. 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 . imfelf foiled, he boreteHimony to her honour and rewarded herglorious conftancy. Ev
. 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 . imfelf foiled, he boreteHimony to her honour and rewarded herglorious conftancy. Even they who feek to draw us into thefnares of vice cannot help fecretly applaud-ing us when they fee that, in fpite of all their ( HO )arts, we flill procee d in the paths of harder the trial, the greater will be tliereward to thofe who perfevere. .But above all things it is neceolary for usto fly from There are nonewho fland fo fcrong but that it is pofnbie theymay fall: How unwife then is it for us toapproach to the brink of a precipice, merelyto try whether v/e can bear to look down fromit with a Heady eye. Thofe who feek adanger they may jfhun, deferve the ccnfe-quences of their folly, when they meet it. If we mean to triumph, let us take a dilrerentcourfe. Let us ily from evil that we mayovercome it; when human aid fails us, letus invoke Heaven itfelf to our affiliance : fofnall we be firengthened in our courfe, and inthe end, by flying, attain the laurels ofvictory. EMBLEM. E AI B L E M XXXVI. O -F T H E V A N I T Y OF PLEASURE. 13 E H O L D the beauty of yon damaCc-L3 roi^, Joy of the eye, in gaudy pride it fatting fun Ihall fee its bloom all it ■ boafted beauties fade away :The envious thorns its frap-nant leaves fur- o rf und,Protect the blofTom, and th unwary wound ;Pleafure muft coil: too dear when bought witli pain :The Rofe Ihall wither, when the Thorns re- With cautious hand pluck the vain flowrofjoy,Left hidden evil
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