. 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 . THE Bee is one of the aptefl emblemsof induftr) and the art of extrafting good outo
. 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 . THE Bee is one of the aptefl emblemsof induftr) and the art of extrafting good outof evil, that can be found in Nature. It isendued with an Inftind that Reafon itfcifneeds not be afhamed to copy, and its perfe-verance is an admirable example for tke wifeltof us to follow. As the Bee in the fummer provides for itfelfthat which may ferve for its fupport in winter ;fo ihould we in the fammer of our days takecare to lay in a llore of prof-table virtues andgood qualities, which render us julllyadmired in age, and enable us to fet a goodexample to poilerity. Like that indullrious InfeiSt likewife, wefliould learn to make every occurrence of life ftr- ( 64 ) ferviceable to us; for nothing is Co rinall cr minute but it may be made of ufe, nothingfo bad in nature, but that we may draw fromit fome profit or iaftruflion, and thus by chuf-rng the good, and avoiding the evil, maypurchafe to ourfelves peace here, and the hopesof a brighter reward hereafter. EMBLEM (. ^5 ). EMBLEM X^^ILOf Deceit. ITTOULDST thou, unthinking, to the ^ Beaft draw near, Caught by his plaintive cry and fraudful ! fly in time the dreadful ftroke of fateNor Hay to feel it, and be wife too late. Deceitful men and all their ma/.es Ihun,Nor by difTembled forrows be much they feem their adions to their crimes, but trufl their words nomore. THE { 66 ) THE Crocodile is reported to weep overits prey, and to fend forth a piteous and dif-trefsful cry, in order to allu
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