. Emblems . to hum under thefafe froteiiion of your Honour alk I^ame;ibere, I prefume, they ftand Jecure from theyawps of Ignorance, and Blafls of Cenfure,X It The Epiftle Dedicatory. // is afmall part of that abundant fervkewhich my thankful heart oweth your incom*parable goodnefs. Be pleafed to honour itwith your noble Acceptance, which fhall hnothing but what your own efieem fhall make MADAM, Yout LadifliipsMoft Humble Servant^ fra. Quarks. n To the READER. IF you are fatisfied with my EmhlemSy \here fet before you a ftcond Service. Itis an Egyptian Difh, drefl on the EnglijbFalhion : They,
. Emblems . to hum under thefafe froteiiion of your Honour alk I^ame;ibere, I prefume, they ftand Jecure from theyawps of Ignorance, and Blafls of Cenfure,X It The Epiftle Dedicatory. // is afmall part of that abundant fervkewhich my thankful heart oweth your incom*parable goodnefs. Be pleafed to honour itwith your noble Acceptance, which fhall hnothing but what your own efieem fhall make MADAM, Yout LadifliipsMoft Humble Servant^ fra. Quarks. n To the READER. IF you are fatisfied with my EmhlemSy \here fet before you a ftcond Service. Itis an Egyptian Difh, drefl on the EnglijbFalhion : They, at their Feafts, ufed toprefent a Deaths-Head at their SecondCourfe : This will (erve for both. Youneed not fear a Surfeit: Here is but Httle,and that light of digeftion : If it butpleafe your Palate, I queftion not yourStomack : Fall too ; and much good mayit do you. Convivio addit Minerval. £. B. Rem, Regem, Regimen^ Regionem, RellgionemtExorndtj celehraty laudat, honorat, anti^t^ X 2 3^^ Hieroglyph. Hieroglyph. L %^% PSALM. ^. BehoU I WAS fbapen in iniquity^ and in findid njy Mother conceive rue. MAn is man* >4. S. C. There is nenc tliat canRead God aright, iii*>lers he firft fperllMan:Man is the ftairs, \*hcreby his knowledge his Creatour though it oftentimesStumbles for want of light, ahd fometitrei trip!For want t f careful heed ; aad fometimei (liplThroughunacvifed hrfte; and thenac lengt*His N*eary ftep? have reachd the top, his ftrengthOft falls to l^and ; his giJdy brains turn round,And Iht^on- like, falTs headlong to the ground :Thcfe are often dark, and full of dangerTo him. -^ .om want of praftice makes a this blind way : the Lamps of nature lendsBut afalfelight, and lights to be the ways to Heaven, thefe paths requireA light it{it Tprings from that Diviner tire,Whofc human foul-enlightnng Sun-beams dartThrough the bright crannies of thimmortal part. And here thou great Original of Light, Whofs crrour-cha
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