. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . Gold is counterfeit and bafe,Altho it bears great C<efar\ Face ;Thy Jewels are but glitfring Stones,Pebbles not worth a Groat an Ounce. Such, when theyre provd, theyre ever found,And their whole Values in their Sound ;He who thefe Beauties will carefs,Poifon and Cankers muft poflefs. The Moral. Vealth is a Screen that hides unnumberd Ilbj^nd many a heavy Heart behind and State the Man indeed exalt,Dazzle the Eye, and lefle
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . Gold is counterfeit and bafe,Altho it bears great C<efar\ Face ;Thy Jewels are but glitfring Stones,Pebbles not worth a Groat an Ounce. Such, when theyre provd, theyre ever found,And their whole Values in their Sound ;He who thefe Beauties will carefs,Poifon and Cankers muft poflefs. The Moral. Vealth is a Screen that hides unnumberd Ilbj^nd many a heavy Heart behind and State the Man indeed exalt,Dazzle the Eye, and leflen evry Fault,fet mould we judge him by unerring Truth,Neglect his Pride, nor mould his Folly footh,lis flagrant Vices, his corrupted Soul,rhan others more deteftable and foul,\xt feen and loathd ; yet ft ill the Man we court,d pay our Worfhip to his mining who his Wealth, with all his Sins would have ?Snjoy his Splendor, to poffefs his Grave ?Vho would exchange the peaceful Calm of Life,•or his corroding Cafes and gnawing Grief?•oor may I be, if innocent I am;ro Heaven only will I lay py Claim,C $o HiERociypHicKJ, Book I]EMBLEM When Vanity holds up the Glafs,Beauty we fee and comely Grace ;But fearch thy Heart, and there thoult fepMore than enough to humble thee. BookIL MoRAL^Bivi^E, , Recompence of Vanity. TH E Worlds a Mirror which deceives,And falfely Objects reprefents jHe who her Flatteries believes,His fond Credulity repents. The World may tell thee thou art fair,Brave, virtuous, good, and great; Examine well thy Heart and thereThouIt find tis all a pompous Cheat. A thoufand Things thoult fee amifs,Which have efcaped others Eyes; What thou wilt learn, is only This,That thou art neither good nor wife. The Moral. Big tho we look, and mightily attractrhe publick Eye, and fplendid Figures makelLet us fedately fcrutinize our Hearts,And tell the very Truth that Search imparts ;What ihall we find whereon a Boaft to raife IWhat goodly Thing defer
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