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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

you thence The nature of true Christian-confidence Her Foot is fixed on a squared-Stone Which whether side soe're you turne it on Stands fast and is that Corner-stone which props And firmely knits the structure of our Hopes Shee alwayes beares a Crosse to signifie That there was never any Constancie Without her Tryalls and that her perfection Shall never be attain'd without Affliction A Cup shee hath moreover in her hand And by that Figure thou mayst understand That shee hath draughts of Comfort alwayes neere her At ev'ry brunt to strengthen and to cheare her And loe her head is crown'd that we may see How great her Glories and Rewards will be Here by this Vertue 's nature may be knowne Now practise how to make the same thine owne Discourag'd be not though thou art pursu'd With many wrongs which cannot be eschew'd Nor yeeld thou to Despairing though thou hast A Crosse which threatens death to be embrac't Or though thou be compell'd to swallow up The very dregs of Sorrowes bitter Cup For whensoever griefes or torments paine thee Thou hast the same Foundation to sustaine thee The selfe same Cap of Comfort is prepared To give thee strength when fainting fits are feared And when thy time of tryall is expired Thou shalt obtaine the Crowne thou hast desired Love a Musician is profest And of all Musicke is the best AMOR DOCET MVSICAM ILLVSTR. XX. Book 2 IF to his thoughts my Comments have assented By whom the following Emblem was invented I 'le hereby teach you Ladies to discover A true-bred Cupid from a fained Lover And shew if you have Wooers which be they That worth'est are to beare your Hearts away As is the Boy which here you pictured see Let them be young or let them rather be Of suiting-yeares which is instead of youth And wooe you in the nakednesse of Truth Not in the common and disguised Clothes Of Mimick-gestures Complements and Oathes Let them be winged with a swift Desire And not with slow-affections that will tyre But looke to this as to the principall That Love doe make them truly Musicall For Love 's a good Musician and will show How every faithfull Lover may be so Each word he speakes will presently appeare To be melodious Raptures in your eare Each gesture of his body when he moves Will seeme to play or sing a Song of Loves The very lookes and motions of his eyes Will touch your Heart-strings with sweet Harmonies And if the Name of him be but exprest T' will cause a thousand quaverings in your breast Nay ev'n those Discords which occasion'd are Will make your Musicke much the sweeter farre And such a mooving Diapason strike As none but Love can ever play the like Thy seeming-Lover false will bee And love thy Money more than Thee NON TE SED NVMMOS ILLVSTR. XXI Book 2 WHat may the reason be so many wed And misse the blessings of a joyfull-Bed But those ungodly and improper ends For which this Age most Marriages intends Some love plumpe-flesh and those as kinde will be To any gamesome Wanton as to thee Some doate on Honours and all such will prize Thy Person meerely for thy Dignities Some fancy Pleasures and such Flirts as they With ev'ry Hobby-horse will runne away Some like this Couple in our Emblem here Wooe hard for Wealth and very kind appeare Till they have wonne their prize but then they show On what their best Affections they bestow This Wealth is that sweet Beautie which preferres So many to their Executioners This is that rare Perfection for whose sake The Pol●tician doth his Marriage make Yea most of those whom you shall married find Were cousned or did cousen in this kind And for some by respects they came together Much more than for the sakes of one another If this concernes thee now in any sense For thy instruction take this warning hence If thou hast err'd already then lament Thy passed crime and beare thy punishment If thou as yet but tempted art to erre Then let this Emblem be thy Counseller For I have said my mind which if thou slight Goe and repent it on thy wedding night Give Credit but first well beware Before thou trust them who they are FIDE SED CVI VIDE ILLVSTR. XXII Book 2 I Rather would because it seemeth just Deceived be than causelesly distrust Yet whom I credited and then how farre Bee Cautions which I thought worth heeding were And had not this been taught me long agone I had been poorer if not quite undone That others to such warinesse may come This Emblem here hath filled up a roome And though a vulgar Figure it may seeme The Morall of it meriteth esteeme That Seeing-Palme endowed with an Eye And handling of a Heart may signifie What warie Watchfulnesse observe we must Before we venter on a weightie Trust And that to keepe our kindnesse from abuse There is of double-diligence an use Mens hearts are growne so false that most are loath To trust each others Words or Bands or Oath For though wee had in every part an Eye We could not search out all Hypocrisie Nor by our utmost providence perceive How many wayes are open to deceive Now then although perhaps thou art so wise To know already what I would advise Yet may this Emblem or this Motto bee Instead of some Remembrancer to thee So take it therefore And be sure if either This Warning or thy Wit or both together Can still secure thee from deceitfull-hearts Thy luck exceedeth all thy other parts Hee that on Earthly-things doth trust Dependeth upon Smoake and Dust HVMANA FVMVS ILLVSTR. XXIII Book 2 LOrd what a coyle is here and what a puther To save and get to scratch and scrape together The Rubbish of the world and to acquire Those vanities which Fancie doth desire What Violence is used and what Cunning What nightly Watchings and what daily Running What sorrowes felt what difficulties entred What losses hazarded what perills ventred And still how sottishly doe wee persever By all the power and meanes wee can endeaver To wheele our selves in a perpetuall Round In quest of that which never will be found In Objects here on Earth we seeke to finde That perfect sollidnesse which is confinde To things in Heaven though every day we see What emptinesse and faylings in them be To teach us better this our Emblem here Assayes to make terrestriall things appeare The same they be both to our eares and eyes That wee may rightly their Condition prize The best which of earths best things wee can say Is this that they are Grasse and will be Hay The rest may be resembled to the Smoke Which doth but either blind the sight or choke Or else to that uncleanly Mushrum-ball Which in some Countries wee a Puff-soyst call Whose out-side is a nastie rotten skin Containing durt or smoking-dust within This is my mind if wrong you thinke I 've done them Be Fooles and at your perils dote upon them

they see Grow furious for the wagging of a straw And otherwile for lesse then that may be Some are more staid a little and will beare Apparent wrongs which to their face you doe But when they Lye they cannot brooke to heare That any should be bold to tell them so Another sort I know that blowes will take Put up the Lye and give men leave to say What words they please till spoile they seeke to make Of their estates And then they 'le kill and slay But of all Hacksters farre the fiercest are Our Cockrills of the game Sir Cupid's knights Who on their foolish Coxcombes often weare The Scarres they get in their Venerean-fights Take heede of these for you may pacifie The first by time The second will be pleas'd If you submit or else your words denie The third by satisfaction are appeal'd But he that for his Female takes offence Through Iealousy or madnesse rageth so That he accepteth of no recompence Till he hath wrought his Rivals overthrow Such Fury shun and shunne their Vulgar minde Who for base trash despitefully contend But when a just occasion thou shalt finde Thy Vertuous Mistresse lawfully defend For he that in such cases turnes his face Is held a Capon of a Dunghill Race If Safely thou desire to goe Bee nor too swift nor overslow TVTIVS VT POSSIT FIGI ILLVSTR. X. Book 2 OVr Elders when their meaning was to shew A native-speedinesse in Emblem wise The picture of a Dolphin-Fish they drew Which through the waters with great swiftnesse flies An Anchor they did figure to declare Hope stayednesse or a grave-deliberation And therefore when those two united are It giveth us a two-fold Intimation For as the Dolphin putteth us in minde That in the Courses which we have to make Wee should not be to slothfulnesse enclin'd But swift to follow what we undertake So by an Anchor added thereunto Inform'd wee are that to maintaine our speed Hope must bee joyn'd therewith in all we doe If wee will undiscouraged proceed It sheweth also that our speedinesse Must have some staydnesse lest when wee suppose To prosecute our aymes with good successe Wee may by Rashnesse good endeavors lose They worke with most securitie that know The Times and best Occasions of delay When likewise to be neither swift nor slow And when to practise all the speed they may For whether calme or stormie-passages Through this life's Ocean shall their Bark attend This double Vertue will procure their ease And them in all necessities befriend By Speedinesse our works are timely wrought By Staydnesse they to passe are safely brought They that in Hope and Silence live The best Contentment may atchive IN SILENTIO ET SPE ILLVSTR. XI Book 2 IF thou desire to cherish true Content And in a troublous time that course to take Which may be likely mischieves to prevent Some use of this our Hieroglyphick make The Fryers Habit seemeth to import That thou as ancient Monkes and Fryers did Shouldst live remote from places of resort And in retyrednesse lye closely hid The clasped-Booke doth warne thee to retaine Thy thoughts within the compasse of thy breast And in a quiet silence to remaine Vntill thy minde may safely be exprest That Anchor doth informe thee that thou must Walke on in Hope and in thy Pilgrimage Beare up without despairing or distrust Those wrongs and sufferings which attend thine Age. For whensoere Oppression groweth rise Obscurenesse is more safe than Eminence Hee that then keepes his Tongue may keepe his Life Till Times will better favour Innocence Truth spoken where untruth is more approved Will but enrage the malice of thy foes And otherwhile a wicked man is moved To cease from wrong if no man him oppose Let this our Emblem therefore counsell thee Thy life in safe Retyrednesse to spend Let in thy breast thy thoughts reserved bee Till thou art layd where none can thee offend And whilst most others give their Fancie scope Enjoy thy selfe in Silence and in Hope Let none despaire of their Estate For Prudence greater is than Fate FATO PRVDENTIA MAIOR ILLVSTR. XII Book 2 BEe merry man and let no causelesse feare Of Constellation fatall Destinie Or of those false Decrees that publish'd are By foolish braines thy Conscience terrifie To thee these Figures better Doctrines teach Than those blind Stoikes who necessitate Contingent things and arrogantly teach For doubtlesse truths their dreames of changelesse Fate Though true it bee that those things which pertaine As Ground-workes to Gods glorie and our blisse Are fixt for aye unchanged to remaine All is not such that thereon builded is God gives men power to build on his Foundation And if their workes bee thereunto agreeing No Power-created brings that Variation Which can disturbe the Workmans happy being Nor of those workings which required are Is any made unpossible untill Mans heart begins that Counsell to preferre Which is derived from a crooked-will The Starres and many other things incline Our nat'rall Constitutions divers wayes But in the Soule God plac'd a Power-divine Which all those Inclinations overswayes Yea God that Prudence hath infus'd by Grace Which till Selfe-will and Lust betrayes a man Will keepe him firmely in that happy place From whence no Constellation move him can And this is that whereof I notice take From this great Starre enclosed by a Snake Their Friendship firme will ever bide Whose hands unto the Crosse are tide CONIVNCTIS VOTIS ILLVSTR. XIII Book 2 WHen first I knew the world and was untaught By tryde experience what true Friendship meant That I had many faithfull friends I thought And of their Love was wondrous confident For few so young in yeares and meane in fortune Of their Familiars had such troopes as I Who did their daily fellowship importune Or seeme so pleased in their company In all their friendly meetings I was one And of the Quorum in their honest game By day or night I seldome sate alone And welcome seemed wheresoere I came But where are now those multitudes of Friends Alas they on a sudden flasht away Their love begun but for some sensuall ends Which fayling them it would no longer stay If I to vaine expences would have mov'd them They nor their paines nor purses would have spared But in a reall need if I had prov'd them Small showes of kindnesse had bin then declared Of thrice three thousands two perhaps or three Are left me now which yet as Friends I prize But none of them of that great number be With whom I had my youthfull Iollities If therefore thou desire a Friend on Earth Let one pure-faith betwixt you bee begot And seeke him not in vanities or mirth But let Afflictions tye your true-love-knot For they who to the Crosse are firmely tyde Will fast and everlasting Friends abide A Candle that affords no light What profits it by Day or Night CVI BONO ILLVSTR. XIIII Book 2 THere be of those in every Common-weale Whom to this

add To those good-meanings thou hast had The Morall of thine Emblem view And what it counsels that pursue 18 To your Long-home you nearer are Than you it may bee are aware Yea and more easie is the Way Than you perchance conceive it may Lest therefore Death should grim appeare And put you in a causelesse feare Or out of minding wholly passe This Chance to you allotted was 19 In slippery Paths you are to goe Yea they are full of danger too And if you heedfull should not grow They 'l hazzard much your overthrow But you the mischiefe may eschew If wholsome Counsell you pursue Looke therefore what you may be taught By that which this your chance hath brought 20 This present Lot concernes full neere Not you alone but all men here For all of us too little heed His love who for our sakes did bleed T is true that meanes hee left behind him Which better teacheth how to minde him Yet if wee both by that and th●● Remember him 't is not amisse 21 T is hop'd you just and pious are More out of Conscience than for feare And that you 'l vertuous courses take For Goodnesse and for Vertue-sake Yet since the best men sometimes may Have need of helpes in vertues way Those usefull Moralls sleight you not Which are presented by this Lot 22 This Lot pertaineth unto those And who they bee God onely knowes Who to the world have no desire But up to heav'nly things aspire No doubt but you in some degree Indow'd with such Affections bee And had this Emblem that you might Encourag'd bee in such a Flight 23 The state of Temp'rall things to shew Yee have them still within your view For ev'ry object that wee see An Emblem of them serves to bee But wee from few things helps doe finde To keepe Eternitie in minde This Lot an Emblem brings therefore To make you thinke upon it more 24 Vnlesse you better looke thereto Dis-use and Sloth will you undoe That which of you despayred was With ease might have bin brought to passe Had but so much bin done as may Bee equall'd with One Line a day Consider this and to that end The Morall of your Lot attend M 25 If wee mistake not thou art one Who loves to court the Rising-Sunne And if this Lot thy nature finde Thou to Preferment hast a minde If so learne hence by whose respect Next God thou mayst thy hopes effect Then seeke to winn his grace to thee Of what estate soe're thou bee 26 Thou to a double-path art come And peradventure troublesome Thou findest it for thee to know On whether hand thou oughtst to goe To put thee out of all suspect Of Courses that are indirect Thy Morall points thee to a path Which hardship but no perill hath 27 You warned are of taking heede That never you your Bounds exceed And also that you be not found To come within your Neighbours Bound There may be some concealed Cause That none but you this Emblem drawes Examine it And If you see A fault let it amended be 28 Your Emblems morall doth declare When Lovers fitly matched are And what the chiefest cause may be Why Friends and Lovers disagree Perhaps you somewhat thence may learne Which your Affection doth concerne But if it Counsell you too late Then preach it at your Neighbours gate M 29 Some vrge their Princes on to Warre And weary of sweet Peace they are Some seeke to make them dote on Peace Till publike Danger more encrease As if the World were kept in awe By nothing else but preaching Law Thy Morall if of those thou art Doth act a Moderators part 30 T is feared thou dost lesse esteeme Vpright to bee than so to seeme And if thine actions faire appeare Thou carest not how soule they are Though this bee not thy fault alone Yet have a care of mending One And study thou Vpright to grow As well in Essence as in Show 31 Some all their time and wealth have spent In giving other men content And would not grudge to waste their Blood To helpe advance the Common-good To such as these you have been thought Not halfe so friendly as you ought This Lot therefore befalls to shew How great respects to such are due 32 You have been tempted by your leave In hope of Lucre to deceive But much as yet you have not swerv'd From Faith which ought to be observ'd If well hereafter you would speed In dealing-honestly proceed For by your Emblem you shall see That Honest-men the richest bee 33 We hope no person here beleeves That you are of those wealthy Theeves Who Chaines of gold and pearle doe weare And of those Theeves that none you are Which weares a Rope wee plainly see For you as yet unchanged bee But unto God for Mercie crie Else hang'd you may bee e're you die 34 You willing are to put away The thinking on your Latter-day You count the mention of it Folly A meanes of breeding Melancholly And newes unfit for men to heare Before they come to sixtie-yeare But minde what Counsels now are sent And mend left you too late repent 35 Your Wits your Wishes and your Tongue Have run the Wild grose-chase too long And left all Reason you exceed Of Rules and Beines you now have need A Bridle therefore and a Square Prime Figures in your Emblem are Observe their Morall and I pray Be Wise and Sober if you may 36 Because her Ayd makes goodly showes You on the World your trust repose And his dependance you despise Who meerly on God's helpe relies That therefore you may come to see How pleas'd and safe those men may bee Who have no ayd but God alone This Emblem you have lighted on 37 Some thinke your Vertue very much And there is cause to thinke it such For many wayes it hath been tride And well the Triall doth abide Yet think not but some brants there are Which your owne strength shall never beare And by the Morall of your Lot Learne where Assistance may bee got 38 Thou hast been grieved and complain'd Because the Truth hath wrong sustain'd But that dismayd thou shouldst not be Thine Emblem will declare to thee That though the Truth may suffer spite It shall not bee depressed quite But by opposing spread the more And grow more pow'rfull than before 39 By Rashnesse thou hast often err'd Or else thou hadst been more preferr'd But future errours to prevent Thou to the slow pac'd Oxe art sent To learne more Slaydnesse and to doe Thy Workes with Perseverance too Hee that this creatures Vertue scornes May want it all except his Flornes 40 Dame Fortunes favour seemes to bee Much lov'd and longed for of thee As if in what her hand bestowes Thou mightst thy confidence repose But that her manners may bee knowne This Chance upon thee was bestowne

obay Their Sonnes and so their Dignitie to lose As to be fed and cloth'd at their dispose Nay wee have some who have assay'd to draw All backward to the Bondage of the Law Ev'n to those abrogated Rites and Dayes By which the wandring Iew markes out his wayes And to pursue this Round they are so heady That they have made themselves and others giddy Doe thou these froward Motions LORD restraine And set the World in her due course againe Invincibilitie is there Where Order Strength and Vnion are VIS NESCIA VINCI ILLVSTR. XII Book 4 FRom these well-order'd Arrowes and the Snake This usefull Observation you may make That where an able Prudence doth combine Vnited-forces by good Discipline It maketh up a pow'r exempted from The feare or perill to be overcome And if you covet safetie you will seeke To know this Ward and to acquire the like For doubtlesse neither is it in the force Of iron Charets or of armed Horse In which the King securitie may finde Unlesse the Riders bee well Disciplinde Nor lyes it in the Souldiers common Skill In warlike Postures nor in theirs who drill The Rankes and Fyles to order them aright According as Occasion makes the Fight But men must use a further Prudence too Or else those vulgar-Arts will all undoe For these are onely Sciences injoynd To order well the Body not the Mind And men best train'd in these oft times we see The Hare-brain'dst-fooles in all our Armies bee To strength and skill unite we must therefore A manly Prudence comprehending more Than all these Powr's ev'n such as when shee please To all her ends can use and mannage these And shew us how to cure or to prevent All Hazards or withall to bee content Hee that 's thus arm'd and trusts in God alone May bee oppos'd but conquered of none When thou art shipwrackt in Estate Submit with patience unto Fate QUO FATA TRAHUNT ILLVSTR. XIII Book 4 WHen I beheld this Picture of a Boat Which on the raging Waves doth seeme to float Forc'd onward by the current of the Tide Without the helpe of Anchor Oare or Guide And saw the Motto there which doth imply That shee commits her selfe to Destinie Me thinkes this Emblem sets out their estate Who have ascribed ev'ry thing to Fate And dreame that howsoe're the businesse goe Their Worke nor hinders neither helpes thereto The leaking Ship they value as the sound Hee that 's to hanging borne shall ne're bee drown'd And men to happinesse ordain'd say these May set their Ship to float as Fate shall please This Fancie springing from a mis-beleeving Of God's Decrees and many men deceiving With shewes of Truth both causeth much offence Against God's Mercies and his Providence And brings to passe that some to ruine runne By their neglect of what they might have done For Meanes is to bee us'd if wee desire The blessing of our safetie to acquire Whose naturall effects if God deny Vpon his Providence wee must relye Still practising what naturall aydes may bee Vntill no likely ayd untride wee see And when this Non plus wee are forc'd unto Stand still wee may and wayt what God will do Hee that shall thus to Fate his fortunes leave Let mee bee ruin'd if Shee him deceive The best and fairest House to mee Is that where best I love to bee ΟΙΚΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΣ ILLVSTR. XIV Book 4 THey are not Houses builded large and high Seel'd all with Gold and pav'd with Porphyrie Hung round with Arras glaz'd with Christall-glasse And cover'd o're with plates of shining Brasse Which are the best but rather those where wee In safetie health and best content may bee And where wee finde though in a meane Estate That portion which maintaines a quiet Fate Here in a homely Cottage thatcht with reed The Peasant seemes as pleasedly to feed As hee that in his Hall or Parlour dines Which Fret-worke Roofes or costly Cedar Lines And with the very same affections too Both to and from it hee doth come and goe The Tortois doubtlesse doth no house-roome lack Although his House will cover but his back And of his Tub the Cynicke seem'd as glad As Alexander was of all hee had When I am setled in a place I love A shrubby hedge-row seemes a goodly Grove My liking maketh Palaces of Sheds And of plaine Couches carved Ivory Beds Yea ev'ry path and pathlesse walke which lies Contemn'd as rude or wilde in others eyes To mee is pleasant not alone in show But truly such For liking makes them so As pleas'd in theirs the Snailes and Cocles dwell As doth a Scallop in his pearly shell For that commends the House which makes it fit To serve their turnes who should have use of it The King his pow'r from God receives For hee alone the Scepter gives DEUS DAT CUI VULT ILLVSTR. XV. Book 4 THe Gift of Kingdomes Children and good-Wives Are three of God's most choice Prerogatives In temp'rall Blessings and of all these three The gifts of Kingdomes his rar'st Favours bee For in five hundred Millions there 's not one Whom this high Honour is conferr'd upon Nor is there any knowne Estate on earth Whereto wee come by Merit or by Birth Which can to any man assurance bring That hee shall either live or die a King The Morning-Starre that 's Heire unto a Crowne Oft sets before the shining-Sunne is downe And some that once a glorious Empire swayd Did lose their Kingdomes e're their heads were layd The greatest earthly Monarch hath no powre To keepe his Throne one minute of an houre Vse all the meanes and policies hee can If God will give it to another man Hee when Belshazzar was in high'st estate His Kingdome to the Persians did translate King Saul and Rehoboam could not stay The Royalties which God would give away And Hee that was the proudest of the rest God changed from a King into a Beast Nor is there any man so meane but hee When God shall please an Emperour may bee Some from the Pot kil●e from the Sheep cote some Hee raised hath great Princes to become Yea hee o're heav'n and earth hath rear'd his Throne That was on earth the most despised one Her favours Fortune oft imparts To those that are of no deserts INDIGNUM FORTUNA FOVET ILLVSTR. XVI Book 4 WOuld you not laugh and thinke it beastly fine To see a durtie and ill-favour'd Swine Weare on her snout a Diamond or a Pearle That might become the Ladie of an Earle And hold it head as if it meant to show It were the Pigg of some well-nurtur'd Sow Perhaps you thinke there be not any where Such Antickes but in this our Emblem here But if you take these Charmes and then goe forth Among some troupes which passe for folkes of worth You shall discover quickly if you please A thousand sights as mimicall as these Here you shall see a noble Title worne That had not mis-beseem'd one better borne By