. 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 . mplary manner. Certainly nothing can be more juir or rea-fonable than that we ftiou
. 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 . mplary manner. Certainly nothing can be more juir or rea-fonable than that we ftiould love, honour,and fuccour thofe who are the very authors ofour being, and to whofe tender cares (under Heaven) we ov/e the continuance of it duringthe helplefs ftate of our infancy. Love, charity, and an intercourfe of goodoffices, are what undoubtedly we owe to almankind, and he who omits them is guiltyof fuch a crime as generally carries its puniili-ment along with it j—but to our parentsmore, much more than all this is due; andwhen are fening them we ought to refieftthat whatever difficulties we <to throuii^h for o o their fakes, we cannot do more for them than ihey have done for us, and that there is no B 2 ( 4 ) danger of our over-paying the vaft debt ofgratitude they, have laid us under. In fine, we fliould confider that it is a dutymoft peculiarly infilled on by Heaven itfelf,and if we obey the command, there is no doubtbut we Ihall alfo receive the reward annexedto it. EMBLEM. Of Silence. LO here the portrait of that ancient pewrWhich fwayd before the worlds great natal hour,Silence ! the Hill companion of the wifeThat flirouds ev^i Folly in its deep difguife ; A living death that is of nothino- made,* In noon days fun wrappd up in thickefi; Ihade,Blufli not, good youth to court his friendly aid;Ke iliall your fecrets keep, your friends re. your honour and fecure your gain. Be not too rafh in fpeech, leil others findThe depth and fecret
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