. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . 114 ^ Prince fhould value his Reputation^ 6cc. Vol. I. Rafiinefs and Temerity. That which feems Honour-able and Glorious to them, is Vanity or Folly, fome-times Pride or Envy, and oftentimes Ambition andmere Tyranny. They propofe great matters^, eggd onby the Flatteries of their Minifters, Vv^ho fet beforethem many things under the appearance of Glory,concealing in the mean time the unjuft and inconveni-ent Means by which they are to be attained ,• by whichbeing feduced, they oftentimes find themfelves deludedand ruined. That Glory is
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . 114 ^ Prince fhould value his Reputation^ 6cc. Vol. I. Rafiinefs and Temerity. That which feems Honour-able and Glorious to them, is Vanity or Folly, fome-times Pride or Envy, and oftentimes Ambition andmere Tyranny. They propofe great matters^, eggd onby the Flatteries of their Minifters, Vv^ho fet beforethem many things under the appearance of Glory,concealing in the mean time the unjuft and inconveni-ent Means by which they are to be attained ,• by whichbeing feduced, they oftentimes find themfelves deludedand ruined. That Glory is fafe which fprings from a generousSpirit, and keeps within the Bounds of Reafon and Potfibility. Since therefore Honour and Infamy are theftrongeft Excitements to good Adions, and that bothare by Hiftory delivered down to Pofterity; twouldbe convenient by Rewards propofed to excite Hiftori-ans to write, and to countenance Typography, thetrue Treafury of Glory, where the Rewards of greafA6Hons are depofited to future Ages, EH i I Voir, ijt5 EMBLEM ^T^iS an old faying ^ Turtle is to he judged hy Turplej-*- by which the Ancients fignified, that things werethen beft diftinguiflied, when one was compared withthe other, efpecially if they were fuch as could noteafily be diftingaifiid by themfelves. Thus Merchantsdo, who compare Colour to Colour, that they mayfhew each other, and that a furer Judgment may begiven of both. In the Temple of Jupiter Capadinus,there was a Cloak (a Prefent of fome King from Per/:a)of fuch an excellent Grain, that the Robes of the RomanLadies, nay, even of the Emperor JureUm himfalf,compared with it, lookd as faint as Afhes. If yourRoyal Highnels, w/hen raifed to the Crown, would cx-mine, and know the true worth of the Royal Purple,expofe-it not to the falfe Light of Flatterers and fawning I 2. Knaies^ J15 Let a Prime compare his own Anions Vol.!. Knaves, for that will never flievv you its true Colour:Nor rely too much upon felf-love/or that is lik
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