Your _Lot_ informeth how to know Where, best your _Love_ you may bestow: And, by the same it may appeare What _Musicke_ most affects your eare. Denye it not; for (by your leave) Wee by your lookes, your heart perceive. And, this perhaps you’l thinke upon (To purpose) when you are alone. See, _Emb._ XX. 21 This _Lot_ may make us all suspect, That some wrong _object_ you affect; And, that, where dearenesse you pretend, It is not for the noblest end. What mischiefe from such falshood flowes, Your _Emblem_ very truely showes; And, may more happy make your _Fate_, If counsell be not come too late. See, _Emb._ XXI. 22 To trust on others, thou art apt; And, hast already beene intrapt; Or, may’st er’e long be much deceiv’d By some, whom thou hast well believ’d. Be heedfull, therfore, of thy _Lot_; And, let it never be forgot: So, though some hazzard thou mayst run, Yet, thou shalt never be undone. See, _Emb._ XXII. 23 It seemes thou tak’st too great a care For things, that vaine, and fading are; Or else, dost overprise them so, As if all blisse from them did flowe. That, therefore, thou mayst view their worth, In _Hieroglyphicke_ shaddow’d forth, Thy _Lot_ befriends thee: marke the same, And, be in this, no more to blame. See, _Emb._ XXIII. 24 Though some, should thee, for one, mistake, Whose _wealth_ is all upon his backe, If what thou hast, bee all thine owne, God, hath enough on thee bestowne. A _Princes_ ransome, wee may beare, In _Iewells_, which most precious are; And, yet, to many men may seeme, To carry nothing worth esteeme. Therefore, though small thy substance be, Thine _Emblem_, somewhat comforts thee. See, _Emb._ XXIV. 25 By this your _Emblem_, wee discerne, That, you are yet of age to learne; And, that, when elder you shall grow, There, will be more for you to _know_: Presume not, therefore of your _wit_, But, strive that you may benefit. For, of your age, we many view, That, farre more _wisedome_ have, then you. See, _Emb._ XXV. 26 By thy complaints, it hath appear’d, Thou think’st thy _Vertues_ want reward; And, that, if they their merit had, Thou _rich_, and _nobler_ should’st be made. To drive thee from that partiall thought, Thou, by an _Emblem_, shalt be taught, That, where true _Vertue_ may be found, The truest _wealth_ will still abound. See, _Emb._ XXVI. 27 By this thy _Lot_, thou dost appeare To be of those, who love to heare The _Preacher’s_ voyce; or, else of them, That undervalue, or contemne Those dayly _showres_ of wholsome _words_, Which _God_, in these our times, affords. Now, which soere of these thou bee, Thine _Emblem_, something, teaches thee. See, _Emb._ XXVII. 28