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Emblems Divine, Moral, Natural and Historical

Expressed in Sculpture, and Applied to the several Ages, Occasions, and Conditions of the Life of Man. By a person of Quality

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EMBLEMS Divine, Moral, Natural and Historical.
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[EMBLEM I.] The Phœnix.
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[EMBLEM II.] The good Wife.
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[EMBLEM III.] No Working, no Eating.
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[EMBLEM IV.] Take Time by the Foretop
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[EMBLEM V.] Whet no Let.
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[EMBLEM VI.] First consider, then speak.
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[EMBLEM VII.] Industry prevents Indigence.
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[EMBLEM VIII.] Soon ripe, soon rotten.
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[EMBLEM IX.] Sweet Meat, sowre Sauce.
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EMBLEM X. Beware of a Lyer.
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EMBLEM XI. Death and Sleep compared.
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EMBLEM XII. The Gardens excellencie.
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EMBLEM XIII. A Contented minde worth all.
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EMBLEM XIV. The World's drudgery.
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EMBLEM XV. The good Physician.
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EMBLEM XVI. Others Harms, our Arms.
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EMBLEM XVII. The World's Vanity.
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EMBLEM XVIII. The Womans defence.
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EMBLEM XIX. Know when ye are well.
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EMBLEM XX. Diligence makes rich.
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EMBLEM XXI. Pride will have a fall.
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EMBLEM XXII. For Work, or for Weapon.
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EMBLEM XXIII. The dutiful Son.
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EMBLEM XXIV. The Impotent Begger.
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EMBLEM XXV. Kindred not always Friends.
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EMBLEM XXVI. Try before ye trust.
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EMBLEM XXVII. Well fare a good Conceit.
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EMBLEM XXVIII. Every one hope the best.
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EMBLEM XXIX. Every thing in its Season.
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EMBLEM XXX. Labour in vain.
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EMBLEM XXXI. Shrubs safer then Cedars.
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EMBLEM XXXII. The Cheating Physician.
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EMBLEM XXXIII. Natural Affection.
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EMBLEM XXXIV. The Sayings of the seven Sages.
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EMBLEM XXXV. The Blessings of Peace.
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EMBLEM XXXVI. Nothing will last always.
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EMBLEM XXXVII. A friend at need, a friend indeed.
  
The Conclusion.

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EMBLEM XXXIV. The Sayings of the seven Sages.

Wisdom excelleth folly Eccl: 2. 13.

The Sages seven of Greece, which heretofore
So fam'd for wisdom were, as none were more,
Each one of them a Golden Sentence had,
Which Alciat thus in picture open laid.
Keep still the Mean, Cleobulus adviseth;
Which by a Balance Alciat advertiseth.
Chilon bids Know thy self: the which to do,
A Mirrour is at hand, thy self to view.
Restrain thy Wrath, says Periander. Here
An herb expelling Choler does appear.
Nothing too much, doth Pittacus exhort:
And loe a plant, too much whereof doth hurt.
Remember still thy End, was Solon's word;
Till which time, nothing can true joy afford.
A Statue falling here we see presented;
To shew, the force of death can't be prevented.
Of Wicked men the number doth exceed,
Would Bias say. And 'cause in very deed
Sardinia vile a place most wicked was,
He sets one of its people on an Ass.
Says Thales, last of all, Flee Suretiship,
Lest thou thereby be scourg'd with thine own whip.
And here a subtil Bird sits on the Net,
The which the Fowler with all's lures can't get.
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