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Your Lot informeth how to know Where, best your Love you may bestow: And, by the same it may appeare What Musicke most affects your eare. Denye it not; for (by your leave) Wee by your lookes, your heart perceive. And, this perhaps you’l thinke upon (To purpose) when you are alone.

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This Lot may make us all suspect, That some wrong object you affect; And, that, where dearenesse you pretend, It is not for the noblest end. What mischiefe from such falshood flowes, Your Emblem very truely showes; And, may more happy make your Fate, If counsell be not come too late.

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To trust on others, thou art apt; And, hast already beene intrapt; Or, may’st er’e long be much deceiv’d By some, whom thou hast well believ’d. Be heedfull, therfore, of thy Lot; And, let it never be forgot: So, though some hazzard thou mayst run, Yet, thou shalt never be undone.

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It seemes thou tak’st too great a care For things, that vaine, and fading are; Or else, dost overprise them so, As if all blisse from them did flowe. That, therefore, thou mayst view their worth, In Hieroglyphicke shaddow’d forth, Thy Lot befriends thee: marke the same, And, be in this, no more to blame.

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Though some, should thee, for one, mistake, Whose wealth is all upon his backe, If what thou hast, bee all thine owne, God, hath enough on thee bestowne. A Princes ransome, wee may beare, In Iewells, which most precious are; And, yet, to many men may seeme, To carry nothing worth esteeme. Therefore, though small thy substance be, Thine Emblem, somewhat comforts thee.

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By this your Emblem, wee discerne, That, you are yet of age to learne; And, that, when elder you shall grow, There, will be more for you to know: Presume not, therefore of your wit, But, strive that you may benefit. For, of your age, we many view, That, farre more wisedome have, then you.

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By thy complaints, it hath appear’d, Thou think’st thy Vertues want reward; And, that, if they their merit had, Thou rich, and nobler should’st be made. To drive thee from that partiall thought, Thou, by an Emblem, shalt be taught, That, where true Vertue may be found, The truest wealth will still abound.

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By this thy Lot, thou dost appeare To be of those, who love to heare The Preacher’s voyce; or, else of them, That undervalue, or contemne Those dayly showres of wholsome words, Which God, in these our times, affords. Now, which soere of these thou bee, Thine Emblem, something, teaches thee.

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Thou deal’st, when thee thy foe offends, As if, you never should be friends. In peace, thou so secure doth grow, As if, thou could’st not have a foe. How, therefore, Peace and Warre pursues Each other, this thine Emblem shewes, That, thou mayst learne, in ev’ry tide, For future chances, to provide.

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What e’re thou are in outward shew, Thy Heart is ever very true, And, to those Knowledges aspires, Which every prudent Soule desires: Yet, be not proud that thou hast got This testimonie, by thy Lot. But, view thine Emblem, and endeaver In search of Knowledge to persever.

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If Glory, thou desire to get, Thy Wits, thou must on working set; And, labour unto Prudence adde, Before true Honor will be had: For, what thy Friends, or Parents brought, To make thee famous, profits nought; But, rather will procure thy shame, Vnlesse, thou shalt improove the same.

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