. 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 . e fpecious bait, and then they find alltheir flruggles ineffectual. He who has hadt
. 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 . e fpecious bait, and then they find alltheir flruggles ineffectual. He who has hadthe art to catch, has generally the judgementto fecure his prey. Such an one will butfmile at their vain attempts to recover theirliberty, while he is fenfible thefe only fer\eftjU farther to enthral them. The dye is call,and they become the viclims of their own im-prudence. The offers of fome men are dangerous: benot therefore led away by fpecious appearances:think before you a£c, and let the chara<5ler ofthe giver and the conditions he is likely to ex-ad be well confidered before you receive thegift. If it be the price of vice cr folly, fliunit, as you hope for peace and honeH fame :Each temptation you have avoided, will by re-flexion ftrengthen you againil the next:F 2 cuftom ( lOO ) cuftom will make the moft dhlicult felf-denialseafy, and by one victory you will be enabledto gain another. You will be thus deliveredfrom the fnares of vice, and felly (hall nottriumph over your fall. EMBLE\) ( loi ). E M B L E M Perseverance. JA S O N, a bold adventrer, faild to claimThe precious prize v/hich raisd his coun-trys fame—His vefTel bore the ficwr of ancient Greece,To Cokhis* fhore to claim tiie golden ficece ;But firftthe brazer footed bulls he traindAnd with hard yokes their {lubborn necksretraind; f Sowd ferpents teeth from which immediate^rofe, I A grove of lances and a holl of foes :— ^And charm-d the watchful dragon to jrepofe. ^ J Thef^ toils oerpaft in peace he
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