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Title: A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ...
Year: 1635 (1630s)
Authors: Wither, George, 1588-1667 Rollenhagen, Gabriel, 1583-1619. Nucleus emblematorum Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637, engraver Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver
Subjects: Emblem books, English
Publisher: London: Printed by A(ugustine). M(athewes). for Henry Taunton, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, MCCXXXV (1635)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Flood-gates, let whole Ponds amongft them come -3But, them befprinkleft, rather, fome and fome -.I eft, elfc, thou marre the Ftomes, or chill the Seed,Or drowne the Saplings, which did moyfture need. Let this experiment, which, to thy thought,May by this Emblem, now perhaps, be brought,Perfwade thec to confidcr, that, no actions,Can come, but by degrees, to their perfections;And, reach thee, to allot, for every thing,That Icifarely-proceeding, which may bringThe ripenelfe,and the fulncfle,thou cxpe&cft :And, though thy Hopes, but flowly thou cffecleft,Difcourage not thy fclfc •, fince, ofc they proveMoft prolpcrous actions, which at leifure move.By many drops, is made a mighty jhovore 5And many minutei finifh up an boure:By little, and by little, we poflefleAfiiiranceof the grcatcft Happinefe. And, oft, by too much hifle, and, too much cofl,G reat Wealth, g- cat Honours, and, great Hopes,are left. Affli&ion, Affli&ion, doth to many addsMore value, thenj before* they had.
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ILLVSTR. XL VI. Eotk.% ^Hough I am fomewhat fobcrer today,I have been (I confefle) as mad as they,Who think thofe men,that large PofleiSons have,Gay Clothes, fine Furnitures, and Houfes brave,Are thofe (nay more, that they alone are thofe)On whom, the ftile of Xick, we mould impofe. But, having, by experience, underftoodHis words, who (ayd, his troubles did him good,I, now perceive, the Worldly.rich arepoorc,Vnlefleof Strrowes, alfo, they have ftore.Till from the Straw, the Flaile, the Cornt doth beat 5Vntill the Chafey be purged from the Wheat,Yea, till the MM, the Grams in pieces teare,The richnefle of the Flewre, will fcarce appearc. So, till mens perfons great Afflitiions touch(Ifmrthbe found) their tverthis not fo much,Becaufe, like Wheat, in Straw, they have not, yet,That value, which in tbrejbing,they may get.For, till the bruifing.F/<w/tt of Go ds Corrc8ionstHayethrefhed out of us our vaine Ajftftions;Till thofe Corruption, which doe misbecome U5,Are by thy Sacred.jfirit, w

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