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A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.Wither, George

Philosophy

A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.

Name: A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.
Author: Wither, George

Wither, George

Emblems

This _Infant_, and this little Trusse of _Hay_,
    When they are moralized, seeme to say,
    That, _Flesh_ is but a tuft of Morning-_Grasse_,
    Both greene, and wither’d, ere the day-light passe.
    And, such we truly finde it; for, behold,
    Assoone as Man is borne, hee waxeth old,
    In Griefes, in Sorrowes, or Necessities;
    And, withers ev’ry houre, untill hee dyes:
    Now, flourishing, as _Grasse_, when it is growne,
    Straight perishing, as _Grasse_, when it is mowne.
      If, wee with other things, mans _Age_ compare,
    His _Life_ is but a _Day_ (For, equall’d are
    His _Yeares_ with _Houres_: His _Months_, with _Minutes_ bee
    Fit parallels; and, ev’ry _breathing_, wee
    May tearme a _Day_) yet, some, ev’n at the _Night_
    Of that short _Day_, are dead, and witherd quite.
    Before the _Morning_ of our lives bee done,
    The _Flesh_ oft fades: Sometime, it growes till _Noone_:
    But, there’s no mortall _Flesh_, that will abide
    Vnparched longer, than till _Evening-tide_.
    For, in it selfe, it alwayes carries that,
    Which helpeth so, it selfe to ruinate;
    That, though it feele, nor _storme_, nor scorching _flame_,
    An inbred _Canker_, will consume the same.
    Considering well, and well remembring this,
    Account the _Flesh_ no better than it is:
    Wrong not thine everlasting _Soule_, to cherish
    A _Gourd_, which in a moments time will perish.
      Give it the tendance, fit for fading _Crops_;
      But, for _Hay-harvest_, lose not better hopes.


    _Make use of =Time=, that’s =comming on=;
    For, that is perish’d, which is =gone=._

[Illustration: PERIT QUOD ELAPSUM EST.

ILLVSTR. XLIX. _Book. 4_]

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A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.Wither, George

Philosophy

A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.

Wither, George

Emblems

This _Infant_, and this little Trusse of _Hay_,
    When they are moralized, seeme to say,
    That, _Flesh_ is but a tuft of Morning-_Grasse_,
    Both greene, and wither’d, ere the day-light passe.
    And, such we truly finde it; for, behold,
    Assoone as Man is borne, hee waxeth old,
    In Griefes, in Sorrowes, or Necessities;
    And, withers ev’ry houre, untill hee dyes:
    Now, flourishing, as _Grasse_, when it is growne,
    Straight perishing, as _Grasse_, when it is mowne.
      If, wee with other things, mans _Age_ compare,
    His _Life_ is but a _Day_ (For, equall’d are
    His _Yeares_ with _Houres_: His _Months_, with _Minutes_ bee
    Fit parallels; and, ev’ry _breathing_, wee
    May tearme a _Day_) yet, some, ev’n at the _Night_
    Of that short _Day_, are dead, and witherd quite.
    Before the _Morning_ of our lives bee done,
    The _Flesh_ oft fades: Sometime, it growes till _Noone_:
    But, there’s no mortall _Flesh_, that will abide
    Vnparched longer, than till _Evening-tide_.
    For, in it selfe, it alwayes carries that,
    Which helpeth so, it selfe to ruinate;
    That, though it feele, nor _storme_, nor scorching _flame_,
    An inbred _Canker_, will consume the same.
    Considering well, and well remembring this,
    Account the _Flesh_ no better than it is:
    Wrong not thine everlasting _Soule_, to cherish
    A _Gourd_, which in a moments time will perish.
      Give it the tendance, fit for fading _Crops_;
      But, for _Hay-harvest_, lose not better hopes.


    _Make use of =Time=, that’s =comming on=;
    For, that is perish’d, which is =gone=._

[Illustration: PERIT QUOD ELAPSUM EST.

ILLVSTR. XLIX. _Book. 4_]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.

A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.

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