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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Thrice happy is that Man whose Thoughts doe reare<lb/>
                                His Minde above that pitch the Worldling flies,<lb/>
                                And by his Contemplations, hovers where<lb/>
                                He viewes things mortall, with unbleared eyes.<lb/>
                                What Trifles then doe Villages and Townes<lb/>
                                Large Fields or Flockes of fruitfull Castell seeme?<lb/>
                                Nay, what poore things are Miters, Scepters, Crownes,<lb/>
                                And all those Glories which Men most esteeme?<lb/>
                                Though he that hath among them, his Delight,<lb/>
                                Brave things imagines them (because they blinde<lb/>
                                With some false Lustre his beguiled sight)<lb/>
                                He that's above them, their meane-Worth may finde.<lb/>
                                Lord, to that Blessed-Station me convey<lb/>
                                Where I may view the World, and view her so,<lb/>
                                That I her true Condition may survey;<lb/>
                                And all her Imperfections rightly know.<lb/>
                                Remember me, that once there was a Day<lb/>
                                When thou didst weane me from them with content,<lb/>
                                Ev'n when shut up within those Gates I lay<lb/>
                                Through which the Plague-inflicting Angel went.<lb/>
                                And, let me still remember, that an Houre<lb/>
                                Is hourely comming on, wherein I shall<lb/>
                                (Though I had all the World within my powre)<lb/>
                                Be naked stript, and turned out of all.<lb/>
                                But minde me, chiefely, that I never cleave<lb/>
                                Too closely to my Selfe; and cause thou me<lb/>
                                Not other Earthly things alone to leave,<lb/>
                                But to forsake my Selfe for love of Thee:<lb/>
                                That I may say, now I have all things left,<lb/>
                                Before that I of all things, am bereft.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 12
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem013
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A man hovers in the air, leaving behind earthly concerns and riches, symbolized by attributes of ecclesiastical and worldly power
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac012
MOTTO_LA <p><foreign lang="el">ΠΑΝΤΑ ΛΕΛΟΙΠΑ</foreign>.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11P31111
; 11P31131
; 24A6
; 25F24(+45)
; 25G11
; 25H131
; 31A242
; 31A2762(+63)
; 31AA2513
; 31D14(+89)
; 44B191
; 44B192
; 44B193
; 45C13(SWORD)
; 46C24
; 46C24
; 52B11(+4)
; 57A661(+4)
; 86(PANTA LELOIPA (GR.))
MOTTO_EN <p>As, to the World I naked came,<lb/>
                                So, naked-stript I leave the same.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic012.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem012
MOTTO_LA_NORM Panta leloipa (Gr.)
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0