. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . FOR YOUTH. THE figgggjlHIS homely buili doth to mine eyes expoieWJa i&f ^ very fair, yea, comely, ruddy role.!BSS&3«bI This role doth always bow its head to me,Saying, Come, pluck me, I thy roie will be;Yet offer I to gather role or bud,Ten to one but the bum will have my blood. This looks like a trepan or a decoy,To offer, and yet snap, who would enjoy;Yea, the more eager on t, the more in danger,Be he the mailer of it or a stranger. 66 DIVINE EMBLEMS Buih, why doft bear a rofe if none mult have it ?Why doft expofe
. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . FOR YOUTH. THE figgggjlHIS homely buili doth to mine eyes expoieWJa i&f ^ very fair, yea, comely, ruddy role.!BSS&3«bI This role doth always bow its head to me,Saying, Come, pluck me, I thy roie will be;Yet offer I to gather role or bud,Ten to one but the bum will have my blood. This looks like a trepan or a decoy,To offer, and yet snap, who would enjoy;Yea, the more eager on t, the more in danger,Be he the mailer of it or a stranger. 66 DIVINE EMBLEMS Buih, why doft bear a rofe if none mult have it ?Why doft expofe it, yet claw thole that crave it ?Art become freakilli ? Doft the wanton play,Or doth thy tefty humour tend this way ? COMPARISON. This rofe Gods Son is, with His ruddy looks: But whats the bum ? whole pricks, like tenter-hooks, Do scratch and claw the fineft ladys hands, Or rend her clothes, if she too near it stands. This bufti an emblem is of Adams race, Of which Chrift came, when He His Fathers grace Commended to us in His crimfon blood, While He in sinners stead and nature
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