. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . ome, ev^n at the NightOf that fliort Day, are dead and withered the Morning of our Lives be done,The FleJJo oft fades: Sometimes it grows till Noon:But theres no Mortal Fiejh^ that will abideUnparched longer than till ILv7iingtide,For in it felf it always carries that,Which he
. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . ome, ev^n at the NightOf that fliort Day, are dead and withered the Morning of our Lives be done,The FleJJo oft fades: Sometimes it grows till Noon:But theres no Mortal Fiejh^ that will abideUnparched longer than till ILv7iingtide,For in it felf it always carries that,Which helpeth fo it felf to ruinate,That tho it feel nor Storm, nor fcorching Flame^An inbred Canker will confume the well, and well remembring this,Account the Flejh no better than it is :Wrong not thine everlafting SotiU to cherifhA Gourde which in a Moments time will perifh. Give it the tendance fit for fading Crops 5But for May-harvejl^ lofe not better Hopes. # divine and Morah 197Lot. 49. THY Flefh thou lovft, as if it wereThechiefeft Objea of thy Care ^And of fuch Value, as may feemWell meriting thy beft cfteem* But now to baniifh that Conceir,Thy Lot an Emblem brings to without FlattVy fhews to thee,Of wKat Regard it ought to be. K 5 Emblem L. iq8 Choice Emblems^ Emblem Sic tranjit Gloria Mmdi. The* divine and Moral, 199
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