When some, in former Ages, had a meaning An _Emblem_, of _Mortality_, to make, They form’d an _Infant_, on a _Deaths-head_ leaning, And, round about, encircled with a _Snake_. The _Childe_ so pictur’d, was to signifie, That, from our very _Birth_, our _Dying_ springs: The _Snake_, her _Taile devouring_, doth implie The _Revolution_, of all Earthly things. For, whatsoever hath _beginning_, here, Beginnes, immediately, to vary from The same it was; and, doth at last appeare What very few did thinke it should become. The solid _Stone_, doth molder into _Earth_, That _Earth_, e’re long, to _Water_, rarifies; That _Water_, gives an _Airy Vapour_ birth, And, thence, a _Fiery-Comet_ doth arise: That, moves, untill it selfe it so impaire, That from a _burning-Meteor_, backe againe, It sinketh downe, and thickens into _Aire_; That _Aire_, becomes a _Cloud_; then, _Drops of Raine_: Those _Drops_, descending on a _Rocky-Ground_, There, settle into _Earth_, which more and more, Doth harden, still; so, running out the _round_, It growes to be the _Stone_ it was before. Thus, All things wheele about; and, each _Beginning_, Made entrance to it owne _Destruction_, hath. The _Life_ of _Nature_, entreth in with _Sinning_; And, is for ever, wayted on by _Death_: The _Life_ of _Grace_, is form’d by _Death_ to _Sinne_; And, there, doth _Life-eternall_, straight beginne. _Though very =small=, at first, it be, A =Sprout=, at length, becomes a =Tree=_. [Illustration: TANDEM FIT ARBOR ILLVSTR. XLVI. _Book. 1._]