Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern: or, delights for the ingenious.[T135443]

DMI number:

451

Aliases

Delights for the ingenious

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

ESTC

Publication Date:

1732

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T135443

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW119543234

Shelfmark:

BL 1607 3407

Full Title:

CHOICE | EMBLEMS, | DIVINE and MORAL, | ANTIENT and MODERN: | OR, | DELIGHTS | FOR THE | INGENIOUS, | IN ABOVE | Fifty Select EMBLEMS, | Curiously Ingraven upon Copper-Plates. | With Fifty Pleasant Poems and Lots, by | way of Lottery, for Illustrating each Emblem, | to promote Instruction and Good Counsel by | Diverting Recreation. | [rule] | The SIXTH EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for EDMUND PARKER, at the | [i]Bible[/i] and [i]Crown[/i], over against the New | Church in [i]Lombard-Street[/i]. 1732.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[14], [1]-207, [13].

Bibliographic details:

MS notes: Short note explaining ownership of Dr. Philip Bliss recto of first flyleaf. Recto of frontispiece signed 'Elizabeth Hollis 1748'. The 'wheel of fortune' on p.207 has been hand coloured.

Comments:

PLATES: Frontispiece, engraving from Eikon Basilike facing sig.a; engravings of emblems on pp. 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 182, 186, 190, 194, 198, 207. Several plates signed 'I. D. Sculp', but most unsigned. The majority of verse in the collection is by George Wither, but there are a few poems at the beginning and end by other authors. This includes a number of pieces about Charles I which were in the original Delights for the Ingenious but seem to have been omitted from the two editions preceding this. ESTC NOTE: First published in 1684 as ’Delights for the ingenious’.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: Frontispiece engraving facing title page; 'The Author Upon the Emblem in the Frontispiece' [2pp.]; engraving taken from 'Eikon Basilike' [1p.]; poems referring to Charles I [8pp.]; 'To the Reader' (signed 'R. B.') [3pp.]; END MATTER: list of books printed for and sold by Edmund Parker at close of volume [1p.].

Related Miscellanies

Title:

Choice emblems divine and moral, ancient and modern: or delights for the ingenious [T118316]

Publication Date:

1721

ESTC No:

T118316

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern: or, delights for the ingenious [N27894]

Publication Date:

1729

ESTC No:

N27894

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

Delights for the ingenious in above fifty select and choice emblems, divine and moral, ancient and modern [ESTC R8820]

Publication Date:

1684

ESTC No:

R8820

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Nathaniel Crouch

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

ESTC record for T135443: ’Epistle to the reader signed’: R.B., i.e. Richard Burton, i.e. Nathaniel Crouch.

Publisher:

Edmund Parker

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown'. ESTC T135443

Content/Publication

First Line:

Great monarch of the world from whose power springs

Page No:

[4pp.]

Poem Title:

Majesty in Misery: Or, An Imploration To The King of Kings.

Attribution:

Written By his late Majesty King Charles the First, with his own Hand, during his Captivity in Carisbrook-Castle in the Isle of Wight, 1648.

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Not attributed

First Line:

So falls the stately cedar while it stood

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[2pp.]

Poem Title:

An Epitaph upon King Charles the First.

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First Line:

Stay passenger behold and see

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[2pp.]

Poem Title:

Another.

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First Line:

This book containing emblems 'twas thought fit

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[2pp.]

Poem Title:

The Author Upon The Emblem In The Frontispiece.

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First Line:

Though clogged with weights of miseries

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[2pp.]

Poem Title:

The Explanation of the Emblem in Latin and English...In English.

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First Line:

Great good and just could I but rate

Page No:

[1pp.]

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

Written by the Magnanimous James Marquis of of[sic] Montross with the Point of his Sword

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

When some in former ages had a meaning

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pp.3-4

Poem Title:

The First Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When thou hast changes good or bad

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p.5

Poem Title:

Lot 1.

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First Line:

My hopeful friends at thrice five years and three

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pp.7-8

Poem Title:

The Second Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

With Mary thou art one of those

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p.9

Poem Title:

Lot 2.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How fond are they who spend their precious time

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pp.11-12

Poem Title:

The Third Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thou dost overmuch respect

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p.13

Poem Title:

Lot 3.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thrice happy is that man whose thoughts do rear

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

The Fourth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Be not angry if I tell

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

Lot. 4.

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Not attributed

First Line:

A massy millstone up a tedious hill

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

The Fifth-Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Doubtless you are either wooing

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p.21

Poem Title:

Lot 5. M.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

A traveller when he must undertake

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pp.23-24

Poem Title:

The Sixth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In slippery paths you are to go

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p.25

Poem Title:

Lot 6.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Look here and mark her sickly birds to feed

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

The Seventh Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

This present lot concerns full near

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

Lot 7.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

What though an apish pygmy in attire

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

The Eighth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thy chance is doubtful and as yet

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

Lot 8. M.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If you this emblem well have looked upon

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

The Ninth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

We hope no person here believes

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p.37

Poem Title:

Lot 9.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I should not care how hard my fortunes were

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pp.39-40

Poem Title:

The Tenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Because her aid makes goodly shows

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

Lot. 10.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As is the headstrong horse and blockish mule

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

The Eleventh Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Your wits your wishes and your tongue

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

Lot 11.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

You little think what plague it is to be

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

The Twelfth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thou thinkst thy wit had made thee great

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

Lot 12.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

A fool sent forth to fetch the goslings home

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

The Thirteenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thou dost not greatly care by whom

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

Lot. 13.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

These are the greatest afflictions most men have

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Fourteenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The time hath been that of the rod

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

Lot 14. M.

Attribution:

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First Line:

An emblem's meaning here I thought to conster

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

The Fifteenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If all your powers you should unite

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

Lot 15.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Fool dost thou hope thine honours or thy gold

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

The Sixteenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If some here present this had got

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

Lot 16. M.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Unhappy men are they whose ignorance

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

The Seventeenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

This man whatever he may seem

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

Lot 17. M.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Exalt thou not thy self though placed thou be

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

The Eighteenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This lot those persons always finds

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

Lot 18.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We more should thrive and err the seldomer

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

The Nineteenth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If all be true these lots do tell us

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

Lot. 19.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Mark well this emblem and observe you thence

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

The Twentieth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy fortunes have been very bad

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

Lot 20.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Although we know not a more patient creature

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

The Twenty-first Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou hast provoked overlong

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

Lot 21.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

As soon as our first parents disobeyed

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

The Twenty-second Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In secret thou dost oft complain

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

Lot 22.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Here we an aged man described have

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

The Twenty-third Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

By this your emblem we discern

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

Lot 23.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Why with a trembling faintness should we fear

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

The Twenty-fourth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To your long home you nearer are

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Lot. 24.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Some men when for their actions they procure

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

The Twenty-fifth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Take heed you do not quite forget

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

Lot 25.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What means this country peasant skipping here

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

The Twenty-sixth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

At your afflictions you repine

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

Lot 26.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Look well I pray upon this beldam here

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

The Twenty-seventh Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Fine clothes fair words enticing face

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

Lot 27.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

A tyrannous or wicked magistrate

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

The Twenty-eighth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thou art or else thou wert of late

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

Lot 28. M.

Attribution:

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First Line:

He that shall say he loves and was again

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

The Twenty-ninth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Some think you love 'tis true you do

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

Lot 29.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

It is this emblem's meaning to advance

Page No:

pp.119-120

Poem Title:

The Thirtieth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If truly temperate thou be

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Lot. 30.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The picture of a crowned king here stands

Page No:

pp.123-124

Poem Title:

The Thirty-first Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Some urge their princes on to war

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p.125

Poem Title:

Lot 31. M.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The painful husbandman with sweaty brows

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

The Thirty-second Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In many things the worse thou art

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

Lot 32.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When reader thou hast first of all surveyed

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

The Thirty-third Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Whether merely chance or no

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

Lot 33.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Gallants beware for here's a wanton wag

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

The Thirty-fourth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

This lot of yours doth plainly show

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

Lot 34.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I am not of their mind who think the sun

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

The Thirty-fifth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

You seek a lot which proving bad

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

Lot 35.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What may the reason be so many wed

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

The Thirty-sixty Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

This lot may make us all suspect

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p.145

Poem Title:

Lot. 36.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When emblems of too many parts consist

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pp.147-148

Poem Title:

The Thirty-seventh Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thou seekst for fame and now art shown

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p.149

Poem Title:

Lot 37.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

This modern emblem is a mute expressing

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pp.151-152

Poem Title:

The Thirty-eighth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

By this thy lot thou dost appear

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p.153

Poem Title:

Lot 38.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When some did seek Arion to have drowned

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pp.155-156

Poem Title:

The Thirty-ninth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

You have been wronged many ways

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p.157

Poem Title:

Lot 39.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Despair not man in what thou oughtst to do

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pp.159-160

Poem Title:

The Fortieth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This lot befell thee for the nonce

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p.161

Poem Title:

Lot 40.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Unwise are they that spend their youthful prime

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

The Forty-first Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Much liberty thou hast assumed

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p.165

Poem Title:

Lot 41.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If reader thou desirous be to know

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pp.167-168

Poem Title:

The Forty-second Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Great things to do thou hast a mind

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p.169

Poem Title:

Lot. 42.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If thou desire to cherish true content

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pp.171-172

Poem Title:

The Forty-third Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thou hast in public lived long

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p.173

Poem Title:

Lot 43.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When Ganymede himself was purifying

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pp.175-176

Poem Title:

The Forty-fourth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This lot pertaineth unto those

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p.177

Poem Title:

Lot 44.

Attribution:

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First Line:

We to the sea this world may well compare

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pp.179-180

Poem Title:

The Forty fifth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thy hopes and fears are always such

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p.181

Poem Title:

Lot 45.

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First Line:

Their foolish humour I could never affect

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pp.183-184

Poem Title:

The Forty-sixth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Your lot is very much to blame

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p.185

Poem Title:

Lot 46.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In vain fair Cynthia never taketh pains

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pp.187-188

Poem Title:

The Forty-seventh Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If any thing you do design

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p.189

Poem Title:

Lot 47.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Some write but on what grounds I cannot tell

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pp.191-192

Poem Title:

The Forty-eighth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Some foes for thee do lie in wait

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p.193

Poem Title:

Lot 48.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This infant and this little truss of hay

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pp.195-196

Poem Title:

The Forty-ninth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thy flesh thou lovest as if it were

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p.197

Poem Title:

Lot. 49.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Some better arguments than yet I see

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pp.199-200

Poem Title:

The Fiftieth Emblem Illustrated.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In outward pomp thy pleasures are

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p.201

Poem Title:

Lot 50.

Attribution:

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First Line:

It proves a blank for to what end

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p.202

Poem Title:

52.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thy lot no answer will bestow

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p.202

Poem Title:

51.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The chance which thou obtained hast

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

56.

Attribution:

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First Line:

These lots are almost five to one

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p.203

Poem Title:

53.

Attribution:

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First Line:

You in your secret thoughts despise

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p.203

Poem Title:

55.

Attribution:

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First Line:

You may be glad you drew not that

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p.203

Poem Title:

54.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The glories of our birth and state

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p.204

Poem Title:

Conclusions.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If king queen prince or any one that springs

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p.206

Poem Title:

Directions for the Lottery.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This game occasions not the frequent crime

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p.207

Poem Title:

The Figure or Lottery.

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