<p>Marke, how the Cornucopias, here, apply<lb/> Their Plenties, to the Rod of Mercury ;<lb/> And (if it seeme not needlesse) learne, to know<lb/> This Hieroglyphick's meaning, ere you goe.<lb/> The Sages old, by this Mercurian-wand<lb/> ( Caducaeus nam'd) were wont to understand<lb/> Art, Wisedome, Vertue, and what else we finde,<lb/> Reputed for endowments of the Minde.<lb/> The Cornucopias, well-knowne Emblems, are,<lb/> By which, great wealth, and plenties, figur'd were;<lb/> And (if you joyne together, what they spell)<lb/> It will, to ev'ry Vnderstanding, tell,<lb/> That, where Internall-Graces may be found,<lb/> Eternall-blessings, ever, will abound.<lb/> For, this is truth, and (though some thoughts in you<lb/> Suggest, that this is, often times, untrue)<lb/> This, ever is the truth ; and, they have got<lb/> Few right-form'd Vertues, who believe it not.<lb/> I will confesse, true Vertue hath not ever<lb/> All Common-plenties, for which most indeavour;<lb/> Nor have the Perfect'st-Vertues, those high places,<lb/> Which Knowledge, Arts (and, such as have the faces<lb/> Of outward beauty ) many times, attaine;<lb/> For, these are things, which (often) those men gaine,<lb/> That are more flesh, then spirit ; and, have need<lb/> Of carnall-helpes, till higher they proceede.<lb/> But, they, of whom I speake, are flowne so high,<lb/> As, not to want those Toyes, for which wee crye:<lb/> And, I had showne you somewhat of their store,<lb/> But, that, this Page, had roome to write no more.<lb/> </p>

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Mercury's staff and hat (caduceus and petasus) and cornucopiae

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<p>VIRTVTI FORTVNA COMES.</p>

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<p>Good-fortune, will by those abide,<lb/> In whom, True-vertue doth reside.</p>

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