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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>If thou desire to cherish true Content,<lb/>
                                And in a troublous time that course to take,<lb/>
                                Which may be likely mischieves to prevent,<lb/>
                                Some use, of this our Hieroglyphick, make.<lb/>
                                The Fryers Habit, seemeth to import,<lb/>
                                That, thou (as ancient Monkes and Fryers did)<lb/>
                                Shouldst live remote, from places of resort,<lb/>
                                And, in retyrednesse, lye closely hid.<lb/>
                                The clasped-Booke, doth warne thee, to retaine<lb/>
                                Thy thoughts within the compasse of thy breast;<lb/>
                                And, in a quiet silence to remaine,<lb/>
                                Vntill, thy minde may safely be exprest.<lb/>
                                That Anchor, doth informe thee, that thou must<lb/>
                                Walke on in Hope ; and, in thy Pilgrimage,<lb/>
                                Beare up (without despairing or distrust )<lb/>
                                Those wrongs, and sufferings, which attend thine Age.<lb/>
                                For, whensoere Oppression groweth rife,<lb/>
                                Obscurenesse, is more safe than Eminence ;<lb/>
                                Hee, that then keepes his Tongue, may keepe his Life,<lb/>
                                Till Times will better favour Innocence.<lb/>
                                Truth spoken where untruth is more approved,<lb/>
                                Will but enrage the malice of thy foes;<lb/>
                                And, otherwhile, a wicked man is moved<lb/>
                                To cease from wrong, if no man him oppose.<lb/>
                                Let this our Emblem, therefore, counsell thee,<lb/>
                                Thy life in safe Retyrednesse, to spend:<lb/>
                                Let, in thy breast, thy thoughts reserved bee,<lb/>
                                Till thou art layd, where none can thee offend.<lb/>
                                And, whilst most others, give their Fancie scope,<lb/>
                                Enjoy thy selfe, in Silence, and in Hope.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem060
SEQ 61
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
MOTTO_EN_NORM Let none despair of their estate, for Prudence greater is than Fate
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem062
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A monk with a lock on his mouth, looking upwards, holding an anchor and a book
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac079
MOTTO_LA <p>IN SILENTIO ET SPE.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11P31521
; 11P3154
; 11Q21
; 11QQ712
; 25H114
; 31A233
; 31AA2513(+933)
; 31A25221
; 31B6211
; 41A3284(+0)
; 46C215(ANCHOR)
; 49M32
; 52DD3(+4)
; 56D1(+4)
; 86(IN SILENTIO ET SPE)
MOTTO_EN <p>They that in Hope, and Silence, live,<lb/>
                                The best Contentment, may atchive.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic079.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem061
MOTTO_LA_NORM In silentio et spe
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0