An _Arme_ is with a _Garland_ here extended; And, as the _Motto_ saith, it is intended, _To all that persevere_. This being so; Let none be faint in heart, though they be _slow_: For, he that _creepes_, untill his _Race_ be done, Shall gaine a _Wreath_, aswell as they that _runne_. This being so; let no man walke in doubt, As if Gods _Arme_ of _Grace_ were stretched out To some small number: For, whoe’re _begins_ And _perseueres_, the profer’d _Garland_ winns: And, God respects no persons; neither layes A stumbling blocke in any of our Waies. This being so, let no man think’t enough To set his hand, a little, to the Plough, And, then desist; but, let him still pursue, To doe that _Worke_, to which that _Wreath_ is due: For, nor on _Good-beginners_, nor on those That, _walke halfe-way_, (much lesse on him, that goes No stepp at all) will God this _gift_ conferre; But, onely, unto those that _persevere_. LORD, by thy _Grace_, an entrance I have made In honest _Pathes_; and, thy assistance had, To make in them, some slow _proceedings_ too. Oh grant me, full abilitie, to doe Thy sacred _Will_; and, to _beginn_, and _end_ Such _Workes_, as to thy _glory_, still, may tend. That (_Walking_, and _continuing_ in the _Path_, Which evermore, thine approbation hath) I may that _Garland_, by thy _grace_, obtaine, Which, by mine owne _desert_, I cannot gaine. _Glory be to God._ [Illustration: Decoration] THE FOVRTH LOTTERIE. 1 Thou, of a noble minde, art thought, Which, heav’nly things, hath chiefly sought. And, scorn’st thy vertue to debase, By loving those of lower place. If so, thine _Emblom_ doth expresse Thy _Wisdome_, and thy _worthynesse_. But, if to earthward thou incline; Thence, learne _Affections_ more Divine. See, _Emb._ I. 2 Some _words_ or _thoughts_, perhaps, of your Have wrong’d Gods _providence_, or _Pow’re_: Els, you (it may be) to some _place_, Confine his unconfined _Grace_; Or, thinke, he never taketh care, Of any _Realme_, but where you are. Your _Lot_, now, therefore, doth provide, To have your _Iudgement_ rectifide. See, _Emb._ II. 3 Thou maist be _wise_, but, there is, yet, Some crack, or, failing in thy _wit_: For, thou dost _personate_ a _part_, That, showes thee other, then thou _art_. Thine _Emblem_, therefore, doth declare, What _Habit_, such deserve to weare; And, that, he merits _Asses_ eares, Who _is not_, that, which he _appeares_. See, _Emb._ III. 4 You have, as yet, much _worke_ to doe, But, yoo have _little time_ thereto: That, _little_, flyes away with speed, And, you the _Losse_, as little heed. Lest, therefore, all your time be gone, Before you duely thinke thereon, A _memorandum_ you have got, By drawing, of this luckie _Lot_.