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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 XXIX. Every thing in its Season.

To the Slothfull.
Not slothfull in business. etc. Rom: 22. 11.
The fowls of heaven that in the air do flie,
Keep every one their season constantly,
And finde a Climate out wherein to dwell,
When that wherein they were fits not so well.
When first in any Region they appear,
They there give notice what's the time o'th' year:
And every sort of them have their own time
Wherein to make abode in any Clime.
The Swallow brings the Spring along with it,
Wherever he at first begins to twit.
The Cuckoe tells the Summer is at hand;
Which he by's note gives us to understand.
Gnat-snapper Autumn brings, 'cause then he will
Have grapes enow, whereof to eat his fill.
The Chafinch he delights in Winter cold,
Of whose approach we by this bird are told.
These little Birds their constant course do keep,
While Man his time away in sloth doth sleep,
Seldom regarding either time or season,
As if he liv'd without or rule or reason.
What things in Summer naturally are bred,
With them in Winter we must needs be fed;
And what the Autumn freely doth produce,
We must have in the Spring-time for our use.
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