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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>When I behold the Havocke and the Spoyle,<lb/>
                                Which (ev'n within the compasse of my Dayes)<lb/>
                                Is made through every quarter of this Ile,<lb/>
                                In Woods and Groves (which were this Kingdomes praise)<lb/>
                                And, when I minde with how much greedinesse,<lb/>
                                We seeke the present Gaine, in every thing;<lb/>
                                Not caring (so our Lust we may possesse)<lb/>
                                What Dammage to Posterity we bring:<lb/>
                                They doe, me-thinkes, as if they did foresee,<lb/>
                                That, some of those, whom they have cause to hate,<lb/>
                                Should come in Future-times, their Heires to be:<lb/>
                                Or else, why should they such things perpetrate?<lb/>
                                For, if they thinke their Children shall succeed;<lb/>
                                Or, can believe, that they begot their Heires;<lb/>
                                They could not, surely, doe so foule a Deed,<lb/>
                                As to deface the Land, that should be theirs.<lb/>
                                What our Forefathers planted, we destroy:<lb/>
                                Nay, all Mens labours, living heretofore,<lb/>
                                And all our owne, we lavishly imploy<lb/>
                                To serve our present Lusts; and, for no more.<lb/>
                                But, let these carelesse Wasters learne to know,<lb/>
                                That, as Vaine-Spoyle is open Injury;<lb/>
                                So, Planting is a Debt, they truely owe,<lb/>
                                And ought to pay to their Posterity.<lb/>
                                Selfe love, for none, but for it selfe, doth care;<lb/>
                                And, onely, for the present, taketh paine:<lb/>
                                But, Charity for others doth prepare;<lb/>
                                And, joyes in that, which Future-Time shall gaine.<lb/>
                                If, After-Ages may my Labours blesse;<lb/>
                                I care not, much, how Litle I possesse.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 35
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem036
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN An elderly man planting a young tree; in the background: St. Paul setting out a young tree, St. Apollos watering it(?)
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac035
MOTTO_LA <p>POSTERITATI.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11H(APOLLOS)4
; 11H(PAUL)4
; 21D
; 25G21(GOURD)
; 25G3
; 25G3(+361)
; 25I13
; 25I5
; 31A233
; 31D16
; 41A171
; 41A773
; 42E531
; 42G2
; 47I132
; 47I138
; 47I211
; 73F412(1 Cor. 3:6)
; 86(POSTERITATI)
MOTTO_EN <p>He that delights to Plant and Set,<lb/>
                                Makes After-Ages in his Debt.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic035.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem035
MOTTO_LA_NORM Posteritati
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0