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Lychnocausia

Sive Moralia Facum Emblemata: Lights Morall Emblems: Authore Roberto Farlaeo Scoto-Britanno [i.e. by Robert Farley]
Farley, Robert
  
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To the most Noble and Illustrious Lady, both for Nobility and Piety, as of Vertue a rare and peerlesse example, Lady Anne Kare, Countesse of Ancram.
  
To his friend the Author.
  
To the Author.
  
To the Author.
  
To the Ingenious Author, on his Latin and English Morall Emblems.
  
Britaines Great Lights.
  
Oxonia.
  
Cantabrigia.
  
To the Reader.
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[Study me in thy Prime]

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27.

[I shined brightly whilst I stood upright]

I shined brightly whilst I stood upright,
And firmely seated gave a perfect light;
But after that mischance did me surprise,
I am cast downe and know not how to rise.
Helpe, helpe, who sees my case, now succour me,
So, as before, my Light shall glorious be.
A man may fall, this brittle life of ours
Is subject to more chances than to houres:
Or fortune false, or errours slippery fall
Suffers us not, constant to proove at all:
Happy is he who falling findes a man,
Much like a God, supporting what he can.
By hurt he learning gaines, he wiser growes,
And with the weary Oxe more warily goes.
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