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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Svppose you Sirs, those mimicke Apes you meet<lb/>
                                In strange fantasticke habits? or the Rabble,<lb/>
                                That in gay clothes embroyder out the street,<lb/>
                                Are truely of Worshipfull or Honorable?<lb/>
                                Or can you thinke, that, To be borne the Sonne<lb/>
                                Of some rich Alderman, or ancient Peere,<lb/>
                                Or that the Fame our Predecessors wonne<lb/>
                                May claime those Wreathes which true Deserving weare?<lb/>
                                Is Honour due to those, who spend their dayes<lb/>
                                In courting one another? or consuming<lb/>
                                Their Fortunes and themselves, on Drabbs and Playes?<lb/>
                                In sleeping, drinking, and Tobacco-fuming?<lb/>
                                Not so. For, (though such Fooles, like children, place<lb/>
                                Gay Titles on each other) Wise-men know<lb/>
                                What slaves they be; how miserably-base;<lb/>
                                And, where such Attributes would better show.<lb/>
                                An idle Body clothes a vitious Minde;<lb/>
                                And, what (at best) is purchac'd by the same,<lb/>
                                Is nothing else, but stinking Smoke and Winde;<lb/>
                                Or froth'e Bubbles of an empty Fame.<lb/>
                                True Glory, none did ever purchase, yet,<lb/>
                                Till, to be Vertuous they could first attaine,<lb/>
                                Nor shall those men faire Vertues favuor get,<lb/>
                                Who labour not, such Dignities to gaine.<lb/>
                                And, this Impresa doth inferre no lesse:<lb/>
                                For, by the Spade, is Labour here implide;<lb/>
                                The Snake, a vertuous Prudence, doth expresse;<lb/>
                                And, Glorie, by the Wreath is Typifide.<lb/>
                                For, where a vertuous Industry is found,<lb/>
                                She, shall with Wreaths of Glory, thus be crown'd.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem004
SEQ 5
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem006
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A snake coiled around a spade, sticks its head through a laurel wreath; a man ploughing, and a group of scholars in the background
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac005
MOTTO_LA <p>LABORE VIRTUS, VIRTUTE GLORIA PARATUR.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25A13
; 25F42(+1)
; 25F42(+5253)
; 25G3(LAUREL)(+27)
; 25H114
; 25I2
; 25I3
; 31B6211
; 43A(+12)
; 46A14
; 46A170
; 47I123
; 47I15(SPADE)
; 49C4
; 52A24(+4)
; 54A11(+4)
; 57A6(+4)
; 59B31(+4)
; 86(LABORE VIRTUS, VIRTUTE GLORIA PARATUR)
MOTTO_EN <p>By Labour, Vertue may be gain'd;<lb/>
                                By Vertue, Glorie is attain'd.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic005.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem005
MOTTO_LA_NORM Labore virtus, virtute gloria paratur
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0