George Withers' Emblemes

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Through many fpAces, Time doth ruth
xAnd, eftdech, -where itjirjt begun.
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ILLVSTR. XXIII.
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}Ld Sagetby the Figure of the Snake
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, Encircled trw) did oft expreffion make
Of\s4nnuali-Rivolutions s
and of things,
c h wheele about in everlafttng.rings j
There ending, where they firftofall beg**,
And, there beginning, where the Kwwrf was dene.
Thus, doc the F/^ww ;
Thus; the Stuftm doe
And, thus, doe many other Creat*res, too.
By minutes, and by houres, the Spring ftcales in„
And, tolleth on, till Summer doth fr'gin :
Tti.' Summer brings on \Jiutnmne y by degrees
Soripening,that the eye ofno man fees
Her Einances. That Seajon, likewife,hath
To Winter- ward, as leafurely a path :
And, then, cold Wtnter whedeth on amaine,
Vntill it brings the Spring about igainc,
With all thofe Refurrcflions, which appeare,
To wait upon hercomming,every yearc.
Thcfe Rouide/ls, helpetofhewthe Mjjlery
Of that immenfe and bleft Etcmitie,
From whence the Cr e a tvr e fprung, and,into whom
It (hall, againe, with full perfection come,
When thofc Additions ,it hath fully had,
Which all the fev'rall Orbes of rime can add.
It
is a full, and fairely written Scrowte,
Which up into ir felfc, it felfe doth rowle s
An J, by Enfolding, and, Infolding, fhmves
A Round, which neither End, not entrance knowes.
And (by rhis Emblem) you may partly fee,
Tis that which / S 3
but, cannot uttred be.
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