. Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine : for the improvement and pastime of youth : displaying 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 a young nobleman . ore intolerable. He fal-ters—finks under his pains, and falls a vie-urn to his own imprudeacet E A P P n« [ 74 ] APPLICATION. Virtue is never fafe but when fhe is fc-cured by the guard of Prudence : Difcre-tion is her handmaid, and Wifdom hercounfellor and inltruftor. Cauti
. Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine : for the improvement and pastime of youth : displaying 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 a young nobleman . ore intolerable. He fal-ters—finks under his pains, and falls a vie-urn to his own imprudeacet E A P P n« [ 74 ] APPLICATION. Virtue is never fafe but when fhe is fc-cured by the guard of Prudence : Difcre-tion is her handmaid, and Wifdom hercounfellor and inltruftor. Caution is a neccflary leffon to be learnedby Youth ; and Perfeverance one of the bellqualities they can be indowed with. When Fortune fmilcs upon us, it is not fodifficult to go on in the pradice of Virtue :•—a man may eafily obtain the reputationoihting gooi^f when he is fo circumftanced,that he muft become a monfter of Vice tobe nvicked. But you who would attain to the end ofyour labours, be virtuous, and to your vir-tue join prudence I be prudent alfo, and toyour prudence ]om perfeverance; fo Ihall younot fall into the Snares of Pleasure j norfeci the envenomed of Guih andRemorfc, whofe fangs are fliarper than rhofeof the Serpent, and wiiofe polfon is moredeadly than that of the venomout. Adder, EMBLEM. EMBLEM the Danger of Temptation» ripHE filly fifli, while playing in the brook,■*• Hatb gorgM ard fwallowM the deltrufti ve hook •In vain he flounces on the auivring hair,Drawn panting forth to breathe the upper air:Caught by his folly in the glittVing bait,He meets his. ruin, and fubmits to fate, MORAL. Avoid bafe bribes; the tempting lure difplayM,If once you leize, you perifh ilow to take when ftracgers hafte to give,Left of your ruin you the price receive. THE [ 76 ] THE fimple Fifh fports on the furfaccof the clear flreams, while the wily Anglerplies his Rod and Line;—the timid animaloften approaches the bait, and as oftenreturns
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