. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . oful ^ris^ners Lives away 5More tortVing them twixt fruitlefs hopes 2Lnd when their Bowels with his Teeth he tears ;For by much Terror, and much Cruelty,He kills them ten times over eer they die. When fuch like Magijlrates have rule obtained,Thfi beft Men wifh their Powr might b
. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . oful ^ris^ners Lives away 5More tortVing them twixt fruitlefs hopes 2Lnd when their Bowels with his Teeth he tears ;For by much Terror, and much Cruelty,He kills them ten times over eer they die. When fuch like Magijlrates have rule obtained,Thfi beft Men wifh their Powr might be reftrain*dsBut they who fhun Enormities thro Fear,Are glad when good Men out of Office , whether Governors be good or their Difplacings mot eked Men are glad ^ And when they fee them brought into Difgraces,They boldly play the Knaves before their F^ces« Lor , divine and Moral. 115Lot a8. M. THou art, orelfe thou wert of late,Some great or petty Magiftrate ^Or Fortune thereunto may chanceIn time to come thee to advance. But by thine Emblem thou mayft fee, That when reflrainM thy Powr ihali be^ Oftcnders will thereof be glad. And Scoff the Powr which thou had had : Obferve it, and be fo upright, That thou mayft laugh at their Defpight. Emblem XXIX. 114. Choke Enihlems^ Emblem ^l2,9^A^M Terfequar EstinSlu, The T)tvine and Moral. 115 >fi3 <A*^ *(• A*A A^ AiS Q,^ <t,>^ fi).^ ^?1 m^m^
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