. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . but we are admoniHied notto be too eager in our purfuit of them, left weinjure our
. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . but we are admoniHied notto be too eager in our purfuit of them, left weinjure our health, our fortune, our reputation,or which is llili worC^, our virtue. The di&ren:e between a ruodcrate man,and one who purlues after pleafures to an ex-treme is thus beautifully defcribed by thepoet: where he fays that Eager t/jis its objeft would devour; T,bat tafte the honey, but not woundthe ilowr. And he who is in fuch haile after enjoy-ment, is likely to wound himfelf alfo, at thefame time that his eagernefs takes off fromthe reliih he would other wife have for the ac-quiiltion he has been at fo much pains to ob-tain. Learn then to fet no more than a due valueon the things of this world ; be not ovcr-hafiy to gain them, and when you pofTefsthem be moderate in you r enjoyment; {o fliall you -( 144 ) you be gratified with the beauty of the Rofe,without wounding yourfelf with its Thorns;fo lliall yo;i enjoy the honey of pleafure,while you avoid the Hing and venom of remorfe. EMBLEM ^■ ( Hi ). E IVl B L E M xxxvir. Of the Improvement of Life TIMES an hands-breadth j tis a tale ;Tis a veflel under fail;*Tis an eagle in its down upon its prey ;Tis an arrow in its flight,Mockin » the purfuing Tight;Tis a fliort livd fading flowr ;Tis a rainbow on a fhowr ;Tis a moinentary in a winters day ;Tis a torrents rapid ftream ;Tis a fhadow ; tis a dream ;Tis the clofine watch of ni^ at the rifmg light;Tis a bubble ; tis a figh : —Ee prepardj O Man !
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