Emblems Ancient and Modern, Index – Directions for using diagrams
A Table for the better finding out of the principall things and matters, mentioned in theſe Foure Bookes.
A.
ADverſitie. pag. 16. 17. 26. 30. 240. 243
Aegle. 6. 3… 112
Affection. 7. 33. 34. 83. 162
Affliction. 16. 17. 44. 47. 70. 81. 108. 240.
Agreement in Deſire. 34.
Age. 44.
Ambitions … 216.
Ambition. 69.
Anchor. 39. 72.
Annuall revolutions. 157.
Anvils and Hammer. 17.
Appearances dece…e. 175.
Apollo. 234.
Archer. 25.
Armour. 111.
Arts. 1. 80.
Action. 9.
Armes. 3. 32. 80.
Authoritie. 137.
B.
BAll. 7.
Beginning. 10….
Beſt men not beſt favour'd. 224.
Bear. 23.
Bees. 23. 90. 250.
Beautie. 40.
Blabs. 246.
Bleſſings long enjoyed. 70.
Bounds. 161.
A Bore. 110.
Borrowed worth. 14.
A Bowe bended. 39.
Bridle. 169.
A Broken-heart 7….
Buſy-bodies. 148.
Butterfly and Spider. 18.
C.
CAndle and Flie. 40.
Carnal affections. 43.
Caduceus. 9. 88.
Ceremonies of eſtate. 137.
Centaure. 103.
A Childe. 45.
Chriſtian confidence. 81.
Church. 111. 136.
Chriſt the true Pellican. 154.
The Circular motion of things. 45.
Circumſpection. 138.
Clamor. 63.
Cleargie-men. 149.
Conſtancie. 2. 81. 143.
Cock. 71.
Comlineſſe. 249.
Good Companions. 249.
Conſtant reſolution 24.
Conſideration. 9.
Contempt of earthly things. 1….
Contention. 34. 71.
Contention hazzardous. 254.
Contemplation. 45. 105. 156.
Concord. 63.
Conſolation. vid. Comfort.
Comfort. 70.
Comfort ſweetned by troubles. ibid.
Conſtellations. 31. 74. 251.
Contentment. 86.
Cornerſtone. 161.
Coronet. 255.
Cornucopia 9. 88. 166. 248.
Corporeall vertues. 80.
Covetouſneſſe. 216.
Crocadile. 112.
Craft. 136.
Crowne. 47. 78. 81.
Croſſe. 47 75. 81
Croſſes 47.
Curioſitie 147.
Cupid 227.
Cynthia 24.
D.
DAnger hangs over all 213
Death 1. 21. 45. 48. 94. 168. 184. 235.
Deaths head 21
Deliberation 72
Delay 18
Degrees. 29. 49. 117.
Deceit in all places. 180.
Deſpaire is not to be admitted. 217. 221. 240.
Deſtinie. vid. Fate.
Decrees of God. 95.
Our Deſtruction is of our ſelves. 214.
Deſires beſt object. 209.
Devotion. 41.
Diamond. 171.
Diana. 24.
Divine aſſiſtance. 170.
Diſſimulation, 211, 228, 230
Diſcord. 177.
Diſcretion. 151.
Doggs. 255.
Dolphin. 72.
Dove. 150.
Drowſineſſe. 9.
Drones. 250.
E.
EArthly things. …5.
Endurance 23. 26.
Endeavour continued. 29.
Envy 97.
End. 102.
Equalitie. 34. 48.
Equivocation. 38.
Eſtridge. 36.
Eternitie. 102. 157.
Everlaſting. 102.
Exceſſe. 68.
Externall Bleſſings. 88.
F.
FAith 13. 66
Faith infringed. 38. 99.
Fate 74. 95. 221. 251.
Fatall neceſſity 251
Falſhood 99
Fame 146.
Faire ſhewes deceitfull 233. 229
Face 39
Fighters 71
Fickleneſſe vid. Inconſtancy
Filial pierie 155.
Fire on an Altar 15.
Fierie-triall 30
Fleſh is hay 256
Flying-Ball 71. 101
Flie and the Candle 40
Flower of the Sunne 159.
Fooles, who the greateſt 211
Fooles favours miſchievou… 225
Fortune 6. 88. 101. 109. 139 174. 224
Fraud in all …
…
…
Frequencie 45
Fullneſſe 64
Furie begotten by abuſed patience 252.
G.
GAnimed 156.
Light Gaines 50.
Glory 5. 92.
God 140. 152. 170, 210, 223 255
Gods prerogatives 223
Gods decrees …5. 142
Goſpell preachect …
Good works 135.
Governours 37
Government …
Goblins about Graves 43
Grace 31, 74. 104, 226
Grave 21
Greefe 26
Groves 3….
Great things from ſmall beginnings 46. 9…
Gryphon 139
Guile vid. Fraud and Deceit
Guiltineſſe 66, 69.
H.
HAſt 19, 49 153
Hammer and Anvile, 17
Halter 66, Halayon. vid. Kings Fiſher
Harveſt 44
Harlots 27, 246
Harmleſnes vid. Innocency
Hazzardous enterpriſes 247
Harmony vid. Muſick
Hard-hearted men 175
Hardſhip 243
Heed 19. 49, 153
Heliotrope 159
Heaven 152
Hellen 27
Hyppocriſy 20, 77, 211, 129
Hyppoc…i… 229
Honour…, 153
Hope 13, 16, 39,, 44, 73. 106 150, 217
Houſes which are beſt 222
Hony 23
Howreglaſſe 21, 212
Hunger 64.
Huſbands 162
Humility 147
Hyppotamus 155
I.
IAnus 138.
Idleneſſe 5. 92
Innocence 9. 111. 151
Infant 45
Incroachments 161
Invincibility 220
Inconſtancy 231
Intemperance 242
Induſtry 5
Impiety 155
Imprſonmēt better than a worſe miſchiefe 96
Ioyes ſweetned by afflictions 70
Iteration 29
Iuſtice 66. 69, 155
Iuſt dealing, 100
Ixion 69
K.
KIngsfiſher 2…6
Kings 32, 37, 78, 137, 159 16…, 180
Kingdomes 67
A Kingdomes glorie 78
Knowledge 1, 79, 103
L.
LAbour 5, 29, 143, 150, 229,
Labour in vaine 11.
Lambe 252.
Lawe 3. 163 169
Leaſure and heed 19. 49 107
Learne to die 94
Learning 87
A Line a day. 158
Liking makes indifferent things excellent 2…2
A Little and little makes a mic…ſe 50. 158
Life 21. 45
Love the beſt Muſitian, 82
Love 7, 33, 34, 38.
Loſſes 50.
Loſſes may he recovered 182
Looking-glaſſes 241.
M.
MAlefactors 66
Mat… 80.
Marriages, 83.
Magiſtrates out of office 215.
A Made. 137
Man his owne enemie 214
Mercy, offred to all 255
Merit 139
Meaſures 100
Medlers, vid. Buſie-bodies,
Meditation beſt in the night …
Meanes, not to be neglected …
Meanes, not the onelyonly ground of Hope 13
Mercurie 9
The Meane 169
Military exerciſe 32
Miſ-fortune may be profitable, 96
Mortalitie 8. 45
Moone 111. 182
Monuments 142
Mutuall affection 24. 163. 781.
Muſicke 69
N.
NAture and Grace 104. 144
Nature needes a ſupporter.226
Neceſſitie 64
Night helpfull to Meditation 9
O.
OAthes 28
Obſcuritie profitable 73
Occaſion 4
Offenders 215
Old men may learne 87
Opportunitie 4
Oppreſſion 98
Oppoſition 63
Order 220
Outward appearances 175
Oyle 9. 63. 79. 168
Oxe 173
P.
PAine 23
Palmetree 172
Patience 23. 63. 252
Patriots 165
Pallas 9. 80
Parents 15
A Paſtorall charge 149
Peace 9. …38
Perjurie 38
Pegaſus 105
Perſeverance 19. 14…. 175. 258
Pelican 154
Pietie 8. 41. 155
Piguley Spirits 14
Planets 31
Planting 35
Pleaſure 22. 23. 38. 68
Plenty 64
Plaine-dealing 228
Poeticall Libertie 148
Poets Horſe, vid. Pegaſus
Power 103. 179
Power divine 210.
Policie 80
Poſterity 35
Poore Theeves 167.
Povertie 176
Cauſe of povertie. 248
Praiſe 146
Practiſe 66. 158
Preaching 89
Preferment 68
Prelats 41
Prieſts. ibid.
Pride to be avoyed 8
Princes 155
Profit cauſeth contention 71.
Proceſſion 165.
Proſperitie 12.16
Protection divine 245
Promotion is of God 223
Prudence 74.142.151
Puritie 41
Puniſhment and reward 245
Pyramus 33.
Q.
Qvarrellers 71.
R.
RAſhneſſe 9.19
Redeeme the time 23.257
Recreation 234
A well Reſolved man 228
Reſtraints from being Rich 248
Reſolute conſtancy 24▪
Repine not at mi…fortunes 96
Reputation 140
Repentance to be haſtned 213
Retiredneſſe 72.79
Revolutions of things 45
Reward 135.139.141.229.258
Reward and puniſhment 243
Riches 1.98
Rich Theeves 197
Rod. 93.
Royall favour. 159.
S.
SAcred callings 41
The beſt Sacrifice 77.
Salamander 30
Scepter 79
Scepter and Spade 48
Sea-horſe 155.
Selfe perdition 68.214
Selfe love 35
Shepherds crooke 149
Ship 13.37
Siſyphus 11
Sinne 66.69.
Silence 73
Simplicity 151
Sincerity …8, 230
Sive 2…
A Skeleton …
Sloath 9.181.
Slowneſſe 19
Slow pace goes farre 173
Small beginnings 46.50
Snake 5.9.45.47.74.101.102 142.
Snaile 19
Sophiſters 38
Sober knowledge 147
Sorrow 24 79
Soveraigntie is of God, 21.22
Spade 5
Spider 18
Squirrell 26.136
Staiedneſſe 72.153
Starrs 31.74.251
Stateſ-men 15
Stereſman 37
Stedfaſtneſſe. vid. Conſtancy.
Stewes 27
Storke 149.155
Strength 80.103.136
Students 15
Studiouſneſſe 146
Suffering 23.47.81.171.232
Sufficiencie 86
Sunnſhine after ſtormes 240
Swearing. 38.
Swine 38.110.
Sword 66.137.163.238.245
T.
TAlents hidden 76.181
A Tatler, 246.
Tennis-ball, 16
Terrene pompe 98
Temperance 169.242
Terminus 161
Theeves 167
Thisbe 33
Time. 4.102.157.212.235 257
Titles, ill placed 224.
Tongue 42
Tortois 86
Touchſtone 229
Tranſitorie things 85
Triall 30
Trie e're thou truſt. 84.233
Truth 172
Turtle. vid. Dove.
V.
VAnitie of earthly things 98
Vaine hopes. 69
Vaine ſhewes 20
Vengeance 66
Vertue. 1.….6.22.30.88.97.101.109.111.139.171.218.
Vice 22.104.224.
Victorie uncertaine 252
Victorie is of God 241.
Viper 247
Vnanimitie 67
Vnchaſtitie 15
Vnitie 67.177
Vnitie of faith 244
Vniverſall Grace 210.258
Vnprofitable gifts 76
Vprightneſſe of heart 91
W.
VVAnton women 7
Warre 90, 238
Waſt 35
Wearineſſe 9.84.153
Watchfulneſſe 79
Watchmen 149
Way of Vertue 160
Weapons …41.
Wealth 68.166.
Weights 110.
Welldoing 135
Weakneſſe needes a ſuporter 222
Wiſedome 1.2, 31.103.142.145.
Witt 1, 64.136.167
Wives 172
Whoredome. 27
Whore. vid. Harlot
Woods decayed 35
Woman 93.231
World goes backeward 219.
Y.
YOuth. 22.44.
A Superſedeas to all them, whoſe cuſtome it is, without any deſerving, to importune Authors to give unto them their Bookes.
It merits nor your Anger, nor my Blame,
That, thus I have inſcrib'd this Epigram:
For, they who know me, know, that, Bookes thus large,
And, fraught with Emblems, do augment the Charge
Too much above my Fortunes, to afford
A Gift ſo coſtly, for an Aierie-word:
And, I have prov'd, your Bigging Qualitie,
So forward, to oppreſſe my Modeſtie;
That, for my future eaſe, it ſeemeth fit,
To take ſome Order, for preventing it.
And, peradventure, other Authors may,
Find Cauſe to thanke me for't, another day.
Theſe many years, it hath your Cuſtom bin,
That, when in my poſſeſſion, you have ſeene
A Volume, of mine owne, you did no more,
But, Aske and Take, As if you thought my ſtore
Encreaſt, without my Coſt: And, that, by Giving,
(Both Paines and Charges too) I got my living;
Or, that, I find the Paper and the Printing, a
As eaſie to me, as the Bookes Inventing.
If, of my Studies, no eſteeme you have,
You, then abuſe the Courteſies you crave,
And, are Vnthankfull, If you prize them ought,
Why ſhould my Labour, not enough be thought,
Vnleſſe, I adde Expences to my paines?
The Stationer, affoords for little Gaines,
The Bookes you crave: And, He, aſwell as I
Might give away, what you repine to buy:
For, what hee Gives, doth onelyonly Mony Coſt,
…et mine, both Mony, Time, and Wit is loſt.
What I ſhall Give, and what I have beſtow'd
O… Friends, to whom, I Love, or Service ow'd,
I prudge not; And, I thinke it is from them,
Sufficient, that ſuch Gifts they do eſteeme:
Yea, and, it is a Favour too, when they
Will take theſe Triſtles, my large Dues to pay;
(Or, Aske them at my hands, when I forget,
That, I am to their Love, ſo much in debt.)
But, this inferres not, that, I ſhould beſtow
… like on all men, who, my Name do know;
… have the Face to aske: For, then, I might,
Of Wit and Mony, ſoone be begger'd▪ quite.
So much, already, hath beene Beg'd away,
(F…r which, I neither had, nor looke for pay)
As … valu'd at the common Rate,
… hundred Crownes, in my Eſtate.
Which, (if I may confeſſe it) ſignifies,
That, I was ſame more Liberall, than Wiſe.
But, for the time to come, reſolv'd I am,
That, till without deny all (or juſt blame)
I may of thoſe, who Cloth and Clothes do make,
(As oft as I ſhall need them) Aske, and Take;
You ſhall no more befoole me. Therfore, …
Be Anſwer'd, And, henceforward, …
A Direction, ſhewing how they who are ſo …iſpoſed, ſhall … out their Chance, in the ….
TUrne abo…t one of the … th… Figures, which are in the following Page, … your eyes thereupon, to obſerve where it ſlayeth …. If it be the upper Figure, whoſe Index you moved; then, that Number whereupon it reſteth, is the number of your Lot, or Blancke.
This being knowne, move the other Index in like manner, and that Quarter of the ſaid Figure whereon the ſame ſtandeth (when your hand is taken away) ſhew … which of the foure Bookes, or Lotteries, that Chance is to be expected, whereunto your Number doth ſend you, whether it be Lot, or Blancke. If it be any Number above Fifty, it is a Blancke Chance, and you are to looke no further. If it be any of the other Numbers, it ſends you to the Emblem anſwering to the ſame Number, in the Booke next before the time Lotterie.
If the letter M. be plac…d before the alotted Number; then, that Lot is proper onelyonly to a … ſtand before it, it is proper onelyonly to a Woman: If there be … it … to both Sexes: And, therefore, when a … on a Chance impertinet to their proper Sex… ▪ … to take the next Chance which pertaineth properly … it be Blancke or Lot; the triall whereof, I have that …, without the uſe of Dice; … by bringing them into fight, they might, ſometimes, occaſion worſe Gaming.
If King, Queene, Prince, or any one that ſprings
From Perſons, knowne to be deriv'd from Kings,
Shall ſeeke, for Sport ſake, hence to draw their Lot;
… Author ſayes, that, hee provided not
… ſuch … thoſe; Becauſe, it were too much
… we find ou… Fortunes, fit for ſuch,
… (as … thinkes) ſhould rather, Ayde ſupply
… his evill Fortunes by.
To them, … therefore p…ſed is to give
… and this large Prerogative;
… thy ſhall ch…ſ… from hence, what Lots they pleaſe,
… the… …, if they like not theſe,
… Perſonages, of High degree,
…pan… profeſſe our Authors friends … be,
… ſome, blemiſe, have; that …ill, they find
… to their mind,
… to try
… And, ev'rytime apply
… th…ſe,
…
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