. Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine : for the improvement and pastime of youth : displaying 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 a young nobleman . e our memory dear to thegood, and our deeds approved by Heaven. Titus Vefpafian, Emperdr , (thoa heathen) was a man of fo good a difpofi-tion, that recollecting one night as he fat atfupper, he had not done one good adionthat day, cried out Friends I have loft aday.
. Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine : for the improvement and pastime of youth : displaying 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 a young nobleman . e our memory dear to thegood, and our deeds approved by Heaven. Titus Vefpafian, Emperdr , (thoa heathen) was a man of fo good a difpofi-tion, that recollecting one night as he fat atfupper, he had not done one good adionthat day, cried out Friends I have loft aday. This prince was furnamed by hispeople, The Delight of Mankhid, Happyare they who know fo u^ll the value ofTime, and make fo good an ufe of it. A P P L 1- [ 1-4 ] APPLICATION. How many are there amongft us, whoare for ever exclaiming againft the fhortnefsof life, and yet are not afliamed, with thefame breadth, to complain, that their Timehangs heavy on their hands, and that theyknow not how to employ it ? But what an idle complaint is this, whenwe conlider, that there cannot be any pcr-fon, in whatfoever flation of life, who hasnot an opportunity of fpending his days inthe exercife of fomething that is inftru6liveor ufeful to himfelf or others !—Go to the^nt, thoujluggardl Conjider her njoays-, andhe *wife / EMBLEM. EMBLEM XXXVIII. Oflnduftry. tTt tITH what hard toil, with what unceafing care^^^ The Woodpecker his fcanty meat prepares:Tho fmall the feaft that mufl reward his pains,Sweet is that raeal which heneft Labour gains. MORAL. Rt frugal, be if youre wife, The road to plenty through thefe maxims lies. The iilc to ill ftars afcribe their Hate, But FoqU mikc FertunCj and deferve their Fate. THE [ ii6 ] THE Woodpecker is a fmall bird, withfhort legs, long bill, a tongue fharp like ahorn, and fortified with feveral little this it makes holes in the branches oftrees, and then utters a cry not unlike awhiftle, the intent of which is to difturb in-fei
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