. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Vices which in their Childhood were prohibitedthem. Affe&ions too much confined (efpecially fuchas nature endows a Prince withall) break out at laftinto Defpair, as Exhalations hard bound within theClouds, into Lightning. He that imprudently ihuts thegates upon natural inclinations, is the occafion of theirattempting to get thro the Windows. Some allow-ance is to be made to humane infirmity, which is byfome innocent diveriions to be raifed to Vertue: thismethod they took who had the Care of Neros Edu-cation (14). The Tutor ought to ch
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Vices which in their Childhood were prohibitedthem. Affe&ions too much confined (efpecially fuchas nature endows a Prince withall) break out at laftinto Defpair, as Exhalations hard bound within theClouds, into Lightning. He that imprudently ihuts thegates upon natural inclinations, is the occafion of theirattempting to get thro the Windows. Some allow-ance is to be made to humane infirmity, which is byfome innocent diveriions to be raifed to Vertue: thismethod they took who had the Care of Neros Edu-cation (14). The Tutor ought to chide the Princein private, not before Company, lean he rather growobftinate when he fees his Vices are publick. In theietwo Verfes of Homer is very aptly contained how aPrince ought to be inftrufted how to obey: Advife, Command him, and whats good fuggefl He will obey when for himfelf tis beft, Horn. ^. I/. {14) Quo fact tins lubricam Principk ¿tatem, fi verhutem afpernaretufyvoluftatibus concejjuS) rentieret. Tac. 13.^10. «A*. i9 EMBLEM BY the induftry of fome ingenious and carefuilhand one while watering, another time de-fending it from the injuries of Wind and illWeather, the Rofe grows, and as the Bud opens un-folds its little leaves into a circular form: A floweritrangely pretty, but which flatters only the Eyes, andis fubjeót. to ib many cafuaties, that in this its infinitedelicacy tis by no means fecure. The very fame Sunwhich faw it bloom, fees it alfo whither, and that with-out any other benefit, than juft (hewing the World itsbeauty; it brings fo many months Labour to nothing,nay oftentimes wounds the very hand that planted it;nor could it be otherwiíé than that fuch rank tillageíhould produce thorns. Of Coral (aScaihrub) there squhe another account to be given,- for that growingunder Water,and continually toiled bv the Violence ©f C i Wave» 20 Tenderntfs in a Princes Education Waves and Tempeftuous Winds becomes íb much theharder and more b
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