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Title: Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern; or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems ..
Year: 1732 (1730s)
Authors: R. B., 1632?-1725? Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London, Printed for E. Parker
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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bd on a furrowd Cheek 5And I abhor to fee old Wantons play,And. fujjt themfelves, liks Ladies of the May.But more (yea, moftof all) my Soul defpifeth.A Heart that in Religious Forrns difguifetkProphane Intentions, and arrays in whiteThe Coal-black Confcience of an Hypocrite.Take heed of fuch as thefe, and (if you may)Before you truft them, track them in their way.Obferve their Footfteps in their private VPatb 3For thefe (as tis believd the Devil hath),Have cloven Feet, that is, two ways they go,.One.for their ends, and tother for a/bow. Now you thus warned are, Advice embrace,And truft nor gawdy deaths.) nor painted Face,, if, - lot 2.7-, J)wlne and Moral. 109Lot aj. Fine Cloaths, fair Words, inticing Face?,With Mafks of Piety and Grace,Oft cheat you with an outward fhowOf that which proveth nothing fo. Therefore your Emblems Moral reatf;And eer too far you do proceed,Think whom you deal withal to day,Who* by fair Shews deceive you may. Emblem XXVIII; iio Choice Emblems, Emblem XXVIIL
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Capivum imftme kceffunt. The fDivine and Moral. in i^eWd^^^dI&«fc>*?Jt^«5l6d THE Twenty-eighth EmblemUluftrated. When Magiflrates confined arefThey revel who were kept in Fear* A Tyrannous, or wicked Magiftrat>Is fitly reprefented by a Cat:For tho the Mice a harmful Vermine be,And Cats the Remedy 5 yet oft we fee,That by the Mice far lefs fome Houfe-wives leefe,Then when they fet the Cat to keep the Cheefe.A ravenous Cat will punilh in the MonferThe very fame Offences in the Houfe,Which he himfelf commits 5 yea, for that ViceWhich was his own (with praife) he kills the Mice9 And Hi Choice Emblems^ And fpoileth not anothers Life alone,Evn for that very Fault which was his-Ottft,*But feeds and fattens in the Spoil of themWhom he without Companion did condemn.Kay, worfe than fo, he cannot be contentTo (laughter them who are as innocentAs he himfelf but he muft alfo playAnd fport his woful ^ris^ners Lives away 5More tortring them twixt fruitlefs hopes and fears.Than when their

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