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

DMI number:

1709

Aliases

Choice emblems, divine and moral.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

ESTC

Publication Date:

1684

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R8820

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:2176/search/full_rec?ACTION=ByID&ID=12711822&SOURCE=config.cfg

Shelfmark:

EEBO - BOD

Full Title:

Delights for the | INGENIOUS, | In above Fifty Select and Choice | EMBLEMS, | [i] Divine and Moral, | Ancient and Modern [/i]. | Curiously Ingraven upon Copper Plates | With Fifty Delightful Poems and Lots for the | more Lively Illustration of each Emblem, whereby | Instruction and Good Counsel may be promoted | and furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation. | To which is prefixed | An Incomparable Poem, Intituled [i] Majesty in Misery [/i], or | [i] An Imploration to the King of Kings [/i]. | Written by His Late Majesty K. [i] Charles [/i] the First, with his | own hand, during his Captivity in [i] Carisbrook [/i] Castle, | in the Isle of [i] Wight [/i], 1648. With an Emblem. | [rule] | Collected by [i] R.B. [/i] Author of the History of [i] The Wars of [/i] | England, [i] Remarks [/i] of London, and [i] Admirable | Curiosities, &c. [/i] | [rule] | [i] LONDON [/i], Printed for [i] Nath. Crouch [/i], at his Shop at | the Sign of the Bell in the [i] Poultry [/i], 1684.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection including prose and Collection of emblems

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[i-xxiii], 1-207, [i-ix] pp.

Bibliographic details:

Prose: (1) 'Directions for finding the Chance in the following Lottery', pp.205-6 (2) 'Books Sold by Nath. Crouch', pp.ii-ix

Comments:

Plates: frontispiece and engravings for emblems on pp.xv, 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.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: (1) 'To the Reader'

References:

NCBEL 335 (1684)

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:

Another Edition of

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:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

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

Publication Date:

1732

ESTC No:

T135443

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Nathaniel Crouch

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

'Collected by R.B. Author of the History of The Wars of England'. ESTC notes: 'R.B. = Richard or Robert Burton, a pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch'.

Publisher:

Nathaniel Crouch

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Nath. Crouch, at his Shop at the Sign of the Bell in the Poultry'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

So falls the stately cedar while it stood

Page No:

pp.xxi-xxii

Poem Title:

An Epitaph upon King Charles the first

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stay passenger behold and see

Page No:

pp.xxii-xxiii

Poem Title:

Another

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This book containing emblems 'twas thought fit

Page No:

p.iv-vi

Poem Title:

The Author upon the Emblem in the Frontispiece

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though clogged with weights of miseries

Page No:

pp.xx-xxi

Poem Title:

The Explanation of the Emblem in Latin and English

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great good and just could I but rate

Page No:

p.xxiii

Poem Title:

Another

Attribution:

James Marques of Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

Great monarch of the world from whose power springs

Page No:

pp.xvi-xix

Poem Title:

Majesty in Misery; or An Imploration to the King of Kings

Attribution:

His Late Majesty King Charles the First

Attributed To:

Charles I

First Line:

When some in former ages had a meaning

Page No:

pp.3-5

Poem Title:

The First Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When thou hast changes good or bad

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

Lot 1.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

My hopeful friends at thrice five years and three

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

The Second Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With Mary thou art one of those

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

Lot 2.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How fond are they who spend their precious time

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

The Third Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou dost overmuch respect

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

Lot 3.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

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.

Attribution:

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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 thou art either wooing

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

Lot 5.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A traveller when he must undertake

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

The Sixth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In slippery paths you are to go

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

Lot 6.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This present lot concerns full near

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

Lot 7.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What though an apish pygmy in attire

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

The Eighth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy chance is doubtful and as yet

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

Lot 8.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If you this emblem well have looked upon

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

The Ninth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We hope no person here believes

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

Lot 9.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I should not care how hard my fortunes were

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

The Tenth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Because her aid makes goodly shows

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

Lot 10.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As is the headstrong horse and blockish mule

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

The Eleventh Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your wits your wishes and your tongue

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

Lot 11.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou thinkst thy wit had made thee great

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

Lot 12.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou dost not greatly care by whom

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

Lot 13.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

These are the greatest afflictions most men have

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Fourteenth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The time hath been that of the rod

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

Lot 14.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An emblem's meaning here I thought to conster

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

The Fifteenth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If all your powers you should unite

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

Lot 15.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fool dost thou hope thine honours or thy gold

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If some here present this had got

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

Lot 16.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unhappy men are they whose ignorance

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

The Seventeenth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This man whatever he may seem

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

Lot 17.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

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:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If all be true these lots do tell us

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

Lot 19.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Although we know not a more patient creature

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

The 21st Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou hast provoked overlong

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

Lot 21.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As soon as our first parents disobeyed

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

The 22d Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In secret thou dost oft complain

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

Lot 22.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here we an aged man described have

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

The 23d Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By this your emblem we discern

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

Lot 23.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why with a trembling faintness should we fear

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

The 24th Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To your long home you nearer are

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Lot 24.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Take heed you do not quite forget

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

Lot 25.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What means this country peasant skipping here

Page No:

pp.103-4

Poem Title:

The Twenty sixth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At your afflictions you repine

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

Lot 26.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Look well I pray upon this beldam here

Page No:

pp.107-8

Poem Title:

The Twenty seventh Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fine clothes fair words enticing face

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

Lot 27.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A tyrannous or wicked magistrate

Page No:

pp.111-12

Poem Title:

The Twenty eighth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou art or else thou wert of late

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

Lot 28.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He that shall say he loves and was again

Page No:

pp.115-16

Poem Title:

The Twenty ninth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some think you love 'tis true you do

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

Lot 29.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It is this emblem's meaning to advance

Page No:

pp.119-120

Poem Title:

The Thirtieth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If truly temperate thou be

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Lot 30.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The picture of a crowned king here stands

Page No:

pp.123-24

Poem Title:

The Thirtieth First Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some urge their princes on to war

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

Lot 31.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The painful husbandman with sweaty brows

Page No:

pp.127-28

Poem Title:

The Thirty second Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In many things the worse thou art

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

Lot 32.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When reader thou hast first of all surveyed

Page No:

pp.131-32

Poem Title:

The Thirty third Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whether merely chance or no

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

Lot 33.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gallants beware for here's a wanton wag

Page No:

pp.135-36

Poem Title:

The Thirty fourth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This lot of yours doth plainly show

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

Lot 34.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I am not of their mind who think the sun

Page No:

pp.139-40

Poem Title:

The Thirty fifth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You seek a lot which proving bad

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

Lot 35.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What may the reason be so many wed

Page No:

pp.143-44

Poem Title:

The Thirty sixth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This lot may make us all suspect

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

Lot 36.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When emblems of too many parts consist

Page No:

pp.147-48

Poem Title:

The Thirty seventh Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou seekst for fame and now art shown

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

Lot 37.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This modern emblem is a mute expressing

Page No:

pp.151-52

Poem Title:

The Thirty eighth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By this thy lot thou dost appear

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

Lot 38.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When some did seek Arion to have drowned

Page No:

pp.155-56

Poem Title:

The Thirty ninth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You have been wronged many ways

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

Lot 39.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Despair not man in what thou oughtst to do

Page No:

pp.159-60

Poem Title:

The Fortieth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This lot befell thee for the nonce

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

Lot 40.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unwise are they that spend their youthful prime

Page No:

pp.163-64

Poem Title:

The Forty first Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Much liberty thou hast assumed

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

Lot 41.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If reader thou desirous be to know

Page No:

pp.167-68

Poem Title:

The Forty second Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great things to do thou hast a mind

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

Lot 42.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If thou desire to cherish true content

Page No:

pp.171-72

Poem Title:

The Forty third Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou hast in public lived long

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

Lot 43.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Ganymede himself was purifying

Page No:

pp.175-76

Poem Title:

The Forty fourth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This lot pertaineth unto those

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

Lot 44.

Attribution:

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First Line:

We to the sea this world may well compare

Page No:

pp.179-80

Poem Title:

The Forty fifth Emblem

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy hopes and fears are always such

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

Lot 45.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Their foolish humour I could never affect

Page No:

pp.183-84

Poem Title:

The Forty sixth Emblem

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your lot is very much to blame

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

Lot 46.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In vain fair Cynthia never taketh pains

Page No:

pp.187-88

Poem Title:

The Forty seventh Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If any thing you do design

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

Lot 47.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some write but on what grounds I cannot tell

Page No:

pp.191-92

Poem Title:

The Forty eighth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some foes for thee do lie in wait

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

Lot 48.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This infant and this little truss of hay

Page No:

pp.195-96

Poem Title:

The Forty ninth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy flesh thou lovest as if it were

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

Lot 49.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some better arguments than yet I see

Page No:

pp.199-200

Poem Title:

The Fiftieth Emblem Illustrated

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In outward pomp thy pleasures are

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

Lot 50.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy lot no answer will bestow

Page No:

pp.202-4

Poem Title:

Lot 51.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The glories of our birth and state

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

Conclusions

Attribution:

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First Line:

This game occasions not the frequent crime

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

Directions for the Lottery

Attribution:

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