In this our _Emblem_, you shall finde exprest A _Man_, incountring with a _Salvage-beast_; And, he resolveth (as his _Motto_ sayes) To _live_ with _honour_; or, to _dye_ with _praise_. I like the _Resolution_, and the _Deed_, In which, this _Figure_ teacheth to proceed. For, us, me thinkes, it counselleth, to doe, An act, which all men are oblig’d unto. That ugly _Bore_ (wherewith the man in strife Here seemes to be) doth meane a _Swinish-life_, And, all those beastly _Vices_, that assay To root becomming _Vertues_ quite away; Those _Vices_, which not onely marre our features, But, also, ruinate our manly natures. The harmefull fury, of this raging _Bore_, Oppose couragiously, lest more and more, It get within you; and, at last, appeare More prevalent, then your defences are. It is a large-growne _Pig_, of that wilde _Swine_, Which, ev’ry day, attempts to undermine Our _Safeties_ Fort: Twas he, which long agoe, Did seeke the _Holy-Vineyards_ overthrow: And, if we charge him not with all our power, The _Sire_, or _hee_, will enter and devoure. _But, what’s our Strength, =O Lord!= or, what are wee In such a =Combate=, without ayde from thee? Oh, come to helpe us, therefore, in this Fight; And, let us be inabled in thy might: So, we shall both in =life-time=, Conquests have; And, be victorious, also, in the =Grave=._ _=Shee= shall increase in glory, still, Vntill her =light=, the world, doth fill._ [Illustration: DONEC TOTṼ IMPLEAT ORBĒ. ILLVSTR. XLIX. _Book. 2_]