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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Unwise are they that spend their youthfull Prime<lb/>
                                In Vanities; as if they did suppose<lb/>
                                That men, at pleasure, might redeeme the Time;<lb/>
                                For, they a faire advantage fondly lose.<lb/>
                                As ill-advis'd be those, who having lost<lb/>
                                The first Occasions, to Despairing runne:<lb/>
                                For, Time hath Revolutions; and, the most,<lb/>
                                For their Affaires, have Seasons more, then one.<lb/>
                                Nor is their Folly small, who much depend<lb/>
                                On Transitorie things, as if their Powre<lb/>
                                Could bring to passe what should not have an End;<lb/>
                                Or compasse that, which Time will not devoure.<lb/>
                                The first Occasions, therefore, see thou take<lb/>
                                (Which offred are) to bring thy hopes about;<lb/>
                                And, minde thou, still, what Haste away they make,<lb/>
                                Before thy swift-pac't houres are quite runne out.<lb/>
                                Yet, if an Opportunity be past,<lb/>
                                Despaire not thou, as they that hopelesse be;<lb/>
                                Since, Time may so revolve againe, at last,<lb/>
                                That New-Occasions may be offred thee.<lb/>
                                And see, thou trust not on those fading things,<lb/>
                                Which by thine owne Endeavours thou acquir'st:<lb/>
                                For, Time (which her owne Births to ruine brings)<lb/>
                                Will spare, nor thee, nor ought which thou desir'st.<lb/>
                                His Properties, and Vses, what they are,<lb/>
                                In-vaine observ'd will be, when he is fled:<lb/>
                                That, they in season, therefore, may appeare,<lb/>
                                Our Emblem, thus, hath him deciphered;<lb/>
                                Balde save before, and standing on a Wheele;<lb/>
                                A Razor in his Hand, a Winged Heele.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 4
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem005
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN Occasio: a naked woman with long locks of hair on the front of her head; the backof her head is bald, wings at her feet, a razor in her right hand, standing on a wheel
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac004
MOTTO_LA <p>NE TENEAR.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25F(+342)
; 25H23
; 31A5351
; 31AA5334
; 31AA5339
; 31D15(+89)
; 31D15(+9331)
; 46C19
; 46C24
; 46C24111
; 49L8
; 49LL71
; 54B121(+111)
; 86(NE TENEAR)
MOTTO_EN <p>Occasions-past are sought in vaine;<lb/>
                                But, oft, they wheele-about againe.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic004.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem004
MOTTO_LA_NORM Ne tenear
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0