George Withers' Emblemes

Affli&ion, doth to many adds
More value, then j before* they had.
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, underftood
His 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 5
Vntill the Chafe y
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
(Ifmrth be 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/