. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Emblem. Emblem XXXVI. VANITY. VAIN are thy Arts, deluding Phantom! fly IThy Smiles can give no Peace, thy Charmsno Joy;[a) Circean Poifons lurk in evry Grace,And drive evn Sacred Virtue from the Place ;Virtue to Thee, like Heavn to guilty Minds,(For Guilt no Happinefs in Virtue finds)The conitant Terror of thy confcious Fears,Objedl of black Defpair, and Subjed of thy ! thou f lir Mifchicf! (b) Lamia\ fatal Brood,Got by corrupting Plagues on Human Blood ^ Fr^m ( o ) From genial Foam-like wanton (c) Cypris
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Emblem. Emblem XXXVI. VANITY. VAIN are thy Arts, deluding Phantom! fly IThy Smiles can give no Peace, thy Charmsno Joy;[a) Circean Poifons lurk in evry Grace,And drive evn Sacred Virtue from the Place ;Virtue to Thee, like Heavn to guilty Minds,(For Guilt no Happinefs in Virtue finds)The conitant Terror of thy confcious Fears,Objedl of black Defpair, and Subjed of thy ! thou f lir Mifchicf! (b) Lamia\ fatal Brood,Got by corrupting Plagues on Human Blood ^ Fr^m ( o ) From genial Foam-like wanton (c) Cypris Charms thy fpecious Form adorn ;But, O! within [d) Echidnas Venom looks is loft, but who embraces, dies:So (e) Scyllas pleafmg Looks perfuade to Joy,So (f) Syrens charm, and falfe (g) Hyanas cry jUnwary Nature grafps the tempting Prize,While Life and Reafon fall thy Rofne^ where eviy flagrant Vice becameWorthy, at leaft, fome (h) hoftile Dcemonh Name,To thee no Shrine, to thee no Altars made;Twas thou our ruind Nature firft betrayd;Tempted by
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