. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . \So tho obfcured thou appear a while,Defpifed, poor, or born to Fortunes low,Thy Vertue fhall acquire a nobler ftile,Than greatefl Kings are able to beftow 5 And gain thee thofe ^ojfeffions, which r\oxthey\Kor ^Ilme^ nor Death have Powr to take away. Lot 3, divine and Moral. \:% Lot g. THO
. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . \So tho obfcured thou appear a while,Defpifed, poor, or born to Fortunes low,Thy Vertue fhall acquire a nobler ftile,Than greatefl Kings are able to beftow 5 And gain thee thofe ^ojfeffions, which r\oxthey\Kor ^Ilme^ nor Death have Powr to take away. Lot 3, divine and Moral. \:% Lot g. THOU doft over-much refpe^That which will thy Harm effe( fome other things there be Which will more advantage thee. Search thy Heart, and thou ihait thereSoon difcover what they , thine Emblem /hews thee too^What to fhun, and what to do. Bfidblem Vf. H Choke EmMemSy Emblem HAnTa AEAOiriA. The divine and Moral. 15 .r j04^* .t 1 THE Fourth EmblemIlluflrated. Js to the World I Naked came^So Naked Jiript I leave the fame^ THrice happy is that Man whofe 7hoiightsdo rearHis Mind above that pitch the Worldling flies 5And, by his Contemplations^ hovers whereHe views Things Mortal with unbJeared Trifles then do Villages and ^Olvns^Large Fields, or Flocks of fruitful Cattle feem ?Kay, what poor things are Mitres^ Sepers^ Cro^jons^And ail thofe Glories which Men mofl efteem. The 16 Choice EmMems^ Tho he that hath among them his Delight,Brave things imagins them fbecaufe they blindWith fome falfe Luftre his beguiled Sight)He thats above them their Mean Worth may find. Zord, to that SleJJed St at 1072 me convey,Where I may view the World, and view her fb>That 1 her true Condition may furvey,And all her Imperfections rightly me, that once there was a Day,When thou didli wean me fr
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