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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>When first I knew the world, (and was untaught<lb/>
                                By tryde experience, what true Friendship meant)<lb/>
                                That I had many faithfull friends, I thought;<lb/>
                                And, of their Love, was wondrous confident.<lb/>
                                For, few so young in yeares, and meane in fortune,<lb/>
                                Of their Familiars, had such troopes, as I,<lb/>
                                Who did their daily fellowship importune;<lb/>
                                Or, seeme so pleased in their company.<lb/>
                                In all their friendly meetings, I was one;<lb/>
                                And, of the Quorum, in their honest game:<lb/>
                                By day or night, I seldome sate alone;<lb/>
                                And, welcome seemed, wheresoere I came.<lb/>
                                But, where are now those multitudes of Friends ?<lb/>
                                Alas! they on a sudden flasht away.<lb/>
                                Their love begun, but, for some sensuall ends,<lb/>
                                Which fayling them, it would no longer stay.<lb/>
                                If I to vaine expences, would have mov'd them,<lb/>
                                They, nor their paines, nor purses, would have spared;<lb/>
                                But, in a reall need, if I had prov'd them,<lb/>
                                Small showes of kindnesse, had bin then declared.<lb/>
                                Of thrice three thousands, two, perhaps, or three,<lb/>
                                Are left me now, which (yet) as Friends I prize;<lb/>
                                But, none of them, of that great number be,<lb/>
                                With whom I had my youthfull Iollities.<lb/>
                                If, therefore, thou desire a Friend, on Earth,<lb/>
                                Let one pure-faith betwixt you bee begot,<lb/>
                                And, seeke him not, in vanities, or mirth,<lb/>
                                But, let Afflictions tye your true-love-knot :<lb/>
                                For, they who to the Crosse, are firmely tyde,<lb/>
                                Will fast, and everlasting Friends, abide.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem062
SEQ 63
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem064
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN Two right hands, tied together with a ribbon, touch each other's fingertips over a cross
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac081
MOTTO_LA <p>CONIUNCTIS VOTIS.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11C13
; 11D121
; 22C31
; 25H17
; 25I3
; 31A2543(+934)
; 41D2653
; 47C421
; 56F23
; 86(CONIUNCTIS VOTIS)
MOTTO_EN <p>Their Friendship firme will ever bide,<lb/>
                                Whose hands unto the Crosse are tide.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic081.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem063
MOTTO_LA_NORM Coniunctis votis
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0