. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ... . heretofore Declared, by thofe Enjignes, which they bore. The bruzing Mace (although, perhaps, with us, It be not inthefe times, restrained thus) That branch of RoyaU-power did fignifie, Which doth by Fines, or lojje of liberty, Correct Offenders. By the Smrd, they meant, That larger branch ofpowr, to reprcfent, Which takes ihe Maefaclors life away; And, armes ic felfe, when Resells often, therefore, as thou fhalt e/pie Such Hitroglypft
. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ... . heretofore Declared, by thofe Enjignes, which they bore. The bruzing Mace (although, perhaps, with us, It be not inthefe times, restrained thus) That branch of RoyaU-power did fignifie, Which doth by Fines, or lojje of liberty, Correct Offenders. By the Smrd, they meant, That larger branch ofpowr, to reprcfent, Which takes ihe Maefaclors life away; And, armes ic felfe, when Resells often, therefore, as thou fhalt e/pie Such Hitroglypftickcs of Authority 5 Be miadefull5andadvisd (how mcanc foerc The Per[ons,ov the Places may appeare, Who get thisfwV) that ftill thou honour rlicm: Left, thou in thofc, the powr of tWcontemnc. If not for theirs, yet for thy Sovraigw caufe, Whom thefe doc pcrfonatr; Or, for the Lawcs, (Which thieaten p;inifhmcnt)thy felfe fubmit; And, (uff;r what Authority thinkes fit :For, whatfocrc they be that gjidc the Rcyne,lit, gave the powr, who ^ave it, not, in vaine, V 2 Het i3? He> that concealed things willjinde,Muft looke before him, and Illvstr. IV. Bo$k.$ [Hat Hud, which in his Temple, heretofore,The well-knowne figure of old Ianus bore,Retaind the forme,which piGurd here you fiaaB be, and that ever were. But, in a Morall-fcnfc, we may applyThis donblcface, that man to fignifie,Who(whatfoere he undertakes to doe)Lookes, both before him, and behindc him, , he fhall never fruitfully forecaftAffaires to come, who mindes not what hpaft:And, fuchas doe not, oft, before rhtm looke,May lofe the labour, thats already , fometimes,looking backward, we beholdThofe things, which have been done in tim
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