. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . them, thou shalt find what poor reliefThey could afford thee, though they were thine thou command een all the world in chief,Thy comforts would abate, thy cares increase,And thy perplexed thoughts disturb thy peace. Those pearls so thorough piercd, and strung together,Though jewels in thine ears they may prove continud perils, when the weatherIs clouded once, which yet is fair and will that fan, though of the finest thee, the brunt of winds and storms to
. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . them, thou shalt find what poor reliefThey could afford thee, though they were thine thou command een all the world in chief,Thy comforts would abate, thy cares increase,And thy perplexed thoughts disturb thy peace. Those pearls so thorough piercd, and strung together,Though jewels in thine ears they may prove continud perils, when the weatherIs clouded once, which yet is fair and will that fan, though of the finest thee, the brunt of winds and storms to bear?Thy flagging colours hang their drooping the shrill trumpets sound shall strike thee dead. Were all those balls, which thou in sport dost toss,Whole worlds, and in thy power to gain would never countervail the slippry globes will glide out of thine hand;Thou canst have no fast hold but of the thou wilt fall, where thou dost think to these follies, then, if thou wilt live :Timely repentance may thy death reprieve. THE HEAET. 255. With gluttony and drunkenness possessd ; By heaviest weights the heavn-bom hearts oppressed. LUKE XXI. 34. Take heed^ lest at any time your hearts be overchargedwith surfeiting and drunkenness. Epig. 6. TWO massy weights, surfeiting, drunkenness,^ Like mighty logs of lead, do so pppressThe heavn-born hearts of men, that to aspireUpwards they have nor power nor desire. 2S6 THE SCHOOL OF ODE VI. Monster of sins ! See how th enchanted soul, Oerchargd already calls for how the hellish skinker plies his bowl,And s ready furnished with cups on every sidePlanted, attend the tide. See how the piled dishes mounted stand, Like hills advanced upon hills,And the abundance both of sea and landDoth not suffice, een what it fills,Man^s dropsy cormorant delight. See how the poisond bodys pufPd and swelld. The face inflamed glows with heat, The limbs unable are themselves to
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