. 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 . of it himfelf, therefore his fate is un-lamented, and in the day of his trouble the
. 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 . of it himfelf, therefore his fate is un-lamented, and in the day of his trouble thereihall be none to afTid him. E Jvl B L E M. EMBLEM XL. B Of Vain H O L D that filly bird, how proudly Of the bright colours of his gaudy train !Evn to a proverb grown his idle prideBy outward iliew alone in worth no harmonious found, no chearful note,Muft ever iilue from that hideous of the hundred eyes that grace his tail,Om one for fight, or real ufe avail. O fon cf vanity be v»ife in time !Apply tlie moral of this homely rhyme,To real Ijoi-tb alone Ihould praifebe givn,And real -->..■ ortb inherits it from Heavn. JUNO ( >38 ) JUNO, {iiys the fable, having fet Arguswho had loo eyes to guard and torment thedamfel lo who was transformed into a youngheifer, Hermes (or Mercury) commiffioned byJupiter, defcended from Heaven to deliverher. He found Argus bufily employed about hischarge, but fitting down by him began to tellhim llories, by virtue of which, and of hischarming rod he at length lulled all his hun-dred eyes to fieep; which being done, heflew him by cutting off his head.—On which
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