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Phoenix from the flames (The bird ever alone)

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To my countrimen of the Namptwiche in Chesshire

The bird that is ever unique

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

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EMBLEMS

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PLANTIN

11D131

21C

25FF3(PHOENIX)(+739):31A2422

25FF3(PHOENIX)(+739):31AA2513

41B121

41B16

44BB113

51BB61(+4)

51HH3(+4)

54B6(+4)

61B2(WHITNEY, Geffrey)3

61D(CHESHIRE)

61E(NANTWICH)

86(UNICA SEMPER AVIS)

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<p><term id="embstma_1667_18701"/>THE <rs>Phoenix</rs> rare, with fethers freshe of hewe,<lb/> <rs>ARABIAS</rs> righte, and sacred to the Sonne:<lb/> Whome, other birdes with wonder seeme to vewe,<lb/> Dothe liue vntill a thousande yeares bee ronne:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_18702"/>Then makes a pile: which, when with Sonne it burnes,<lb/> Shee flies therein, and so to ashes turnes.<lb/> Whereof, behoulde, an other <rs>Phoenix</rs> rare,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_18703"/>With speede dothe rise most beautifull and faire:<lb/> And thoughe for truthe, this manie doe declare,<lb/> Yet thereunto, I meane not for to sweare:<lb/> Althoughe I knowe that Aucthors witnes true,<lb/> What here I write, bothe of the oulde, and newe.<lb/> Which when I wayed, the newe, and eke the oulde,<lb/> I thought vppon your towne destroyed with fire:<lb/> And did in minde, the newe <rs>NAMPWICHE</rs> behoulde,<lb/> A spectacle for anie mans desire:<lb/> Whose buildinges braue, where cinders weare but late,<lb/> Did represente (me thought) the <rs>Phoenix</rs> fate.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_18704"/>And as the oulde, was manie hundreth yeares,<lb/> A towne of fame, before it felt that crosse:<lb/> Euen so, (I hope) this <rs>WICHE</rs>, that nowe appeares,<lb/> A <rs>Phoenix</rs> age shall laste, and knowe no losse:<lb/> Which <rs>GOD</rs> vouchsafe, who make you thankfull, all:<lb/> That see this rise, and sawe the other fall.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18701" lang="la">Paradis. Poët.<lb/> Solus in Eois ales re-<lb/> parabilis oris,<lb/> Igne suo vitam dum<lb/> rapit, igne capit.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18702" lang="la">Matt. lib. 5. Epigr. 7.<lb/> Qualiter <rs>Assyrios</rs> re-<lb/> nouant incendia nidos:<lb/> Vna decem quoties<lb/> secula vixit auis.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18703" lang="la">Quae quidem auis,<lb/> iuxta <name type="author">Plinium</name>, Na-<lb/> tural. histor. lib. 10.<lb/> cap. 2. viuit ad sex-<lb/> centos sexaginta an-<lb/> nos. quo loco &amp;<lb/> alia quaedam prodi-<lb/> giosa commemo-<lb/> rantur. quae, quo-<lb/> niam ad Emblema-<lb/> tis sententiam nihil<lb/> attinent, cui libebit,<lb/> legenda relinquo.<lb/> &amp; apud <name type="author">AElian.</name> De<lb/> Anim. lib. 6. cap. 58.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18704" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> Met. lib. 15.<lb/> Vna est quae reparet<lb/> séq. ipsa reseminet ales,<lb/> <rs>Assyrij</rs> <rs>Phoenica</rs> vo-<lb/> cant, nec fruge, nec herbis,<lb/> Sed Thuris lachrymis &amp;<lb/> succo viuit amomi, &amp;c.</gloss> </p>

Unica semper avis

Tod und Auferstehung Christi

A phoenix standing in a fire

Vnica semper auis

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