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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>What in this Emblem, that mans meanings were,<lb/>
                                Who made it first, I neither know nor care;<lb/>
                                For, whatsoere, he purposed, or thought,<lb/>
                                To serve my purpose, now it shall be taught;<lb/>
                                Who, many times, before this Taske is ended,<lb/>
                                Must picke out Moralls, where was none intended.<lb/>
                                This knot of Moones (or Crescents ) crowned thus,<lb/>
                                Illustrate may a Mystery to us,<lb/>
                                Of pious use (and, peradventure, such,<lb/>
                                As from old Hieroglyphicks, erres not much)<lb/>
                                Old-times, upon the Moone, three names bestow'd;<lb/>
                                Because, three diverse wayes, her selfe she show'd:<lb/>
                                And, in the sacred-bookes, it may be showne,<lb/>
                                That holy-Church, was figur'd by the Moone.<lb/>
                                Then, these three Moones in one, may intimate<lb/>
                                The holy-Churches threefold blest estate.<lb/>
                                The Moone, still, biding in our Hemisphaere,<lb/>
                                May typifie the Church, consisting, here,<lb/>
                                Of men, yet living: when she shewes her light<lb/>
                                Among us here, in portions of the night ;<lb/>
                                The Church it figures, as consist she may<lb/>
                                Of them, whose bodies in the Grave doe stay;<lb/>
                                And, whose blest spirits, are ascended thither,<lb/>
                                Where Soule and Body meet, at last, together.<lb/>
                                But, when the Moone is hidden from our eyes,<lb/>
                                The Church-triumphant, then, she signifies;<lb/>
                                Which, is a Crescent yet, that, some, and some,<lb/>
                                Must grow, till all her parts together come:<lb/>
                                And, then, this Moone shall beames, at full, display;<lb/>
                                Lord, hasten this great Coronation-day.
                        </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem098
SEQ 99
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
ANNOT It is close to impossible that Wither did not know that this was the device of Henry II of France, since that would mean he was not familiar with Paradin's Devises heroïques.
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem100
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN Three crescents of the moon with a crown
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac117
MOTTO_LA <p>DONEC TOTVM IMPLEAT ORBEM.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11P110
; 11P15
; 23R14
; 24B1
; 24B3
; 25H114
; 25I42
; 44B191
; 46A122(HENRY II [of France])3
; 47D41
; 51I2(+4):250
; 53D2(+4)
; 59B32(+4)
; 61B2(HENRY II [of France])3
; 86(DONEC TOTUM IMPLEAT ORBEM)
MOTTO_EN <p>Shee shall increase in glory, still,<lb/>
                                Vntill her light, the world, doth fill.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic117.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem099
MOTTO_LA_NORM Donec totum impleat orbem
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0