. Emblems . ntnorgagd grounds ;The ill he hates, is counfel and delay;And fears no mifchicf but a rainy day. The thought he takes, is how to take no thoughtFor bale nor blifs;And late repentance isThe laft dear penworth that he bought:He is a dainty morning, and he luft orecaft him not, b as fair a day. 8 Proudbloffom, ufethy Time: Times headftroog horftfWillpoft hot the foUwing every day brings forth a worfe:Take time at beft: Believe *c, thy days will fallFrom goQd to bad, from bad to worft of all. ,S. AMBROS. Hieroglyph X 361 S. AM BR OS. ffumilit)/ U A fire thing
. Emblems . ntnorgagd grounds ;The ill he hates, is counfel and delay;And fears no mifchicf but a rainy day. The thought he takes, is how to take no thoughtFor bale nor blifs;And late repentance isThe laft dear penworth that he bought:He is a dainty morning, and he luft orecaft him not, b as fair a day. 8 Proudbloffom, ufethy Time: Times headftroog horftfWillpoft hot the foUwing every day brings forth a worfe:Take time at beft: Believe *c, thy days will fallFrom goQd to bad, from bad to worft of all. ,S. AMBROS. Hieroglyph X 361 S. AM BR OS. ffumilit)/ U A fire thing in a youtg min^ therefore to he admired : Whenyouth u vigorom, when ftrewgth U fir nit Tobenblood U hott when cares are fir angers, nben mirth ufrte^ thenpriitfw^lletby Ani humility i4 dc^ijed. EPIG. 10. To the old ntan. Thy years are newly gray, his newly green jHis youth may live to fee what thine hath feen jHe is thy Parallel: His prcfeat ftageAnd thine arc the two Tropicks ot mans age. 36^ Hieroglyph Hieroglyph. XI. 363 ECCLESI ASTES. 11. j. ViejoycCy 0 young wan, and let thy heart cheer thee^ but knowy &c. I HOw flux! How altcraWe is the date ^Of tranfitory hurryM on the clipping wingsOf Time, and drivn upon the wheels of Fate! How one coadition brligsThe leading Prologue to another ftate! No tranfitory things can laft ?Change waits on Time, and Time is wingM with haft jJime prcfents but the ruin oi i ime paft. Behold how Change hath inch*d away thy Span;And how thy light doth barnNearer and nearer to thy Urn :For this dear v^rSt what fatisfa^ion can Injurious Time returnThy (hortned days, but this, thefcylt of Man ? And whrits a man ? A cafk of care,Now tunnd and working; hes a middle fcairTwixt birth and death j a blafc of fullagd air. 3His breaft is tinder, ap: to entertainThe fparks or Cupids fire,Vvhole new blown flames muftnow enquireA wanton julep out, which may reftrain The rage of his dcfire^Whofc painful pleafure is but pleafing pain : His lifes a
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