It is this _Emblems_ meaning, to advance The love and practise, of true _Temperance_. For, by this _Figure_ (which doth seeme to fill, Vntill the liquor overflow, and spill) Wee are, as by example, taught to see How fruitlesse our _Intemperancies_ bee: Thus by the _Rule of Contrarieties_, Some _Vertues_, best are showne to vulgar eyes. To see a nastie _Drunkard_, reele and spew, More moves to _Sobernesse_, than can the view Of twentie civill men; and, to behold One _Prodigall_, (that goodly lands hath sold) Stand torne and louzie, begging at the dore, Would make _Intemperance_ abhorred more, (And, manly _Sobernesse_, much better, teach) Than all that sixe _Philosophers_ can preach: So, by the _Vessels_ overflowing, here, True _Moderation_ doth more prais’d appeare, Than by the _meane_ it selfe: And, without sinne, That’s _pictur’d_, which to _doe_, had wicked bin, For, though to vertuous ends; wee doe deny The _Doing-ill_, that _Good_ may come thereby. From hence, let us be taught, that carefull heed, Whereby wee should both _Minde_ and _Bodie_, feed. Let us, of our owne selves, observe the size; How much wee want, how little will suffize; And, our owne _longings_, rather leave unfill’d, Than suffer any portion to bee spill’d: For, what we _marre_, shall to account be layd, And, what wee wisely _spend_, shall be repayd. _They passe through many =stormes=, and =streights=, Who rise to any glorious =heights=._ [Illustration: PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA. ILLVSTR. XXXV. _Book. 4_]