George Withers' Emblemes

24.*
Since overmuch, Jnll oVer-filU
Pome out enough; but doe not fpttt.
ILLVSTR. XXXIV. *"*.4
VT is this Embums meaning, to advance
The love and pradife, of true Temperance.
For,by this Figure (which doth feerae to fill,
Vntill the liquor overflow , and fpill)
Wee are, as by example, taught to fee
How fruitlclTcour Intemperanciesbee:
Thus, by the Rub of Comrarie ties,
Some Vermes, beft are fhowne to vulgar eyes.
To fee a naftie Drunkard, reele and fpew,
More moves to Sobernejft, than can the view
Of twentiecivill men ;
and, to behold
One Prodigally that goodly lands hath fold)
Stand tome and Iouzie , begging at the dore,
Would make Intemperance abhorred more,
(And, manly Sobernefle, much better,*each)
Than all that fixe Philofiphers can preach :
So, by the Fejfels overflowing, here,
True Moderation doth more prais'd appeare,
Than by the meane it felfe : And, without finne,
That's pifturd, which to dee, had wicked bin,
For, though to vertuous ends wee doe deny
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The Doi»g-tS,xhn Good may come thereby.
From hence, let us be taught, that careful! heed,
Whereby wee fhould both Minde and Bodie, feed.
Let us, of our owne felves, obferve the fizc-
How much wee want, how little will fuffize;
And,our owne longings, rather leave unfill'd,
Than fuffer any portion to becfpill'd:
For what we mane, mall to account be layd,
And, what wee wifcly^*^, fhall be repayd.
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