<p>Upon an Altar, in this Emblem, stands<lb/> A Burning-heart ; and, therewithall, you see<lb/> Beneath Deaths-head, a paire of Loving-hands,<lb/> Which, close, and fast-united, seeme to be.<lb/> These moderne Hieroglyphickes (vulgarly<lb/> Thus bundled up together) may afford<lb/> Good-meanings, with as much Propriety,<lb/> As best, with common Iudgements, will accord.<lb/> It may imply, that, when both Hand and Heart,<lb/> By sympathizing dearenesse are invited,<lb/> To meet each others nat'rall Counterpart,<lb/> And, are by sacred Ordinance united:<lb/> They then have entred that strict Obligation,<lb/> By which they, firmely, ev'ry way are ty'd;<lb/> And, without meanes (or thought of separation)<lb/> Should in that Vnion, till their Deaths, abide;<lb/> This, therefore, minde thou, whatsoere thou be<lb/> (Whose Marriage-ring, this Covenant, hath sealed)<lb/> For, though, thy Faith's infringement, none can see,<lb/> Thy secret fault, shall one day, be revealed.<lb/> And, thou that art at liberty, take heed,<lb/> Lest thou (as over great a number doe)<lb/> Of thine owne person, make a Privy-deed,<lb/> And, afterwards, deny thy doing so.<lb/> For, though there be, nor Church, nor Chappell, nigh thee<lb/> (Nor outward witnesses of what is done)<lb/> A Power-invisible doth alwayes eye thee;<lb/> And, thy pretended Love, so lookes upon,<lb/> That, if thou be not, till thy dying, true;<lb/> Thy Falsehood, till thy dying, thou shalt rue. </p>

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The sun and a skull above two hands holding each other over a flaming heart

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<p>Death, is unable to divide<lb/> Their Hearts, whose Hands True-love hath tyde.</p>

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