. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . ortune varies like the YearThe Mifers tumbled to the Ground,And all his Moneys fcatterd round ;Evn Cupid with his Quiver muftBe rolled in the common Dull. The World is daily changing Face,And Men are mown away like Grafs $But he that will not fuffer Lofs,Mull fix his Hold upon the Crofs. The Moral. How fondly we the Worlds Delights embrace 1How happy, if we are in Fortunes Grace!Her SmUes our chief Felicity we judge,And in her Favours all our
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . ortune varies like the YearThe Mifers tumbled to the Ground,And all his Moneys fcatterd round ;Evn Cupid with his Quiver muftBe rolled in the common Dull. The World is daily changing Face,And Men are mown away like Grafs $But he that will not fuffer Lofs,Mull fix his Hold upon the Crofs. The Moral. How fondly we the Worlds Delights embrace 1How happy, if we are in Fortunes Grace!Her SmUes our chief Felicity we judge,And in her Favours all our Blifs we that we are, when evry Moment (hewsHow oft her Favorites all her Favours and broken are the Joys we know,And all the Comforts were indulgd below;If in this chequerd Scene Delight we feel,Trouble and Grief are always at its Heel • ^ Succeffive Days fucceffive Cares return,For Man to Troubles fatally is Worlds a wafte, uncultivated Field,And never can one folid Comfort Heavn alone our Happinefs we fix,Where, with our Joys, no Cares (hall ever mix,B3 3<* HlEROGLVPHICKS, Book L EM B LE M Riches and Lufts at Bowling play,Satan, their Friend, directs the Way jFortune holds up the Fool-cap Stake,And bids the Winner bravely take. Book I. MflftAL^iDlVINE, 31 EMBLEM X. Fortunes Prize. TW O eager Bowlers here are feen, vCupid and Mammon on the Green,And Satan (hews the Ground ;To Fortune they direct their Eye»,Who holds aloft the glorious Prize,That (hall the Vi&or crown. The Prize a FoolVcap is, the ToyFor which their Time they thus employ, And ply with Might and Main ;Such, Fortune, are thy Gifts to Men,And fuch as this thy gaming Scene, The Prize and Labour vain. The Mora l. Pleafure and Profit fet before our Eyes, We here behold, contending for a Prize. Satan, officioufly the Courfe directs, And wondrous Friendftup lovingly affe&s. Fortune prefides, and gives the gay Reward To both, as equal both their Gafts appeared ;
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