. 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 . lion of father, mother, brother,filler, friend, and every tender tie of human-ity a
. 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 . lion of father, mother, brother,filler, friend, and every tender tie of human-ity are loll when it rages, and it tempts commit in a moment fuch enormities as anage of repentance is notfufiicient to atone for. It is a fliort madnefs, whofe eiFecls areequally terrible in thofe who indulge it, as inthofe who are the objecls cf its rage ; it hasoften led to real madnefs, to ruin, and todeath ; and he who gives way to it can nomore anfwer for his a£lions than if he weredrunk or lunatic, or pofTelled with an evilfpirit at the time he i^ angry and enraged. In fme, Anger is a vice of fuch a call thatit debafes Gods image which is llamped uponour nature, making us rather refemble dse-mons than human creatures, and if paffionate men ( 136 ) men could have a Ml and juft view of theni-felves in all their deformity both of foul andbody, they mud bate themfelves, and likethe lion in the emblem make war with theirown image than which nothing m Nature canbe more hideous and detellable. EMBLEM. E M B -L E M XXX\^ Of Chastity. -^HNE, the fairefi cf the woodland train,.llo long had wood, but wood in vain,.it Isngh the god furprizd her in the flrove to gain withpromisd gifts the maid;Her, fiill reiifting, oer the plains he when he chought the nymph to have em- bracd, Inftead cf Daphne, brisrht in blooming charms,Surprizd, he clafped a laurel in his tree belovd frill bears his honord of conquefl and of deathlefs fame. Avoid temptat
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