. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . eck, the reftbright Purple with White, Blue, and Rofe-Colour j with aPi jme upon its Head. Mela lays it lives 500 Years, others more iwhen building itlelf a Neft of Aromatic Woods, Gumsand Spicesoathe Palm-Tree, i fans it with its Wings till it fires by Heat of theSun in ulrdhid FimUx, where it refides, and io confbmes icleif in ir,from whole Afhes a Worm is engenderd by the Sjhs Ray?, which irtTime growi to another PA*;;/;*. Herodotus calls it a Sacred Bird,appearing in Egyft b^tonce in 500 Yeirs j bringing t
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . eck, the reftbright Purple with White, Blue, and Rofe-Colour j with aPi jme upon its Head. Mela lays it lives 500 Years, others more iwhen building itlelf a Neft of Aromatic Woods, Gumsand Spicesoathe Palm-Tree, i fans it with its Wings till it fires by Heat of theSun in ulrdhid FimUx, where it refides, and io confbmes icleif in ir,from whole Afhes a Worm is engenderd by the Sjhs Ray?, which irtTime growi to another PA*;;/;*. Herodotus calls it a Sacred Bird,appearing in Egyft b^tonce in 500 Yeirs j bringing the Alhes ot irsSire roLld up ui the Aromatic Ncft in the Shape of an Egg to theTemple of the Sun at he/iopolis, where it la)S ir on the Alrar to ; thay rcprefent it in Colours of Crimlln and Gold : IrsNti < if fecms to take from the Dare or Palm Tree, on which ir buil jithar NeiV, calld by the Grecla, Phoi/iix^ and the Firit Fathers «.f .hdChii/iian Church, as Clem. Rom. Cyril. Ambrs Efi^han. ific. Ipsah•f ita$ ao Emblem of the Refurrcftien. KmeuM (I^^). Emblem LV. REPENTANCE. T J OLD! Fooliai Maid ! What Profped canft^f~J^ thou hope ? Thou Icokft in vain j turn, turn thy Telcfcope!Hark ! A Voice chides me for my raili Complaint,And tells me tis her Busnefs to Repent-,Thro the inverted Glais her ftreaming EyeBeholds fair Truth^ that brings the Objedt nigh jThe Ilegidcr of Confcicnce open ftands, rated by vi^hatHEAvN commands;JiOpe fpreads her Eagles Pinions to be gone,But pious Rcfohiiion hold& her dow^n: Armd ( 1^3 ) Armd witli Eternal Trufb^ (he breaks her WayFrom Natures Gloom, to bright Mtherial Day ^No riiijig Storms, no threatning Tempefl reaps in Tranlport, what Ihe fowd in Tears,Go on. Brave Heroine, purfue thy Choice,The Heart thats penitent is always wife;Fe;ir not the Profpet5l, tho it wound thy Soul 5j^am more juftly trembld at his Fall 5His Crime no of fweet Repentance hideous Form was ever in his
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