're you die Emblem X. Fulcrum Tutissimum THE Tenth Emblem Illustrated We then have got the surest Prop When Heaven alone becomes our hope I Should not care how hard my Fortunes were Might still my Hopes be such as now they are Of helps divine nor fear how poor I be If thoughts yet present still may bide in me For they have left assurance of such aid That I am of no dangers now afraid Yea now I see methinks what weak and vain Supporters I have sought to help sustain My fainting heart when some injurious hand Would undermine the Station where I stand Methinks I see how scurvy and how base It is to scrap for favours and for grace To men of earthly minds and unto those Who may perhaps before to morrow lose Their wealth or their abus'd Authority And stand as much in want of help as I. Me thinks in this New-rapture I do see The hand of God from heaven supporting me Without those rotten-Aids for which I whin'd When I was of my tother vulgar-mind And if in some one part of me it lay I'now could cut that Limb of mine away Still might I keep this mind there were enough Within my self beside that cumbring stuff We seek without which husbanded aright Would make me Rich in all the worlds despight And I have hopes that had she quite bereft me Of those few raggs and toys which yet are left me I should on God alone so much depend That I should need nor Wealth nor other Friend Lot 10. BEcause her Aid makes goodly shows You on the world your Trust repose And his dependance you despise Who clearly on Heavens help relies That therefore you may come to see How pleas'd and safe those men may be Who have no Aid but God alone This Emblem you have lighted on Emblem XI Serva Modum THE Eleventh Emblem Illustrated Do not the Golden Mean exceed In word in Passion nor in deed AS is the head-strong Horse and blockish Mule Ev'n such without the Bridle and the Rule Our Nature grows and is an mischievous Till Grace and Reason come to govern us The Square and Bridle therefore let us heed And thereby learn to know what helps we need Lest else they failing timely to be had Quite out of Order we at length be made The Square which is an useful Instrument To shape for senseless Forms may represent The Law Because Mankind which is by Nature Almost as dull as is the senseless-creature Is thereby from the native-rudeness wrought And in the Way of honest-living taught The Bridle which Invention did contrive To rule and guide the Creature-sensitive May type forth Discipline which when the Law Hath school'd the Wit must keep the Will in awe And he that can by these his Passions bound This Emblems meaning usefully hath found Lord let thy sacred Law at all times be A rule a Master and a Glass to me A Bridle and a Light that I may still Both know my Duty and obey thy Will Direct my Feet my Hands instruct thou so That I may neither wander nor mis-do My Looks my Hearing and my Words confine To keep still firm to ev'ry Word of thine On thee let also my Desires attend And let me hold this Temper till mine end Lot 11. YOur wits your wishes and your Tongue Have run the wild-Goose chase too long And lest all Reason you exceed You now of Rule and Reins have need A Bridle therefore and a square Chief Figures in your Emblem are Observe their Moral and alway Be wise and sober as you may Emblem XII Paupertate premor Sublevor Ingenio THE Twelfth Emblem Illustrated My wit got wings and high had flown But Poverty did keep me down YOu little think what plague it is to be In plight like him whom pictur'd here you see His winged-Arm and his up lifted-eyes Declare that he hath Wit and Will to rise The Stone which clogs his other hand may show That Poverty and Fortune keep him low And 'twixt these two the Body and the Mind Such labours and such great vexations find That if you did not such mens wants contemn You could not chuse but help or pity them All Ages had and this I know hath some Such men as to this misery do come And many of them at their Lot so grieve As if they knew or did at least believe That had their Wealth suffic'd them to aspire To what their Wits deserve and they desire The present Age and future Ages too Might gain have had from what they though to do Perhaps I dream'd so once But God be prais'd The Clog which kept me down from being rais'd Was chain'd so fast that if such Dreams I had My thoughts and longings are not now so mad For plain I see that had my Fortunes brought Such Wealth at first as my small Wit hath sought I might my self and others have undone Instead of Courses which I thought to run I find my Poverty for me was fit Yea and a Blessing greater than my Wit And whether now I rich or poor become T is nor much pleasing nor much troublesome Lot 12. THou think'st thy wit had made thee Great Had Poverty not been some lot ●ut had thy wealth as ample been ●s thou didst think thy wit so fine Instead of thy desired hight Perhaps thou hadst been ruin'd quite Hereafter therefore be content With whatsoever Heaven hath sent Emblem XIII Stultorum Adjumenta Nocumenta THE Thirteenth Emblem Illustrated The best good turns that Fools can do us Prove disadvantages unto us A Fool sent forth to fetch the Goslings home When they unto a Rivers brink were come Through which their passage lay conceiv'd a fear His Dames best Brood might have been drown'd there Which to avoid he thus did shew his wit And his good nature in preventing it He underneath his girdle thrusts their heads And then the Coxcomb through the water wades Here learn that when a Fool his help intend It rather doth a mischief then befriends And think if there be danger in

men at pleasure might redeem the Time For they a fair advantage fondly lose As ill-advis'd be those who having lost The first Occasions to Despairing run For Time hath Revolutions and the most For their Affairs have Seasons more then one Nor is their Folly small who much depend On Transitory things as if their Power Could bring to pass what should not have an End Or compass that which Time will not devour The first Occasions therefore see thou take Which offered are to bring thy hopes about And mind thou still what Haste away they make Before thy swift-pac't hours are quite run out Yet if an Opportunity be past Despair not thou as they that hopeless be Since Time may so revolve again at last That New-Occasions may be offered thee And see thou trust not on those fading things Which by thine own Endeavours thou acquir'st For Time which her own Births to ruin brings Will spare nor thee nor ought which thou desir'st His Properties and Uses what they are In vain observ'd will be when he is fled That they in season therefore may appear Our Emblem thus hath him deciphered Bald save before and standing on a Wheel A Razor in his Hand a Winged Heel Lot 41. MUch Liberty thou hast assum'd And heretofore too much presum'd On Time which always rideth post That for a while some hopes are crost But see to keep thee from despair And thy Misfortune to repair Mark what to thee thy Lot doth tell And Practise what is counsel'd well Emblem XLII Viribus jungenda Sapientia THE Forty second Emblem Illustrated When Great Attempts are undergone Join Strength and Wisdom both in one IF Reader thou desirous be to know What by the Centaure seemeth here intended What also by the Snake and by the Bow Which in his hand he beareth alway bended Learn that this half-a man and half-a horse Is ancient Hieroglyphick teaching thee That Wisdom should be joyn'd with outward force If prosperous we desire our works to be His Upper-part the shape of Man doth bear To teach that Reason must become our guide The hinder-parts a Horses Members are To show that we must also strength provide The Serpent and the Bow doth signifie The same or matter to the same effect And by two Types one Moral to imply Is doubled a fore-warning of neglect When Knowledge wanteth Power despis'd we grow And know but how to aggravate our pain Great strength will work its own sad overthrow Unless it guided be with Wisdoms rein Therefore Oh God vouchsafe thou so to marry The gifts of Soul and Body both in me That I may still have all things necessary To work as I commanded am by thee And let me not possess them Lord alone But also know their use and so well know it That I may do each duty to be done And with upright Intentions always do it If this be more then yet obtain I may My will accept thou for the deed I pray Lot 42. GReat things to do thou hast a mind But power thereto thou canst not find Sometimes thy Power doth seem to fit But then thou failest in thy wit Such undertakings therefore chuse If thou thy Time wilt not abuse As to thy Power and wit agree And then let both imployed be Emblem XLIII In Silentio spe THE Forty third Emblem Illustrated They that in Hope and Silence live The best Contentment may atchieve IF thou desire to cherish true Content And in a troublous time that course to take Which may be likely mischiefs to prevent Some use of this our Hieroglyphick make The Fryers Habit seemeth to import That thou as ancient Monks and Fryers did Shouldst live remote from places of resort And in retiredness lye closely hid The clasped-Book doth warn thee to retain Thy thoughts within the compass of thy breast And in a quiet silence to remain Untill thy mind may safely be exprest That Anchor doth inform thee that thou mu●● Walk on in Hope and in thy Pilgrimage Bear up without despairing or distrust Those wrongs and sufferings which attend thir● Ag● For whensoe're Oppression groweth rife Obscureness is more safe than Eminence He that then keeps his Tongue may keep his Life Till times will better favour Innocence Truth spoken where untruth is more approved Will but enrage the malice of thy foes And otherwhile a wicked man is moved To cease from wrong if no man him oppose Let this our Emblem therefore counsel thee Thy Life in safe Retiredness to spend Let in thy breast thy thoughts reserved be Till thou art laid where none can thee offend And whilst most others give their Fancy scope Enjoy thy self in Silence and in Hope Lot 43. THou hast in Publick lived long And overfreely us'd thy Tongue But if thy safety thou desire Be silent and thy self retire And if thou wilt not be undone Possess thy Joys and Hopes alone For they that will from harm be free Must quiet and obscured be Emblem XLIV Non est Mortale quod opto THE Forty fourth Emblem Illustrated Take wing my soul and mount up higher For Earth fulfils not my desire WHen Ganymed himself was purifying Great Jupiter his naked beauty spying Sent forth his Eagle from below to take him A blest Inhabitant in Heav'n to make him And there as Poets feigned he doth still To Jove and other God heads Nectar fill Though this be but a Fable of their feigning The Moral is a Real truth pertaining To ev'ry one which harbours a desire Above the Starry Circles to aspire By Ganymed the Soul is understood That 's washed in the Purifying flood Of sacred Baptism which doth make her seem Both pure and beautiful in God's esteem The Aegle means that Heav'nly Contemplation Which after Washings of Regeneration Lifts up the Mind from things that earthly be To view those Objects which Faith's Eyes do see The Nectar which is filled out and given To all the blest Inhabitants of Heaven Are those Delights which Christ hath said they have When some Repentant Soul begins to leave Her foulness by renewing of her birth And slighting all the Pleasures of the Earth I ask not Lord those Blessings to receive Which any Man hath pow'r to take or give Nor what this World affords for I contemn Her Favours and have seen the best of them Nay Heav'n it self will unsufficient be Unless Thou also give Thy self to me Lot 44. THis Lot pertaineth unto those But who they be God only knows Who to the world have no desire But up to Heavenly things aspire No doubt but you in some degree Indu'd with such Affections be And got this Emblem that you might Encourag'd be in such a flight Emblem XLV Dum Clavum rectum Teneam THE Forty fifth Emblem Illustrated He that his course directly steers Nor storms nor windy Censures fears WE to the Sea this World may well compare For ev'ry Man which liveth in the same Is as a Pilot to some Vessel there Of little size or