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england_n	bring_v	young_a	youth_n	29	3	7.5807	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35217	Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select and choice emblems, divine and moral, ancient and modern curiously ingraven upon copper plates : with fifty delightful poems and lots for the more lively illustration of each emblem, whereby instruction and good counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation : to which is prefixed an incomparable poem, entituled Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of Kings, written by His late Majesty K. Charles the First, with his own hand, during his captivity in Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle or Wight, 1648 : with an emblem / collected by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, Remarks of London, and Admirable curiosities, &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Majesty in misery.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1684 (1684)	Wing C7312; ESTC R8820	41,002	244

Vapour birth And thence a Fiery-Comet doth arise That moves untill it self it so impair That from a burning-Meteor back again It sinketh down and thickens into Air That Air becomes a Cloud then Drops of Rain Those Drops descending on a Rocky Ground There settle into Earth which more and more Doth harden still so running out the round It grows to be the Stone it was before Thus All things wheel about each Beginning Made entrance to its own Destruction hath The Life of Nature entreth in with Sinning And is for ever waited on by Death The Life of Grace is form'd by Death to Sin And there doth Life-eternal straight begin Lot 1. When thou hast changes good or bad O'rejoy'd thou art or oversad As if it seemed very strange To see the wind or Weather change ●o therefore to remember thee How Changeable things Mortal be Thou art assisted by this Lot How let it be no more forgot Emblem II. Quo me vertam nescio THE Second Emblem Illustrated When Vice and Virtue Youth shall wooe 'T is hard to say which way 't will go MY hopeful Friends at thrice five years three Without a Guide into the World alone To seek my Fortune did adventure mee And many hazards I alighted on First Englands greatest Rendevouz I sought Where VICE and VERTUE at the highest sit And thither both a Mind and Body brought For neither of their Services unfit Both woo'd my Youth And both perswaded so That like the Young man in our Emblem here I stood and cry'd Ah! which way shall I go To me so pleasing both their Offers were VICE Pleasures best Contentments promist me And what the wanton Flesh desires to have Quoth VERTUE I will Wisdom give to thee And those brave things w ch noblest Minds do crave Serve me said VICE and thou shalt soon acquire All hose Atchievements which my Service brings Serve me said VERTUE and I 'le raise thee higher Then VICES can and teach thee better things Whil'st thus they strove to gain me I espyd Grim Death attending VICE and that her Face Was but a painted Vizard which did hide The foul'st Deformity that ever was LORD grant me grace for evermore to view Her Ugliness And that I viewing it Her Falsehoods and allurements may eschew And on fair VERTUE my Affection set Her Beauties contemplate her Love embrace And by her safe Direction run my Race Lot 2. WIth Mary thou art one of those By whom the better part is chose And though thou tempted art astray Continu'st in a lawful way Give God the praise with heart unfeign'd That he such grace to thee hath deign'd And rein thy Lot where thou shalt see What hag hath laid a Trap for thee Emblem III. Vivitur Ingenio caetera mortis erunt THE Third Emblem Illustrated By knowledge only Life we gain All other things to Death pertain HOw Fond are they who spend their pretious Time In still pursuing their deceiving Pleasures And they that unto airy Titles clime Or tire themselves in hording up of Treasures For these are Death's who when with weariness They have acquired most sweeps all away And leaves them for their Labors to possess Nought but a raw-bon'd Carcass lapt in clay Of twenty hundred thousands who this hour Vaunt much of those Possessions they have got Of their new purchas'd Honours or the Power By which they seem to have advanc't their Lot Of this great Multitude there shall not Three Remain for any Future-age to know But perish quite and quite forgotten be As Beasts devoured twice ten years ago Thou therefore who desir'st for ay to live And to possess thy Labours maugre Death To needful Arts and honest Actions give Thy Span of Time and thy short blast of Breath In holy Studies exercise thy Mind In works of Charity thy Hands imploy That Knowledge and that Treasure seek to find Which may enrich thy Heart with perfect Joy So though obscured thou appear a while Despised poor or born to Fortunes low Thy Vertue shall acquire a nobler stile Then greatest Kings are able to bestow And gain thee those Possessions which nor They Nor Time nor Death have power to take away Lot 3. THou dost overmuch respect That which will thy harm effect But some other things there be Which will more advantage thee Search thy heart and thou shalt there Soon discover what they are Yea thine Emblem shews thee too What to shun and what to do Emblem IV. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Fourth Emblem Illustrated As to the World I Naked came So naked stript I leave the same THrice happy is that Man whose Thoughts do rear His Mind above that pitch the Worldling flies And by his Contemplations hovers where He views things mortal with unbleared eyes What Trifles then do Villages and Towns Large Fields or Flocks of fruitful Cattle seem Nay what poor things are Miters Scepters Crowns And all those Glories which men most esteem Though he that hath among them his Delight Brave things imagines them because they blind With some false Lustre his beguiled sight find He that 's above them their mean-Worth may Lord to that Blessea-Station me convey Where I may view the World and view her so That I her true Condition may survey And all her Imperfections rightly know Remember me that once there was a Day When thou didst wean me from them with content Ev'n when shut up within those Gates I lay Through which the Plague-inflicting Angel went And let me still remember that an Hour Is hourly coming on wherein I shall Though I had all the World within my power Be naked stript and turned out of all But mind me chiefly that I never cleave Too closely to my Self and cause thou me Not other Earthly things alone to leave But to forsake my Self for love of Thee That I may say now I have all things left Before that I of all things am bereft Lot 4. BE not angry if I tell That you love the World too well For this Lot perhaps you drew That such faults you might eschew Mark to what their Souls aspire Who True Blessedness desire For if you can do like those Heaven you gain when Earth you lose Emblem V. Ad Scopum licet Aegre frustra THE Fifth Emblem Illustrated A Fool in Folly taketh Pain Although he labour still in vain A Massie Mil-stone up a tedious Hill With mighty Labour Sisyphus doth roll Which being rais'd aloft down-tumbleth still To keep imployed his afflicted Soul On him this tedious Labour is impos'd And though in vain it must be still assayd But some by no Necessity inclos'd Upon themselves such needless Tasks have laid Yea knowing not or caring not to know That they are worn and weary'd out in vain They madly toil to plung themselves in Wo And seek uncertain Ease in certain Pain Such Fools are they who dream they can acquire A Mind-content by Lab'ring still for more For Wealth encreasing doth encrease Desire