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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

shall say he Loves and was again So well-belov'd that neither He nor She Suspects each other neither needs to gain New proofs that they in all Desires agree And yet shall cool again in their Affection And leave to Love or live till they are Lovers The second-time It some gross 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 fair deceiving Show Obtain'd a while that honourable Name For False Affections will together play So lovingly and oft so act those Parts Which real seem that for a time they may Appear the Children of unfeigned-Unfeigned-Hearts Yea many-times true Turtles are deceiv'd By counterfeited Passions till their Love Of her true Object finds her self bereav'd And after it is forced to remove But where true-True-Love begetteth and enjoys The proper Object which she doth desire Nor Time nor Injury the same destroys But it continues a Perpetual Fire Like am'rous Thisbe to her Pyramus On all occasions it continues true Nor Night nor Danger makes it timorous But through all Perils it will him pursue Thus both in Life in Death in all estates True Lovers will be true Associates Lot 29. SOme think you Love 't is true you do And are as well beloved too But you if we the truth may say Love not so truly as you may To make a perfect Love there goes Much more than every Lover knows Your Emblem therefore mind and then Begin a new to love agen Emblem XXX Nequid Nimis THE Thirtieth Emblem Illustrated Since overmuch will overfill Pour out enough but do not spill IT is this Emblems meaning to advance The love and practice of true Temperance For by this Figure which doth seem to fill Until the liquor overflow and spill We are as by example taught to see How fruitless our Intemperancies be Thus by the Rule of Contrarieties Some Vertues best are shown to vulgar eyes To see a nastie Drunkard reel and spew More moves to Soberness than can the view Of twenty civil men and to behold One Prodigal that goodly lands hath sold Stand torn and louzie begging at the door Would make Intemperance abhorred more And manly Soberness much better each Than all that six Philosophers can preach So by the Vessels overflowing here True Moderation doth more prais'd appear Than by the mean it self And without sin That 's pictur'd which to do had wicked bit For though to vertuous ends we do deny The Doing-ill that Good may come thereby From hence let us be taught that carefull heed Whereby we should both Mind and Body fee● Let us of our own selves observe the size How much we want how little will suffize And our own longings rather leave unfill'd Than suffer any portion to be spill'd For what we marr shall to account be laid And what we wisely spend shall be repaid Lot 30. IF truly temperate thou be Why should this Lot be drawn by thee Perhaps thou either dost exceed ●n clothes Or high dost drink or feed Beyond the mean If this thou find Or know'st in any other kind How thou offendest by excess Now leave off thy Intemperatness Emblem XXXI Legibus Armis THE Thirtieth First Emblem Illustrated When Law and Arms together meet The world descends to kiss their feet THe Picture of a Crowned-king here stands Upon a Globe and with outstretched hands Holds forth in view a Law-book and a Sword Which plain and modern Figures may afford This meaning that a King who hath regard To Courts for pleading and a Court of Guard And at all times a due respect will carry To pious Laws and Actions military Shall not be Monarch onely in those Lands That are by Birth right under his commands But also might if just occasion were Make this whole Globe of earth his power to fear Advance his Favorites and bring down all His Opposites below his pedestal His conquering Sword in forraign Realms he draws As oft as there is just or needful cause At home in ev'ry Province of his Lands At all times armed are his Trained Bands His Royal Fleets are terrours to the Seas At all hours rigg'd for useful Voyages And often he his Navy doth increase That Wars Provisions may prolong his Peace Nor by the tenure of the Sword alone Delighteth he to hold his awful Throne But likewise labours Mischiefs to prevent By wholsome Laws and rightful Government For where the Sword commands without the Law A Tyrant keeps the Land in slavish awe And where good Laws do want an Armed pow'r Rebellious Knaves their Princes will devour Lot 31. M. SOme urge their Princes on to War And weary of sweet Peace soon are Some seek to make them dote on Peace Till Publick danger more increase As if the world were kept in awe By nothing else but preaching Law The Moral is If such thou art Then Act a Moderators part Emblem XXXII Spes alit Agricolas THE Thirty second Emblem Illustrated The Husbandman doth sow his seeds And then on Hope till Harvest feeds THe painful Husbandman with sweaty brows Consumes in labour many a weary day To break the stubborn earth he digs and ploughs And then the Corn he scatters on the clay When that is done he harrows in the Seeds And by a well-cleans'd Furrow lays it dry He frees it from the Worms the Moles the Weeds He on the Fences also hath an eye And though he see the chilling Winter bring Snows Flouds and Frosts his Labours to annoy Though blasting-winds do nip them in the Spring And Sammers Mildews threaten to destroy Yea though not only Days but Weeks they a● Nay many Weeks and many Months beside In which he must with pain prolong his care Yet constant in his hopes he doth abide For this respect HOPE'S Emblem here you see Attends the Plough that men beholding it May be instructed or else minded be What Hopes continuing Labours will befit Though long thou toyled hast and long attended About such workings as are necessary And oftentimes ere fully they are ended Shalt find thy pains in danger to miscarry Yet be not out of hope nor quite dejected For buried Seeds will sprout when Winter 's gone Unlikelier things are many times effected And God brings help when men their best have done Yea they that in Good-works their life imploy Although they sow in tears shall reap in joy Lot 32. IN many things the worse thou art By the despairing fainting heart And oft thy labour and thy cost For want of Hopefulness is lost Thou therefore by thy Lot art sent This Indiscretion to prevent And by the Plow-mans hope to see Thy fault and now reform'd to be Emblem XXXIII Puris Manibus THE Thirty third Emblem Illustrated Let him that at Gods Altar stands In Innocency wash his hands WHen Reader thou hast first of all survaid That Reverend Priest which here ingraven stands In all his Holy Vestiments array'd Endeavouring for

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

his love How harmful his Maliciousness may prove For from his kindness though no profit rise To do thee spight his Malice may suffice I could not from a Prince beseech a boon By suing to his Jester or Buffoon Nor any Fools vain humor sooth or serve To get my bread though I were like to starve For to be poor I should not blush so much As if a Fool should raise me to be rich Lord though of such a kind my faults may be That sharp Affliction still must tutor me And give me due Correction in her Schools Yet oh preserve me from the scorn of Fools Those wicked Fools that in their hearts have said There is no God and rather give me Bread By Ravens LORD or in a Lions Den Then by the Favours of such foolish men Lest if their dainties I should swallow down Their smile might more undo me then their frown Lot 13. THou dost not greatly care by whom Thy wealth or thy Preferments come ●o thou may'st get them Fool or knave Thy Prayers and thy Praise may have Because thou dost not fear or dream What disadvantage comes by them But by thine Emblem thou may'st see Fools favours mischievous may be Emblem XIV Pueros castigo virosque THE Fourteenth Emblem Illustrated Behold and mark the Picture here Of what keeps Man and Child in fear THese are the greatest Afflictions most men have Ev'n from their Nursing-cradle to their Grave Yet both so needful are I cannot see How either of them may well spared be The Rod is that which most our Childhood fears And seems the great'st Affliction that it bears That which to Man-hood is a plague as common And more unsufferable is a Woman Yet blush not Ladies neither frown I pray That thus of Women I presume to say Nor number me as yet among your foes For I am more your friend then you suppose Nor smile ye Men as if from hence ye had An Argument that Woman-kind were bad The Birch is blameless yea by nature sweet And gentle till with stubborn Boys it meet But then it smarts So Women will be kind Until with froward Husbands they are joyn'd And then indeed perhaps like Birchen boughs Which else had been a trimming to their House They sometimes prove sharp whips and Rods to them That Wisdom and Instruction do contemn A Woman was not given for Correction But rather for a furtherance to Perfection A precious Balm of love to cure Mans grief And of his Pleasures to become the chief If therefore she occasion any smart The blame he merits wholly or in part For like sweet Honey she good Stomacks pleases But pains the Body subject to Diseases Lot 14. M. THe time hath been that of the Rod Thou wert more fearful then of God But now unless thou prudent grow More cause thou hast to fear a Shrow For from the Rod now thou art free A Woman shall thy Torment be Yet do not thou at her repine For all the Fault is only thine Emblem XV. Concordia Insuperabilis THE Fifteenth Emblem Illustrated Where many Forces joyned are Unconquerable Power is there AN Emblem 's meaning here I thought to conster And this doth rather fashion out a Monster Then form an Hieroglyphick but I had These Figures as you see them ready made By others and I mean to morallize Their Fancies not to mend what they devise Yet peradventure with some vulgar praise This Picture though I like it not displays The Moral which the Motto doth imply And thus it may be said to signifie He that hath many Faculties or Friends To keep him safe or to acquire his ends And fits them so and keeps them so together That still as readily they aid each other As if so many Hands they had been made And in One-body useful being had That man by their Assistance may at length Attain to an unconquerable strength And crown his honest Hopes with whatsoever He seeks for by a warranted Endeavour Or else it might be said that when we may Make our Affections and our Sense obey The will of Reason and so well agree That we may find them still at peace to be They 'l guard us like so many Armed bands And safely keep us whatsoever withstands If others think this Figure here infers A better sense let those Interpreters Unriddle it and preach it where they please Their Meanings may be good and so are these Lot 15. IF all your Powers you should unite In your desires prevail you might And sooner should effect your ends If you should muster up your friends But since your best friends do suspect That you such Policy neglect Your Lot presenteth to your view An Emblem which instructeth you Emblem XVI Non Sceptro sed Plectro ducitur THE Sixteenth Emblem Illustrated A Fickle Woman wanton grown Prefers a Fiddle before a Crown FOol Dost thou hope thine Honours or thy Gold Shall gain thee Love Or that thou hast her heart Whose hand upon thy tempting Bait laies hold Alas fond Lover thou deceived art She that with Wealth and Titles can be won Or woo'd with Vanities will wav'ring be And when her Love thou most dependest on A Fiddle-stick shall win her heart from thee To Youth and Musick Venus leaneth most And though her hand she on the Scepter lay Let Greatness of her Favours never boast For Heart and Eye are bent another way And lo no glorious Purchase that Man gets Who hath with such poor Trifles woo'd won Her footing on a Ball his Mistress sets Which in a moment slips and she is gone A Woman meerly with an Out-side caught Or tempted with a Galliard or a Song Will him forsake whom she most lovely thought For Players and for Tumblers ere 't be long You then that wish your Love should ever last And would enjoy Affection without changing Love where your Loves may worthily be plac't And keep your own Affection still from ranging Use noble means your Longings to attain Seek equall Minds and well beseeming Years They are at best vain Fools whom Folly gain But there is Bliss where Vertue most endears And wheresoe'r Affection she procures In spight of all Temptations it endures Lot 16. M. IF some here present this had got They would have blushed at their Lot Since very fit the same doth prove For one unconstant in his Love Or one that has a frickle Mate If you enjoy a better state Yet hearken what your Lot doth say Lest you hereafter want it may Emblem XVII Non obest Virtuti Sors THE Seventeenth Emblem Illustrated Though Fortune prove true Virtues Foe It cannot work her overthrow UNhappy men are they whose Ignorance So slaves them to the Fortunes of the Time That they attending on the Lot of Chance Neglect by Vertue and Deserts to clime Poor Heights they be which Fortune rears unto And fickle is the Favour she bestows To-day she makes to morrow doth undoe Builds up and in an instant overthrows On easie Wheels to

seem to say That Flesh is but a tuft of Morning Grass Both green and wither'd ere the day-light pass And such we truly find it for behold Assoon as man is born he waxeth old In Griefs in Sorrows or Necessities And withers ev'ry hour until he dies Now flourishing as Grass when it is grown Straight perishing as Grass when it is mown If we with other things mans Age compare His Life is but a Day For equall'd are His Years with Hours His Months will Minutes be Fit parallels and ev'ry breathing we May term a Day yet some ev'n at the Night Of that short Day are dead and withered quite Before the Morning of our lives be done The Flesh oft fades Sometime it grows till Noon But there 's no mortal Flesh that will abide Unparched longer than till Evening-tide For in it self it always carries that Which helpeth so it self to ruinate That though it feel nor storm nor scorching flame An inbred Canker will consume the same Considering well and well remembring this Account the Flesh no better than it is Wrong not thine everlasting Soul to cherish A Gourd which in a moments time will perish Give it the tendance fit for fading Crops But for Hay-harvest lose not better hopes Lot 49. THy flesh thou Lov'st as if it were The chiefest object of thy care And of such value as may seem Well meriting thy best esteem But now to banish that conceit Thy Lot an Emblem brings to sight Which without Flattery shews to thee Of what regard it ought to be Emblem L. Sic transit Gloria Mundi THE Fiftieth Emblem Illustrated Even as the smoke doth pass away So shall all worldly pomp decay SOme better Arguments then yet I see I must perceive and better causes why To those gay things I should addicted be To which the vulgar their Affections tye I have consider'd Scepters Miters Crowns With each appurtenance to them belonging My heart hath search'd their Glories and Renowns And all the pleasant things about them thronging My Soul hath truly weigh'd and took the measure Of Riches which the most have so desir'd I have distill'd the Quintessence of Pleasure And seen those Objects that are most admir'd I likewise feel all Passions and Affections That help to cheat the Reason and perswade That those poor Vanities have some perfections Whereby their Owners happy might be made Yet when that I have rouzed my understanding And cleans'd my Heart from some of that Corruption Which hinders in me Reason's free commanding And shews things without vails or interruption Then they methinks as fruitless do appear As Bubbles wherewithall young-children play Or as the Smoak which in our Emblem here Now makes a show and straight consumes away Be pleas'd Oh God my value may be such Of every Outward-blessing here below That I may neither love them overmuch Nor underprise the Gifts thou shalt bestow But know the use of all these fading Smokes And be refresht by that which others chokes Lot 50. IN outward Pomp thy Pleasures are Thy hope of Bliss is placed there And thou this folly wilt not leave Till of content it thee bereave Unless thou timely come to see How vain all earthly Glories be An Emblem therefore thou hast gain'd By which this knowledg is obtained These six following Chances or Lots have no Emblems belonging to them and therefore you need look no further for them but make the best of what you have got these being only added for sport and Recreation 51. THy Lot no answer will bestow To that which thou desir'st to know Nor canst thou here an Emblem find Which to thy purpose is inclin'd Perhaps it is too late to crave What thou desirest now to have Or but in vain to mention that Which thy Ambition aimeth at Then take it not in evil part That with a Blank thou answer'd art 52. IT proves a Blank For to what end Should we a serious Moral spend Where Teachings Warnings and Advice Esteemed are of little price Your only purpose is to look Upon the Pictures of this book When more discretion you have got An Emblem shall attend your Lot 53. THese Lots are almost five to one Above the Blanks yet thou hast none If thus thy fortune still proceed 'T is five to one If well thou speed Yet if thou dost not much neglect To do as wisdom shall direct It is a thousand unto five But thou in all thy Hopes wilt thrive 54. YOu may be glad you drew not that Which in your mind you guessed at For it so points out that condition Whereof you give a great suspition That had it such an Emblem nam'd As fits you right you had been sham'd Since then your fault is unreveal'd Amend and keep it still conceal'd 55. YOu in your secret thoughts despise To think an Emblem should advise Or give you cause to mind or heed Those things whereof you may have need And therefore when the Lot you try'd An answer-justly was denied Yet by your leave there are but few Who need good Counsel more than you 56. THe Chance which thou obtained hast Of all the Chances is the last And casting up the Total sums We find thy Gain to Nothing comes Yet if it well be understood This Chance may Chance to do thee good For it foretells what Portion shall To every one at last befall And warns while something is enjoy'd That it be always well imploy'd CONCLUSIONS 1. THe Glories of our Birth and state Are shadows not substantial things There is no Armour ' gainst our fate Death lays his Icy hands on Kings Scepter and Crown Must tumble down And in the dust be equal laid With the poor crooked Sythe and Spade 2. Some men with swords may reap the field And plant fresh Laurels where they kill But their strong Nerves at length must yield They tame but one another still Early or late They stoop to fate And must give up their murmuring breath Whilst the pale Captive creeps to Death 3. The Laurel withers on your Brow Then boast no more your mighty Deeds For on Deaths Purple Altar now See where the Victor Victim bleeds All heads must come To the cold Tomb. Only the Actions of the Just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust Directions for finding the Chances in the following Lottery TUrn about the Index upon the following Lottery or figure without casting your eyes thereupon to observe where it stayeth till your hand ceaseth to give it motion and then look upon what number it resteth Then look for the same number among the Lots which having read it directs you to the Emblem of the same number likewise If the Letter M be set before the Lot as it is in three or four places then that Lot is proper only to a Man and therefore if it happen to a woman let her take the next Chance whether it be Blank or Lot If it be any number above fifty there being fifty six in all it is a

did their Course maintain And these not much unlike those Children are Who through a Storm advent'ring desp'rately Had rather on their Heads a Sive to bear Then Cov'rings that may serve to keep them dry For at a distance that perchance is thought A helpfull Shelter and yet proves to those Who need the same a Toy which profits nought Because each drop of Rain quite through it goes So they whose foolish Projects for a while Do promise their Projectors hopefull ends Shall find them in the Tryal to beguile And that both Shame and Want on them attends Such like is their estate who to appear Rich men to others do with inward-pain A gladsome out-ward Port desire to bear Though they at last nor Wealth nor Credit gain And such are all those Hypocrites who strive False Hearts beneath Fair spoken Words to hide For they o'revail themselves but with a Sive Through which their purposes at length are spied And then they either wofully lament Their Brutish-folly or so hardened grow In Sinning that they never can repent Nay jest and scoff at their own Overthrow But no false Vail can serve when God will smite To save a Scorner or an Hypocrite Lot 25. TAke heed you do not quite forget That you are dancing in a Net Many there are your Ways do see Although you think unseen you be Your Faults we will no nearer touch Methinks your Emblem blabs too much But if you mend what is amiss You shall be ne're the worse for this Emblem XXVI Gaudet Patientia duris THE Twenty sixth Emblem Illustrated He that enjoys a quiet mind Can pleasure in Affliction find WHat means this Country peasant skipping here Through prickling Thistles with such joyful cheer And plucking off their tops as though for Posies He gather'd Violets or toothless Roses What meaneth it but only to express How great a joy well grounded Patientness Retains in Suff'rings and what sport she makes When she her Journey through Affliction takes I oft have said and have as oft been thought To speak a Paradox that savours nought Of likely truth that some Afflictions bring A Honey bag which cureth ev'ry Sting That wounds the Flesh by giving to the Mind A pleasing taste of Sweetnesses refin'd Nor can it other be except in those Whose Better part quiet stupifyed grows By being cauterized in the Fires Of childish Fears or temporal Desires For as the Valiant when the Coward swounds With gladness lets the Surgeon search his Wounds And though they smart yet cheerfully indures The Plaisters and the Probe in hope of Cures So Men assured that Afflictions pain Comes not for vengeance to them nor in vain But to prepare and fit them for the place To which they willingly direct their pace In troubles are so far from being sad That of their Suffering they are truly glad What ever others think I thus believe And therefore joy when they suppose I grieve Lot 26. AT your Afflictions you repine And in all troubles cry and whine As if to suffer brought no Joy But quite did all content destroy That you may therefore Patient grow And learn this Virtues power to know This Lot unto your view is brought Peruse and Practise what is taught Emblem XXVII Bella in Vista Dentro Trista THE Twentyseventh Emblem Illustrated Deformity within may be where outward Beauty we do see LOok well I pray upon this Beldam here For in her habit though she gay appear You through her youthful vizard may espy She 's of an old Edition by her Eye And by her wainscot face it may be seen She might your Grandams first dry nurse have been This is an Emblem fitly shaddowing those Who making fair and honest outward shows Are inwardly deform'd and nothing such As they to be suppos'd have strived much They chuse their words and play well-acted parts But hide most loathsome projects in their hearts And when you think sweet Friendship to embrace Some ugly Treason meets you in the face I hate a bainted Brow I much dislike A maiden-blush dawb'd on a furrowed Cheek And I abhor to see old Wantons play And suit themselves like Ladies of the May. But more yea most of all my soul despiseth A Heart that in Religious forms disguiseth Prophane intentions and arays in white The coal-black conscience of an Hypocrite Take heed of such as these and if you may Before you trust them tract them in their way Observe their footsteps in their private path For these as 't is believ'd the Devil hath Have cloven feet that is two ways they go One for their ends and tother for a show Now you thus warned are advice embrace And trust nor gawdy Clothes nor painted Face Lot 27. FIne Clothes fair words inticing Face With Masks of Piety and Grace Oft cheat you with an outward show Of that which proveth nothing so Therefore your Emblems Moral read And ere too far you do proceed Think whom you deal withal to day Who by fair Shews deceive you may Emblem XXVIII Captivum impune Lacessunt THE Twenty eighth Emblem Illustrated When wicked Men confined are They revel who were kept in fear A Tyrannous or wicked Magistrat Is fitly represented by a Cat For though the Mice a harmfull vermine be And Cats the remedy yet oft we see That by the Mice far less some house-wives leese Then when they set the Cat to keep the Cheese A ravenous Cat will punish in the Mouse The very same Offences in the house Which he himself commits yea for that Vice Which was his own with praise he kills the Mice And spoileth not anothers life alone Ev'n for that very fault which was his own But feeds and fattens in the spoil of them Whom he without compassion did condemn Nay worse than so he cannot be content To slaughter them who are as innocent As he himself but he must also play And sport his woful Pris'ners lives away More torturing them 'twixt fruitless hopes and fears Than when their bowels with his teeth he tears For by much terrour and much cruelty He kills them ten times over e're they die When such like Magistrates have rule obtain'd The best men wish their power might be restrain'd But they who shun enormities through Fear Are glad when good-men out of Office are Yea whether Governours be good or bad Of their displacings wicked-men are glad And when they see them brought into disgraces They boldly play the Knaves before their faces Lot 28. M. THou art or else thou wert of late Some Great or Petty Magistrate Or Fortune thereunto may chance In time to come thee to advance But by thine Emblem thou maist see That when restrain'd thy Power shall be Offenders will thereof be glad And Scoff the Power which thou hast had Observe it be so upright That thou maist laugh at their despight Emblem XXIX Persequar Extinctu THE Twenty ninth Emblem Illustrated True Lovers Lives in one heart lye Both Live or both together Dye HE that