. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illvstrations, both morall and divine, and disposed into lotteries, that instruction and good counsell may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation . me fThough he that hath among them, his Delight,Brave things imagines them (becaufe they bCndcWith fome falfe Luftrchis beguiled fight)He thats above them, their meane-Worth may finde. L»rd, to that Blejfed-Station me conveyWhere I may view the World, and view her I her true Condition may furvey jAnd all her Imperfedions rightly me, that on
. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illvstrations, both morall and divine, and disposed into lotteries, that instruction and good counsell may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation . me fThough he that hath among them, his Delight,Brave things imagines them (becaufe they bCndcWith fome falfe Luftrchis beguiled fight)He thats above them, their meane-Worth may finde. L»rd, to that Blejfed-Station me conveyWhere I may view the World, and view her I her true Condition may furvey jAnd all her Imperfedions rightly me, that once there was a DayWhen thou didft weane me from them with content,Evn when (hut up within thofe Gates I layThrough which the PlagHe-infliciing Angel vj^, let me ftill remember, that an HourcIs hourely coraming on, wherein I fhall(Though I had all the Werldmihm my powre)Be naked ftripr, and turned out of minde me, chiefely,that I never cleaveToo clofely to my Selfe • and caufe thou me,No t other Earthly things alone to to forfake my Seife for love of Thee:That I may fay, now / h^ve all thif$gs left,Before that I of all things, am bereft. To To him a happy Lot If efalls That hath a Ship, profprous ^^»0 wonder he a profprous Voyage findes1^8 That hath both Sailes and Oares to ferve his turne, And,ftill,through meanes of fomc propitious WindsIs to his wiriied Harbour^ fwittly borne,Kor is it much admird, if they that lackcThofe aydes(on which the Common faith depends^Are from their hoped aymes repelled backe,Or made to labour for unfruitfull neither in the Shif, Wind, Oarcf, or Sailes,Nor in the want of Outward meanes, alone,Confifts it, that our f^tf/^ fucceedes or failes;But, moft in that, which Men leaft thinke ,/i?wtf endeavour, and their Painesarc blcftWith Gales which are fo fortunate, that theyFly fafe, and fwiftly on, among the bcft,VVhilft others labour, and are caft awj[y. Some others, on this Worlds viidcOcean floats,An
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