. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . s eye moft blind, where moft it ought to fee,Acd when his hearts moft bound, then thinks himfelf (moft free^ Thou grand,impoftor, how haft thou obtained The warddipof the world? Are all men turndIdiots and lunaticks? Are all retained Beneath thy fervile bands? Is none returnedTo his forgotten felf? Has none rcgaindKis fenies? Are their fen^s all adjournd ? What, none difmift thy court ? Will no plump feeBribe tiiy falfe fiits to make a glad decree,Tunfool whom thou haft fooid, and fet thy prisners (free ? S. BERN, B
. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . s eye moft blind, where moft it ought to fee,Acd when his hearts moft bound, then thinks himfelf (moft free^ Thou grand,impoftor, how haft thou obtained The warddipof the world? Are all men turndIdiots and lunaticks? Are all retained Beneath thy fervile bands? Is none returnedTo his forgotten felf? Has none rcgaindKis fenies? Are their fen^s all adjournd ? What, none difmift thy court ? Will no plump feeBribe tiiy falfe fiits to make a glad decree,Tunfool whom thou haft fooid, and fet thy prisners (free ? S. BERN, Book 2. Emblems. 75 S. B E R N. in Ser. In this World is much treachery^ little truth 5 hereall things are traps 5 here every thing is hefet iinthJ?2ares 5 here fouls are endangered^ bodies are affliBed jhere all things are vanity and vemtion of [fir it. E P I G. 3. Nay, Cnpidy pitch thy trammel where thou plea^,.Thou canft not fail to take fuch fifh as thriving fport will neer be fpcnt: no needTo Tear, when evry corks a worl^, thouit fpccd. 76 Emblems, IV: Book L^w^At <^raiic Lvtfttiuin c-ft iju^d s.^uis eU\i rant ^C Book 2. Emblems. 77 IV. HO SEA 13. 3. T^hey Jhall he as the chaff that is driven witha whirlwind out of the floor^ and as thefmoke out of the chimney, FLint-hearted Stoicks, you, whofe marble eyesContemn a wrinkle, and whofe fouls defpifeTo follow Natures too affeded fafhion,Or travel in the regent walk of paflion ^Whofe rigid hearts difdain to fhrink at fears,Or play at faft and loofe, with fmiles and tears-j-Gome burft your fpleens with laughter to beholdA new found vanity, which days of oldKe*er knew ; , that has befetThe world, and made more Haves than Mahomet;That has condcmnd us to the fervile yokeOf (lavery, and made us (laves to ftay, why tax I thus our modern new-born follies, and for new-born crimes ?Are we fole guilty^ and the firi^ Age free ?Iso, they were fmokd and flavd as well as we : (fure,Whats fweet-iip
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