. Emblems divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man . none)That boldly f dopts each houfe he views, his own;Makes evry pulfe his chequer % ; and, at forth, and taxes all the world, like C^efarjAt length, by virtue of a juft fides are lent to a feverer hand ;Whereon his pafs, not fully taxed in a manufcript of blood ;Thus paft from town to town ; until he connJA fore repentant to his native home:Evn fo the rambling heart, that idly rovesFrom crimes to fin, and uncontrould removesFrom luft to luft, when wanton llefh invitesFrom old
. Emblems divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man . none)That boldly f dopts each houfe he views, his own;Makes evry pulfe his chequer % ; and, at forth, and taxes all the world, like C^efarjAt length, by virtue of a juft fides are lent to a feverer hand ;Whereon his pafs, not fully taxed in a manufcript of blood ;Thus paft from town to town ; until he connJA fore repentant to his native home:Evn fo the rambling heart, that idly rovesFrom crimes to fin, and uncontrould removesFrom luft to luft, when wanton llefh invitesFrom old worn pleafures to new choice delights ;At length, correcSled by the filial rodOf his offended, but his gracious God,And laftid from fins to fighsj and, by fighs to vows, from vows to bended knees ;From bended knees to a true penfive breaft;From thence to torments not by tongue expreft 5 ♦ Recalcined: to calcine, is, with chymifts, to burn to a cinder*•J- ^Dopti; i. e. adopts, or makes his own.\ Cbequcri i. e. exchequer, or treafury. 3 Returns j .g-w-. Patet^dieri; clauditnr Orbi, o >i£ a.\. Book 11. EMBLEMS. 99 Returns; and (from his finful k]f exilM) Finds a glad father, he a welcome child : O then it lives ; O then it lives involvd In fecret raptures ; pants to be diflblvd : The royal off-fpring of a fecond birth. Sets ope to heavn, and (huts the door to earth : If love-fick Jove commanded clouds ihould hap To rain fuch fhoArs as quickend Danaes lap: Or dogs (far kinder than their purple matter) Should lick his fores; he laughs, nor weeps the faRer, If earth (heavn*s rival) dart her idle ray ; To heavn, tis wax,—and to the world, tis clay: If earth prefent delight?, it fcorns to draw; But, like the jet * unrubbd, difdains that Oraw. No hope deceives it, and no coubt divides it; No grief difturbs it, and no error guides it ; No good ccntemns it, and no virtue blames it j No guilt condemns ir, and no folly Ciamts it ; No (loth befots it, and no ufi e
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