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A15631	A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.; Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637, engraver.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 25900A; ESTC S118583	146,635	294

Mercies then contemne When with his wings he would have brooded them And sought their endlesse peace to have confirm'd Though to procure his ruine they were arm'd To be their Food himselfe he freely gave His Heart was pierc'd that he their Soules might save Because they disobey'd the Sacred-will He did the Law of Righteousnesse fulfill And to that end though guiltlesse he had bin Was offred for our Vniversall-sinne Let mee Oh God! for ever fixe mine eyes Vpon the Merit of that Sacrifize Let me retaine a due commemoration Of those deare Mercies and that bloudy Passion Which here is meant and by true Faith still feed Vpon the drops this Pelican did bleed Yea let me firme unto thy Law abide And ever love that Flocke for which he dy'd Bee Iust for neither Sea nor Land Shall hide thee from the Royall-hand DISCITE IUSTITIAM ILLVSTR. XXI Book 3 THat which wee call the Sea-horse is a Creature Whereby the Priests of Aegypt wonted were To typify an Ill-disposed nature And such as to their Parents cruell are Because this Monster as their Authors write When strong he growes becommeth so ingrate That he pursues with violent despight His old and weakly Sire which him begate Contrariwise the Storke they figur'd then When they occasion had to signifie The good condition of those honest men Who pleasure take in workes of Piety Because the Storkes not onely harmed none But holpe their aged Parents in their need And those offensive Serpents prey'd upon Which in the Fennes of Aegypt yearely breed The Royall-Crowne therefore supporting thus That pious Fowle and overtopping here The wicked and the fierce Hyppotamus May serve to comfort and to keep in feare For it informes that if we pious grow And love our Princes who those Parents bee To whom all Subjects filiall duties owe The blessings of their Favours we shall see It shewes us also that if we affect Vnrighteous-wayes no Wit or Strength of our Nor any Vncouth-place shall us protect From being reached by the Sov'raigne-power The way of Iustice therefore learne thou still For love of Goodnesse or for feare of Ill. Take wing my Soule and mount up higher For Earth fulfills not my Desire NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO ILLVSTR. XXII Book 3 WHen Ganymed himselfe was purifying Great Iupiter his naked beauty spying Sent forth his Aegle from below to take him A blest Inhabitant in Heav'n to make him And there as Poets feigned he doth still To Iove and other God heads Nectar fill Though this be but a Fable of their feigning The Morall is a Reall truth pertayning To ev'ry one which harbours a desire Above the Starry Circles to aspire By Ga●ymed the Soule is understood That 's washed in the Purifying flood Of sacred Baptisme which doth make her seeme Both pure and beautifull in God's esteeme The Aegle meanes that Heav'nly Contemplation Which after Washings of Regeneration Lifts up the Minde from things that earthly bee To view those Objects which Faith's Eyes doe see The Nectar which is filled out and given To all the blest Inhabitants of Heaven Are those Delights which Christ hath sayd they have When some Repentant soule beginnes to leave Her foulnesse by renewing of her birth And slighting all the Pleasures of the Earth I aske not Lord those Blessings to receive Which any Man hath pow'r to take or give Nor what this World affords for I contemne Her Favours and have seene the best of them Nay Heav'n it selfe will unsufficient bee Vnlesse Thou also give Thy selfe to mee Through many spaces Time doth run And endeth where it first begun IN SE SUA PER UESTIGIA UOLUITUR ILLVSTR. XXIII Book 3 OLd Sages by the Figure of the Snake Encircled thus did oft expression make Of Annuall-Revolutions and of things Which wheele about in everlasting-rings There ending where they first of all begun And there beginning where the Round was done Thus doe the Planets Thus the Seasons doe And thus doe many other Creatures too By minutes and by houres the Spring steales in And rolleth on till Summer doth begin The Summer brings on Autumne by degrees So ripening that the eye of no man sees Her Entrances That Season likewise hath To Winter ward as leasurely a path And then cold Winter wheeleth on amaine Vntill it bring the Spring about againe With all those Resurrections which appeare To wait upon her comming every yeare These Roundells helpe to shew the Mystery Of that immense and blest Eternitie From whence the CREATVRE sprung and into whom It shall againe with full perfection come When those Additions it hath fully had Which all the sev'rall Orbes of Time can add It is a full and fairely written Scrowle Which up into it selfe it selfe doth rowle And by Vnfolding and Infolding showes A Round which n●ither End nor entrance knowes And by this Emblem you may partly see T is that which IS but cannot uttred be Each Day a Line small tasks appeares Yet much it makes in threescore Yeares NULLA DIES SINE LINEA ILLVSTR. XXIV Book 3 HEre 's but one Line and but one Line a Day Is all that taske our Motto seemes to lay And that is thought perhaps a thing so small As if it were as good bee nought at all But be not so deceiv'd For oft you see Small things in time great matters rise to be Yea that which when the same was first begun A Trifle seem'd and easie to be done By long nelect of time will burthensome And at the last impossible become Great Clarkes there are who shall not leave behinde them One good Weekes worke for Future Times to minde them In Callings either Humane or Divine Who by composing but each Day a Line Might Authors of some famous Workes appeare In sixtie seventie or in eightie yeare To which ten hundred thousands have arrived Of whom we see no signe that ev'r they lived And with much pleasure wee might all effect Those needfull Works which often we neglect Vntill too late if we but now and then Did spare one houre to exercise the penn For still one-Line another diaweth on And Line by Line great Workes at last are done Whereas dis use and many dayes mispent Without their Lines let in discouragement Or bring Despaire which doth 〈◊〉 sot●ish make us That we to no endeavour can berake us Marke this and labour in some honest Way As much as makes at least One Line a Day Our outward Hopes will take effect According to the King's aspect AD REGIS NUTUS ILLVSTR. XXV Book 3 WHen Phoebus with a cheerefull eye beholds The Flow'r-embroydred earth and freely spreads His beames abroad behold the Marigolds Beginne to reare their low-dejected heads The Tulips Daysies and the Heliotropes Of ev'ry kinde their closed Leaves display And as it were with new-recover'd hopes Attend upon the Ruler of the Day Againe when either in the West he shrowds His Rayes below this Horizon or hides His Face behinde the Curtaines of the Cloudes They lose

signifie Th●se who in Fiery Charriots doe aspire Elijah-like to Immortality Or those Heroicke spirits who unharm'd Have through the Fires of Troubles and Affliction With Vertue and with Innocencie arm'd Walkt onward in the Path-way of Perfection The Fiery-Tryall which like Wood and Hay Consumes the Workes of ev'ry Wicked-one And maketh all their Hopes to fume away Doth purifie what Faithfull-men have done They triumph in the Flames and shall obtaine The glorious Crowne of Endlesse-Happinesse When all that show of Blisse appeareth vaine Which Worldly men have seemed to possesse For though some Sinnes and Follies gilded are And shine like purest Gold and Pretious-Stones This Test will finde of what Allay they were And make them knowne but Counterfeited Ones For in this Fornace all such Wormes expire And none but Vertue liveth in this Fire Hee over all the Starres doth raigne That unto Wisdome can attaine SAPIENS DOMINABITVR ASTRIS ILLVSTR. XXXI Book 1. I Am not of their Minde who thinke the Sun The Moone the Planets and those glorious Lights Which trim the Sphares doe in their Motions run To no more purpose then to please our Sights Nor for distinguishment of Nights and Dayes Or of the Seasons and the Times alone Can I suppose the Hand of God displayes Those many Starres we nightly gaze upon For both by Reason and by Common-sense We know and often feele that from above The Planets have on us an Influence And that our Bodies varie as they move Moreover Holy Writ inferres that these Have some such pow'r ev'n in those Places where It names Orion and the Pleiades Which Starres of much inferiour Nature are Yet hence conclude not therefore that the Minde Is by the Starres constrained to obey Their Influence or so by them inclin'd That by no meanes resist the same we may For though they forme the Bodies temp'rature And though the Minde inclineth after that By Grace another Temper we procure Which guides the Motions of Supposed Fate The Soule of Man is nobler then the Sphaeres And if it gaine the Place which may be had Not here alone on Earth the Rule it beares But is the Lord of all that God hath made Be wise in him and if just cause there bee The Sunne and Moone shall stand and wayt on thee A Princes most ennobling Parts Are Skill in Armes and Love to Arts. EX VTROQVE CAESAR ILLVSTR. XXXII Book 1. RIght blest are they on whom God hath bestowne A King whose Vertues have approved him To be an Ornament unto his Throne And as a Lustre to his Diadem Hee seekes not onely how to keepe in awe His People by those meanes that rightfull are But doth unto himselfe become a Law And by Example Pious Wayes declare He loveth Peace and after it pursues Yet if of Warre a just occasion come Doth nor Bellona's Challenges refuse Nor feare to beat Defyance on his Drum He is as ready also to advance The Lib'rall Arts and from his Lands to drive All false Religion Schisme and Ignorance As other publike profits to contrive And such a Prince is not a Casuall-thing The Glories of a Throne by Chance possessing Nor meerely from his Parents doth he spring But he is rather Gods immediate Blessing If thou desirest such a Prince to be Or to acquire that Worth which may allure Such Princes to vouchsafe some Grace to thee Their Kingly Vertues labour to procure In Military Practices delight Not for a wicked or vaine-glorious end But to maintaine the Cause that is upright Or thy distressed Countrey to defend And strive that thou as excellent mayst bee In Knowledge as thou art in thy Degree True-Lovers Lives in one Heart lye Both Live or both together Dye PERSEQVAR EXSTINCTV̄ ILLVSTR. XXXIII Book 1. HEe that shall say he Loves and was againe So well-belov'd that neither Hee nor Shee Suspects each other neither needs to gaine New proofes that they in all Desires agree And yet shall coole againe in their Affection And leave to Love or live till they are Lovers The second-time It some grosse Imperfection In One if not in Both of them discovers It was not Love which did between them grow But rather somewhat like unto the same Which having made a faire deceiving Show Obtain'd a while that honorable Name For False-Affections will together play So lovingly and oft so act those Parts Which reall seeme that for a time they may Appeare the Children of Vnfeigned-Hearts Yea Many-times true Turtles are deceiv'd By counterfeited Passions till their Love Of her true Object findes her selfe bereav'd And after it is forced to remove But where True Love begetteth and enjoyes The proper Object which shee doth desire Nor Time nor Injury the same destroyes But it continues a Perpetuall Fire Like am'●ous Thisbe to her Pyramus On all occasions it continues true Nor Night nor Danger makes it timorous But through all Pe●ills it will him pursue Thus both in Life in Death in all estates True Lovers will be true Associates When Two agree in their Desire One Sparke will set them both on Fire FLAMMESCIT VTERQVE ILLVSTR. XXXIV Book 1. THe Westerne-Indians when they want a Fire To warme their naked limbs or dresse their Food At ev'ry need accomplish their Desire By often rubbing of two Stickes of Wood. From whence these Observations we may take First that in them whose Natures gentlest are A long Contention such a Change may make As did before scarce possible appeare Next that when Two in Opposition bee Whose power and strength and Malice is the same Their strugling Hearts but seldome doe agree Till they beget a Selfe-devouring-Flame And thirdly it informes that those chast Fires Which on Loves Altars keepe a Lasting-Heat Are those which in two Hearts two Like-Desires Vpon each other mutually beget Hence therefore learne thou first not to contemne Their Mildnesse who to anger are not prone Lest many wrongs doe stirre up Fires in them And worke thee Mischiefe when thou look'st for none Be wary next though thou thy selfe be strong How with a pow'rfull Foe thou dost contend For they that wrastle in Contention long Will sure beshrew their Madnesse in the end And if to warme thee by Loves Fires thou seeke Thy Pe●re in Yeares and Manners pray to finde Let both your Aymes and Longings be alike Be one in Faith and Will and one in Minde So you shall reape the fruits of your Desire And warme each other with a kindly Fire He that delights to Plant and Set Makes After-Ages in his Debt POST ERITATI ILLVSTR. XXXV Book 1. WHen I behold the Havocke and the Spoyle Which ev'n within the compasse of my Dayes Is made through every quarter of this I le In Woods and Groves which were this Kingdomes praise And when I minde with how much greedinesse We seeke the present Gaine in every thing Not caring so our Lust we may possesse What Dammage to Posterity we bring They doe me-thinkes as if they did foresee That some of

obay Their Sonnes and so their Dignitie to lose As to be fed and cloth'd at their dispose Nay wee have some who have assay'd to draw All backward to the Bondage of the Law Ev'n to those abrogated Rites and Dayes By which the wandring Iew markes out his wayes And to pursue this Round they are so heady That they have made themselves and others giddy Doe thou these froward Motions LORD restraine And set the World in her due course againe Invincibilitie is there Where Order Strength and Vnion are VIS NESCIA VINCI ILLVSTR. XII Book 4 FRom these well-order'd Arrowes and the Snake This usefull Observation you may make That where an able Prudence doth combine Vnited-forces by good Discipline It maketh up a pow'r exempted from The feare or perill to be overcome And if you covet safetie you will seeke To know this Ward and to acquire the like For doubtlesse neither is it in the force Of iron Charets or of armed Horse In which the King securitie may finde Unlesse the Riders bee well Disciplinde Nor lyes it in the Souldiers common Skill In warlike Postures nor in theirs who drill The Rankes and Fyles to order them aright According as Occasion makes the Fight But men must use a further Prudence too Or else those vulgar-Arts will all undoe For these are onely Sciences injoynd To order well the Body not the Mind And men best train'd in these oft times we see The Hare-brain'dst-fooles in all our Armies bee To strength and skill unite we must therefore A manly Prudence comprehending more Than all these Powr's ev'n such as when shee please To all her ends can use and mannage these And shew us how to cure or to prevent All Hazards or withall to bee content Hee that 's thus arm'd and trusts in God alone May bee oppos'd but conquered of none When thou art shipwrackt in Estate Submit with patience unto Fate QUO FATA TRAHUNT ILLVSTR. XIII Book 4 WHen I beheld this Picture of a Boat Which on the raging Waves doth seeme to float Forc'd onward by the current of the Tide Without the helpe of Anchor Oare or Guide And saw the Motto there which doth imply That shee commits her selfe to Destinie Me thinkes this Emblem sets out their estate Who have ascribed ev'ry thing to Fate And dreame that howsoe're the businesse goe Their Worke nor hinders neither helpes thereto The leaking Ship they value as the sound Hee that 's to hanging borne shall ne're bee drown'd And men to happinesse ordain'd say these May set their Ship to float as Fate shall please This Fancie springing from a mis-beleeving Of God's Decrees and many men deceiving With shewes of Truth both causeth much offence Against God's Mercies and his Providence And brings to passe that some to ruine runne By their neglect of what they might have done For Meanes is to bee us'd if wee desire The blessing of our safetie to acquire Whose naturall effects if God deny Vpon his Providence wee must relye Still practising what naturall aydes may bee Vntill no likely ayd untride wee see And when this Non plus wee are forc'd unto Stand still wee may and wayt what God will do Hee that shall thus to Fate his fortunes leave Let mee bee ruin'd if Shee him deceive The best and fairest House to mee Is that where best I love to bee ΟΙΚΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΣ ILLVSTR. XIV Book 4 THey are not Houses builded large and high Seel'd all with Gold and pav'd with Porphyrie Hung round with Arras glaz'd with Christall-glasse And cover'd o're with plates of shining Brasse Which are the best but rather those where wee In safetie health and best content may bee And where wee finde though in a meane Estate That portion which maintaines a quiet Fate Here in a homely Cottage thatcht with reed The Peasant seemes as pleasedly to feed As hee that in his Hall or Parlour dines Which Fret-worke Roofes or costly Cedar Lines And with the very same affections too Both to and from it hee doth come and goe The Tortois doubtlesse doth no house-roome lack Although his House will cover but his back And of his Tub the Cynicke seem'd as glad As Alexander was of all hee had When I am setled in a place I love A shrubby hedge-row seemes a goodly Grove My liking maketh Palaces of Sheds And of plaine Couches carved Ivory Beds Yea ev'ry path and pathlesse walke which lies Contemn'd as rude or wilde in others eyes To mee is pleasant not alone in show But truly such For liking makes them so As pleas'd in theirs the Snailes and Cocles dwell As doth a Scallop in his pearly shell For that commends the House which makes it fit To serve their turnes who should have use of it The King his pow'r from God receives For hee alone the Scepter gives DEUS DAT CUI VULT ILLVSTR. XV. Book 4 THe Gift of Kingdomes Children and good-Wives Are three of God's most choice Prerogatives In temp'rall Blessings and of all these three The gifts of Kingdomes his rar'st Favours bee For in five hundred Millions there 's not one Whom this high Honour is conferr'd upon Nor is there any knowne Estate on earth Whereto wee come by Merit or by Birth Which can to any man assurance bring That hee shall either live or die a King The Morning-Starre that 's Heire unto a Crowne Oft sets before the shining-Sunne is downe And some that once a glorious Empire swayd Did lose their Kingdomes e're their heads were layd The greatest earthly Monarch hath no powre To keepe his Throne one minute of an houre Vse all the meanes and policies hee can If God will give it to another man Hee when Belshazzar was in high'st estate His Kingdome to the Persians did translate King Saul and Rehoboam could not stay The Royalties which God would give away And Hee that was the proudest of the rest God changed from a King into a Beast Nor is there any man so meane but hee When God shall please an Emperour may bee Some from the Pot kil●e from the Sheep cote some Hee raised hath great Princes to become Yea hee o're heav'n and earth hath rear'd his Throne That was on earth the most despised one Her favours Fortune oft imparts To those that are of no deserts INDIGNUM FORTUNA FOVET ILLVSTR. XVI Book 4 WOuld you not laugh and thinke it beastly fine To see a durtie and ill-favour'd Swine Weare on her snout a Diamond or a Pearle That might become the Ladie of an Earle And hold it head as if it meant to show It were the Pigg of some well-nurtur'd Sow Perhaps you thinke there be not any where Such Antickes but in this our Emblem here But if you take these Charmes and then goe forth Among some troupes which passe for folkes of worth You shall discover quickly if you please A thousand sights as mimicall as these Here you shall see a noble Title worne That had not mis-beseem'd one better borne By