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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

by Vertue and Deserts to clime Poore Heights they be which Fortune reares unto And fickle is the Favour she bestowes To-day she makes to-morrow doth undoe Builds up and in an instant overthrowes On easie Wheeles to Wealth and Honours high She windes men oft before they be aware And when they dreame of most Prosperitie Downe headlong throwes them lower then they were You then that seeké a more assur'd estate On good and honest Objects fixe your Minde And follow Vertue that you may a Fate Exempt from feare of Change or Dangers finde For he that 's Vertuous whether high or low His Fortune seemes or whether foule or faire His Path he findes or whether friend or foe The World doth prove regards it not a haire His Losse is Gaine his Poverty is Wealth The Worlds Contempt he makes his Diadem In Sicknesse he rejoyceth as in Health Yea Death it selfe becommeth Life to him He feares no disrespect no bitter scorne Nor subtile plottings nor Oppressions force Nay though the World should topsie-turvie turne It cannot fright him nor divert his Course Above all Earthly powres his Vertue reares him And up with Eglets wings to Heav'n it beares him A fickle Woman wanton growne Preferres a Crowd before a Crowne NON SCEPTRO SED PLECTRO DVCITVR ILLVSTR. VII Book 1. FOole Dost thou hope thine Honours or thy Gold Shall gaine thee Love Or that thou hast her heart Whose hand upon thy tempting Bay● layes hold Alas fond Lover thou deceived art She that with Wealth and Titles can be wonne Or woo'd with Vanities will way ring bee And when her Love thou most dependest on A Fiddle-sticke shall winne her heart from thee To Youth and Musicke Venus leaneth most And though her hand she on the Scepter lay Let Greatnesse of her Favours never boast For Heart and Eye are bent another way And lo no glorious Purchace that Man gets Who hath with such poore Trifles woo'd and wonne Her footing on a Ball his Mistresse sets Which in a moment slips and she is gone A Woman meerely with an Out side caught Or tempted with a Galliard or a Song Will him forsake whom she most lovely thought For Players and for Tumblers ere 't be long You then that wish your Love should ever last And would enjoy Affection without changing Love where your Loves may worthily be plac●t And keepe your owne Affection still from ranging Vse noble Meanes your Longings to attaine Seeke equall Mindes and well beseeming Yeares They are at best vaine Fooles whom Follie gaine But there is Blisse where Vertue most endeares And wheresoe're Affection shee procures In spight of all Temptations it endures This Ragge of Death which thou shalt see Consider it And Pious bee IN HVNC INTVENS PIVS ESTO ILLVSTR. VIII Book I. WHy silly Man so much admirest thou Thy present Fortune overvaluing so Thy Person or the beauty of thy Brow And Cloth'd so proudly wherefore dost thou goe Why dost thou live in riotous Excesse And Boast as if thy Flesh immortall were Why dost thou gather so Why so oppresse And o're thy Fellow-creatures Domineere Behold this Emblem such a thing was hee Whom this doth represent as now thou art And such a Fleshlesse Raw-bone shalt thou bee Though yet thou seeme to act a comelier part Observe it well and marke what Vglinesse Stares through the sightlesse Eye holes from within Note those leane Craggs and with what Gastlinesse That horrid Countenance doth seeme to grin Yea view it well and having seene the same Plucke downe that Pride which puffs thy heart so high Of thy Proportion boast not and for shame Repent thee of thy sinfull Vanity And having learn'd that all men must become Such bare Anatomies and how this Fate No mortall Powre nor Wit can keepe thee from Live so that Death may better thy estate Consider who created thee and why Renew thy Spirit ere thy Flesh decayes More Pious grow Affect more Honestie And seeke hereafter thy Creatours praise So though of Breath and Beauty Time deprive thee New Life with endlesse Glorie God will give thee Before thou bring thy Workes to Light Consider on them in the Night IN NOCTE CONSILIV̄ ILLVSTR. IX Book 1. AN Owle the Hieroglyphicke us'd for Night Twixt Mercury and Pallas here takes place Vpon a crown'd Caduceus fixt upright And each a Cornucopia doth imbrace Through which darke Emblem I this Light perceive That such as would the Wit and Wealth acquire Which may the Crowne of approbation have Must wake by Night to compasse their desire For this Mercurian-Wand doth Wit expresse The Cornu-copia Wealthinesse implies Both gained by a studious Watchfulnesse Which here the Bird of Athens signifies Nor by this Emblem are we taught alone That when great Vndertakings are intended We Sloth and lumpish Drowsinesse must shunne But Rashnesse also here is reprehended Take Counsell of thy Pillow saith our Sawe And ere in waighty Matters thou proceede Consider well upon them lest they draw Some Afterclaps which may thy Mischiefe breede I for my seriou'st Muses chuse the Night More friend to Meditation then the Day That neither Noyse nor Objects of the Sight Nor bus'nesses withdraw my Thoughts away By Night we best may ruminate upon Our Purposes Then best we may enquire What Actions wee amisse or well have done And then may best into our Selves retire For of the World-without when most we see Then blindest to the World-within are wee An Innocent no Danger feares How great soever it appeares SPERNIT PERICULA VIRTUS ILLVSTR. X. Book I. WHen some did seeke Arion to have drown'd He with a dreadlesse heart his Temples crown'd And when to drench him in the Seas they meant He playd on his melodious Instrument To shew that Innocence disdayned Feare Though to be swallow'd in the Deeps it were Nor did it perish For upon her Backe A Dolphin tooke him for his Musick 's sake To intimate that Vertue shall prevaile With Bruitish Creatures if with Men it faile Most vaine is then their Hope who dreame they can Make wretched or undoe an Honest-Man For he whom Vertuous Innocence adornes Insults o're Cruelties and Perill scornes Yea that by which Men purpose to undoe him In their despight shall bring great Honours to him Arion-like the Malice of the World Hath into Seas of Troubles often hurl'd Deserving Men although no Cause they had But that their Words and Workes sweet Musicke made Of all their outward Helps it hath bereft them Nor means nor hopes of Comfort have beene left them But such as in the House of Mourning are And what Good-Conscience can afford them there Yet Dolphin-like their Innocence hath rear'd Their Heads above those Dangers that appear'd God hath vouchsaf'd their harmelesse Cause to heed And ev'n in Thraldome so their Hearts hath freed That whil'st they seem'd oppressed and forlorne They Ioyd and Sung and Laugh'd the World to scorne When thou a Dangerous-Way dost goe Walke surely though thy pace be slowe AD SCOPVM

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

thither more people from the remote Hamlets than would else be there Now though I praise not their Devotion yet I am glad if any thing which is not evill in it selfe may be made an occasion of Good because those things may perhaps be continued at last for Conscience sake which were at first begunne upon vaine occasions and have therefore added Lotteries to these Emblems to occasion the more frequent notice of the Morals and good Counsels tendred in their Illustrations hoping that at one time or other some shall draw those Lots which will make them the better and the happier whilest they live I confesse that this Devise may probably be censured as unsutable to the gravitie expected in my ripe yeares and be reputed as great an Indecorum as erecting an Ale-house at the Church-stile yet the same having had beginning in my younger dayes I do now resolve not to be ashamed of it for the Reasons aforementioned To such as I was it will be someway avayleable and perhaps if the Wisest did otherwhile when they walke abroad to Vncertaine purposes take up this Booke and without Superstitious Conceites make tryall what their Lots would remember or give them cause to thinke on It might now and then either occasion better Proceedings or prevent Mischieves Some Games were ever in use ever I thinke will be and for ought I know ever may be without exception And I believe this Recreation will be as harmlesse as any if it be used according to my Intentions For my meaning is not that any should use it as an Oracle which could signifie infallibly what is divinely alloted but to serve onely for a Morall Pastime And that I may no way encourage the secret entertaining of such a Fantasie I doe before hand affirme unto them that none but Children or Ideots may be tollerated to be so foolish without laughing at Yet if any one shall draw that Lot wherein his Secret vices are reproved or some good Counsels proposed which in his owne understanding are pertinent to his welfare let not such as those passe them over as meere Casualties to them for whatsoever these Lots are to others or in themselves they are to all these made pertinent in such cases both by their particular Knowledges and Occasions Some will thinke perhaps that I have purposely invented this Game that I might finde meanes to reprove mens vices without being suspected as I have hitherto unjustly beene to 〈◊〉 at particular persons For if any who are notoriously Guiltie shall by drawing their Chances among other Companions be 〈◊〉 with Lots which may now and then happen that those Vices be therby intimated to the by stan●●●● 〈…〉 them guilty they do 〈◊〉 with 〈…〉 bee 〈◊〉 at without my 〈…〉 such 〈◊〉 are worthily suspected 〈…〉 ●●andalous conversations either forbeare 〈…〉 excus●●●● of they be justly sham●d by their 〈◊〉 Having thus 〈◊〉 th●●eason of this Inventio● and made these 〈…〉 every man hath his 〈◊〉 whether hee will make 〈…〉 or no hee th●t will is left to his 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 how hee shall make tryall direction is given in the 〈◊〉 Pages of this Booke This Game occasions not the frequent crime Of Swearing or mispending of our Time Nor losse of money For the Play is short And ev'ry Gamester winneth by the sport Wee therefore know it may aswell become The Hall the Parlor or the Di●ing roome As Chesse or Tables and we thinke the Pr●●e Will be as low because it needs no Dice What I WAS is passed by What I AM away doth flie What I SHAL BEE none do see Yet in that my Beauties bee The AVTHORS Meditation upon sight of his PICTVRE VVHen I behold my Picture and perceive How vaine it is our Portraitures to leave In Lines and Shadowes which make shewes to day Of that which will to morrow fade away And thinke what meane Resemblances at best Are by Mechanike Instruments exprest I thought it better much to leave behind me Some Draught in which my living friends might find me The same I am in that which will remaine Till all is ruin'd and repair'd againe And which in absence will more truely show me Than outward Formes to those who think they know me For though my gratious MAKER made me such That where I love belov'd I am as much As J desire yet Forme nor Features are Those Ornaments in which J would appeare To future Times Though they were found in me Farre better than I can beleeve they be Much lesse affect I that which each man knowes To be no more but Counterfeits of those Wherein the Painters or the Gravers toole Befriends alike the Wiseman and the Foole And when they please can give him by their Art The fairest-Face that had the falsest-Heart A PICTVRE though with most exactnesse made Is nothing but the Shadow of a SHADE For ev'n our living Bodies though they seeme To others more or more in our esteeme Are but the shadowes of that Reall-being Which doth extend beyond the Fleshly-seeing And cannot be discerned till we rise Immortall-Objects for Immortall-eyes Our Everlasting-Substance lies unseene Behinde the Fouldings of a Carnall-Screene Which is but Vapours thickned into Blood By due concoction of our daily food And still supplied out of other Creatures To keepe us living by their wasted natures Renewing and decaying ev'ry Day Vntill that Vaile must be remov'd away For this lov'd Flesh wherewith yet cloth'd we go Is not the same wee had sev'n yeares ago But rather something which is taken-in To serve insteed of what hath wasted bin In Wounds in Sicknesses in Colds and Heates In all Excrescions and in Fumes and Sweates Nor shall this present Flesh long stay with us And wee may well be pleas'd it should be Thus. For as I view those Townes and Fields that be In Landskip drawne Even so me thinks I see A Glimpes farre off through FAITH'S Prospective glasse Of that which after Death will come to passe And likewise gained have such meanes of seeing Some things which were before my Life had being That in my Soule I should be discontent If this my Body were more permanent Since Wee and all God's other Creatures here Are but the Pictures of what shall appeare Yet whilst they are I thankfully would make That use of them for their CREATOR'S sake To which hee made them and preserve the Table Still Faire and Full asmuch as I were able By finishing in my alotted place Those Workes for which hee fits me by his Grace And if a Wrenne a Wrenn's just height shall soare No Aegle for an Aegle can doe more If therefore of my Labours or of MEE Ought shall remaine when I remov'd must be Let it be that wherein it may be view'd My MAKERS Image was in me renew'd And so declare a dutifull intent To doe the Worke I came for e're I went That I to others may some Patterne be Of Doing-well as other men to mee Have beene whilst I had life And let my

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

Nor Soule not Bodie ever should have ease The Sixe dayes as their wisdomes understand Are to bee spent in Labour by command With such a strictnesse that they quite condemne All Recreations which are us'd in them That which is call'd the Sabbath they confine To Prayers and all Offices-divine So wholly that a little Recreation That Day is made a marke of Reprobation And by this meanes the reason is to seeke When their poore Servants labour all the weeke Of which they 'l bate them nothing how it tyes Them to observe the sixe-fold Sacrifice By some injoyn'd and gives them such due Rest As God allowed both to Man and Beast Hee gave the Woods the Fields and Meddowes here A time to rest as well as times to beare The Forrest Boasts and Heards have howres for play As well as time to graze and hunt their prey And ev'ry Bird some leasure hath to sing Or in the Aire to sport it on her wing And sure to him for whom all these were made Lesse kindnesse was not meant then these have had The Flesh will faint if pleasure none it knowes The Man growes madd that alway muzing goes The Wisest men will sometimes merry bee And this is that this Emblem teacheth me Live over mindfull of thy dying For Time is always from thee flying VIVE MEMOR LETHI FUGIT HORA. ILLVSTR. XXVII Book 4 THis vulgar Figure of a winged glasse Doth signifie how swiftly Time doth passe By that leane Scull which to this houre-glasse clings We are informed what effect it brings And by the Words about it wee are taught To keepe our lattter ending still in thought The common houre-glasse of the Life of Man Exceedeth not the largenesse of a span The Sand-like Minutes flye away so fast That yeares are out e're wee thinke months are past Yea many times our nat'rall-day is gone Before wee look'd for twelve a clocke at Noone And where wee sought for Bea●tie at the Full Wee finde the Flesh quite rotted from the Skull Let these Expressions of Times passage bee Remembrancers for ever Lord to mee That I may still bee guiltlesse of their crime Who fruitlesly consume their precious Time And minde my Death not with a slavish feare But with a thankfull use of life-time here Not grieving that my dayes away doe post But caring rather that they bee not lost And lab'ring with Discretion how I may Redeeme the Time that 's vainely slipt away So when that moment comes which others dread I undismay'd shall climbe my dying bed With joyfull Hopes my Flesh to dust commend In Spirit with a stedfast Faith ascend And whilst I living 〈◊〉 to sinne so dye That dying I may live eternally In ev'ry Storme hee standeth fast Whose dwelling on the Rocke is plac'd MEDIIS TRANQUILLUS IN UNDIS ILLVSTR. XXVIII Book 4 WHat thing soever some will have exprest As typified by this Halcyons-nest I shall not thinke this Emblem ill-appli'd If by the same the Church bee signifi'd For as it is by some affirm'd of these That whilst they breed the fury of the seas Is through the world alayd and that their Brood Remaines in safetie then amidst the flood So when the Christian Church was in her birth There was a generall Peace throughout the earth And those tumultuous Waves which after that Began to rise and bee enrag'd thereat Were calmed so that Hee was borne in peace From whom the faithfull Off-spring did encrease They likewise on a Rocke their dwellings have As here you see and though the raging Wave Of dreadfull Seas hath beaten ever since Against the Fortresse of their strong defence Yet still stands and safe it shall abide Ev'n in the midst of all their foming pride Vpon this Rocke so place me oh my God! That whatsoever Tempests bee abroad I may not feare the fury of my Foe Nor bee in danger of an overthrow My life is full of Stormes the Waters roule As if they meant to swallow up my soule The Tides oppose the furious winds doe roare My Cable's weake my tacklings Lord are poore And my fraile vessell cannot long endure Yet reach to mee thy hand and I 'm secure That 's Friendship and true-love indeed Which firme abides in time of need BONA FIDE ILLVSTR. XXIX Book 4 THat 's Love in earnest which is constant found When Friends are in Affliction or in Bands And their Affection merits to be crown'd Whose hearts are fastned where they joyne their hands T is easie to be friendly where wee see A Complement or two will serve the turne Or where the kindnesse may requited bee Or when the charge is with a trifle borne It is as easie too for him to spend At once the full Revenues of a yeare In Cares for entertainment of his Friend Who thinkes his glorie is expensive-cheere For 't is his pleasure and if none should come Like fashionable-Friends for him to court Hee would with Rogues and Canters fill the Roome Or such as should abuse and flout him for 't But hard it is to suffer or to spend For him though worthy that 's of meane estate Unlikely our occasions to befriend Or one unable to remunerate Few men are liberall whom neither Lust Vaine glorie Prodigalitie nor Pride Doth forward into foolish Bountie thrust As may by Observation bee espide For when a slender Bountie would relieve Their vertuous Friend whose wants to them are knowne To their Buffoone a Knights estate they 'l give And thinke on t'other trifles ill-bestowne Yet this I le say and give the Devill his due These Friends are to their lusts and humours true The Sword hath place will War doth cease And usefull 〈◊〉 in time of Peace PACISQUE BONUS BELLIQUE MINISTER ILLVSTR. XXX Book 4 THe Sword to bee an Emblem here we draw Of the Authoritie which keeps in awe Our Countries Enemies and those that are The Foes of Peace as well as those of Warre That Peace may give the Law of Armes her due And Warre to Civill-pow'rs respect may shew For Kingdomes nor in Warre not Peace can stand Except the Sword have alway some command Yea that for which our forraine Spoyl●rs come Domesticke Foes will else devoure at home And stranger-drones the peacefull Bees will harme Vnlesse with warlike stings themselves they arme Considering this let none bee so unwise The Swords well us'd protection to despise Or thinke the practice of this double-guard In any place or age may well bee spar'd Let not the Sword-man sleight the pow'rfull Gowne Nor Gowne-men cast the Sword out of their Towne Because it terrifies or draweth Blood For otherwhile Phlebotomy is good And thought to kill a Lowse the Ban●ans feare Though Anabaptist● love no Sword to weare Yet being drawne to fright or cut off Sinne It may bee brandish'd by a Cherubin However from the Sword divide not you In any case the peacefull olive bough That is let Peace at all times be that End For which to draw the Sword you doe intend And for