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When you have heeded, by your Eyes of sense,
This Helmet, hiving of a Swarme of Bees,
Consider, what may gather'd be from thence,
And, what your Eye of Vnderstanding sees.
That Helmet, and, those other Weapons, there,
Betoken Warre ; the Honey-making, Flyes,
An Emblem of a happy Kingdome, are,
Injoying Peace, by painfull Industries:
And, when, all these together are exprest,
As in this Emblem, where the Bees, doe seeme
To make their dwelling, in a Plumed-Crest,
A Morall is implyed, worth esteeme.
For, these inferre, mysteriously, to me,
That, Peace, and Art, and Thrift, most firme abides,
In those Re-publikes, where, Armes cherisht bee;
And, where, true Martiall-discipline, resides.
When, of their Stings, the Bees, disarm'd, become,
They, who, on others Labours, use to prey,
Incourag'd are, with violence, to come,
And, beare their Honey, and, their Waxe, away.
So when a People, meerely, doe affect
To gather Wealth; and (foolishly secure)
Defences necessary, quite neglect;
Their Foes, to spoyle their Land, it will allure.
Long Peace, brings Warre ; and, Warre, brings Peace, againe:
For, when the smart of Warfare seizeth on them,
They crye, Alarme ; and, then, to fight, are faine,
Vntill, their Warre, another Peace, hath wonne them;
And, out of their old rusty Helmets, then,
New Bees doe swarme, and, fall to worke agen.
EX BELLO PAX.
HIM GUL ; EMBLEMS ; ILL_BOOK IC 25F38(OSTRICH)(+352) ; 25F711(BEE)(+5262) ; 25H114 ; 25I3 ; 45A10 ; 45A20 ; 45A231 ; 45C14(LANCE) ; 45C13(SWORD) ; 45C19(SHIELD) ; 45C221 ; 47I242(+0) ; 47I243(+95262) ; 86(EX BELLO PAX) MOTTO_ENThe Bees, will in an Helmet breed;
And, Peace, doth after Warre, succeed.