George Withers' Emblemes

'
The motion of the World , thU dq?>
Is moVd the quite contrarie way.
ILLVSTR. XI.
Book.4
.Hat was this Figures meaning, but to fhow,
'
That, as thefe kinde of Shell-ffh backward goe,
So now the World, (which here doth fecme to take
An arfeward Ioumey on the Cancer's backej
Moves counterwife ; as if delight it had,
To runnea race, in Courfes retrograde:
And, tha r ,i* very likrly to be ttue,
Which, this our Emblem , purpofcth to (hew.
For, I have now v
of kte, not onely feene,
What backward rnotions,in my Friends have beenej
And, tliat my outward Fortunes and Affaires,
Doe of themiclves,come tumbling downe theftairtt:
But, I have alfo found, that other things,
Have got a wheeling in contxaiy Rings •
Which Rtgrejje, holding on , 'tis like that wee,
To liwesy or Eihnich, backe ("hall turned bee.
Some punie Clerkes, pi diimc that they can teach
The ancient holy Dollars, how to preach.
Some L.tich , lcarne their Pastors how to pray.
Some Parents, are compelled to obay
Their Sonnes •
and, fo the ir Dignit ic to lofe.
As to be fed and cIoth'd,at their difpofe.
Nay, wee have fome, who haveafTay'd to draw,
All backward, to the Bondage of the Law ;
Ev'n to thofe abrogated Rites and Dayes,
By which, the wmdring lew markes out his wayes.
And, to purfue this Round, they are (o heady,
That, they have made themfelves,and others giddy.
D«e thou, theft fro*jrd Motions, Lord, reftraine^
And,jet the World in her due courfc again/.
Gg 2
Invincibtlitic