_Ixions_ wheele, and he himselfe thereon Is figur’d, and (by way of _Emblem_) here, Set forth, for _Guilty men_ to looke upon; That, they, their wicked Courses might forbeare. To gaine a lawlesse favour he desired, And, in his wicked hopes beguiled was: For, when to claspe with _Iuno_, he aspired, In stead of her, a _Clowd_, he did embrace. He, likewise, did incurre a dreadfull _Doome_, (Which well befitted his presumptuous Crime) A terror, and, a warning, to become, For wicked men, through all succeeding time. As did his longings, and his after _Paine_, So, theirs affecteth, nor effecteth ought, But, that, which proveth either false or vaine; And, their false _Pleasures_, are as dearely, bought: Yea, that, whereon they build their fairest _Hope_, May, bring them (in conclusion of the Deed) To clime the _Gallowes_, and to stretch a _Rope_; Or, send them thither, where farre worse they speed: Ev’n thither, where, the _never-standing-Wheele_ Of _everlasting-Tortures_, turneth round, And, racks the _Conscience_, till the soule doth feele All Paines, that are in _Sense_, and _Reason_ found. For, neither doth black Night, more swiftly follow, Declining _Day-light_: Nor, with Nimbler Motion Can _waves_, each other, downe their Channell follow, From high-rais’d _Mountaines_, to the bigg-womb’d _Ocean_, Then, _Iustice_ will, when she doth once begin, To prosecute, an _Vnrepented-Sin_. _When wee have greatest =Griefes= and =Feares=, Then, =Consolation= sweet’st appeares._ [Illustration: POST TENTATIONEM CONSOLATIO. ILLVSTR. VIII. _Book. 2_]