This _Emblem_, with some other of the rest, Are scarce, with seemly _Properties_, exprest, Yet, since a vulgar, and a meane _Invention_ May yield some _Fruit_, and shew a good _Intention_; Ile, hence, as well informe your _Intellects_, As if these _Figures_ had not those defects. The _Booke_, here shadow’d, may be said, to show The _Wisdome_, and _Experience_, which we know By Common meanes, and, by these _Creatures_, here, Which to be plac’d below us, may appeare. The _Winged-heart_, betokens those _Desires_, By which, the _Reasonable-soule_, aspires Above the _Creature_; and, attempts to clime, To _Mysteries_, and _Knowledge_, more sublime: Ev’n to the _Knowledge_ of the _Three-in-one_, Implyed by the _Tetragrammaton_. The _Smokings_ of this _Heart_, may well declare Those _Perturbations_, which within us are, Vntill, that Heavenly wisedome, we have gain’d, Which is not, here, below, to be attain’d; And, after which, those _Hearts_, that are _upright_, Enquire with daily studie, and delight. _To me, =Oh Lord=, vouchsafe thou, to impart The gift of such a =Rectifyed-heart=. Grant me the =Knowledge= of Inferiour things, So farre, alone, as their Experience, brings The =Knowledge=, which, I ought to have of thee, And, of those Dueties, thou requir’st of mee: For, thee, =Oh God=, to =know=, and, thee to =feare=, Of truest =Wisedome=, the Perfections are._ _Where, =Labour=, wisely, is imploy’d, Deserved =Glory=, is injoy’d._ [Illustration: ΕΚ ΠΟΝΟΥ ΚΛΕΟΣ. ILLVSTR. XXX. _Book. 2_]