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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

anothers tongue from whom This Mischiefe unto thee shall come But much the better thou shalt speed If now thine Emblem well thou heed 43 Vnworthy things thou dost affect With somewhat overmuch respect Vnto the World inclining so As if thy Hopes were all below But now to rowse thee from this crime Good Counsell comes in happy time Make use thereof and thinke it not Meere casuall or a needlesse Lot 44 Thou either too much love hast plac't On things that will not alway last Or else thou art a little scar'd Because thy Hopes are long deferr'd Nay thou art touch'd in both of these Thy Profit therefore and thine ease It will effect if well thou minde What in thine Emblem thou shalt finde 45 When thou hast Changes good or bad Ore-joy'd thou art or over-sad As if it seemed very strange To see the Winde or Weather change Lo therefore to remember thee How changeable things Mortall bee Thou art assisted by this Lot Now let it be no more forgot 46 Of thy just Aymes though meanes be slight Thou mayst attaine their wished height Vnlesse thy Folly shall destroy The Weale thou seekest to injoy By thy Despaire or by neglect Of that which may thy Hopes effect For by thine Emblem thou mayst know Great things from small Beginnings grow 47 Thou must have Crosses but they shall To Blessings be converted all And Suffrings will become thy Praise If Wisedome order well thy wayes Yea when thy Crosses ended are A Crowne of Glory thou shalt weare Yet note how this to passe is brought For in thine Emblem it is taught 48 If they who drew this Lot now be Of great Estate or high Degree They shall ere long become as poore As those that beg from doore to doore If poore they be it plaine appeares They shall become great Princes Peeres And in their Emblem they may know What very day it will be so 49 You have attempted many a thing Which you to passe could never bring Not that your Worke was hard to doe But ' cause you us'd wrong Meanes thereto Hereafter therefore learne I pray The Times of Working and the Way And of thine Emblem take thou heed If better thou desire to speed 50 If you to greater Wealth will rise You must not slender Gaine despise Nay if you minde not to be poore You must regard slight Losses more For Wealth and Poverty doe come Not all at once but some and some If this concerne you any wayes See what your Emblem further sayes 51 Your Fortune hath deserved thank That she on you bestowes a Blank For as you nothing good have had So you have nothing that is bad Yea she in this hath favour showne If now your Freedome well be knowne For you by Lot these Emblems mist That you may chuse out which you list 52 You by an Emblem seeke to get What Counsel your Affaires may fit But in particular there 's none Which you by Lot can light upon And why because no Morall there Doth worthy of your Heed appeare No but because you rather need Of ev'ry Emblem to take heed 53 The Starres are now no friends of your Or this is not their lucky houre For at this time unto your Lot They by an Emblem answer not If therefore you desire to know What good advice they will allow Some further Meanes you must assay Or trye your Chance another day 54 You in your secret thoughts despise To thinke an Emblem should advise Or give you cause to minde or heed Those things whereof you may have need And therefore when the Lot you try'd An answer justly was deny'd Yet by your leave there are but few Who need good Counsell more then you 55 In some extreame you often are And shoot too short or else too farre Yea such an errour you were in When for a Lot you mov'd the Pin For one touch more or lesse had layd Our Index where it should have stayd But if you can be warn'd by this To keepe the Meane which oft you misse You have obtain'd as good a Lot As any one this day hath got 56 Among these Emblems none there be Which now by Lot will fall to thee However doe not thou repine For this doth seeme to be a signe That thou thy Portion shalt advance By Vertue not by fickle Chance Yet nerethelesse despise thou not What by good Fortune may be got FINIS A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMES ANCIENT AND MODERNE Quickened VVITH METRICALL ILLVSTRATIONS And disposed into LOTTERIES both Morall and Divine That Jnstruction and Good Counsell may bee furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation By GEORGE WITHER The Second Booke LONDON Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEVVES MDCXXXIV TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY Prince CHARLES Prince of Wales c. FAir'st Blossome of our hopes and Morning-starre To all these Ilands which inclosed are By Neptunes armes within our Northern cli●nes And who wee trust shall rise in future times To be the brightest Light that then will shine Betwixt the Artick-Circle and the LINE To Yov as now you are that I present These EMBLEMS 't is not so impertinent As those may thinke it who have neither seene What of your Cradle-sports hath heeded beene Nor heard how many serious Questionings Your Child-hood frameth out of trifling things And if mine aime I have not much mistooke I come not oversoone with such a Booke So long as in this Infant-Age you are Wherein the speechlesse Portraitures appeare A pleasurefull delight your HIGHNESSE may Among our EMBLEMS finde a Harmelesse-play And those mute Objects will from time to time Still Riper seeme till you to ripenesse clime When their dumb Figures no more sport can make Their Illustrations will begin to speake And ev'ry day new matter still disclose Vntill your Iudgement to perfection growes They likewise who their Services to do Frequent your Presence may have pleasure too From this your Play-game yea and some perchance May cure a Folly or an Ignorance By that which they shall either heare or view In these our Emblems when they wait on You Or shall be called by your EXCELLENCE To try what LOT they shall obtaine from thence It may moreover much increase the sport Which is allowed in a vertuous COVRT When they whose faults have long suspected bin Shall draw forth private Censures of their Sin And heare their EMBLEMS openly display What others dare not but in private say Nor will to Yov the MORALS be in vaine Ev'n when to manly Knowledge you attaine For though to Teach it will not them become To be Remembrancers they may presume And that which in their hild-hood men shall heed Will soonest come to minde in time of need Incourag'd by these Hopes I thought it meet To lay this humble Present at your feet Accept it now and please to favour me When I growe old and You a Man shall be To your Highnesse most humbly devoted GEO WITHER TO THE MOST HIGH-BORNE and

those whom they have cause to hate Should come in future-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

I beare about mee all my store And yet a King enjoyes not more OMNIA MEA MECVM PORTO ILLVSTR. XXIIII Book 2 THis Emblem is a Torteise whose owne shell Becomes that house where he doth rent-free dwell And in what place soever hee resides His Arched-Lodging on his backe abides There is moreover found a kind of these That live both on the shore and in the Seas For which respects the Torteise represents That man who in himselfe hath full contents And by the Vertues lodging in his minde Can all things needfull in all places finde To such a Man what ever doth betide From him his Treasures nothing can divide If of his outward-meanes Theeves make a prise Hee more occasion hath to exercise His inward-Riches and they prove a Wealth More usefull and lesse lyable to stealth If any at his harmelesse person strike Himselfe hee streight contracteth Torteis-like To make the Shell of Suffrance his defence And counts it Life to die with Innocence If hee by hunger heat or cold be payn'd If hee by slaundred sleighted or disdayn'd Hee alwayes keepes and carries that within him Which may from those things ease and comfort win him When him uncloathed or unhous'd you see His Resolutions clothes and houses bee That keepe him safer and farre warmer too Than Palaces and princely Robes can doe God give mee wealth that hath so little Cumber And much good doo 't the World with all her Lumber To Learning J a love should have Although one foot were in the Grave TAMEN DISCAM ILLVSTR. XXV Book 2 HEre we an Aged-man described have That hath one foot already in the Grave And if you marke it though the Sunne decline And horned Cynthia doth begin to shine With open booke and with attentive eyes Himselfe to compasse Knowledge he applyes And though that Evening end his last of dayes Yet I will study more to learne he sayes From this we gather that while time doth last The time of learning never will be past And that each houre till we our life lay downe Still something touching life is to be knowne When he was old wise Cato learned Greeke But we have aged-folkes that are to seeke Of that which they have much more cause to learne Yet no such minde in them wee shall discerne For that which they should studie in their prime Is oft deferred till their latter time And then old-age unfit for learning makes them Or else that common dulnesse overtakes them Which m●kes ashamed that it should be thought They need like little children to be taught And so out of this world they doe returne As wise as in that weeke when they were borne God grant me grace to spend my life-time so That I my duety still may seeke to know And that I never may so farre proceed To thinke that I more Knowledge doe not need But in Experience may continue growing Till I am fill'd with fruits of pious-knowing Good-fortune will by those abide In whom True-vertue doth reside VIRTVTI FORTVNA COMES ILLVSTR. XXVI Book 2 MArke how the Cornucopias here apply Their Plenties to the Rod of Mercury And if it seeme not needlesse learne to know This Hieroglyphick's meaning ere you goe The Sages old by this Mercurian-wand Caducaeus nam'd were wont to understand Art Wisedome Vertue and what else we finde Reputed for endowments of the Minde The Cornucopias well-knowne Emblems are By which great wealth and plenties figur'd were And if you joyne together what they spell It will to ev'ry Vnderstanding tell That where Internall-Graces may be found Eternall-blessings ever will abound For this is truth and though some thoughts in you Suggest that this is often times untrue This ever is the truth and they have got Few right-form'd Vertues who believe it not I will confesse true Vertue hath not ever All Common-plenties for which most indeavour Nor have the Perfect'st-Vertues those high places Which Knowledge Arts and such as have the faces Of outward beauty many times attaine For these are things which often those men gaine That are more flesh then spirit and have need Of carnall-helpes till higher they proceede But they of whom I speake are flowne so high As not to want those Toyes for which wee crye And I had showne you somewhat of their store But that this Page had roome to write no more The Gospel thankefully imbrace For God vouchsafed us this Grace DEVS NOBIS HAEC OTIA FECIT ILLVSTR. XXVII Book 2 THis moderne Emblem is a mute expressing Of Gods great Mercies in a Moderne-blessing And gives me now just cause to sing his praise For granting me my being in these dayes The much-desired Messages of Heav'n For which our Fathers would their lives have giv'n And in Groves Caves and Mountaines once a yeare Were glad with hazard of their goods to heare Or in lesse bloudy times at their owne homes To heare in private and obscured roomes Lo those those Ioyfull-tydings we doe live Divulg'd in every Village to perceive And that the sounds of Gladnesse eccho may Through all our goodly Temples ev'ry day This was Oh God thy doing unto thee Ascrib'd for ever let all Prayses bee Prolong this Mercie and vouchsafe the fruit May to thy Labour on this Vine-yard suit Lest for our fruitlesnesse thy Light of grace Thou from our Golden candlesticke displace We doe me thinkes already Lord beginne To wantonize and let that loathing in Which makes thy Manna tastlesse And I feare That of those Christians who more often heare Then practise what they know we have too many And I suspect my selfe as much as any Oh! mend me so that by amending mee Amends in others may increased be And let all Graces which thou hast bestow'd Returne thee honour from whom first they flow'd The Bees will in an Helmet breed And Peace doth after Warre succeed EX BELLO PAX ILLVSTR. XXVIII Book 2 WHen you have heeded by your Eyes of sense This Helmet hiving of a Swarme of Bees Consider what may gather'd be from thence And what your Eye of Vnderstanding sees That Helmet and those other Weapons there Betoken Warre the Honey-making Flyes An Emblem of a happy Kingdome are Injoying Peace by painfull Industries And when all these together are exprest As in this Emblem where the Bees doe seeme To make their dwelling in a Plumed-Crest A Morall is implyed worth esteeme For these inferre mysteriously to me That Peace and Art and Thrift most firme abides In those Re-publikes where Armes cherisht bee And where true Martiall-discipline resides When of their Stings the Bees disarm'd become They who on others Labours use to prey Incourag'd are with violence to come And beare their Honey and their Waxe away So when a People meerely doe affect To gather Wealth and foolishly secure Defences necessary quite neglect Their Foes to spoyle their Land it will allure Long Peace brings Warre and Warre brings Peace againe For when the smart of Warfare seizeth on them They crye Alarme and

long to heare And what thy Constellations are But why should'st thou desire to know What things the Planets doe foreshow Seeke rather Wisedome to procure And how all Fortunes to indure So thou shalt gaine a blest estate And be the Master of thy Fate 13 Thou seem'st to have great store of friends But they affect thee for th●ir ends There i● in those but little trust Who love for profit mirth or lust L●arne therfore when thou mayst be sure Thy Friend's affection will indure And that this Knowledge may be got Good notice take thou of thy Lot 14 It is conceiv'd that meanes thou hast O● might'st have had good meanes at least T● b●ing those matters to eff●ct Watch thou dost carelesly neglect And good for many might'st have done Who yet hast pleasur'd few or none If this b● true thy Lot peruse And God's good gifts no more abuse 15 Religious thou would'st faine be deem'd And such to many thou hast seem'd But to this matter more there goes Then zealous lookes and formall showes Looke therefore that thy heart be true What e're thou s●eme in outward view And if God's favour thou would'st have Observe what Off'rings he doth crave 16 That Emblem which this Lot will bring Concernes the honour of a King How therefore thee it may conc●rne By thy discretion seeke to learne Perhaps the Royall powre hath seem'd To thee not so to be esteem'd As well it merits to be priz'd If so now better be advis'd 17 Both learn'd and wise thou would'st become Else thou hast much dece●ved some But if ●hy hopes thou wilt effect Thou mu●● not likely meanes neglect And what the likelyest meanes may bee Thine Emblem hath advised thee For by a Fowle that 's blockish thought Good counsell may to thee be taught 18 If to preferment thou wilt rise Thou must not Arts nor Armes despise Nor so in one of these delight That thou the other wholly sleight Nor to thy Body be inclin'd So much as to neglect thy Minde This by thine Emblem thou mayst learne And much thy good it may concerne 19 Thy fortunes have appeared bad For many suff●rings thou hast had And tryalls too as yet made knowne To no mans knowledge but thine owne But let nor losse nor fame nor smart From constant hopes remove thy heart And as thine Emblem doth foreshew A good conclusion will insue W 20 Your Lot informeth how to know Where best your Love you may bestow And by the same it may appeare What Musicke most affects your eare Denye it not for by your leave Wee by your lookes your heart perceive And this perhaps you 'l thinke upon To purpose when you are alone 21 This Lot may make us all suspect That some wrong object you affect And that where dearenesse you pretend It is not for the noblest end What mischiefe from such falshood flowes Your Emblem very truely showes And may more happy make your Fate If counsell be not come too late 22 To trust on others thou art apt And hast already beene intrapt Or may'st er'e long be much deceiv'd By some whom thou hast well believ'd Be heedfull therfore of thy Lot And let it never be forgot So though some hazzard thou mayst run Yet thou shalt never be undone 23 It seemes thou tak'st too great a care For things that vaine and fading are Or else dost overp●ise them so As if all blisse from them did flowe That therefore thou mayst view their worth In Hieroglyphicke shaddow'd forth Thy Lot befriends thee marke the same And be in this no more to blame 24 Though some should thee for one mistake Whose wealth is all upon his backe If what thou hast bee all thine owne God hath enough on thee bestowne A Princes ransome wee may b●are In Iewells which most p●ecieu are And yet to many men may seeme To carry nothing worth esteeme Therefore though small thy sub●●ance be Thine Emblem somewhat comforts the● 25 ●y this your Emblem wee discerne That you are yet of age to learne And that when el●er you shall grow There will be more for you to know Presume n●t therefore of your wit But strive that you may better it For of your age we many view That farre more wisedome have then you 26 By thy complaints it hath appear'd Thou think'st thy Vertues want reward And that if they their merit had Thou rich and nobler should'st be made To drive thee from that partiall t●●ught Thou by an Emblem shalt be taught That where true Vertue may be found The truest wealth will still abound 27 By this thy Lot thou dost appeare To be of those who love to heare The Preacher's voyce or else of them That undervalue or contemne Those dayly showres of wholsome words Which God in these our times affords Now which soere of these thou bee Thine Emblem something teaches thee 28 Thou deal'st when thee thy foe offends As if you never should be friends In peace thou so secure dost grow As if thou could'st not have a foe How therefore Peace and Warre pursues Each other this thine Emblem shewes That thou mayst learne in ev'ry tide For future chances to provide 29 What e're thou art in outward shew Thy Heart is ever very true And to those Knowledges aspires Which every prudent Soule desires Yet be not proud that thou hast got This testimonie by thy Lot But view thine Emblem and endeaver In search of Knowledge to persever 30 If Glory thou desire to get Thy Wits thou must on working set And labour unto Prudence adde Before true Honor will be had For what thy Friends or Parents brought To make thee famous profits nought But rather will procure thy shame Vnlesse thou shalt improove the same M 31 The time hath beene that of the Rod Thou wert more fearefull then of God But now unlesse thou prudent grow More cause thou hast to feare a shrowe For from the Rod now thou art free A Woman shall thy torment be At her yet doe not thou repine For all the fault is onely thine 32 It seemes thy Time thou dost mispend To warne thee therefore of thine end To shew how short thy Life will be And with what speed it flyes from thee This Lot was drawne and may advize That thou thy time shouldst better prize Which if accordingly thou doe This will be sport and profit too 33 It may be thou art one of those Who dost not all aright suppose of Gods Decrees or of the state Of an inevitable Fate That therefore so thou maist beleeve And of these Mysteries conceive As thou art bound this Lot befell Peruse and minde thine Embleme well 34 Thou at thy Fortune hast repin'd And seem'st imprisond in thy minde Because thou art not straight releast From those things which have thee opprest To thee a Lot is therefore sent To qualifie thy discontent By shewing that thy

their beauties and abate their prides Thus fares it with a Nation and their King 'Twixt whom there is a native Sympathy His Presence and his Favours like the Spring Doe make them sweetly thrive and fructity Yea like fresh Groves or Flow'rs of pleasing hew Themselves in all their jollity they showe But they if with displeasure them he view Soone lose their Glory and contemned growe All are not Heliotropes that favour'd growe In Princes Courts nor Marigolds that beare The golden blossomes but some spring below Like Daysie flow'rs that in the Pathwayes are Yet all shall feele it when their Sov'radgues eye Doth frowne or smile regard or else neglect Yea it will finde them in Obscurity By some Disheartning or some sweet Effect Vouchsafe to shine on Mee my Gracious King And then my Wi●her'd Leaves will freshly spring The Right-hand way is Vertues Path Though rugged Passages it hath HAC VIRTUTIS ITER ILLVSTR. XXVI Book 3 I Fany covet knowledge of that Path Which thither tends where Peace her dwelling hath This Emblem being well observ'd will show On whether side it will be best to goe The Left hand way seemes to be walk'd at ease Through Lawnes and Downes and green-swath'd Passages And much allures the Traveller to trie The many Pleasures which doe that Way lye The Right-hand-course is through a Pathlesse-mo●nd Of newly ploughed and deep-furrow'd Ground Which as uneasie seemeth to be gone As in appearance rough to looke upon Yet this is Vertue 's Path This Way uneven Is that which unto ev'ry man is given To travaile in and hath a safer ending Then those whereon more Pleasures are attending And though it leades us thither where we see Few promises of outward Glories bee It brings us when we passe the common fight Through easy Tracts to gaine our Hearts delight The other Way though seeming streight it lyes To Pleasure's Pallaces before our eyes Hath many rubs and perills which betweene Our Hopes and Vs will alwayes lurke unseene Till we are drawne so farre that 't will be vaine To seeke with safety to returne againe This let us heed and still be carefull too Which Course is most concerneth us to goe And though the Left-hand-way more smoothnesse hath Let us goe forward in the Right-hand-path I was erected for a Bound And I resolve to stand my ground CONCEDO NULLI ILLVSTR. XXVII Book 3 THe Bounder-Stones held sacred heretofore Some did so superstitiously adore As that they did not onely rev'rence doe them But have ascrib'd a kinde of God-head to them For Terminus had many a Sacrifize As well as other senslesse Deities I am not so prophane as to desire Such Ethnick zeale should set our hearts on fire But wish I could Men better did regard Those Bounders which Antiquity hath rear'd And that they would not with so much delight There make incroachments where they have no righ● That ev'ry man might keep his owne Possessions Our Fathers us'd in reverent Processions With zealous prayers and with praisefull cheere To walke their Parish limits once a yeare And well knowne Markes which sacrilegious Hands Now cut or breake so bord'red out their Lands That ev'ry one distinctly knew his owne And many brawles now rise were then unknowne But since neglected sacred Bounders were Most men Incroachers and Intruders are They grieve each other and their Dues they steale From ●rince from Parent and from Common-weale Nay more these bold Vsurpers are so rude That they on Christ's Inheritance intrude But that will be aveng'd and on his right Though such incroach he will not lose it quite For hee 's that Bounder and that Corner-stone Who all confines and is confin'd of none Where Lovers fitly matched be In mutuall-duties they agree MANUS MANUM LAUAT ILLVSTR. XXVIII Book 3 WOuld God I could as feelingly infus● A good effect of what this Emblem shewes As I can tell in words what Moralls bee The use of that which here you pictur'd fee. Most Lovers minde their Penny or their Pleasure Or painted Honors and they all things measure Not as they are but as they helpfull seeme In compassing those toyes they most esteeme Though many wish to gaine a faithfull Friend They seldome seeke one for the noblest end Nor know they should they finde what they had sought How Friendship should be manag'd as it ought Such as good Husbands covet or good Wives The deare companions of most happy lives Wrong Courses take to gaine them yet contemne Their honest love who rightly counsell them And lest they unawares the Marke may hit They blinde their judgements and befoole their wit He that will finde a Friend must seeke out one To exercise unfeigned love upon And mutuall-duties must both yield and take Not for himselfe but for his Friendship sake Such as doe rightly marry neither be With Dowries caught nor wooe a Pedigree Nor. meerely come together when they wed To reape the youthfull pleasures of the Bed But seeke that fitnesse and that Sympathy Which maketh up the perfect'st Amity A paire so match'd l●ke Hands that wash each other As mutuall helpes will sweetly live together When Law and Armes together meet The World descends to kisse tho●● feet LEGIBUS ET ARMIS ILLVSTR. XXIX Book 3 THe Picture of a Crowned king here stands Upon a Globe and with outstretched hands Holds forth in view a Law booke and a Sword Which plaine and moderne 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 Lawes 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 feare Advance his Favorites and bring downe all His opposites below his pedestall His conquering Sword in forraigne Realmes he drawes As oft as there is just or needfull cause At home in ev'ry Province of his Lands At all times armed are his Trayned bands His Royall fleets are terrours to the Seas At all houres rigg'd for usefull Voyages And often be his Navy doth increase That Warres Provisions may prolong his Peace Nor by the tenure of the Sword alone Delighteth he to hold his awfull Throne But likewise labours Mischiefes to prevent By wholsome Lawes and rightfull Goverment For where the Sword commands without the Law A Tyrant keepes the Land in slavish awe And where good Lawes doe want an Armed pow'r Rebellious Knaves their Princes will devoure Faire-shewes we should not so much heed As the Vprightnesse of the Deed. NON QUAM FORMOSA SED QUAM RECTA ILLVSTR. XXX Book 3 WHen wee should use a Ruler or a Square Or such like Instruments as usefull are In forming other things we prize not so The carving or the colourable show Which makes them beautifull in outward sight As when for Vsefulnesse we finde them right A warped Bowe though strung with silken

five hundred Marks decrease Through that which for my profit was bestowne And I ere this had wholly been undone But that the Wealth which I relie on most Consists in things which never can be lost Yet by this Losse I have Occasions had To feele why other men are often sad And I who blushed to be troublesome To any Friend therby almost am come To such a passe that what I wish to have I should grow impudent enough to Crave Had not impartiall Death and wasting Time Of all my Friends quite worne away the Prime And left mee none to whom I dare present The meanest suite withom encouragement Although the greatest Boone I would implore Should cost them but a Word or little more Yet some there are no doubt for whose respect I might endeavour with no vaine effect Had I but cause to have as high esteeme Of mine owne Merits as I have of them And if your Honour should be so inclin'd As I desire I now am sure to finde Another Pembrooke by whose ayde sustain'd I may preserve what by the Last I gain'd To make adventure how it will succeed I now am come And lo my LORD insteed Of better Advocates I first begin Mine EMBLEMS by these Lines to Vsher in That they by their admittance may effect For Mee and for themselves your kinde respect That which in them best Worthy you shall find Is this that they are Symptomes of a Minde Affecting honestie and of a Heart So truly honouring a true desert That I am hopefull made they will acquire As much respect as I can well desire And SIR your Candor your knowne Courtesies With other praisefull Vertues make mee rise To this Beliefe that YOV by fav'ring mee Hereafter may as highly honour'd be As by some former Bounties and encrease My Future Merit by your Worthinesse However what I am or shall be knowne To Bee by Your Deservings or mine owne You may command it and be sure to finde Though false my Fortunes prove a Faithfull Mind Thus unfainedly professeth Your Honours truest Honourer GEO WITHER TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRIE Earle of HOLLAND c. Captaine of the Guard Lord-chiefe-Iustice in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests Parkes and Chases on this side Trent Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Counsell Right Noble SIR HAving of late some Cause to overlooke That thankfull Register wherein I booke My noblest Friends I found so many Names Possessing nothing but their honour'd Fames Whose living Persons wee injoyed here A while agoe that I began to feare I might grow Friendlesse having now so few Vnlesse I sought their Number to renew By some Disasters also gaining proofe How much this Course would make for my behoofe I call'd my Wits to Counsell Where and How I might with hopefulnesse begin to sow The seeds of such a Blessing And me thought Within mee something said Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde But from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit According to the Virtues of the Roote Assoone as Fancie had inform'd me so Your Lordship came to my remembrance too With what our Soveraigne's Favour Vulgar Fame Or your owne Merits addeth to your Name Which having weigh'd no doubts at all I had Of Worth in YOV But rather doubtings made That all my Wits would insufficient be To make that Worth become a Friend to mee For I have oft observ'd that Favour shunnes The best Desert if after her it runnes Yet who can tell what may befall thought I It is no great Adventure if I try Without successe And if I gaine my End I am assured of a Noble-Friend His honourable FATHER deem'd mee worth So much respecting as to seeke me forth When I was more Obscure And MEE for nought 〈…〉 to Befriend mee forth HEE sought 〈◊〉 wherefore of his SONNE should I suspect 〈◊〉 seeking HIM hee can my love reject 〈◊〉 Cou●tesie doth alwaies there abound 〈◊〉 such a lovely Personage is found My LORD these were my Fancies But I take them To be of no more worth than you shall make them By your Acceptance Nor is' t my intent To Court you with a fruitlesse Complement But to attempt your Favour with a mind As readily and really inclinde To serve you when my services may steed As to expect your Favours in my need For had my Fates enabled me so much I should more willingly have sought out such On whom I Courtesies might have bestowne Than seeke to cure Misfortunes of mine owne No doubt but every day your Lordship heares Inventions which may better please your eares Than these I now present And yet you might For ought I knew finde profit or delight By our plaine EMBLEMS or some uses in them Which from your Honour some respects may win them Ev'n for that good Moralitie which they To Vulgar Vnderstandings will convay But Truth to speake the chiefest cause which drew My minde to make them PRESENTS for your view Was but to take Occasion to professe That I am Servant to your WORTHINESSE In which if YOV are pleased All is got At which I aym'd And though you like it not It shall but teach Mee for the time to come To take more heed where I am troublesome And I shall be neverthelesse your Honours to be commanded as becommeth your Servant GEO WITHER Whil'st I the Sunne 's bright Face may view I will no meaner Light pursue NON INFERIORA SECUTUS ILLVSTR. I. Book 4 WHen with a serious musing I behold The gratefull and obsequious Marigold How duely ev'ry morning she displayes Her open brest when Titan spreads his Rayes How she observes him in his daily walke Still bending towards him her tender stalke How when he downe declines she droopes and mournes Bedow'd as 't were with teares till he returnes And how the vailes her Flow'rs when he is gone As if she scorned to be looked on By an inf●riour Eye or did contemne To wayt upon a meaner Light then Him When this I meditate me-thinkes the Flowers Have spirits farre more generous then ours And give us faire Examples to despise The servile Fawnings and Idolatries Wherewith we court these earthly things below Which merit not the service we bestow But oh my God! though groveling I appeare Vpon the Ground and have a rooting here Which hales me downward yet in my desire To that which is above mee I aspire And all my best Affections I professe To Him that is the Sunne of Righteousnesse Oh! keepe the Morning of his Incarnation The burning Noone-tide of his bitter Passion The Night of his Descending and the Height Of his Ascension ever in my sight That imitating him in what I may I never follow an inferiour Way The Earth is God's and in his Hands Are all the Corners of the Lands IN MANU DOMINI OMNES SUNT FINES TERRAE ILLVSTR. II. Book 4 LOng since the sacred Hebrew