. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . r liim to boall that virtue which neveret v/as tried, and to boail: of that fortitu
. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . r liim to boall that virtue which neveret v/as tried, and to boail: of that fortitudewhich he has never yet had occafion to exert;but true magnaninuty and greatnefs of- foulare found in fuppcrting evils with refignation,and refifting with refoluticn. It is by the tefc of misfortune that the grea^-«ft and bell of men have been proved ; it is totheir noble behaviour under it that they owe(the titles of Good and Great.—The faintstnd. mart^Ts among the primitive chrillians,and Socrates, among the heathens, dyingfearlefs and undaunted for the teftimony oftruth, are charaflers which will ever be julllyadmired in this world as doubtlefs they wererev/arded in a better Hate. Learn then to copy fuch great examples,and hold fail the truth even to death -, this is to ( 9^ )to lay your foundation on a Rock, which de- £es the tempefl and Hands fecure amidll theroaring waves of the ocean, which endeavourin vain to Ihake it, becaufe its baiis is frc^^-h^ and immQveabk* EMBLEM ( 95 ). : E :^.i B L E M XXR^ Of the U Self-Dexial. T T 71 T H haily ileps, at the firll dawn of The chearful traveller purfues his way ;But tired at noon he feeks a fliady lofty trees, whofe branches meet above:Conceald beneath the grafs the Serpent fvvain draws near and by his venom dies. Thus he who, leaving virtues facred through the paths of plcafure flrays,Wounded by vice, his peace and honour loll,Buys late experience at too dear a coil:To him who
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