<p>When, all the yeare, our fields are fresh and greene,<lb/> And, while sweet Flowers, and Sunshine, every day,<lb/> (As oft, as need requireth) come betweene<lb/> The Heav'ns and earth; they heedles passe away.<lb/> The fulnes, and continuance, of a blessing,<lb/> Doth make us to be senseles of the good:<lb/> And, if it sometime flie not our possessing,<lb/> The sweetnesse of it, is not understood.<lb/> Had wee no Winter, Sommer would be thought<lb/> Not halfe so pleasing: And, if Tempests were not,<lb/> Such Comforts could not by a Calme, be brought:<lb/> For, things, save by their Opposites appeare not.<lb/> Both health, and wealth, is tastles unto some;<lb/> And, so is ease, and every other pleasure,<lb/> Till poore, or sicke, or grieved, they become:<lb/> And, then, they relish these, in ampler measure.<lb/> God, therefore (full as kinde, as he is wise )<lb/> So tempreth all the Favours he will doe us,<lb/> That, wee, his Bounties, may the better prize;<lb/> And, make his Chastisements lesse bitter to us.<lb/> One while, a scorching Indignation burnes<lb/> The Flowers and Blosomes of our Hopes, away;<lb/> Which into Scarsitie, our Plentie turnes,<lb/> And, changeth vnmowne-Grasse to parched Hay ;<lb/> Anon, his fruitfull showres, and pleasing dewes,<lb/> Commixt with cheerefull Rayes, he sendeth downe;<lb/> And then the Barren-earth her cropp renewes,<lb/> Which with rich Harvests, Hills, and Vallies Crowne:<lb/> For, as to relish Ioyes, he sorrow sends,<lb/> So, Comfort on Temptation, still, attends.<lb/> </p>

embstma_1903_emblem057

58

embstma_1903

emblem pictura

emblempictura

embstma_1903_emblem059

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

Flowers withering because of sunshine, and revived by rain

embstma_1903.xml

embstma_1903_fac076

<p>POST TENTATIONEM CONSOLATIO.</p>

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

24A6

25G41(+35)

25H114

26B

26B9

56BB1(+4)

56BB19(+4)

86(POST TENTATIONEM CONSOLATIO)

<p>When wee have greatest Griefes and Feares,<lb/> Then, Consolation sweet'st appeares.</p>

embstma_1903_pic076.jpg

embstma_1903_emblem058

Post tentationem consolatio