. Emblems, divine and moral . at pleasure that thou once didst take Amongst the lilies and sweet beds of strongly, thou whose hand has powr to slackThe s\^-ift-foot fury of ten thousand vices :Let not thy dust-devouring dragon craft has won what Judahs lion lost;Remember what is cravd ; recount the price it cost. 48 EMBLEMS. BOOK i. IsiDOR. Lib. i. de Summo Bono,By how much the nearer Satan perceiveth the worldto an end, by so much the more fiercely he troublethit with persecution ; that, knowing himself is to bedamned, he may get company in his damnation. Cyprian, in Ep.
. Emblems, divine and moral . at pleasure that thou once didst take Amongst the lilies and sweet beds of strongly, thou whose hand has powr to slackThe s\^-ift-foot fury of ten thousand vices :Let not thy dust-devouring dragon craft has won what Judahs lion lost;Remember what is cravd ; recount the price it cost. 48 EMBLEMS. BOOK i. IsiDOR. Lib. i. de Summo Bono,By how much the nearer Satan perceiveth the worldto an end, by so much the more fiercely he troublethit with persecution ; that, knowing himself is to bedamned, he may get company in his damnation. Cyprian, in and spacious is the road to infernal life ;there are enticements and death-bringing the devil flattereth, that he may deceive;smileth, that he may endamage ; allureth, that he maydestroy. Epig. , soft and fair, good world ; post not too fast;Thy journeys end requires not half this that arm thou so disdainst, reprives thee,Alas ! thou needs must go, the devil drives thee. 49. iiiopein iiic copia fecit. ISAIAH LXVI. 11. Ye maj/ suck, but not be satisfied loith the breast of herconsolation. YYHAT, never filld ? Be thy lips screvvd so fast To th earths full breast ? for shame, for shameunseize thee ;Thou takst a surfeit where thou shouldst but taste,And makst too much not half enough to please thee. 50 EMBLEMS. BOOK i. Ah, fool, forbear ; thou swallowest at one breathBoth food and poison down! thou drawst both milkand death. The ubrous breasts, when fairly drawn, repast The thriving infant with their milky flood,But being overstraind, return at last Unwholesome gulps composed of wind and modrate use does both repast and please ;Who strains beyond a mean, draws in and gulpsdisease. But, 0 that mean, whose good the least abuseMakes bad, is too, too hard to be directed ;Can thorns bring grapes, or crabs a pleasing juice ?Theres nothing wholesome where the wholes thy lips : earths milk s a ripened core,That
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