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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

shall say he Loves and was again So well-belov'd that neither He nor She Suspects each other neither needs to gain New proofs that they in all Desires agree And yet shall cool again in their Affection And leave to Love or live till they are Lovers The second-time It some gross Imperfection In One if not in Both of them discovers It was not Love which did between them grow But rather somewhat like unto the same Which having made a fair deceiving Show Obtain'd a while that honourable Name For False Affections will together play So lovingly and oft so act those Parts Which real seem that for a time they may Appear the Children of Unfeigned-Hearts Yea many-times true Turtles are deceiv'd By counterfeited Passions till their Love Of her true Object finds her self bereav'd And after it is forced to remove But where True-Love begetteth and enjoys The proper Object which she doth desire Nor Time nor Injury the same destroys But it continues a Perpetual Fire Like am'rous Thisbe to her Pyramus On all occasions it continues true Nor Night nor Danger makes it timorous But through all Perils it will him pursue Thus both in Life in Death in all estates True Lovers will be true Associates Lot 29. SOme think you Love 't is true you do And are as well beloved too But you if we the truth may say Love not so truly as you may To make a perfect Love there goes Much more than every Lover knows Your Emblem therefore mind and then Begin a new to love agen Emblem XXX Nequid Nimis THE Thirtieth Emblem Illustrated Since overmuch will overfill Pour out enough but do not spill IT is this Emblems meaning to advance The love and practice of true Temperance For by this Figure which doth seem to fill Until the liquor overflow and spill We are as by example taught to see How fruitless our Intemperancies be Thus by the Rule of Contrarieties Some Vertues best are shown to vulgar eyes To see a nastie Drunkard reel and spew More moves to Soberness than can the view Of twenty civil men and to behold One Prodigal that goodly lands hath sold Stand torn and louzie begging at the door Would make Intemperance abhorred more And manly Soberness much better each Than all that six Philosophers can preach So by the Vessels overflowing here True Moderation doth more prais'd appear Than by the mean it self And without sin That 's pictur'd which to do had wicked bit For though to vertuous ends we do deny The Doing-ill that Good may come thereby From hence let us be taught that carefull heed Whereby we should both Mind and Body fee● Let us of our own selves observe the size How much we want how little will suffize And our own longings rather leave unfill'd Than suffer any portion to be spill'd For what we marr shall to account be laid And what we wisely spend shall be repaid Lot 30. IF truly temperate thou be Why should this Lot be drawn by thee Perhaps thou either dost exceed ●n clothes Or high dost drink or feed Beyond the mean If this thou find Or know'st in any other kind How thou offendest by excess Now leave off thy Intemperatness Emblem XXXI Legibus Armis THE Thirtieth First Emblem Illustrated When Law and Arms together meet The world descends to kiss their feet THe Picture of a Crowned-king here stands Upon a Globe and with outstretched hands Holds forth in view a Law-book and a Sword Which plain and modern 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 Laws 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 fear Advance his Favorites and bring down all His Opposites below his pedestal His conquering Sword in forraign Realms he draws As oft as there is just or needful cause At home in ev'ry Province of his Lands At all times armed are his Trained Bands His Royal Fleets are terrours to the Seas At all hours rigg'd for useful Voyages And often he his Navy doth increase That Wars Provisions may prolong his Peace Nor by the tenure of the Sword alone Delighteth he to hold his awful Throne But likewise labours Mischiefs to prevent By wholsome Laws and rightful Government For where the Sword commands without the Law A Tyrant keeps the Land in slavish awe And where good Laws do want an Armed pow'r Rebellious Knaves their Princes will devour Lot 31. M. SOme urge their Princes on to War And weary of sweet Peace soon are Some seek to make them dote on Peace Till Publick danger more increase As if the world were kept in awe By nothing else but preaching Law The Moral is If such thou art Then Act a Moderators part Emblem XXXII Spes alit Agricolas THE Thirty second Emblem Illustrated The Husbandman doth sow his seeds And then on Hope till Harvest feeds THe painful Husbandman with sweaty brows Consumes in labour many a weary day To break the stubborn earth he digs and ploughs And then the Corn he scatters on the clay When that is done he harrows in the Seeds And by a well-cleans'd Furrow lays it dry He frees it from the Worms the Moles the Weeds He on the Fences also hath an eye And though he see the chilling Winter bring Snows Flouds and Frosts his Labours to annoy Though blasting-winds do nip them in the Spring And Sammers Mildews threaten to destroy Yea though not only Days but Weeks they a● Nay many Weeks and many Months beside In which he must with pain prolong his care Yet constant in his hopes he doth abide For this respect HOPE'S Emblem here you see Attends the Plough that men beholding it May be instructed or else minded be What Hopes continuing Labours will befit Though long thou toyled hast and long attended About such workings as are necessary And oftentimes ere fully they are ended Shalt find thy pains in danger to miscarry Yet be not out of hope nor quite dejected For buried Seeds will sprout when Winter 's gone Unlikelier things are many times effected And God brings help when men their best have done Yea they that in Good-works their life imploy Although they sow in tears shall reap in joy Lot 32. IN many things the worse thou art By the despairing fainting heart And oft thy labour and thy cost For want of Hopefulness is lost Thou therefore by thy Lot art sent This Indiscretion to prevent And by the Plow-mans hope to see Thy fault and now reform'd to be Emblem XXXIII Puris Manibus THE Thirty third Emblem Illustrated Let him that at Gods Altar stands In Innocency wash his hands WHen Reader thou hast first of all survaid That Reverend Priest which here ingraven stands In all his Holy Vestiments array'd Endeavouring for

Robe The Holy Unction and the Royal Globe Yet I am levelled with the life of Job 5. The fiercest furies that do daily tread Upon my Grief my Gray Discrowned Head Are those that owe my Bounty for their Bread 6. They raise a War and Christen it The cause Whilst Sacrilegious hands have best applause Plunder and Murder are the Kingdoms Laws 7. Tyranny bears the Title of Taxation Revenge and Robbery are Reformation Oppression gains the name of Sequestration 8. My Loyal Subjects who in this bad season Attend me By the Law of God and Reason They dare impeach and punish for High Treason 9. Next at the Clergy do their Furies frown Pious Episcopacy must go down They will destroy the Crozier and the Crown 10. Churchmen are chain'd Schismaticks are freed Mechanicks preach and Holy Fathers bleed The Crown is Crucified with the Creed 11. The Church of England doth all Faction foster The Pulpit is usurpt by each Impostor Extempore excludes the Pater noster 12. The Presbyter and Independent seed Springs with broad blades to make Religion bleed Herod and Pontius Pilate are agreed 13. The Corner stone 's misplac'd by every Pavier With such a Bloody Method and Behaviour Their Ancestors did crucify our Saviour 14. My Royal Consort from whose fruitful womb So many Princes Legally have come Is forc'd in Pilgrimage to seek a Tomb 15. Great Britains Heir is forced into France Whilst on his Fathers head his Foes advance Poor Child he weeps out his Inheritance 16. With my own Power my Majesty they wound In the kings name the king himself 's uncrown'd So doth the dust destroy the Diamond 17. With Propositions daily they Enchant My Peoples ears such as do Reason daunt And the Almighty will not let me Grant 18. They promise to erect my Royal stem To make me Great t' advance my Diadem If I will first fall down and worship them 19. But for refusal they devour my Thrones Distress my Children and destroy my Bones I fear they 'l force me to make Bread of Stones 20. My life they prize at such a slender rate And in my absence they draw Bills of hate To prove the King a Traytor to the State 21. Felons obtain more Priviledg than I They are allow'd to answer ere they dye 'T is Death for me to ask the Reason why 22. But sacred Saviour with thy words I woo Thee to forgive and not be bitter to Such as thou know'st do not know what they do 23 But since they from their Lord are so disjointed As to contemn those Edicts he appointed How can they prize the power of his Anointed 24. Augment my Patience Nullify my hate Preserve my Issue and Inspire my Mate Yet though we perish Bless this Church and state Vota dabunt quae Bella negarunt The Explanation of the Emblem In Latin and English Ponderibus genus omne mali probrique gravatus Vixque ferenda ferens Palma ut Depressa resurgo Ac velut undarum Fluctus Ventique furorem Irati Populi Rupes immota repello Clarior è Tenebris Coelestis Stella corusco Victor aeternum felici pace Triumpho Auro Fulgentem rutilo gemmisque Micantem At curis Gravidam Spernendo Calco Coronam Spinosam at ferri facilem quo spes mea Christi Auxilio nobis non est tractare molestum Aeternam fixis fidei Semperque beatam In Coelos oculis specto Nobisque paratam Quod Vanum est Sperno quod Christi Gratia praebet Amplecti Studium est Virtutis Gloria merces In English THough clogg'd with weights of Miseries Palm-like Depress'd I higher rise And as the unmoved Rock out-braves The boistrous Winds and raging Waves So Triumph I and shine more bright In sad Afflictions Darksom night That Splendid but yet Toilsom Crown Regardlesly I trample down With Joy I take this Crown of Thorn Though Sharp yet easy to be born That Heavenly Crown already mine I view with Eyes of Faith Divine I slight vain things and do imbrace Glory the just reward of Grace An Epitaph upon King Charles the first SO falls the stately Cedar while it stood That was the only Glory of the Wood. Great Charles Terrest rial God Celestial Man Whose life like others though it were a span Yet in that span was comprehended more Than Earth hath waters or the Ocean shore Thy Heavenly Virtues Angels should reherse It is a Theam too high for Human Verse He that would know thee right then let him look Upon thy rare Incomparable Book And read it o're and o're which if he do He 'l find thee King and Priest and Prophet too And sadly see our loss and though in vain With fruitless wishes call thee back again Nor shall oblivion sit upon thy Herse Though there were neither Monument nor Verse Thy Suff'rings and thy Death let no man name It was thy Glory but the Kingdoms shame Another STay Passenger behold and see The widdow'd Grave of Majesty Why tremblest not here 's that will make The most stupid Soul to shake Here lies intomb'd the sacred Dust Of Peace and Piety Right and Just The blood O stait'st thou not to hear Of a blest King 'twixt hope and fear Shed and hurried hence to be The Miracle of Misery The Lawgiver amongst his own Sentenc'd by a Law unknown Voted Monarchy to Death By the course Plebeian breath The Soveraign of all Comma Suffering by a Common hand A Prince to make the Odium more Martyr'd at his very door The Head cut off Oh Death to see 't In Obedience to the Feet And that by Justice you must know If thou hast faith to think it so We 'll stir no further than this sacred clay But let it slumber till the Judgment day Of all the Kings on Earth it 's not deni'd Here lies the first that for Religion dy'd Another WRitten by the Magnanimous James Marques of Montross with the point of his Sword Great Good and Just could I but rate My Grief and thy so rigid Fate I 'de weep the world to such a strain That it should deluge once again But since thy loud-tongu'd blood demands supplies More from Briareus hands then Argus Eyes I 'le sing thy Elegy with Trumpets sounds And write thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds Emblem I. Finis ab Origine pendet THE First Emblem Illustrated As soon as we to Be begun We did begin to be undone WHen some in former Ages had a meaning An Emblem of Mortality to make They form'd an Infant on a Deaths-head leaning And round about encircled with a Snake The Child so pictur'd was to signify That from our very Birth our Dying springs The Snake her Tail devouring doth imply The Revolution of all Earthly things For whatsoever hath beginning here Begins immediately to vary from The same it was and doth at last appear What very few did think it should become The solid Stone doth molder into Earth That Earth e're long to Water rarifies That Water gives an Airy

Wealth and Honours high She winds men oft before they be aware And when they dream of most Prosperity Down headlong throws them lower then they were You then that seek a more assur'd estate On good and honest Objects fix your Mind And follow Vertue that you may a Fate Exempt from fear of Change or Dangers find For he that 's Vertuous whether high or low His Fortune seems or whether foul or fair His Path he finds or whether friend or foe The World doth prove regards it not a hair His Loss is Gain his Poverty is Wealth The Worlds Contempt he makes his Diadem In Sickness he rejoyceth as in Health Yea Death it self becometh Life to him He fears no disrespect no bitter scorn Nor subtile plottings nor Oppressions force Nay though the World should topsie-turvie turn It cannot fright him nor divert his Course Above all Earthly powers his Vertue rears him And up with Eglets wings to Heav'n it bears him Lot 17. M. THis Man whatever he may seem Is worthy of an high esteem Though Fortune may his Person grind She cannot yet disturb his mind Yea blest and happy should we be Were all of us but such as he Read but his Motto which you drew For that in part the same will shew Emblem XVIII Noli Altum Sapere THE Eighteenth Emblem Illustrated Above thy Knowledge do not rise But with Sobriety be wise EXalt thou not thy self though plac'd thou be Upon the top of that old Olive-tree From whence the nat'rall branches prun'd have bin That thou the better mightst be grafted in Be not so over-wise as to presume The Gara'ner for thy goodness did assume Thy small Crab Olive to insert it there Where once the sweetest-berries growing were Nor let thy Pride those few old-boughts contemn Which yet remain upon their ancient Stem Because thy new-incorporated Sprayes Do more enjoy the Suns refreshing raies But humbled rather and more awful be Lest he that cut off them do break down thee Be wise in what may to thy good belong But seek not Knowledge to thy neighbours wrong Be thankful for the Grace thou hast receiv'd But judge not those who seem thereof bereav'd Nor into those forbidden secrets peep Which God-Almighty to himself doth keep Remember what our Father Adam found When he for Knowledge sought beyond his bound For doubtless ever since both good and ill Are left with Knowledge intermingled still And if we be not humble meek and wary We are in daily danger to miscarry Large proves the fruit which on the Earth doth lie Winds break the twig that 's grafted over-high And he that will beyond his bounds be wise Becomes a very Fool before he dies Lot 18. THis Lot those Persons always finds That have high Thoughts and lofty minds Or such as have an itch to learn That which doth nothing them concern Or love to peep with daring eyes Into forbidden Mysteries If any one of these thou be Thine Emblem better teacheth thee Emblem XIX Tractant Fabrilia Fabri THE Nineteenth Emblem Illustrated When each man keeps unto his Trade Then all things better will be made WE more should thrive and err the seldomer If we were like this honest Carpenter Whose Emblem in reproof of those is made That love to meddle farther then their Trade But most are now exceeding cunning grown In ev'ry mans affairs except their own Yea Coblers think themselves not only able To censure but to mend Apelles Table Great-men sometime will gravely undertake To teach how Brooms Morter we should make Their Indiscretions Peasants imitate And boldly meddle with affairs of State Some Houswives teach their Teachers how to pray Some Clarks have shew'd themselves as wise as they And in their Callings as discreet have bin As if they taught their Grandames how to spin And if these Customs last a few more Ages All Countries will be nothing else but Stages Of evil-acted and mistaken parts Or Gallemaufries of imperfect Arts. But I my self you 'l say have medlings made In things that are improper to my Trade No for the MUSES are in all things free Fit subject of their Verse all Creatures be And there is nothing nam'd so mean or great Whereof they have not liberty to treat Both Earth and Heav'n are open unto these And when to take more liberty they please They Worlds and things create which never were And when they list they play and meddle there Lot 19. IF all be true these Lots do tell us Thou shouldest be of those prating Fellows Who better practised are grown In others matters then their own Or one that covets to be thought A man that is ignorant of nought If it be so thy Moral shews Thy folly and from whence it flows Emblem XX. Constante Fiducia THE Twentieth Emblem Illustrated They after suffering shall be crown'd In whom a Constant Faith is found MArk well this Emblem and observe you thence The nature of true Christian-confidence Her Foot is fixed on a squared-Stone Which whether side soe're you turn it on Stands fast and is that Corner-stone which props And firmly knits the structure of our Hopes She always bears a Cross to signifie That there was never any Constancy Without her Tryals and that her perfection Shall never be attain'd without Affliction A Cup she hath moreover in her hand And by that Figure thou mayst understand That she hath draughts of Comfort always near her At ev'ry brunt to strengthen and to cheer her And loe her head is crown'd that we may see How great her Glories and Rewards will be Hereby this Vertue 's nature may be known Now practise how to make the same thine own Discourag'd be not though thou art pursu'd With many wrongs which cannot be eschew'd Nor yield thou to Despairing though thou hast A Cross which threatens death to be embrac't Or though thou be compell'd to swallow up The very dregs of Sorrows bitter Cup For whensoever griefs or torments pain thee Thou hast the same Foundation to sustain thee The self same Cup of Comfort is prepar'd To give thee strength when fainting fits are feard And when thy time of trial is expired Thou shalt obtain the Crown thou hast desired Lot 20. THy Fortunes have been very bad For many Sufferings thou hast had And Tryals too which are unknown To any but thy self alone Yet not loss nor harm nor smart From Constant hopes remove thy heart For see thine Emblem doth foreshew A good Conclusion will ensue Emblem XXI Furor fit laesa saepius Patientia THE 21st Emblem Illustrated Who Patience tempt beyond its strength Will turn't to Fury at the length ALthough we know not a more patient creature Than is the Lamb or of less harmfull nature Yet as this Emblem shews when childish wrong Hath troubled and provok'd him overlong He grows enrag'd and makes the wanton Boys Be glad to leave their sports and run their ways Thus have I seen it with some Children fare Who when their Parents too