<p>Ixions wheele, and he himselfe thereon<lb/> Is figur'd, and (by way of Emblem ) here,<lb/> Set forth, for Guilty men to looke upon;<lb/> That, they, their wicked Courses might forbeare.<lb/> To gaine a lawlesse favour he desired,<lb/> And, in his wicked hopes beguiled was:<lb/> For, when to claspe with Iuno, he aspired,<lb/> In stead of her, a Clowd, he did embrace.<lb/> He, likewise, did incurre a dreadfull Doome,<lb/> (Which well befitted his presumptuous Crime)<lb/> A terror, and, a warning, to become,<lb/> For wicked men, through all succeeding time.<lb/> As did his longings, and his after Paine,<lb/> So, theirs affecteth, nor effecteth ought,<lb/> But, that, which proveth either false or vaine;<lb/> And, their false Pleasures, are as dearely, bought:<lb/> Yea, that, whereon they build their truest Hope,<lb/> May, bring them (in conclusion of the deed),<lb/> To clime the Gallowes, and to stretch a Rope ;<lb/> Or, send them thither, where farre worse they speed:<lb/> Ev'n thither, where, the never-standing-Wheele<lb/> Of everlasting-Tortures, turneth round,<lb/> And, racks the Conscience, till the soule doth feele<lb/> All Paines, that are in Sense, and Reason found.<lb/> For, neither doth black Night, more swiftly follow,<lb/> Declining Day-light : Nor, with Nimbler Motion<lb/> Can waves, each other, downe their Channell follow,<lb/> From high-rais'd Mountaines, to the bigg-womb'd Ocean,<lb/> Then, Iustice will, when she doth once begin,<lb/> To prosecute, an Vnrepented-Sin.<lb/> </p>

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Ixion stretched on a wheel - a murder(?) and a robbery(?) in the background

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<p>SEQUITVR SVA POENA NOCENTEM.</p>

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<p>By Guiltines, Death entred in,<lb/> And, Mischiefe still pursueth Sinne.</p>

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Sequitur sua poena nocentem