. 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 . Great, fon of Philip, King of Macedon.—This prince was contented to renounce hisfat
. 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 . Great, fon of Philip, King of Macedon.—This prince was contented to renounce hisfather, and travel over burning defarts, to gethimfelf acknowledged the fon of the god Ju-piter.—The fame prince having conqueredPerfia, and India and moft of thofe parts knownto the Greeks, wept becaufe he fuppofed therewas no more to conquer. Ridiculous madnefs IInfatiable ambition ! This fon of the greatJove died of a furfeit at Babylon in the bloomof his years, and being too proud to admitthat any one deferved to fucceed him, he lefthis empire to be divided and torn intef-tine broils, which in a courfeof years made itan eafy prey to the Romans, who led the laftKing of Macedonia in triumph through theftreets of Rome, and, at length, ftarved himto death in a dungeon. Such ( 112 ) Such are the fruits of ambition. It wasthe firfi., and continues to be one of the great-eft of follies—for, *^ by that fin fell the An-gels ; how can man then (the image of hismaker) hope to win by it? EMBLEM ( 113 ). EMBLEM XXIX. Of the Reward of Vice. T O, here the nymph, by hex own fathers JLj dooms alive to periih in her tomb,aufe fhe yielded to a flattring tale,i oer her virtue let her .love prevail;groans no pity from a parent claim, ji-- links bereft, at once, of life and fame. Thofe who quit virtue Heavn itfelf of their fuffrings no compaiTion takes;Whom Heavn forfakes muft feek relief iavain,.) their own parents and their kindredtrain :Shunnd like a thing accu
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