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cause_n	aaron_n	death_n	shame_n	18	3	9.6076	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

This is that Skirt which made Alcides mad It is a griefe which I shall never cure Nor flie from whilst my life-time doth endure From thence oh Lord my greatest sorrowes bee And therefore from my Selfe I flie to Thee When Magistrates confined are They revell who were kept in feare CAPTIVUM IMPUNE LACES SUNT ILLVSTR. VII Book 4 A Tyrannous or wicked Magistrat Is fitly represented by a Catt For though the Mice a harmfull vermine bee And Cats the remedie yet oft wee see That by the Mice far lesse some house-wives leese Then when they set the Catt to keepe the Cheese A ravenous Cat will punish in the Mouse The very same Offences in the house Which hee himselfe commits yea for that Vice Which was his owne with praise he kils the Mice And spoyleth not anothers life alone Ev'n for that very fault which was his owne But feeds and fattens in the spoyle of them Whom hee without compassion did condemne Nay worse than so hee cannot bee content To slaughter them who are as innocent As hee himselfe but hee must also play And sport his wofull Pris'ners lives away More torturing them 'twixt fruitlesse hopes and feares Than when their bowels with his teeth he teares For by much terrour and much crueltie Hee kills them ten times over e're they die When such like Magistrates have rule obtain'd The best men wish their powre might be restrain'd But they who shun enormities through Feare Are glad when good-men out of Office are Yea whether Governours bee 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 Loe heere is all that hee possest Which once was Victor of the East RESTAT DE VICTORE ORIENTIS ILLVSTR. VIII Book 4 WHen hee who by his conquering Arme possest The rich and spacious Empires of the East Felt his approaching end he bade them beare A Shirt throughout his Armie on a Speare Proclaiming that of all his large estate No more was left him then but only that Perhaps intending thereby to expresse A sorrow for his wilde Ambitiousnesse Or hoping by that Spectacle to give Some good Instructions unto those that live However let it serve us to declare How vaine their toylings and ambitions are Who rob themselves and other men of rest For things that are so little while possest And if that powerfull King could nothing have That was of use to carry to his Grave Of all his conquered Kingdomes but one Shirt Or Winding sheet to hide his Royall durt Why should we pinch and scrape and vext become To heap up Riches for we know not whom Or macerate the Flesh by raising strife For more than will bee usefull during life Nay ev'n for that which sometimes shortens breath And mak●s us also wretched after Death Let mee oh God! my labour so employ That I a competencie may enjoy I aske no more than may Lifes want supply And leave their aue to others when I die If this thou grant which nothing doubt I can None ever liv'd or dy'd a richer man When Hopes quite frustrate were become The Wither'd-branch did freshly bloome INSPERATA FLORUIT ILLVSTR. IX Book 4 T' is true a wither'd-branch I am and seeme To some as voyd of Hopes as of esteeme For in their judgements I appeare to be A saplesse Bough quite broken from the Tree Ev'n such as that in this our Emblem here And yet I neither feele Despaire nor Feare For I have seene e're now a little Spray Rent from her Stemme lye trodden by the way Three moneths together which when Spring drew on To take an unexpected Root begun Yea grew to bee a Tree and growing stood When those great Groves were fell'd for firing-wood Which once had high esteeme and sprung unhurt While that poore Branch lay sleighted in the durt Nay I have seene such twiggs afford them shade By whom they were the meanest shrippings made Of all the Wood And you may live to see For ought yet knowne some such event in mee And what if all who know mee see me dead Before those hopes begin to spring and spread Have therefore they that hate me cause to boast As if mine expectations I had lost No sure For I who by Faith's eyes have seene Old Aarons wither'd Rod grow fresh and greene And also viewed by the selfe-same Eyes Him whom that Rod most rightly typifies Fall by a shamefull Death and rise in spight Of Death and Shame unto the glorioust height Ev'n I beleeve my Hope shall bee possest And therefore ev'n in Death in Hope I 'le rest True Vertue whatsoere betides In all extreames unmoov'd abides NESCIT LABI VIRTUS ILLVSTR. X. Book 4 WHen in this Emblem here you have espide The shape of a triangled Pyramide And have observed well those mightie Rockes Whose firme foundation bides the dreadfull shockes Of angry Neptune you may thereby see How firmly setled Vertues reall bee For as the raging Seas although they roare Can make no breach upon the Rockie shore And as a true triangled Pyramide Stands fast and shewes alike on ev'ry side So howsoever Fortune turnes or winds Those men which are indow'd with vertuous minds It is impossible to drive them from Those Formes or Stations which those minds become And as the raging Sea with foming threats Against the Rock●e-shore but vainely beats So Envie shall in vaine loud blustrings make When vertuous resolutions they would shake For Vertue which receives an overthrow Was Vertue not indeed but in the show So farre am I oh Lord from laying claime To have this Vertue that I doe but ayme At such perfection and can come no nigher As yet than to obtaine it in desire But fixe thou so this weake desire of mine Vpon the Vertues of thy Rocke divine That I and that invaluable Stone May bee incorporated into One And then it will bee neither shame nor pride To say my Vertues will unmov'd abide The motion of the World this day Is mov'd the quite contrarie way HODIE SIC VERTITVR ORBIS ILLVSTR. XI Book 4 WHat was this Figures meaning but to show That as these kinde of Shell-fish backward goe So now the World which here doth seeme to take An arseward Iourney on the Cancer's backe Moves counterwise as if delight it had To runne a race in Courses retrograde And that is very likely to be true Which this our Emblem purposeth to shew For I have now of late not onely seene What backward motions in my Friends have beene And that my outward Fortunes and Affaires Doe of themselves come tumbling downe the staires But I have also found that other things Have got a wheeling in contrary Rings Which Regresse holding on 't is like that wee To Iewes or Ethnicks backe shall turned bee Some punie Cl●rkes presume that they can teach The ancient holy Doctors how to preach Some Lucks learne their Pastors how to pray Some Parents are compelled to