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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>That Head, which in his Temple, heretofore,<lb/>
                                The well-knowne figure of old Ianus bore,<lb/>
                                Retain'd the forme, which pictur'd here you finde;<lb/>
                                A Face before him, and a Face behinde.<lb/>
                                And this old Hieroglyphicke doth comprize<lb/>
                                A multitude of Heathenish Mysteries;<lb/>
                                Which, wee omitting, will insist on what<lb/>
                                This Emblem's Motto, chiefely poynteth at.<lb/>
                                In true Divinity, 'tis God alone,<lb/>
                                To whom, all hidden things are truely knowne.<lb/>
                                Hee, onely, is that ever-present-being,<lb/>
                                Who, by the vertue of his pow'r all-seeing,<lb/>
                                Beholds, at one aspect, all things that are,<lb/>
                                That ever shall be, and that ever were.<lb/>
                                But, in a Morall-sense, we may apply<lb/>
                                This double-face, that man to signifie,<lb/>
                                Who (whatsoere he undertakes to doe)<lb/>
                                Lookes, both before him, and behinde him, too.<lb/>
                                For, he shall never fruitfully forecast<lb/>
                                Affaires to come, who mindes not what is past :<lb/>
                                And, such as doe not, oft, before them looke,<lb/>
                                May lose the labour, that's already tooke.<lb/>
                                By, sometimes, looking backward, we behold<lb/>
                                Those things, which have been done in times of old ;<lb/>
                                By looking wisely forward, we foresee<lb/>
                                Such matters, as in future-times will bee:<lb/>
                                And, thus, we doe not onely fruits receive,<lb/>
                                From that short space of time, in which we live;<lb/>
                                But, by this meanes, we likewise have a share,<lb/>
                                In times to come, and, times that passed are.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 104
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem105
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A door with a Janus' head in a landscape
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac140
MOTTO_LA <p>PANDO RECONDITA.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25H114
; 25I1
; 41A3221
; 41A328
; 46A14
; 48C162
; 51F5(+4)
; 51FF5(+4)
; 52A7(+4)
; 96A128(JANUS' HEAD)
; 86(PANDO RECONDITA)
MOTTO_EN <p>He, that concealed things will finde,<lb/>
                                Must looke before him, and behinde.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic140.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem104
MOTTO_LA_NORM Pando recondita
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0