George Withers' Emblemes

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Deaths one long-Slcepe • and, Life's no more,
But one £h ore-Watch, an boure before.
ILLVSTR. XXXII. lock. 2
^en, on this Child Lkt fare , thou (hair looke,
Wh ch.withhis Lightens Houre.gUjJe,arA his beikc,
^lts, in a n*tchi*g-$aP.ure t for "X'd here •
And, when thou haft perus'd chat Mttto, there,
On which he layes his hand
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thy felfe apply
To whjt it counfelleth ; zndjearne to de,
While that Light burnes,and, that /for* hottre doth M,
Wh ;ch, for this Leflo/t, thou obtained haft.
And, in this bus'neffe, ufe thou no dtlayes j
For, if the bisger Motto trucly, feyes,
There is not It ft unto thee, one whole Witch,
Thy neceflavy labours, ro difpatch.
It was no more, when firft thy Life b°gunne j
And, m ny Glafles of tha: Watch berunne:
Wh'ch thouoblervingjhoulJfibepurinminde,
To husband well, the Jj>ace that is behind.
En Jeavour honeftly, whifft thou hat light
Deferre thou not, thy lourney, till the night i
Nor, Heepeaway^in Vanities,' he pnme t
And/fl" re . of thy moft acceptable time.
So watchful!, rather, and, fo cartfull be,
Thar, whenloere the Brtdcgmme fummons thee $
And, when thy zW returns, unlookr fo r , h >rac j
Thou mavft, a Pattner, in their jovc«,becoa;e.
And, oh my God ! fotearie,at.d(o wife.
Let me he ma ->e . that, thts, which I advfji
To other men [And really have thong'' t)
May (ItU, in prachce, ly my (c Ife he b ought .*
And, help, a»dpa>ds* vt;, rrh-n I tratfgreffe,
Through humanefraittie, er,for?e;fulntjJc.
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