. 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 . try, and that poverty is the infe-parable companion of idlenefs. THERE- ( J9 ) THER
. 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 . try, and that poverty is the infe-parable companion of idlenefs. THERE- ( J9 ) THERE is not ajuftermaxim than ThatFortune is the Deity of Fools; they onlyworihip her, they only leave every thino- iuher power, while the wife and good man trulbnothing to her but v/hat he cannot help,bears her imiles with equanimity, and hc^frowns with fortitude. Fools, en the other hand, not only worfhip,but in fome fenfe /naks Fortune, according tothe old adage; that is, they truft all to chanceand then complain of thofe evils whereofthemfelves are authors. Thofe who would be candidates for fuccefsin life fhould never rely on fo fickle a patro-nefs; in fhort, they fhould confider that thereis no fuch thing as chance, but that every thing ( 6o ) -^ thing depends on their own indullry, accom-panied by the blefling of Providence whichgenerally attends the wife and virtuous, andis far more proper to truft to than fuch afickle friend as Fortune, who * Undifcerning, fcatters crowns andchains.** EMBLEM ( 6i ). EMBLEM X^I. Of I m p r 0 V e m e X t. LO the induflnous Bee employs tlie Tipping fragrance from the variousfiowrs:No plant, no herb, that Natures hand pre^ yields her Honey to reward her cares. Learn by the Bee from eack event to findSome hint of ufe or profit to your mind:Nothing fo fmall bin you may draw from thenceImprovement for your virtue or your like this, lifes evils will alTuage,And yield you fweets in your declining age. THE ( 62 ) THE B
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