. Emblems divine and moral . pleasure that thou once didst take Amongst the lUies and sweet beds of spices. Hale strongly, thou whose hand has powr to slack The s\s-ift-foot fury of ten thousand vices : Let not thy dust-devouring dragon boast, His craft has won what Judahs lion lost; Remember what is cravd; recount the price it cost. 56 BOOK I. IsiDOR. Lib. i. de Summo Bono. By how much the nearer Satan perceiveth theworld to an end, by so much the more fiercely hetroubleth it with persecution; that, knowing him-self is to be damned, he may get company in hisdamnation. Cyprian, in Ep
. Emblems divine and moral . pleasure that thou once didst take Amongst the lUies and sweet beds of spices. Hale strongly, thou whose hand has powr to slack The s\s-ift-foot fury of ten thousand vices : Let not thy dust-devouring dragon boast, His craft has won what Judahs lion lost; Remember what is cravd; recount the price it cost. 56 BOOK I. IsiDOR. Lib. i. de Summo Bono. By how much the nearer Satan perceiveth theworld to an end, by so much the more fiercely hetroubleth it with persecution; that, knowing him-self is to be damned, he may get company in hisdamnation. Cyprian, in Ep. Broad and spacious is the road to infernal life ;there are enticements and death-bringing the devil flattereth, that he may deceive;smileth, that he may endamage; allureth, that hemay destroy. Epig. 11. Nay, soft and fair, good world; post not too fast;Thy journeys end requires not half this that arm thou so disdainst, reprieves thee,Alas ! thou needs must do, the devil drives thee. r>ooK 1. Inopem me copia fecitISAIAH LXVI. 11. Ye may suck, but not be satisfied with the breast ofher consolation. What, never filld ? Be thy lips screwd so fastTo th earths full breast ? for shame, for shameunseize thee;Thou tak.! a surfeit where thou shoildst but taste,And makst too much not half enough to pleasethee. 58 EMBLEMS. BOOK 1. Ah, fool, forbear; thou swallowest at one breathBoth food and poison down ! thou drawst bothmilk and death. The ubrous breasts, when fairly drawn, repast The tlu-iving infant with their milky flood,But being overstraind, return at last Unwholesome gulps composd of wind and modrate use does both repast and please ;Who strains beyond a mean, draws in and gulpsdisease. But, O that mean, whose good the least abuseMakes bad, is too, too hard to be directed:Can thorns bring grapes, or crabs a pleasing juice ?Theres nothing wholesome, where the thy lips: earths milks a ripened drops from her dise
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