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. 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 . ough he that bath among them, his Delight,Brave things imagines them (bccaufe they blindcWith fome falfe Luftrehis beguiled fight)He thats above rhem, their raeane-Worth may finde, L$rd, to that Bleffed-Station rae conveyWhere I may view the World, and view her I her true Condition may furvey jAnd all her Imperfedions rightly me, that once there was a DayWhen thou didft vveane me from thero with content,Evn when fliut up within thofe Gates I layThrough which the TUgHe-infli^ing Angel , let me ftill remember, that an HourcIs hourelycomming on, wherein I fliail(Though I had all the IVerld within my powre*Be naked ftripr, and turned out of minde me, chiefcly ,that I never cleaveToo clofely to my Selfe; and caufe thou other Earthly things alone to to forfake my Seffe for love of Thee: That I may fay, now 1 have all things left, Before that I of all things, am bereft. To To him a happy Lot hefaUs That hath a Ship, and pr o(prous

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