A safe-abiding, wouldst thou know, When _Seas_ doe rage, and _winds_ doe blow? If so; thine _Emblem_ shewes thee, where Such _Priviledges_ gained are. Observe it well; then, doe thy best, To bee a _Yongling_, in that nest There _Moraliz’d_; and, mocke thou not At what is taught thee, by this _Lot_. See, _Emb._ XVIII. 29 Beleeve not, alwayes, as thy _Creed_, That, _Love-profest_, is _Love-indeed_; But, their _Affections_ entertaine, Who in thy _need_, firme _Friends_ remaine. Perhaps, it much may thee concerne, This _Lesson_, perfectly, to learne. Thine _Emblems_ morall, therefore, view, And, get true _Friends_, by being, _true_. See, _Emb._ XXIX. 30 The _Consciences_, of some, afford No Lawfull use unto the _Sword_: Some dreame, that, in the time of peace, The practise of all _Armes_ may cease; And, you, perhaps, among the rest, With such like fancies are possest. However, what your _Morall_ sayes Observe; and, walke in blamelesse _waves_. See, _Emb._ XXX. 31 A better _Fortune_ you might gaine, If you, could take a little _paine_: If you have _Wealth_, you should have more, And, should be Rich, (though you are _poore_) If to the _longings_ you have had, A true _endevour_ you would adde: For, by your _Emblem_, you may see, Such, as your _Paines_, your _Gaines_ will be. See, _Emb._ XXXI. 32 When any troublous Time appeares, Your _Hope_ is ouercome, with _feares_, As, if with every _Floud_ of _Raine_, The _World_ would quite be drownd againe. But, by your _Emblem_, you shall see, That, _Sunshine_, after _Stormes_ may be: And, you this _Lot_, (it may be) drew, In times of neede, to comfort _you_. See, _Emb._ XXXII. 33 When, you to ought, pretend a right, You thinke to winne it by your _might_. Yea, by your strength, your purse or friends, You boast to gaine your wished _Endes_. But, such _Presumptions_ to prevent You to an _Emblem_ now are sent That, showes, by whom he _Victor_ growes, That winnes, by giving overthrowes. See, _Emb._ XXXIII. 34 If, truely _temperate_, thou be, Why should this _Lot_, be drawne by thee? Perhaps, thou either dost exceed, In costly Robes; or, drinke, or feede, Beyond the _meane_. If this thou finde, Or, know’st, in any other kinde, How thou offendest by _excesse_, Now, leave off, that _intemp’ratnesse_. See, _Emb._ XXXIV. 35 Thou hop’st, to climbe, to honor’d _heights_, Yet, wouldst not passe through stormes or _streights_; But, shun’st them so, as if there were No way to _blisse_, where _troubles_ are. Lest, then, thou lose thy hop’d-for praise, By, seeking wide, and easie wayes; See what thine _Emblem_ doth disclose. And, feare not ev’ry _winde_ that blowes. See, _Emb._ XXXV. 36