. Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works . ist.—2 Corinth, xi. 3. It is the Devils ])art to suggest : Ours, not to consent. As oft as we resist him,.so often wc overcome him : As often as we overcome him, so often we bring joy lothe Angels, and glory to (lod, who o[)poseth us, that wc may contend, and assislcihus, that we may conquer.—.S. Hkknard in Ser. DONAR 81 CHIAMA PESOAR. UNLOOKED-FOR, OFTEN COMES. W^OURE Elements in this my body are All yockt
. Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works . ist.—2 Corinth, xi. 3. It is the Devils ])art to suggest : Ours, not to consent. As oft as we resist him,.so often wc overcome him : As often as we overcome him, so often we bring joy lothe Angels, and glory to (lod, who o[)poseth us, that wc may contend, and assislcihus, that we may conquer.—.S. Hkknard in Ser. DONAR 81 CHIAMA PESOAR. UNLOOKED-FOR, OFTEN COMES. W^OURE Elements in this my body are All yockt in one, yet ever ftill at warre ; As all agree to nourifh this my light So to my ruine they combine their might: Aire maketh way for flame, Earth builds a pyre, My moifture feeds the ftill confuming fire. Still as I fhine by light, by light I dy, As caufe of life, fo of mortality, It was Prometheus fault who ftole away Heavns fire, and joynd it to his mortall clay. Moifture doth heat, and heat doth moifture dryes our body, this makes it dampe and which doth give, doth likewife fpend our breath ;The firft of being, is firft houre of death. Farlies
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