George Withers' Emblemes

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finely durnbe Figures, little ufefullto any but to young Gravers or
Painters , and as little delightful, except, to Children , and
Childjfh-gaZers : they may now be much more worthy ; feeing
the life of Speach being adfad unto them, may make i hem feachcrs.and
Remembrancers*/ profitable things.
I doe not arrogate pmUch unto my Illuftrations,/** to thinke,
they w7 II be able to teach any thing to the Learned ; ye, if they
cajl their eyes upon them, perhaps , thefe Emblems, and their
Morals, zwrfji remember them, either offome Dutie, which they
might clfe jorget , or minde them to beware of fome Danger
which they m.ght otherwise be itnheedfull 0fft^/t . But, fare
lam, the Vulgar Capacities, rn ay from them, be many nrai.es
both Inltruc'ted, and Remembred; yea, they that have mofl
need to be Intruded, and Remembred, {and they who aremoji
backward to lijlento Inftru&ions, and Remembrances, by the
common Courp of Jetching,and Admonifhmg) pall be, hereby,
informed cftheir Bangers/r Duties, by the way ofan honefk Recreation
before they be aware.
For, when levitie, or a child.p. delight in trifling objecJs,
hath allin cd them to locks on the Pictures ; Curiofitie may urge
them to pecpe further , that they mightpeke out alfo their Meanings,
in our annexed Illuitrauous ; In which, may lurke fome
Sentence , or ExpremVi fo evidently pertimnt to their E-
ihv.es. Periods or Afiections, as -will (at that infant or afterward)
wake way for thop Coi:(;d< rations, which will, at I
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change them, or much better them, in their Convcrfation.
To feeke out the Author of every particular Emblem were a.
labour without profit 5 and, I have beene fofarfi