What was this _Figures_ meaning, but to show, That, as these kinde of _Shell-fish_ backward goe, So now the _World_, (which here doth seeme to take An arseward Iourney on the _Cancer’s_ backe) Moves counterwise; as if delight it had, To runne a race, in _Courses retrograde_: And, that, is very likely to be true, Which, this our _Emblem_, purposeth to shew. For, I have now, of late, not onely seene, What backward motions, in my _Friends_ have beene; And, that my outward _Fortunes_ and _Affaires_, Doe of themselves, come tumbling downe the staires: But, I have also found, that other things, Have got a wheeling in contrary _Rings_; Which _Regresse_, holding on, 'tis like that wee, To _Iewes_, or _Ethnicks_, backe shall turned bee. Some punie _Clerkes_, presume that they can teach The ancient holy _Doctors_, how to preach. Some _Laicks_, learne their _Pastors_ how to pray. Some _Parents_, are compelled to obay Their _Sonnes_; and, so their Dignitie to lose, As to be fed and cloth’d, at their dispose. Nay, wee have some, who have assay’d to draw, All backward, to the _Bondage_ of the _Law_; Ev’n to those abrogated _Rites_ and _Dayes_, By which, the wandring _Iew_ markes out his wayes. And, to pursue this _Round_, they are so heady, That, they have made themselves, and others giddy. _Doe then, these froward =Motions=, LORD, restraine, And, set the =World= in her due course againe._ _=Invincibilitie= is there, Where =Order=, =Strength=, and =Vnion= are._ [Illustration: VIS NESCIA VINCI. ILLVSTR. XII. _Book. 4_]