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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

Favours I could never wait I doe frequent the Church and I have heard Gods judgements by the Preachers there declar'd Against mens falshoods and I gladly heare Their zealous Prayers and good Counsells there But as I live I finde some such as they Will watch to doe a mischiefe if they may Nay those poore sneaking Clownes who seeke their living As if they knew no manner of deceiving Ev'n those their witts can this way so apply That they 'l soone cousen wiser men than I. This Day my Houre-glasse forth is runne Thy Torch to Morrow may bee done HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI ILLVSTR. L. Book 3 THere is no Day nor minute of the Day In which there are not ma●y sent away From Life to Death or many drawing on Which must within a little while bee gone You often view the Grave you often meet The Buriers and the Mourners in the street Conveying of some Neighbour ●o that home Which must e're long your dwelling-place become You see the Race of many a youthfull Sonne Is finish'd e're his Father's Course is done And that the hand of Death regardeth neither Sexe Youth nor Age but mingleth all together You many times in your owne houses heare The groa●es of Death and view your Children there Your lov●ng Parents or beloved Wives To gaspe for breath and labour for their lives Nay you your selves do sometime find the paines Of Sicknesse in your Bowels and your Vaines The Harbingers of Death sometime begin To take up your whole Bodie for their Inne You beare their heavie Aches on your back You feele their twinges make your heart strings crack And sometime lye imprison'd and halfe dead With Age or with Diseases on your bed Yet you deferre your ends and still contrive For temp'rall things as if you thought to live Sixe Ages longer or had quite forgot That you and others draw one common-Lot But that you might not still the same forget This Emblem and this Motto here were set Finis libri tertij THE THIRD LOTTERIE 1 THe Wreathes of GLORY you affect But meanes to gaine them you neglect And though in doing you delight You doe not alwayes what is right Nor are you growne as yet so wise To know to whom the richest Prize Doth appertaine nor what it is But now you are inform'd of This. 2 Though you are weake you much may doe If you will set your Wits thereto For meaner Powres than you have had And meaner Wits good shift have made Both to contrive and compasse that Which abler men have wondred at Your Strength and Wit unite therefore And both shall grow improov'd the more 3 Perhaps thou mayst be one of them Who Civill Magistrates contemne And sleighteth or else flouteth at The Ceremonies of E●●ate That ●hou mai● therefore learne to get Both better Manners and more Wit The Sword and Mace by some despiz'd Is for thy sake now moralliz'd 4 By this thy Lot wee may misdoubt Thou look'st not warily about But hudlest onward without heed What went before or may succeed Procuring losse or discontent Which Circumspection might prevent Therefore with gratefulnesse receive Those counsells which our Moralls vive 5 Thou hast unworthily repin'd Or been displeased in thy mind Because thy Fortunes doe not seeme To fit thy Worth in thy esteeme And loe to check thy discontent Thy Lot a Morall doth present And shewes that if thou vertuous bee Good-Fortune will attend on thee 6 When thy Desires have good successe Thine owne Endeavors thou dost blesse But seldome unto God thou giv'st Due thanks for that which thou receiv'st Thine Emblem therefore tells from whom The fruits of good Endeavours come And shewes if thou to thrive intend On whom thou alwayes must depend 7 It may bee thou art one of those Whose Faith more bold than fruitfull growes And building on some false Decree Disheartnest those that Workers be To gaine with awfull-joy that Prize Which unto no man God denies That workes in Hope and lives by Faith Marke therefore what thine Emblem saith 8 Thou hast been willing that thy Name Should live the life of Honest-Fame And that thy labours to thy praise Continue might in future dayes Behold the Lot thou hapnest on Hath showne how this may well bee done Pursue the Course which there is taught And thy desires to passe are brought 9 Thou many things hast well begun But little to good purpose done Because thou hast a fickle braine And hands that love to take no paine Therefore it chanceth not amisse That thou hast such a Chance as this For if thou want not Grace or Wit Thou maist in time have good of it 10 Whatev'r you seeme to others now It was the Harrow and the Plough By which your Predecessors got The fairest portion of your Lot And that it may encrease your Wit They haunt you in an Emblem yet Peruse our Morall and perchance Your Profit it will much advance 11 Much labour and much time you spend To get an able-constant Friend But you have ever sought him there Where no such precious Iewells are For you without have searching bin To finde what must be found within This Friend is mention'd by this Lot But God knowes where he may be got 12 Thou seek'st for Fame and now art showne For what her Trumpet shall be blowne Thine Emblem also doth declare What Fame they get who vertuous are For Praise alone and what Reward For such like Studies is prepar'd Peruse it And this Counsell take Bee vertuous for meere Vertues sake 13 This Lot those persons alwayes finds That have high thoughts and loftie minds Or such as have an itch to learne That which doth nothing them concerne Or love to peepe with daring eyes Into forbidden Mysteries If any one of these thou bee Thine Emblem lessons hath for thee 14 If all be true these Lots doe tell us Thou shouldst be of those Fidling-fellowes Who better practised are growne In others matters that their owne Or one that covets to be thought A man that 's ignorant of nought If it be so thy Morall showes Thy Folly and what from it slowes 15 Thou hast some Charge who e're thou be Which Tendance may expect from thee And well perhaps it may be fear'd T is often left without regard Or that thou dost securely sleep When thou should'st watch more strictly keep Thou knowest best if it be so Take therefore heed what is to doe 16 In secret thou dost oft complaine That thou hast hop'd and wrought in vaine And think'st thy Lot is farre more hard Than what for others is prepar'd An Emblem therefore thou hast got To shew it is our common-Lot To worke and hope and that thou hast A Blessing by it at the last 17 That thou hast Honestie we grant But Prudence thou dost often want And therefore some have injur'd thee Who farre more Wise than honest bee That now Discretion thou mayst

wearinesse They have acquired most sweepes all away And leaves them for their Labors to possesse Nought but a raw-bon'd Carcasse lapt in clay Of twenty hundred thousands who this houre Vaunt much of those Possessions they have got Of their new purchac'd Honours or the Power By which they seeme to have advanc't their Lott Of this great Multitude there shall not Three Remaine for any Future age to know But perish quite and quite forgotten bee As Beasts devoured twice ten yeares agoe Thou therefore who desir'st for aye to live And to possesse thy Labors maugre Death To needfull Arts and honest Actions give Thy Spanne of Time and thy short blast of Breath In holy Studies exercise thy Mind In workes of Charity thy Hands imploy That Knowledge and that Treasure seeke to find Which may enrich thy Heart with perfect Ioy. So though obscured thou appeare awhile Despised poore or borne to Fortunes low Thy Vertue shall acquire a nobler st●le Then greatest Kings are able to bestow And gaine thee those Possessions which nor They Nor Time nor Death have power to take away The Man that hath true Wisdome got Continues firme and wavers not SAPIENTIA CONSTANS ILLVSTR. II. Book 1. STill fixt and with triumphant Laurell crown'd Is truest Wisdome whom expressed thus Among the old Impresa's we have found And much this Emblem hath instructed us For hence we learne that Wisdome doth not flow From those unconstant men whom ev'ry Blast Or small Occasion turneth to and fro But from a Settled-head that standeth fast Who'ever shoulders him he gives no place What Storme soe're his Times or Fortunes breath He neither hides his Brow nor turnes his Face But keepes his Lookes undaunted ev'n in Death The Laureat-head upon the Pillar set Thus signifies And that Bay-wreath doth show That constant Wisdome will the conquest get When giddy Policie prevailes not so If therefore thou desirest to be taught Propose good Ends with honest Meanes thereto And therein Constant be till thou hast brought To perfect end that Worke thou hast to doe Let neither flatt'ring Pleasures nor Disgrace Nor scoffing Censures nor the cunning Sleigh●s Of glozing Sycophants divert that Race To which a harmelesse Prudence thee invites Though others plot conspire and undermine Keepe thou a plaine right Path and let their Course For no advantage make thee change from thine Although it for the present seemes the worse He thus that workes puts Policie to Schoole And makes the Machavilian prove a foole The Law is given to direct The Sword to punish and protect LEX REGIT ET ARMA TVENTVR ILLVSTR. III. Book 1. WHen God-Almighty first engrav'd in stone His holy Law He did not give the same As if some common Act had then beene done For arm'd with Fires and Thunders forth it came By which that great Law-maker might inferre What d●eadfull Vengeance would on those attend Who did against those holy Precepts erre And that his Power well-doers could defend Thereto this Emblem also doth agree For loe before the Tables of the Lawe A naked Sword is borne whose use may bee As well to keepe in Safety as in Awe Whence Princes if they please this note may take And it shall make them happily to raigne That many good and wholsome Lawes to make Without an Executioner is vaine It likewise intimates that such as are In Soveraigne place as well obliged be Their zeale for true Religion to declare As what concerneth Manners to foresee It lastly showes that Princes should affect Not onely over others to Command But Swords to weare their Subjects to protect And for their Guard extend a willing hand For Lawes or Peace to boast of and the whiles The Publique-weale to weaken or disarme Is nor the way to hinder Civill-Broyles Nor to secure it from a Forraigne-harme For As by Lawes a Land is kept in f●ame So Armes is that which must protect the same Occasions-past are sought in vaine But oft they wheele-about againe NE TENEAR ILLVSTR. IV. Book 1. UNwise are they that spend their youthfull Prime In Vanities as if they did suppose That men at pleasure might redeeme the Time For they a faire advantage fondly lose As ill-advis'd be those who having lost The first Occasions to Despa●ring runne For Time hath Revolutions and the most For their Affaires have Seasons more then one Nor is their Folly small who much depend On Transitorie things as if their Powre Could bring to passe what should not have an End Or compasse that which Time will not devoure The first Occasions therefore see thou take Which offred are to bring thy hopes about And minde thou still what Haste away they make Before thy swift-pac't houres are quite runne out Yet if an Opportunity be past Despaire not thou as they that hopelesse be Since Time may so revolve againe at last That New-Occasions may be offred thee And see thou trust not on those fading things Which by thine owne Endeavours thou acquir'st For Time which her owne Births to ruine brings Will spare nor thee nor ought which thou desir'st His Properties and Vses what they are In vaine observ'd will be when he is fled That they in season therefore may appeare Our Emblem thus hath him deciphered Balde save before and standing on a Wheele A Razor in his Hand a Winged-Heele By Labour Vertue may be gain'd By Vertue Glorie is attain'd LABORE VIRTVS VIRTVTE GLORIA PARATVR ILLVSTR. V. Book I SVppose you Sirs those mimicke Apes you meet In strange fantasticke habits or the Rabble That in gay clothes embroyder out the street Are truely of Worshipfull or Honorable Or can you thinke that To be borne the Sonne Of some rich Alderman or ancient Peere Or that the Fame our Predecessors wonne May claime those Wreathes which true Deserving weare Is Honour due to those who spend their dayes In courting one another or consuming Their Fortunes and themselves on Drabbs and Playes In sl●eping drinking and Tobacco-fuming Not so For though such Fooles like children place Gay Titles on each other Wise-men know What slaves they be how miserably-base And where such Attributes would better show An idle Body clothes a vitious Minde And what at best is purchac'd by the same Is nothing else but stinking Smoke and Winde Or froth●e Bubbles of an empty Fame True Glory none did ever purchase yet T●ll to be Vertuous they could first attaine Nor shall those men fai●e Vertues favour get Who labour not such Dignities to gaine And this Impresa doth inferre no lesse For by the Spade is Labour here implide The Snake a vertuous Prudence doth expresse And Glorie by the Wreath is Typiside For where a vertuous Industry is found She shall with Wreaths of G●ory thus be crown'd Though Fortune prove true Vertues Foe It cannot worke her Overthrowe NON OBEST VIRTVTI SORS ILLVSTR. VI. Book 1. UNhappy men are they whose Ignorance So slaves them to the Fortunes of the Time That they attending on the Lot of Chance Neglect