I Thinke you would be wise; for, most men seeme To make of _Knowledge_ very great esteeme. If such be your desires, this _Emblem_ view; And, marke how well the _Figures_, counsell you. Wee by the Bird of _Athens_, doe expresse, That painefull, and that usefull _watchfulnesse_, Which ought to bee enjoyned, unto them, Who seeke a place, in _Wisdomes_ Academ. For, as an _Owle_ mewes up her selfe by _Day_, And watcheth in the _Night_, to get her prey; Ev’n so, good _Students_, neither must be such, As _daily_ gad; or _nightly_ sleepe too much. That _open-booke_, on which the _Owle_ is perch’d, Affords a _Morall_, worthy to be search’d: For, it informes, and, darkly doth advise, Your _Watchings_ be not after Vanities; (Or, like their _Wakings_, who turne dayes to nights, In following their unlawfull appetites) And, that, in keeping Home, you doe not spend Your houres in sloth, or, to some fruitlesse end. But, rather in good _Studies_; and, in that, By which, true _Knowledge_, is arrived at. For, if your _Studies_, and your _Wakings_, bee To this intent; you shall that _Path-way_ see To _Wisdome_, and to _Honour_, which was found, Of them, whose _Knowledge_ hath been most renownd. But, if your _Watchings_, and _Retyrednesse_, Be for your _Lust_, or, out of _Sottishnesse_; You are not, what th' _Athenian-Owle_ implies, But, what our _English-Owlet_ signifies. _When =Mars=, and =Pallas=, doe agree, Great workes, by them, effected bee._ [Illustration: ARTE ET MARTE ILLVSTR. XVIII. _Book. 2_]