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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

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

those whom they have cause to hate Should come in Future-times their Heires to be Or else why should they such things perpetrate For if they thinke their Children shall succeed Or can believe that they begot their Heires They could not surely doe so foule a Deed As to deface the Land that should be theirs What our Forefathers planted we destroy Nay all Mens labours living heretofore And all our owne we lavishly imploy To serve our present Lusts and for no more But let these carelesse Wasters learne to know That as Vaine-Spoyle is open Injury So Planting is a Debt they truely owe And ought to pay to their Posterity Selfe love for none but for it selfe doth care And onely for the present taketh paine But Charity for others doth prepare And joyes in that which Future-Time shall gaine If After-Ages may my Labours blesse I care not much how Litle I possesse To Have and not to Vse the same Is not our Glory but our Shame NIL PENNA SED VSVS ILLVSTR. XXXVI Book 1. THe Estridge though with many Feathers trimm'd And deckt with goodly Plumes of no meane size Is so unwieldy and so largely limb'd That up into the Aire he cannot rise And though in Wings and Feathers he appeares A goodly Fowle and beares his Head so high As if he could oretop the lower Sphaeres And farre above the towring Eagles flie So uselesse are those Feathers and those Wings To gaine him Name among their aiery Race That he must walke with such Inferiour things As in this Common-Region have their place Such Fowles as these are that Gay-plumed-Crew Which to high place and Fortunes being borne Are men of goodly worth in outward view And in themselves deserve nought els but scorne For though their Trappings their high-lifted Eyes Their Lofty Words and their Much-feared Pow'rs Doe make them seeme Heroicke Stout and Wise Their Hearts are oft as fond and faint as ours Such Animals as these are also those That Wise and Grave and Learned Men doe seeme In Title Habit and all Formall showes Yet have nor Wit nor Knowledge worth esteeme And lastly such are they that having got Wealth Knowledge and those other Gifts which may Advance the Publike-Good yet use them not But Feede and Sleepe and laze their time away He may be but a Goose which weares the Quill But him we praise that useth it with Skill He that his Course directly Steeres Nor Stormes nor Windy-Censures feares DVM CLAVVM RECTVM TENEAM ILLVSTR. XXXVII Book 1. WEe to the Sea this World may well compare For ev'ry Man which liveth in the same Is as a Pilot to some Vessell there Of little size or else of larger frame Some have the Boats of their owne Life to guide Some of whole Families doe row the Barge Some governe petty Towneships too beside To those compar'd which of small Barkes have charge Some others rule great Provinces and they Resemble Captaines of huge Argoses But when of Kingdomes any gayne the Sway To Generalls of Fleets we liken these Each hath his proper Course to him assign'd His Card his Compasse his due Tacklings too And if their Businesse as they ought they mind They may accomplish all they have to doe But most Men leave the Care of their owne Course To judge or follow others in their wayes And when their Follies make their Fortunes worse They curse the Destiny which they should prayse For Waves and Windes and that oft-changing Weather Which many blame as cause of all their Losses Though they observe it not helpes bring together Those Hopes which their owne Wisedome often crosses Regard not therefore much what those things be Which come without thy fault to thwart thy Way Nor how Rash-Lookers-on will censure thee But faithfully to doe thy part assay For if thou shalt not from this Counsell vary Let my Hopes faile me if thy Hopes miscarry A sudden Death with Shame is due To him that sweares What is untrue SI SCIENS FALLO ILLVSTR. XXXVIII Book 1. WHen th' Ancients made a solemne League or Vow Their Custome was to ratifie it thus Before their Idoll God they slew a Sow And sayd aloud So be it unto us Implying that if otherwise they did Then had been vow'd or if within their Brest A Fraudulent-Intention had beene hid They merited such Vsage as that Beast For by the Swine that they had slaughtred so Which during Life was helpefull unto none Of Life deprived by a sudden blow And then cast out that none might feed thereon They mystically did inferre that he Who falsify'd that Oath which he had sworne Deserv'd by Sudden-Death cut off to be And as a Beast uncleane to lye forlorne That Heathenish Hieroglyphicke doth implye This Christian Doctrine that we should in Vowes In Leagues and Oathes assume no Liberty But what sincerest Honesty allowes By Swine the babbling Sophisters are meant In Hieroglyphicall Signification Which wee doe Sacrifice when our intent Is free from Falsehood and Aequivocation And this let ev'ry Man end●avour for Who loves the Blessings for just men prepar'd Or if the Sinne he doe not much abhorre At least the Danger let him well regard For to pursue him Vengeance never leaves That falsely Sweares or willingly Deceives Where strong Desires are entertain'd The Heart 'twixt Hope and Feare is pain'd SPEQVE METVQVE PAVET ILLVSTR. XXXIX Book 1. A Troubled Minde ore-charged with Desires Betweene great Hopes and no lesse Feares opprest And payned inwardly with secret Fires Was thus by some in former times exprest A Smoking Heart they placed just betwixt A Fastned Anchor and a Bended Bow To which a Barbed-Arrow seemed fixt And ready from the Strayned-String to goe The Smoke doth Sighes the Anchor doth declare That Hope which keepes us from Despairing quite The Bowe and Arrow signifie that Feare Which doth perpetually the Soule affright And by this Emblem it appeares to me That they which are with strong Desires opprest Though good or bad the Object of them be In seeking Pleasures finde no small unrest For they are not by Feares alone disturbed But as the Wiseman saith ev'n Hope-Delayd Torments the Heart and when Desire is curbed The Soule becommeth sad and ill-apayd A Groundlesse-Hope makes entrance for Despaire And with Deceiving showes the Heart betrayes A Causelesse-Feare doth Reasons force impaire And terrifies the Soule in doubtfull wayes Yet quite neglect them not For Hope repells That Griefe sometimes which would our Hearts oppresse And Feare is otherwhile the Sentinell Which rouzeth us from dang'rous Carelesnesse Thus Both are good but Both are Plagues to such Who either Fondly feare or Hope too much Those Fooles whom Beauties Flame doth blinde Feele Death where Life they thought to finde COSI VIVO PIACER CONDVCEA MORTE ILLVSTR. XL. Book 1. WHen you doe next behold the wanton Flyes About the shining Candle come to play Vntill the Light thereof hath dimm'd their Eyes Or till the Flame hath sing'd their Wings away Remember then this

are would God that summe were lesse Whom neither good Advise nor wholesome Lawe Can turne from Pathwaies of Vnrighteousnesse If Death or Tortures keepe them not in awe These are not they whose Conscience for the sake Of Goodnesse onely Godlinesse pursues But these are they who never scruple make What Guilt but what great punishment ensues For such as these this Emblem was prepar'd And for their sakes in places eminent Are all our Gallow-trees and Gibbets rear'd That by the sight of them they might repent Let therefore those who feele their hearts inclin'd To any kind of Death-deserving-Crime When they behold this Emblem change their mind Lest they too late repent another time And let not those our Counsell now contemne Who doome poore Theeves to death yet guilty be Of more then most of those whom they Condemne But let them Learne their perill to foresee For though a little while they may have hope To seeme upright when they are nothing lesse And scape the Sword the Gallowes and the Rope There is a Iudge who sees their wickednesse And when grim Death shall summon them from hence They will be fully plagu'd for their offence That Kingdome will establish'd bee Wherein the People well agree CONSENSV POPVLI REGNV̄ SVBSISTIT ILLVSTR. V. Book 2 A Crowned Scepter here is fixt upright Betwixt foure Fowles whose postures may declare They came from Coasts or Climats opposite And that they diffring in their natures are In which as in some others that we finde Amongst these Emblems little care I take Precisely to unfold our Authors minde Or on his meaning Comments here to make It is the scope of my Intention rather From such perplext Inventions which have nought Of Ancient Hieroglyphick sense to gather Whereby some usefull Morall may be taught And from these Figures my Collections be That Kingdomes and the Royall-dignitie Are best upheld where Subjects doe agree To keepe upright the state of Soveraignty When from each Coast and quarter of the Land The Rich the Poore the Swaine the Gentleman Leads in all wants and at all times his hand To give the best assistance that he can Yea when with Willing-hearts and Winged-speed The men of all Degrees doe duely carry Their Aides to publicke-workes in time of need And to their Kings be freely tributary Then shall the Kingdome gayne the gloriest height Then shall the Kingly-Title be renown'd Then shall the Royall-Scepter stand upright And with supremest Honour then be Crown'd But where this Duty long neglect they shall The King will suffer and the Kingdome fall From that by which I somewhat am The Cause of my Destruction came MVSICA SERVA DEI ILLVSTR. VI. Book 2 THe little Sparkes which rak'd in Embers lie Are kindly kindled by a gentle blast And brands in which the fire begins to die Revive by blowing and flame out at last The selfe same wind becomming over strong Quite bloweth out againe that very flame Or else consumes away ere it be long That wasting substance which maintain'd the same Thus fares it in a Thousand other things As soone as they the golden Meane exceed And that which keeping Measure profit brings May by excesse our losse and ruine breed Preferments well and moderately sought Have helpt those men new Virtues to acquire Who being to superiour places brought Left all their goodnesse as they climed higher A little wealth may make us better able To labour in our Callings Yet I see That they who being poore were charitable Becomming rich hard-hearted grow to be Love when they entertaine it with discretion More worthy and more happy maketh men But when their Love is overgrowne with Passion It overthrowes their happinesse agen Yea this our Flesh in which we doe appeare To have that being which we now enjoy If we should overmuch the same endeare Would our Well-being totally destroy For that which gives our Pleasures nourishment Is oft the poyson of our best Content By Guiltines Death entred in And Mischiefe still pursueth Sinne. SEQVITVR SVA POENA NOCENTEM ILLVSTR. VII Book 2 IXions wheele and he himselfe thereon Is figur'd and by way of Emblem here Set forth for Guilty men to looke upon That they their wicked Courses might forbeare To gaine a lawlesse favour he desired And in his wicked hopes beguiled was For when to claspe with Iuno he aspired In stead of her a Clowd he did embrace He likewise did incurre a dreadfull Doome Which well befitted his presumptuous Crime A terror and a warning to become For wicked men through 〈◊〉 succeeding time As did his longings and his after Paine So theirs affecteth nor effecteth ought But that which proveth either false or vaine And their false Pleasures are as dearely bought Yea that whereon they build their f●●est Hope May bring them in conclusion of the 〈…〉 To clime the Gallowes and to stretch a Rope Or send them thither where farre worse they speed Ev'n thither where the never-standing-Wheele Of everlasting-Tortures turneth round And racks the Conscience till the soule doth feele All Paines that are in Sense and Reason found For neither doth black Night more swiftly follow Declining Day-light Nor with Nimbler Motion Can waves each other downe their Channell follow From high-rais'd Mountaines to the bigg-womb'd Ocean Then Iustice will when she doth once begin To prosecute an Vnrepented-Sin When wee have greatest Griefes and Feares Then Consolation sweet'st appeares POST TENTATIONEM CONSOLATIO ILLVSTR. VIII Book 2 WHen all the yeare our fields are fresh and greene And while sweet Flowers and Sunshine every day As oft as need requireth come betweene The Heav'ns and earth they heedles passe away The fulnes and continuance of a blessing Doth make us to be senseles of the good And if it sometime flie not our possessing The sweetnesse of it is not understood Had wee no Winter Sommer would be thought Not halfe so pleasing And if Tempests were not Such Comforts could not by a Calme be brought For things save by their Oppos●●● appeare not Both health and wealth is tastles unto some And so is ease and every other pleasure Till poore or sicke or grieved they become And then they relish these in ampler measure God therefore full as kinde as he is wise So tempreth all the Favours he will doe us That wee his Bounties may the better prize And make his Chastisements lesse bitter to us One while a scorching Indignation burnes The Flowers and Blosomes of our HOPES away Which into Scarsitie our Plentie turnes And changeth vnmowne-Grasse to parched Hay Anon his fruitfull showres and pleasing dewes Commixt with cheerefull Rayes he sendeth downe And then the Barren-earth her cropp renewes Which with rich Harvests Hills and Vallies Crowne For as to relish Ioyes he sorrow sends So Comfort on Temptation still attends To brawle for Gaine the Cocke doth sleight But for his Females he will fight PRO GALLINIS ILLVSTR. IX Book 2 SOme are so quarrellous that they will draw And Brawle and Fight for every toy

Emblem we resemble may The Name of none I purpose to reveale But their Condition heere I will display Some both by gifts of Nature and of Grace Are so prepared that they might be fit To stand as Lights in profitable place Yet loose their Talent by neglecting it Some to the common Grace and nat'rall parts By helpe of Nurture and good Discipline Have added an accomplishment of Arts By which their Light may much the brighter shine Some others have to this acquired more For to maintaine their Lampe in giving light Of Waxe and Oyle and Fatnesse they have store Which over-flowes unto them day and night And ev'n as Lampes or Candles on a Table Or fixt on golden Candlesticks on high To light Assemblies Great and Honourable They oft have also place of Dignitie By meanes of which their Splendor might become His praise who those high favours did bequeath They might encrease the Light of Christendome And make them see who sit in shades of Death But many of them like those Candles bee That stand unlighted in a Branch of gold For by their helpe wee nothing more can see Than wee in grossest darknesse may behold If such there be as there bee such I feare The question is For what good use they are The Sacrifice God loveth best Are Broken-hearts for Sin opprest SACRIFICIVM DEO COR CONTRIBVLATIM ILLVSTR. XV. Book 2 NO Age hath had a people to professe Religion with a shew of holinesse Beyond these times nor did men sacrifice According to their foolish fantasies More oft than at this present One bestowes On pious-workes the hundreth part of those Ill-gotten goods which from the poore he seazed And thinkes his God in that is highly pleased Another of her dues the Church bereaves And yet himselfe a holy man conceives Yea and right bountifull if hee can spare From those his thefts the tenth or twentieth share To some new Lecture or a Chaplaine keepe To please Himselfe or preach his Wife asleepe Some others thinke they bring sincere Oblations When fir'd with zeale they roare out Imprecations Against all those whom wicked they repute And when to God they tender any sute They dreame to merit what they would obtaine By praying-long with Repetitions vaine With many other such like Sacrifices Men come to God but he such gifts despises For neither gifts nor workes nor any thing Which we can either doe or say or bring Accepted is of God untill he finde A Spirit-humbled and a troubled-minde A contrite Heart is that and that alone Which God with love and pitie lookes upon Such he affects therefore Oh Lord to thee Such let my Heart and such my Spirit bee A King that prudently Commands Becomes the glory of his Lands REGNI CORONA REX ILLVSTR. XVI Book 2 THe Royall-Scepter Kingly power implyes The Crowne-Imperiall GLORIE signifies And by these joyn'd in one we understand A King that is an honour to his Land A Kingdome is not alwaies eminent By having Confines of a large extent For Povertie and Barbarousnesse are found Ev'n in some large Dominions to abound Nor is it Wealth which gets a glorious-Name For then those Lands would spread the widest Fame From whence we fetch the Gold and Silver-ore And where we gather Pearles upon the shore Nor have those Countries highest exaltations Which breed the strongest and the Warlikst Nations For proud of their owne powre they sometimes grow And quarrell till themselves they overthrow Nor doe the chiefest glories of a Land In many Cities or much People stand For then those Kingdomes most renowned were In which Vnchristian Kings and Tyrants are It is the King by whom a Realme's renowne Is either builded up or overthrowne By Solomon more fam'd was Iudah made Then by the Multitude of men it had Great Alexander glorified Greece Throughout the World which else had bene a piece Perhaps obscure And Caesar added more To Rome then all her greatnesse did before Grant Lord these Iles for ever may be blessed With what in this our Emblem is expressed By Studie and by Watchfulnesse The Jemme of Knowledge we possesse STVDIO ET VIGILANTIA ILLVSTR. XVII Book 2 I Thinke you would be wise for most men seeme To make of Knowledge very great esteeme If such be your desires this Emblem view And marke how well the Figures counsell you Wee by the Bird of Athens doe expresse That painefull and that usefull watchfulnesse Which ought to bee enjoyned unto them Who seeke a place in Wisdomes Academ For as an Owle mewes up her selfe by Day And watcheth in the Night to get her prey Ev'n so good Students neither must be such As daily gad or nightly sleepe too much That open-booke on which the Owle is perch'd Affords a Morall worthy to be search'd For it informes and darkly doth advise Your Watchings be not after Vanities Or like their Wakings who turne dayes to nights In following their unlawfull appetites And that in keeping Home you doe not spend Your houres in sloth or to some fruitlesse end But rather in good Studies and in that By which true Knowledge is arrived at For if your Studies and your Wakings bee To this intent you shall that Path-way see To Wisdome and to Honour which was found Of them whose Knowledge hath been most renownd But if your Watchings and Retyrednesse Be for your Lust or out of Sottishnesse You are not what th' Athenian-Owle implies But what our English-Owlet signifies When Mars and Pallas doe agree Great workes by them effected bee ARTE ET MARTE ILLVSTR. XVIII Book 2 IT prospers ever best in all Estates When Mars and Pallas are continuall Mates And those affaires but seldome luckie be In which these needfull Powers doe not agree That Common-wealth in which good Arts are found Without a Guard will soone receive a wound And Souldiers where good order beares no sway Will very quickly rout themselves away Moreover in our private Actions too There must bee both a Knowledge how to doe The worke propos'd and strength to finish it Or wee shall profit little by our Wit Discretion takes effect where Vigour failes Where Cunning speeds not outward-force prevailes And otherwhile the prize pertaines to neither Till they have joyn'd their Vertues both together Consider this and as occasions are To both of these your due respects declare Delight not so in Arts to purchase harmes By Negligence or Ignorance of Armes If Martiall-Discipline thou shalt affect Yet doe not honest-Policie neglect Improve thy Minde as much as e're thou may But foole thou not thy Bodies gifts away The Vertues both of Body and of Mind Are still to be regarded in their kind And wee should neither of the two disgrace Nor either of them raise above his place For when these two wee value as wee ought Great works by their joynt power to passe are brought They after suffring shall be crown'd In whom a Constant-faith is found CONSTANTE FIDVCIA ILLVSTR. XIX Book 2 MArke well this Emblem and observe