. Emblems, divine and moral . ese:These be the pipes that base-born minds dance after,And turn immodrate tears to lavish laughter;Whilst heavnly raptures pass without regard;Their strings are harsh, and their high strains un-heard :The ploughmans whistle, or the trivial flute,Find more respect than great Apollos lute:Well look to Heavn, and trust to higher joys;Let swine love husks, and children whine for toys. 104 S. is the true and chief joy which is not con-ceived from the creature, but received from theCreator, which (being once possessed thereof) nonecan take from thee: whereto
. Emblems, divine and moral . ese:These be the pipes that base-born minds dance after,And turn immodrate tears to lavish laughter;Whilst heavnly raptures pass without regard;Their strings are harsh, and their high strains un-heard :The ploughmans whistle, or the trivial flute,Find more respect than great Apollos lute:Well look to Heavn, and trust to higher joys;Let swine love husks, and children whine for toys. 104 S. is the true and chief joy which is not con-ceived from the creature, but received from theCreator, which (being once possessed thereof) nonecan take from thee: whereto all pleasure, beingcompared, is torment, all joy is grief, sweet thingsare bitter, all glory is baseness, and all delectablethings are despicable. S. BERJff. Joy, in a changeable subject, must necessarilychange as the subject Epig. , childish Cupid, peace: thy fingerd eyeBut cries for what, in time, will make thee are thy peevish wranglings thus appeasd?Well mayst thou cry, that art so poorly 105 ISAIAH X. O. What Kill ye do in the day of your visitation ? to ichom tcill ye flee for help ? and ivhere mil ye leave your glory ?Is this that jolly god, whose Cyprian bow Has shot so many flaming darts,And made so many wounded beauties go Sadly perplexd with whimpring heaits? 106 EMBLEMS. BOOK 2, Is this that sovreign deity, that bringsThe slavish world in awe, and stingsThe blundring souls of swains, and stops the heartsof kings? What Circffian charm, what Hecataean spite Has thus abusd the god of love ?Great Jove was vanquishd by his greater might;(And who is stronger-armd than Jove ?)Or has our lustful god performed a rape,And (fearing Argus eyes) would scapeThe view of jealous earth, in this prodigious shape ? Where be those rosy cheeks, that lately scornd The malice of injurious fates?Ah ! Wheres that pearl port-cullis that adorndThosie dainty two-leavd ruby gates? Where be those killing eyes that so controUdThe world, and locks that did infold
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