George Withers' Emblemes

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Our outward Hopes "Kill take ejfectt
According to the King sajpet~t.
ILLVSTR.XXV.
Book.3
•Hen tb&btu with achcerefull eye$ beholds
The Flow'r-embroydrcd earth, and freely fpreads
His beames abroad h
behold, the Mangolds
Beginne to reare their low-deje&ed heads:
The Tulips, D.ajftes, and the Heliotropes
Of ev'ry kindc, their clofed Leaves difplay $
And (as it were) with new-recover'd hopes,
Attend upon the Ruler ofthe Day.
Againe, when either in the Weft he fhrowds
Hi» Raves below this Horizon, or hides
His Face behinde the Curtaines of the Cloudes^
They lofe their beauties, and abate their prides.
Thus fares it with a Nation, and their King,
'Twixt whom there is a native Sympathy.
His Pre fence, and his Favours, like the Spring,
Doe make rhem fweetly thrive, and fructify :
Yea (like frefh Groves, or Fltw'rs of plcafing hew)
Thcmfelves in all their jollity they fhowc }
But,they,if with difnleafure, them he view,
Sooic lofe their Glory, and contemned grovve.
All, are not Heliotropes that favour'd growe,
In Pr.nces Courts ; nor Marigolds ,x.hat bearc
The golden blolTomes ; but fame fpring below,
Like Dayfie pw'rs, that in the Pathwaycs arc
Yer al! (hall fcele it, when their Sov'raignes eye
Doth frowne, or fmile, regard, or elfe neglect
Yea, it will finde them in bbfeurtty,
By fomc Diiheartning, or fome fwect Effeft.
Voucrfafe to mine on Mee, my Gracious King,
And then my Wither''d Leaves, will frcflily fpring.
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