<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>

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EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

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To Sir Arthure Manwaringe Knight

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

Writings remain

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