. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . ncfmean talents, yet it muft be allowed atleal^, to be one mark of his fagacity, th
. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . ncfmean talents, yet it muft be allowed atleal^, to be one mark of his fagacity, that hecan devife the means to cover and conceal fromothers his want of abilities. When a man is juflly rebuked, Silence is of-ten better than a laboured defence, as it is ge-nerallythe true tokencf an ingenuous mind.—And even when one is reproached unjuftly, how-glorious is it to be iilent and anfwer only byones aftions 1 ** How beautiful is a Vvord in due feafcn !fays the wife man ; but he who is perpetuallytalking is not likely to reap fuch a praife bc-caufe he minds no feafon ; whereas one thatknows how to keep filence may eafily knowalfo by his obfervations on the difcourfe ofothers when to fpeak; and his words beingB 4. few. ( 8 )few, are likely to be the more properly applied^aiid will be the more efteemed by the hearers.—But in a multitude of words, there is oftena multitude of erroi^s, and to rule that littlemember, the Tongue, is often more diffi-cult than to govern a city. E M B L E M ( 9 ). E M B L E M III. Of the Daxgea of Pleasures. BEHOLD the boy, forbidden fweets toprove,With lucklefs hand the honeyd hive with an angry hum that founds to arms,Forth rufh the winged tribe, in all their fwarms,Too late, alas ! they make th ciFender find,That pleafures hcney leaves a fting behind. Learn hence ye heedlefs train, who gailyglideIn youths trim bark down lifes uncertain tide,That death oft lurks beneath fome gilded toy,And poifon mingles in the cup of j
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