Upon an _Altar_, in this _Emblem_, stands A _Burning-heart_; and, therewithall, you see Beneath _Deaths-head_, a paire of _Loving-hands_, Which, close, and fast-united, seeme to be. These moderne _Hieroglyphickes_ (vulgarly Thus bundled up together) may afford Good-meanings, with as much _Propriety_, As best, with common _Iudgements_, will accord. It may imply, that, when both _Hand_ and _Heart_, By sympathizing dearenesse are invited, To meet each others nat’rall _Counterpart_, And, are by sacred _Ordinance_ united: They then have entred that strict _Obligation_, By which they, firmely, ev’ry way are ty’d; And, without meanes (or thought of separation) Should in that _Vnion_, till their _Deaths_, abide; This, therefore, minde thou, whatsoere thou be (Whose _Marriage-ring_, this _Covenant_, hath sealed) For, though, thy Faith’s infringement, none can see, Thy secret fault, shall one day, be revealed. And, thou that art at liberty, take heed, Lest thou (as over great a number doe) Of thine owne person, make a _Privy-deed_, And, afterwards, deny thy doing so. For, though there be, nor _Church_, nor _Chappell_, nigh thee (Nor outward witnesses of what is done) A _Power-invisible_ doth alwayes eye thee; And, thy pretended _Love_, so lookes upon, That, if thou be not, till thy _dying_, true; Thy _Falsehood_, till thy _dying_, thou shalt rue. _False =Weights=, with =Measures= false eschew, And, give to ev’ry man, their =Due=._ [Illustration: SVVM CVIQVE TRIBVE ILLVSTR. XXXVIII. _Book. 2_]