As is the head-strong _Horse_, and blockish _Mule_, Ev’n such, without the _Bridle_, and the _Rule_, Our _Nature_ growes; and, is as mischievous, Till _Grace_, and _Reason_, come to governe us. The _Square_, and _Bridle_, therefore let us heed, And, thereby learne to know, what _helpes_ wee need; Lest, else, (they fayling, timely, to bee had) Quite out of _Order_, wee, at length, bee made. The _Square_, (which is an usefull _Instrument_, To shape foorth senselesse _Formes_) may represent The _Law_: Because, _Mankind_, (which is by Nature, Almost as dull, as is the _senselesse-creature_,) Is thereby, from the _native-rudenesse_, wrought; And, in the _Way_ of honest-living taught. The _Bridle_, (which Invention did contrive, To rule, and guide the _Creature-sensitive_) May type forth _Discipline_; which, when the _Law_ Hath school’d the _Wit_, must keepe the _Will_ in awe. And, hee that can by these, his _Passions_ bound, This _Emblems_ meaning, usefully, hath found. Lord, let thy sacred _Law_, at all times, bee A _Rule_, a _Master_, and a _Glasse_ to mee; (A _Bridle_, and a _Light_) that I may, still, Both know my _Dutie_, and obey thy _Will_. Direct my _Feet_; my _Hands_, instruct thou so, That I may neither _wander_, nor _mis-doe_. My _Lookes_, my _Hearing_, and my _Wordes_ confine, To keepe still firme, to ev’ry _Word_ of thine. On thee, let also my _Desires_ attend: And, let me hold this _temper_, till mine end. _Wee then have got the surest =prop=, When =God=, alone, becomes our =Hope=._ [Illustration: FVLCRVM TVTISSIMVM ILLVSTR. XXXVI. _Book. 3_]