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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>IF mightie <rs>TROIE</rs>, with gates of steele, and brasse,<lb/>
        Bee worne awaie, with tracte of stealinge time:<lb/>
        If <term id="embstma_1667_13501"/><rs>CARTHAGE</rs>, raste: if <rs>THEBES</rs> be growne with grasse.<lb/>
        If <rs>BABEL</rs> stoope: that to the cloudes did clime:<lb/>
        If <term id="embstma_1667_13502"/><rs>ATHENS</rs>, and <rs>NVMANTIA</rs> suffered spoile:<lb/>
        If <rs>AEGYPT</rs> spires be euened with the soile.<lb/>
        Then, what maye laste, which time dothe not impeache,<lb/>
        Since that wee see, theise monumentes are gone:<lb/>
        Nothinge at all, but time doth ouer reache,<lb/>
        It eates the steele, and weares the marble stone:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_13503"/>But writinges laste, thoughe yt doe what it can,<lb/>
        And are preseru'd, euen since the worlde began.<lb/>
        And so they shall, while that they same dothe laste,<lb/>
        Which haue declar'd, and shall to future age:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_13504"/>What thinges before three thousande yeares haue paste,<lb/>
        What martiall knightes, haue march'd vppon this stage:<lb/>
        Whose actes, in bookes if writers did not saue,<lb/>
        Their fame had ceaste, and gone with them to graue.<lb/>
        Of <persName>SAMSONS</persName> strengthe, of worthie <persName>IOSVAS</persName> might,<lb/>
        Of <persName>DAVIDS</persName> actes, of <persName>ALEXANDERS</persName> force,<lb/>
        Of <persName>CAESAR</persName> greate; and <persName>SCIPIO</persName> noble knight,<lb/>
        Howe shoulde we speake, but bookes thereof discourse:<lb/>
        Then fauour them, that learne within their youthe:<lb/>
        But loue them beste, that learne, and write the truthe.<lb/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_13501" lang="la"><name type="author">Propertius</name>.<lb/>
         Et <rs>Thebae</rs> steterant, al-<lb/>
         taque troia fuit</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_13502" lang="la"><name type="author">Demosth.</name> in Arg.<lb/>
         lib. I.<lb/>
         Clarissimae olim vr-<lb/>
         bes, nunc nihil sunt,<lb/>
         Quae maximè nunc<lb/>
         superbiunt, eandem<lb/>
         aliquando fortunam<lb/>
         experientur.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_13503" lang="la"><name type="author">Virg.</name> in Moecenatis<lb/>
         obitu.<lb/>
         Marmora Maeonij<lb/>
         vincunt monumenta<lb/>
         libelli:<lb/>
         Viuitur ingenio, ce-<lb/>
         tera mortis erunt. &amp;</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_13504" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> 1. Amor. 10.<lb/>
         Scindentur vestes, gem-<lb/>
         mae frangentur &amp; aurum.<lb/>
         Carmina quam tri-<lb/>
         buent, fama perennis<lb/>
         erit.</gloss>
       </p>
      
PREV embstma_1667_emblem134
SEQ 135
PARENT embstma_1667
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem136
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN Buildings collapse around a table with books
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac131
MOTTO_LA Scripta manent
DEDICATION_EN To Sir Arthure Manwaringe Knight
IC 11I62(DAVID)
; 11I62(JOSHUA)
; 11I62(SAMSON)
; 41A711
; 46A1270
; 47G91
; 48A10
; 48C149
; 48C910:31D1(+811)
; 49M32
; 48C10:51K2(+4)
; 48C90:51KK1(+4)
; 61B2(MANWARING, Arthur)
; 61DEGYPT)
; 61E(ATHENS)
; 61E(BABEL)
; 61E(CARTHAGE)
; 61E(NUMANTIA)
; 61E(THEBES)
; 86(SCRIPTA MANENT)
; 98B(ALEXANDER THE GREAT)3
; 98B(CAESAR)3
; 98B(SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR)3
INTERP_DAL Writings remain
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic131.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem135
MOTTO_LA_NORM Scripta manent
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0