. 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 . rdis retiring to his bed) is feen early rifen tofalute the day, and^ after the due
. 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 . rdis retiring to his bed) is feen early rifen tofalute the day, and^ after the due tribute ren-dered to the Being who prefen/ed him throughthe perils cf daiknefs, he goes chearfully abouthis temporal concerns, and never feeks thefliade but when repofe invites him to it. Such is not the prasflice of the guilty man :He is ever fond cf lurking in the dark, andftriving to cover his evil actions with the ot night, becaufe they will not bear theteiL of open day. He Jo-ves darknefs heiicr than lights hecaujehis deeds are e-oil. When die Bat and the Owl ny, then hegoes abroad : He accomplillies his ill actionswhen there is none to detecl him. He returnsin the morning;—from the vsorks of darknefs;I then he hides himfelf, and fays, who lliall-difcover me ? Yet ( H )Yet there is On e who fees in fecrct; Heihall reward his evil openly : the punifhmentof his fins fhall be upon him ; and whenhis deeds Ihall be revealed, he fhall haveno part in the Kingdom of Light, M B L E M i ( 25 ). H iVI B L E M VU. Of Constant ZITH plaintive cooings, lo ! the turtle Laments the fate of his departed mate, once loll:, no comfort novs he little breail: with inward anguifh glows,Nor lavvns nor groves his throbbing heart can charmNor other love his languid bofom warm;Opprefsd with, grief, he yields his latefi: breath,And proves, at laft his conllancy in death. A proper leiTon to the fickle emblem apt of pure an
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