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. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ... . s of mights) in practice are, with forae jAnd, both of thefe, they often falfifie,That, they to great, and fuddaine wealth, may come. But, Confcience make of rayfing your eftates,By fuch a bafe, and fuch a wicked way:For, this Injuftice, Cod expreflely hates jAnd, brings, at laft, fuch thrivert to Weight and meajure, He,on allbeftowesThe Portions due j Thar, Weight and Meafure, then,Which Man to God, or to his Neighbour owes,Should, juft
. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ... . s of mights) in practice are, with forae jAnd, both of thefe, they often falfifie,That, they to great, and fuddaine wealth, may come. But, Confcience make of rayfing your eftates,By fuch a bafe, and fuch a wicked way:For, this Injuftice, Cod expreflely hates jAnd, brings, at laft, fuch thrivert to Weight and meajure, He,on allbeftowesThe Portions due j Thar, Weight and Meafure, then,Which Man to God, or to his Neighbour owes,Should, juftly, be returned backe one, in evry thing hisowne;Give hohour, where an honour mall be due 5Where you arc loved, let your love be fhowne ;And, yield thcin fuccours, who have fuccourd to thy Children, breeding and Corrections;Thy Charities, evn to thy Fees extend :Give to thy wife, the beft of thy Affettiom;To God, thyfelfe, and, all thou haft, commend :And, left thou faile, Remember whohith fayd,Such mealurc,*r thougivftjhalthe repafd. liet He needs notfeare-, ~a>bat]pigbt can doe-,Whom Vertuc friends* and Fortune, IOI Illvstr. XXXIX. Book. Hen, in this Embhm here, obferve you fliall h An Eaglet, perched, on a Winged-ball* Advanced on an Altar; and, havecydThe Snakes, aflayling him, on evry fide:Me thinkes, by thar, you ftraight mould apprehendTheir ftate, whom Wealth, and Vertue^ doe befriend. My Iudgcment, by that Altar-ftone, conceivesThe lollidnefTe, which, true Religion gives -y .And, that falt-groundcd^Ww^, which, we fee,In grave, and found Morality, to Flying-ball, doth, very wcll,cxpreflcAll 0 mivardbtefings, and, their Eaglet ^meancth fuch Contemplatives,As, in this world, docpafTe away their lives,By fo pofleffingthat which they havegor, they caru not, though, they had it Snakes, may well rcfcmblcthofc, among them,Who, mccrely out of envie, fceke to wrong them ;And,all ttieic Figures (thus together layd
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