George Withers' Emblemes

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Bee that enjoyes a patient Minde,
*>¥* Can Pleafurcs in Amiftionsjinde,
ILLVSTR. XXIV.
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3/ Hat meanes this Country -peajant^ slij ping here
""[Thiough prickling 7 hi files w th fuch gamefom cheerc i -
And, plucking off their tops, as though for Ptftes,
He gather'd V tolets, or toothleiTe Rofcs *
What meaneth it, but onely to cxprefle
How great a y y, well-grounded PatientneJJi
Retaincs in Stff'rings f and, what /port fhe makes,
When fhe her Ioutney through Ajfiflm takes i
I, eft have fayd (and, have as oft, bcene thought
To fpeakc a Paradtx,xbzt favours nought
Of likely truth J that, fome Affiitiiom bring
A Honey hag, which cureth ev'ry Sting
(That wounds rhe FUjh) by giving to the Mini,
A pleafing taftc of SweetneJJa refin'd.
Nor can it other be, except in thofe,
Whofe Better part, quite ftupifyed growes,
By being Cauterized in the Fires
Of childifh F tares, or temporall Defres.
For, as the Valiant (when theConWfwounds)
With gladnefTc lets the Surgionkaxch his Wounds j
And, though they fmarr, yetchecrcfully indurcs
The Plaiftcrs,and,the Probe,inhope of Cures
So, Men, aflurcd that Afftttions painc
Comes not for vengeance to them, nor in vaine-
Bur, to prepare, and fit them for the place,
To which, they willingly direct their pace •,
In Troubles, are fo farre from being fad,
That, of their Suffring, they arc truely glad.
What ever others thinke, I thus bdeeve •
And, therefore, joy, when they fuppofe tfftevc.
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