Marke, how the _Cornucopias_, here, apply Their _Plenties_, to the _Rod_ of _Mercury_; And (if it seeme not needlesse) learne, to know This _Hieroglyphick’s_ meaning, ere you goe. The _Sages_ old, by this _Mercurian-wand_ (_Caducæus_ nam’d) were wont to understand _Art_, _Wisedome_, _Vertue_, and what else we finde, Reputed for endowments of the _Minde_. The _Cornucopias_, well-knowne _Emblems_, are, By which, great _wealth_, and _plenties_, figur’d were; And (if you joyne together, what they spell) It will, to ev’ry Vnderstanding, tell, That, where _Internall-Graces_ may be found, _Eternall-blessings_, ever, will abound. For, this is _truth_, and (though some thoughts in you Suggest, that this is, often times, untrue) This, ever is the _truth_; and, they have got Few right-form’d _Vertues_, who believe it not. I will confesse, true _Vertue_ hath not ever All _Common-plenties_, for which most indeavour; Nor have the _Perfect’st-Vertues_, those high places, Which _Knowledge_, _Arts_ (and, such as have the faces Of outward _beauty_) many times, attaine; For, these are things, which (often) those men gaine, That are more _flesh_, then _spirit_; and, have need Of _carnall-helpes_, till higher they proceede. But, they, of whom I speake, are flowne so high, As, not to want those _Toyes_, for which wee crye: And, I had showne you somewhat of their store, But, that, this _Page_, had roome to write no more. _The =Gospel=, thankefully imbrace; For, =God=, vouchsafed us, this =Grace=._ [Illustration: DEVS NOBIS HÆC OTIA FECIT. ILLVSTR. XXVII. _Book. 2_]