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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

pay If wee our paines rewarded cannot see Wee count our Merits greater then they be But if we bide content our worth is more And rich we are though others think us poore When prosperous our Affaires doe growe God's Grace it is that makes them so FLOREBO PROSPICIENTE DEO ILLVSTR. VI. Book 3 SVch pleasant Flowres as here are shadow'd out Full-grown well trim'd and strongly fenc'd about At first perchance had planting where they stand And husbanding by some good Gard'ners hand But when to perfect ripenesse they are grown And spread forth leaves and blossomes fully blowne They draw it from the Vertue of the Sunne Which worketh when the Gard'ners worke is done For lost were all his Travaile and his praise Vnlesse that Planet cheare them with his rayes In this our Pilgrimage it fares with us In all our hopes and all our labours thus For whatsoever bus'nesse wee intend On God our good successes doe depend Our Hands may build but structures vaine we make Till God to be Chiefe builder undertake To wall a City wee may beare the cost But he mu●t guard it or the Towne is lost The Plow-man useth diligence to sowe But God must blesse it or no Corne will grow Yea though Paul plant and though Apollo water They spend their sweat upon a fruitlesse matter Till God from heaven their labours please to blesse And crowne their travailes with a good increase Let therefore those that flourish like this Flowre And may be wither'd e're another houre Give God the praise for making of their Seeds Bring forth sweet Flowres that else had proved Weeds And me despise not though I thrive not so For when God pleaseth I shall flourish too If thou thy Duties truely doe Of thy Reward be hopefull too FAC ET SPERA ILLVSTR. VII Book 3 SOme Sects are found who so believing be They thinke themselves from legall-workings free And so they live as if they stood in feare That with Good-works their God offended were Another sort we know who credit not That any hope of Mercie can be got Till they themselves by their externall-deed Have merited the favours they shall need And so they prize their workings that for Grace They seeme to disallow all usefull place Both sorts their errours may be purged from When to the Fiery-tryall they shall come So likewise may another Faction too That erre more deadly then these former doe These doe forsooth affirme that God's decree Before all Worlds what Words can fouler be D●barr'd the greatest part of humane-race Without respecting sinne from hope of Grace And that howere this number shall indeaver They must continue Reprobates for ever The first are errours of Impiety But this ascends the top of blasphemy Dispoyles Religion wholly of her fruits And wrongeth God in all his Attributes These Errours therefore shunne and so believe That wee thy Faith may by thy Workes perceive So worke that thy believing may approve Thou wrought'st not for thy Wages but for love For whatsoe're thou be if thus thou doe Thou mayst have hopes and God will grant them too By Wisedome things which passe away Are best preserved from decay RERUM SAPIENTIA CUSTOS ILLVSTR. VIII Book 3 THe Laurell which is given for a Crowne To men deserving Glory and renowne Is figur'd here those noble deeds to show For which the Wreaths of Honour we bestow Two Serpents WISDOME'S Emblems twisted are About this branch of Lawrell to declare That Wisdome is the su●est meanes to save Our Names and Actions from Oblivion's Grave The Snakes are two perhaps to signifie That Morall-wit and Christian policie Vnited both together doe contrive The safest guard and best preservative Consider this all yee that trust your Names To Marble Monuments or mount your Fames By those poore meanes which Fooles and Knaves pursue And may effect as easily as you Nay with more ease and overtop you too When you have done the best your wits can doe I say consider this and let the Pen Of learned wise and understanding men Renowne your worths and register the story Of your deserved and well-gotten glory L●st else it suffer close-imprisonments Within the walls of such poore Monuments As oft are built to leave it quite forgotten Whose bones they cover'd e're those bones be rotten But you shall best preserve your Honest-fame Your Workes your Hopes and Honours of your Name If you your selves be wise and so provide That Prudence all your Workes and Speeches guide Good Hopes we best accomplish may By lab'ring in a constant-Way LABORE ET CONSTANTIA ILLVSTR. IX Book 3 SOme Folkes there are and many men suppose That I my selfe may passe for one of those Who many likely Businesses intend Yet bring but very few unto an end Which folly to prevent this Emblem here Did in a luckie houre perhaps appeare For as to draw a Circle with our hand We cause the brazen Compasses to stand With one foot firmely fixed one the ground And move the other in a Constant-round Right so when we shall purpose to proceed In any ju●t and profitable deed We first should by a constant-resolution Stand firme to what we put in execution And then with perseverance labour out Those workings which we are employ'd about For we with constant-liking must elect Those Businesses we purpose to effect Or els our time our labour and our cost Will oft be much in vaine or wholly lost With constant-labour we must follow too Those things which we resolved are to do Or els our hopes will never be effected How warily soe're we have projected Long Iourneys I abhorre yet otherwhile I meane a Furlong and performe a Mile I greatly feare Long-labours to begin Yet some I finish when I 'me entred in And if in Labour I more constant grow How I improve hereafter you shall know Ere thou a fruitfull-Cropp shalt see Thy ground must plough'd and harro'wd be EVERTIT ET AEQUAT ILLVSTR. X. Book 3 BEfore the Plowman hopefull can be made His untill'd earth good Hay or Corne will yeeld He breakes the hillocks downe with Plough or Spade And harrowes over all the cloddie Field Then from the leaveld-ground at last he mowes That Cropp of grasse which he had hope to gaine Or there doth reape the fruit of what he sowes With profit which contents him for his paine Our craggle-Nature must be tilled thus Before it will for Herbes of Grace be fit Our high-conceit must downe be broke in us Our heart is proud and God must humble it Before good Seed in us will rooting take Afflictions ploughes and harrowes must prepare us And that the truer levell he may make When we are sunck too low Gods hand must reare us Then neither stormings of Adversitie Shall drowne the Seedes of Hope which we have sowne Nor shall the Sunne-beames of Prosperitie Drie up their moisture ere they ripe are growne Oh Lord thou know'st the nature of my minde Thou know'st my bodyes tempers what they are And by what meanes they

want or to exceed Whether our Emblem 's Author thought of this You need not care nor will it be amisse If they who perfect Lovers would be thought Doe mind what by this Morall they are taught Where many-Forces joyned are Vnconquerable-pow'r is there CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS ILLVSTR. XLV Book 3 AN Emblem 's meaning here I thought to conster And this doth rather fashion out a Monster Then forme an Hieroglyphicke but I had These Figures as you see them ready made By others and I meane to morallize Their Fancies not to mend what they devise Yet peradventure with some vulgar praise This Picture though I like it not displayes The Morall which the Motto doth imply And thus it may be sayd to signifie He that hath many Faculties or Friends To keepe him safe or to acquire his ends And fits them so and keepes them so together That still as readily they ayd each other As if so many Hands they had been made And in One-body usefull being had That man by their Assistance may at length Attaine to an unconquerable strength And crowne his honest Hopes with whatsoever He seekes for by a warranted Endeavour Or else it might be sayd that when we may Make our Affections and our Sense obay The will of Reason and so well agree That we may finde them still at peace to be They 'l guard us like so many Armed hands And safely keepe us whatsoere withstands If others thinke this Figure here inferres A better sense let those Interpreters Vnriddle it and preach it where they please Their Meanings may be good and so are these The Hearts of Kings are in God's Hands And as He lists He Them commands IN MANU DEI COR REGIS ILLVSTR. XLVI Book 3 WHy doe men grudge at those who raysed be By royall Favour from a low degree Know this Hee should be honour'd whom the King To place of Dignity shall please to bring Why should they blame their Kings for fav'ring such Whom they have thought scarce meriting so much God rules their Hearts and they themselves deceive Who dreame that Kings exalt without Gods leave Why murmure they at God for guiding so The Hearts of Kings as oft they see him doe Or at his Workes why should they take offence As if their Wit could teach his Providence His just and his all-seeing Wisedome knowes Both whom and why he crownes or overthrowes And for what cause the Hearts of Princes bee Inlarg'd or shut when we no cause can see We sometime know what 's well and what 's amisse But of those Truths the root concealed is And False-hoods and Uncertainties there are In most of those things which we speake or heare Then were not Kings directed by God's hand They who are best and wisest in the Land Might oft misguide them either by receiving A False report or by some wrong-believing God's Grace it is that Good-men rays'd have bin If Sinners flourish we may thanke our Sin Both Good and Bad so like in out-sides be That Kings may be deceiv'd in what they see And if God had not rul'd their Hearts aright The World by this time had been ruin'd quite A Vertue hidden or not us'd Is either Sloth or Grace abus'd CELATA VIRTUS IGNAVIA EST. ILLVSTR. XLVII Book 3 THe World hath shamelesse Boasters who pretend In sundry matters to be skill'd so well That were they pleased so their houres to spend They say they could in many things excell But though they make their hearers to beleeve That out of Modestie their Gifts they hide In them wee very plainely may perceive Or Sloth or Envy Ignorance or Pride When other mens endeavours they peruse They either carpe at what they cannot mend Or else of Arrogance doe those accuse Who to the publike view their Workes commend If these men say that they can Poetize But will not they are false in saying so For he whose Wit a little that way lies Will doing bee though hee himselfe undoe If they in other Faculties are learned And still forbeare their Talents to imploy The truest Knowledge yet is undiscerned And that they merit not which they injoy Yea such as hide the Gifts they have received Or use them not as well as they are able Are like fayre Eyes of usefull sight bereaved Or lighted-Candles underneath a Table Their glorioust part is but a Painted cloath Whose Figures to the wall-ward still are hung Their hidden Vertues are apparant Sloth And all their life is to the publike wrong For they doe re●pe the Fruits by many sowne And leave to others nothing of their owne The Moone which is decreasing now When shee returnes will fuller grow REDIBO PLENIOR ILLVSTR. XLVIII Book 3 I Never yet did murmuringly complaine Although those Moones have long been in the Waine Which on their Silver Shields my Elders wore In Battels and in Triumphs heretofore Nor any mention have I ever made Of such Eclipses as those Crescents had Thereby to move some Comet to reflect His fading-light or daigne his good aspect For when I tell the World how ill I fare I tell her too how little I doe care For her despights yea and I tell it not That helpe or pitie might from her be got But rather that her Favourites may see I know my Waynings yet can pleased bee My Light is from the Planet of the Sunne And though the Course which I obliquely runne Oft brings my outward Fortunes to the Waine My Light shall one day bee renew'd againe Yea though to some I quite may seeme to lose My Light because my follies interpose Their shadowes to eclipse it yet I know My Crescents will increase and fuller grow Assoone as in the Flesh I beeing had I mooved on in Courses retrograde And thereby lost my Splendor but I feele Soft motions from that great Eternall Wheele Which mooveth all things sweetly mooving mee To gaine the Place in which I ought to bee And when to Him I backe returne from whom At first I came I shall at Full become Bee warie wheresoo're thou bee For from deceit no place is free NUSQUAM TUTA FIDES ILLVSTR. XLIX Book 3 SOme write but on what grounds I cannot tell That they who neere unto the Deserts dwell Where Elephants are found doe notice take What trees they haunt their sleeping-stocks to make That when they rest against an halfe-sawne stemme It falling may betray those Beasts to them Now though the part Historicall may erre The Morall which this Emblem doth inferre Is overtrue and seemeth to imply The World to bee so full of Treacherie As that no corner of it found can be In which from Falshoods Engines wee are free I have observ'd the Citie and I finde The Citizens are civill grave and kinde Yet many are deluded by their showes And cheated when they trust in them repose I have been oft at Court where I have spent Some idle time to heare them Complement But I have seene in Courtiers such deceit That for their

my Flesh my Time and my Estate Be so consum'd so spent so wasted bee That they may nourish Grace and pe●fit that For which all these were first bestowd'd on me So when I quite am vanish'd out of seeing I shall enjoy my Now-concealed-Being When to suppresse us Men intend They make us higher to ascend CONCVSSVS SVRGO ILLVSTR. XVI Book 1. WHen we observe the Ball how to and fro The Gamesters force it we may ponder thus That whil'st we live we shall be playd with so And that the World will make her Game of us Adversities one while our hearts constraine To stoope and knock the Pavements of Despaire Hope like a Whirle-wind mounts us up againe Till oft it lose us in the empty ayre Sometimes above the Battlements we looke Sometimes we quite below the Line are tost Another-while against the Hazard strooke We but a little want of being lost Detraction Envie Mischief and Despight One Partie make and watchfully attend To catch us when we rise to any Height Lest we above their hatred should ascend Good-Fortune Praises Hopes and Industries Doe side-together and make Play to please us But when by them we thinke more high to rise More great they make our Fall and more disease us Yea they that seeke our Losse advance our Gaine And to our Wishes bring us oft the nigher For we that else upon the Ground had laine Are by their striking of us lifted higher When Balls against the Stones are hardest throwne Then highest up into the Aire they fly So when men hurle us with most fury downe Wee hopefull are to be advanc'd thereby And when they smite us quite unto the Ground Then up to Heav'n we trust we shall rebound Till God hath wrought us to his Will The Hammer we shall suffer still DVM EXTENDAR ILLVSTR. XVII Book 1. WHy should the foolish World discourage Men In just endurances or bid them shunne Good Actions ' cause they suffer now and then For Doing well as if some Ill were done Ere Plates extended are they must abide A thousand hamm'rings And then that which fill'd So little roome it scarce your Hand could hide Will serve a goodly Monument to gild So he that hopes to winne an honest Name Must many blowes of Fortune undergoe And hazard oft the blast of Evill-Fame Before a Good-Report her Trumpe will blow A thousand Worthies had unworthily Been raked up in Ashes and in Clay Vnknowne and bury'd in Obscurity If Malice had not fil'd their Rust away But lo● their lasting prayses now are spread And rais'd by Adverse-Chance to such a height That they most glorious are now they are dead And live in Injuries and Deaths despight For by Afflictions man refined growes And as the Gold prepared in the Fire Receiveth such a Forme by wrongs and blowes That hee becomes the Iewell we desire To thee therefore Oh God! Mv Prayers are Not to be freed from Griefes and Troubles quite But that they may be such as I can beare And serve to make me precious in thy Sight This please me shall though all my Life time I Betweene thine Anvill and the Hammer lie From thence where Nets and Snares are layd Make-hast lest els you be betray'd MATVRA ILLVSTR. XVIII Book 1. THe nimble Spider from his Entrailes drawes A suttle Thread and curious art doth show In weaving Nets not much unlike those Lawes Which catch Small-Thieves and let the Great-ones goe For as the Cob-web takes the lesser Flyes When those of larger size breake through their Snares So Poore men smart for little Injuries When Rich-men scape whose Guilt is more then theirs The Spider also representeth such Who very curious are in Trifling things And neither Cost nor Time nor Labour grutch In that which neither Gaine nor Pleasure brings But those whom here that Creature doth implye Are chiefely such who under cunning shewes Of simple-Meanings or of Curtesie Doe silly Men unwarily abuse Or else it meanes those greedy Cormorants Who without touch of Conscience or Compassion Seeke how to be enricht by others wants And bring the Poore to utter Desolation Avoyd them therefore though compell'd by need Or if a Storme inforce yee lab'ring Bees That yee must fall among them Flie with speed From their Commerce when Calmes your passage frees Much more let wastfull Gallants haste from these Else when those Idling-painted Butterflies Have flutter'd-out their Summer-time in ease And spent their Wealth in foolish Vanities The Blasts of Want may force them to be brought For shelter thither where they shall be caught When thou a Dangerous-Way dost goe Walke surely though thy pace be slowe LENTE SED ATTENTE ILLVSTR. XXI Book 1. EXperience proves that Men who trust upon Their Nat'rall parts too much oft lose the Day And faile in that which els they might have done By vainely trifling pretious Time away It also shewes that many Men have sought With so much Rashnesse those things they desir'd That they have brought most likely Hopes to nought And in the middle of their Courses tir'd And not a few are found who so much wrong Gods Gratiousnesse as if their thinkings were That seeing he deferres his Iudgements long His Vengeance he for ever would forbeare But such as these may see wherein they faile And what would fitter be for them to doe If they would contemplate the slow-pac'd Snaile Or this our Hieroglyphicke looke into For thence we learne that Perseverance brings Large Workes to end though slowly they creepe on And that Continuance perfects many things Which seeme at first unlikely to be done It warnes likewise that some Affaires require More Heed then Haste And that the Course we take Should suite as well our Strength as our Desire Else as our Proverbe saith Haste Waste may make And in a Mysticke-sense it seemes to preach Repentance and Amendment unto those Who live as if they liv'd beyond Gods reach Because he long deferres deserved Blowes For though Iust-Vengeance moveth like a Snaile And slowly comes her comming will not faile A Sive of shelter maketh show But ev'ry Storme will through it goe TRANSEAT ILLVSTR. XX. Book 1. SOme Men when for their Actions they procure A likely colour be it nere so vaine Proceede as if their Projects were as sure As when Sound Reason did their Course maintayne And these not much unlike those Children are Who through a Storme advent'ring desp'rately Had rather on their Heads a Sive to beare Then Cov'rings that may serve to keepe them drye For at a distance that perchance is thought A helpfull Shelter and yet proves to those Who neede the same a Toy which profits nought Because each drop of Ra●ne quite through it goes So they whose foolish Projects for a while Doe promise their Projectors hopefull ends Shall finde them in the Tryall to beguile And that both Shame and Want on them attends Such like is their estate who to appeare Rich-men to others doe with Inward-payne A gladsome out-ward Port desire to