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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Whether the Salamander be a Beast,<lb/>
                                Or Precious-Stone, which overcomes the Flame,<lb/>
                                It skills not; Since, by either is exprest<lb/>
                                The Meaning which we purpose by the same:<lb/>
                                Both brooke the Fire unhurt; And (more then so)<lb/>
                                The fiercer and the longer Heats there are,<lb/>
                                The livelyer in the same the Beast will grow;<lb/>
                                And, much the brighter, will the Stone appeare.<lb/>
                                This Crowned-Salamander in the Fire,<lb/>
                                May, therefore, not unfitly, signifie<lb/>
                                Those, who in Fiery Charriots, doe aspire<lb/>
                                Elijah-like, to Immortality:<lb/>
                                Or, those Heroicke spirits, who unharm'd<lb/>
                                Have through the Fires of Troubles, and Affliction,<lb/>
                                (With Vertue, and with Innocencie arm'd)<lb/>
                                Walkt onward, in the Path-way, of Perfection.<lb/>
                                The Fiery-Tryall, which like Wood and Hay,<lb/>
                                Consumes the Workes of ev'ry Wicked-one;<lb/>
                                (And maketh all their Hopes to fume away)<lb/>
                                Doth purifie what Faithfull-men have done.<lb/>
                                They triumph in the Flames, and shall obtaine<lb/>
                                The glorious Crowne of Endlesse-Happinesse,<lb/>
                                When all that show of Blisse appeareth vaine,<lb/>
                                Which Worldly men have seemed to possesse.<lb/>
                                For, though some Sinnes and Follies, gilded are,<lb/>
                                And shine like purest Gold, and Pretious-Stones;<lb/>
                                This Test, will finde of what Allay they were,<lb/>
                                And, make them knowne but Counterfeited Ones:<lb/>
                                For, in this Fornace, all such Wormes expire;<lb/>
                                And, none but Vertue liveth in this Fire.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem031
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A crowned salamander in a fire; in the background a volcano erupts and fire falls from heaven
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac030
MOTTO_LA <p>NUDRISCO IL BUONO ET SPENGO IL REO.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25C11
; 25FF412(+7536)
; 31A2511(+913)
; 31A25432
; 31D62(+0)
; 41B1
; 44B191
; 46C291
; 57A63(+4)
; 58B3(+4)
; 86(NUDRISCO IL BUONO ET SPENGO IL REO)
MOTTO_EN <p>Afflictions Fire consumeth Sinne;<lb/>
                                But, Vertue taketh Life therein.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic030.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem030
MOTTO_LA_NORM Nudrisco il buono et spengo il reo
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0