The _Starres_, are, now, no friends of your, Or this is not their lucky houre: For, at this time, unto your _Lot_, They, by an _Emblem_, answer not. If, therefore, you desire to know What good advice they will allow, Some further _Meanes_, you must assay, Or, trye your _Chance_, another day. 54 You, in your secret thoughts, despise To thinke an _Emblem_ should advise, Or give you cause to minde or heed Those things, whereof you may have need: And, therefore, when, the _Lot_, you try’d, An answer, justly, was deny’d. Yet (by your leave) there are but few, Who, need good _Counsell_, more then you. 55 In some extreame, you often are, And, shoot too short, or else too farre; Yea, such an errour, you were in, When, for a _Lot_, you mov’d the _Pin_: For, one touch more, or lesse, had layd Our _Index_, where it should have stayd. But, if you can be warn’d, by this, To keepe the _Meane_, which oft you misse, You have obtain’d as good a _Lot_, As any one, this day, hath got. 56 Among these _Emblems_, none there be, Which, now by _Lot_ will fall to thee; However, doe not thou repine: For, this doth seeme to be a signe, That, thou, thy Portion, shalt advance By _Vertue_, not by fickle _Chance_. Yet, nerethelesse, despise thou not What, by good _Fortune_, may be got. _FINIS._ A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMES, ANCIENT AND MODERNE: Quickened With METRICALL ILLVSTRATIONS; And, disposed into LOTTERIES, both _Morall_ and _Divine_. That _Jnstruction_, and _Good Counsell_, may bee furthered by an Honest and Pleasant _Recreation_. _By_ GEORGE WITHER. _The Second Booke._ [Illustration: Decoration] LONDON, Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEWES. MDCXXXIV. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY Prince, _CHARLES_, Prince _of_ WALES, _&c._