. Emblems . conduft thee to the paths of peace, And wifdom blefs the fouls unbicmifhd ways^ ■No matter then, how (hort or long*s the leafe, VVhofe date determines thy felf numbred days:No need to care, foi; wealths or fames incr« Mifs his Paim^^ nor high Apollos , if thy pleafetofiUTheiflcor ofmy detires, and teach me skillTo drefs and chuTethe corn,takc thofc the chaff that will. S. AUGU5T. Book z. Emllemes: .^i S. AUGUST, lib. i, de doa. Chrifti. Temporihhings more nvijh in the expeSations tbin infruUtioi: But thingi eternal more in the fruhJoa than txps^iti


. Emblems . conduft thee to the paths of peace, And wifdom blefs the fouls unbicmifhd ways^ ■No matter then, how (hort or long*s the leafe, VVhofe date determines thy felf numbred days:No need to care, foi; wealths or fames incr« Mifs his Paim^^ nor high Apollos , if thy pleafetofiUTheiflcor ofmy detires, and teach me skillTo drefs and chuTethe corn,takc thofc the chaff that will. S. AUGU5T. Book z. Emllemes: .^i S. AUGUST, lib. i, de doa. Chrifti. Temporihhings more nvijh in the expeSations tbin infruUtioi: But thingi eternal more in the fruhJoa than txps^ition. Ibidem. The life of msn U the middle bctwten An^eh ind Beifir. ifmin tdhs pksfure in carral tkingsjbe it ccmpirsd to beifts-butif hi ddi^ht in^irimii things^ he isfuited with Angels, EPIG. 7« Art thou a child ? Thou wilt not then be fed,But like a child, and with the chiidreni bread :But thou arc fed with chaff, or corn undrcft :My foul thou favQuc it ceo much of the beaft. G 2 Emhlemes. Book X. VIIL.


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