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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

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

Wealth and Honours high She winds men oft before they be aware And when they dream of most Prosperity Down headlong throws them lower then they were You then that seek a more assur'd estate On good and honest Objects fix your Mind And follow Vertue that you may a Fate Exempt from fear of Change or Dangers find For he that 's Vertuous whether high or low His Fortune seems or whether foul or fair His Path he finds or whether friend or foe The World doth prove regards it not a hair His Loss is Gain his Poverty is Wealth The Worlds Contempt he makes his Diadem In Sickness he rejoyceth as in Health Yea Death it self becometh Life to him He fears no disrespect no bitter scorn Nor subtile plottings nor Oppressions force Nay though the World should topsie-turvie turn It cannot fright him nor divert his Course Above all Earthly powers his Vertue rears him And up with Eglets wings to Heav'n it bears him Lot 17. M. THis Man whatever he may seem Is worthy of an high esteem Though Fortune may his Person grind She cannot yet disturb his mind Yea blest and happy should we be Were all of us but such as he Read but his Motto which you drew For that in part the same will shew Emblem XVIII Noli Altum Sapere THE Eighteenth Emblem Illustrated Above thy Knowledge do not rise But with Sobriety be wise EXalt thou not thy self though plac'd thou be Upon the top of that old Olive-tree From whence the nat'rall branches prun'd have bin That thou the better mightst be grafted in Be not so over-wise as to presume The Gara'ner for thy goodness did assume Thy small Crab Olive to insert it there Where once the sweetest-berries growing were Nor let thy Pride those few old-boughts contemn Which yet remain upon their ancient Stem Because thy new-incorporated Sprayes Do more enjoy the Suns refreshing raies But humbled rather and more awful be Lest he that cut off them do break down thee Be wise in what may to thy good belong But seek not Knowledge to thy neighbours wrong Be thankful for the Grace thou hast receiv'd But judge not those who seem thereof bereav'd Nor into those forbidden secrets peep Which God-Almighty to himself doth keep Remember what our Father Adam found When he for Knowledge sought beyond his bound For doubtless ever since both good and ill Are left with Knowledge intermingled still And if we be not humble meek and wary We are in daily danger to miscarry Large proves the fruit which on the Earth doth lie Winds break the twig that 's grafted over-high And he that will beyond his bounds be wise Becomes a very Fool before he dies Lot 18. THis Lot those Persons always finds That have high Thoughts and lofty minds Or such as have an itch to learn That which doth nothing them concern Or love to peep with daring eyes Into forbidden Mysteries If any one of these thou be Thine Emblem better teacheth thee Emblem XIX Tractant Fabrilia Fabri THE Nineteenth Emblem Illustrated When each man keeps unto his Trade Then all things better will be made WE more should thrive and err the seldomer If we were like this honest Carpenter Whose Emblem in reproof of those is made That love to meddle farther then their Trade But most are now exceeding cunning grown In ev'ry mans affairs except their own Yea Coblers think themselves not only able To censure but to mend Apelles Table Great-men sometime will gravely undertake To teach how Brooms Morter we should make Their Indiscretions Peasants imitate And boldly meddle with affairs of State Some Houswives teach their Teachers how to pray Some Clarks have shew'd themselves as wise as they And in their Callings as discreet have bin As if they taught their Grandames how to spin And if these Customs last a few more Ages All Countries will be nothing else but Stages Of evil-acted and mistaken parts Or Gallemaufries of imperfect Arts. But I my self you 'l say have medlings made In things that are improper to my Trade No for the MUSES are in all things free Fit subject of their Verse all Creatures be And there is nothing nam'd so mean or great Whereof they have not liberty to treat Both Earth and Heav'n are open unto these And when to take more liberty they please They Worlds and things create which never were And when they list they play and meddle there Lot 19. IF all be true these Lots do tell us Thou shouldest be of those prating Fellows Who better practised are grown In others matters then their own Or one that covets to be thought A man that is ignorant of nought If it be so thy Moral shews Thy folly and from whence it flows Emblem XX. Constante Fiducia THE Twentieth Emblem Illustrated They after suffering shall be crown'd In whom a Constant Faith is found MArk well this Emblem and observe you thence The nature of true Christian-confidence Her Foot is fixed on a squared-Stone Which whether side soe're you turn it on Stands fast and is that Corner-stone which props And firmly knits the structure of our Hopes She always bears a Cross to signifie That there was never any Constancy Without her Tryals and that her perfection Shall never be attain'd without Affliction A Cup she hath moreover in her hand And by that Figure thou mayst understand That she hath draughts of Comfort always near her At ev'ry brunt to strengthen and to cheer her And loe her head is crown'd that we may see How great her Glories and Rewards will be Hereby this Vertue 's nature may be known Now practise how to make the same thine own Discourag'd be not though thou art pursu'd With many wrongs which cannot be eschew'd Nor yield thou to Despairing though thou hast A Cross which threatens death to be embrac't Or though thou be compell'd to swallow up The very dregs of Sorrows bitter Cup For whensoever griefs or torments pain thee Thou hast the same Foundation to sustain thee The self same Cup of Comfort is prepar'd To give thee strength when fainting fits are feard And when thy time of trial is expired Thou shalt obtain the Crown thou hast desired Lot 20. THy Fortunes have been very bad For many Sufferings thou hast had And Tryals too which are unknown To any but thy self alone Yet not loss nor harm nor smart From Constant hopes remove thy heart For see thine Emblem doth foreshew A good Conclusion will ensue Emblem XXI Furor fit laesa saepius Patientia THE 21st Emblem Illustrated Who Patience tempt beyond its strength Will turn't to Fury at the length ALthough we know not a more patient creature Than is the Lamb or of less harmfull nature Yet as this Emblem shews when childish wrong Hath troubled and provok'd him overlong He grows enrag'd and makes the wanton Boys Be glad to leave their sports and run their ways Thus have I seen it with some Children fare Who when their Parents too