George Withers' Emblemes

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Throughout your Lands, more Vertues might convay,
Than marry Volumes^ of thefe Emblems , mayj
It feemed Petty -treafon, to omit
This good occafion of endeavouring it.
For, (if your M a i e s t i e s ,
wcl 1 heeded, were)
Yov, double-treble-foure-fbld Emblems'are 3
Which, fully to illuftrate, would require
The Wit I want j or, meanes to raife, that, higher
"Which I have gain'dj (and, which, as yet,hath flowne
By noincouragementSjbut by her owne.)
Of all the Vertues Oiconomicu,
Of Duties Moral and Poiitkali,
Lives are Patterns, and faire Emjlems; whether
Considered apart, or both together.
Your Childhoods were bright Mirrours, which did {how
What Duties, Children, to their Parents owe:
And^ by the fequele, we now underftand,
That, the}' who beft ebay'd, can beft command
The glorious Vertues of your Nvptiall -Jlate,
Your Courtiers, find fo hard to imitate,
That) they admins them, rather 5 and, would /weare,
(Had others told, what, now they lee and hrare)
That , all the former Times, were not acquainted,
With fich a Pare, when Kings and gucenes were Sainttd.
The charted Cupids, and the gamefbm'ft Graces,
Are alwaies mingled in your D eare-cv.hr aces.
The rauiuall enrcrchanges of your ZovtS,
May teach affection to the Turtle doves .-
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And, fuch as are, with good! v fights, delighted,
May (he inTou, all Excellent united.
You, S 1 r, whofcearfc loves Thunders in your Fift,
And, {(Inkc dais ilavds ' m ? t ° n whe 1 You !ift
Did never in your Orb;, 1 TtTtrpffttnotC.
But, by the Beautious M pr ,/
1 f y >ar Love
I: might be calm'd. And., * your loft) Spheare,
CM oft lovely Qv e eni r**r Motions ever were
So fmoath, and, fo diretf ; that m u ca
They have withdraivne bis Rota '-bej>i
From /tf/?Defignes 5 Which, loudly
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