Some write (but, on what grounds, I cannot tell) That they, who neere unto the _Deserts_ dwell, Where _Elephants_ are found, doe notice take, What trees they haunt, their sleeping-stocks to make; That, when they rest against an halfe-sawne stemme, It (falling) may betray those Beasts to them. Now, though the part _Historicall_, may erre, The _Morall_, which this _Emblem_ doth inferre, Is overtrue; and, seemeth to imply, The _World_ to bee so full of Treacherie, As, that, no corner of it, found can be, In which, from Falshoods Engines, wee are free. I have observ’d the _Citie_; and, I finde The _Citizens_, are civill, grave and kinde; Yet, many are deluded by their showes, And, cheated, when they trust in them repose. I have been oft at _Court_; where I have spent, Some idle time, to heare them _Complement_: But, I have seene in _Courtiers_, such deceit, That, for their Favours, I could never wait. I doe frequent the _Church_; and, I have heard Gods judgements, by the _Preachers_, there, declar’d, Against mens falshoods; and, I gladly heare Their zealous _Prayers_, and good _Counsells_ there; But, as I live, I finde some such as they, Will watch to doe a mischiefe, if they may. Nay, those poore sneaking _Clownes_, who seeke their living, As if they knew no manner of deceiving; Ev’n _those_, their _witts_, can (this way) so apply, That, they’l soone cousen, wiser men, than I. _This =Day=, my =Houre-glasse=, forth is runne; Thy =Torch=, to =Morrow=, may bee done._ [Illustration: HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI: ILLVSTR. L. _Book. 3_]