. 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 . but take care not to put it into their power to do you any. If you would pafs throu
. 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 . but take care not to put it into their power to do you any. If you would pafs through life with anydegree of fatisfadlion, it is neceflary that youbej<jpri^and/;-«</f?//. Wifdom is the fiAer ofvirtue; join them both in your conduct,and if it fhould happen that you do not enjoyall the felicity you might expefl, you will atleall have the comfort to defer--vs iu EMBLEM ( ^9 ). E M B L E M inordinate Desire. THE bufy infe6\ hovring round thelightPleasd with the tapers beams which gild the round and round in giddy circles caught within the fcorching blaze it ! filly thing the fource of all thy joy,A beauteous mifchief, fhines but to deflroy,Evn fo the youth who burns witli wild de- fires,Oft falls the victim of unh-allowd fires. Avoid the glittring evil, fhun the fnareWhich Sin and Guile for artlefs youth prepare:Left with the Moth one common fate you prove,And perifh bv th exceffes which vou love. THE ( 70 ) THE Moth allured by the brightnefsof the x:andle, plays round the flame, till atlaft it is confumed by its heat. A fit em-blem this, of thofe unwary ones who playroimd the verge of evil, till at length theyprecipitate themfelves into infamy andruin.— The fly, and many other winged infedshave the fame propenfity to hovering roundany luminous body, and frequently die bythe heat, which is infeparable from thatbright
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