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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>The Gryphon, is the figure of a creature,<lb/>
                                Not found within the Catalogues of Nature :<lb/>
                                But, by those Wits created, who, to shew<lb/>
                                Internall things, externall Figures drew:<lb/>
                                The Shape, in which this Fiction they exprest,<lb/>
                                Was borrow'd from a Fowle, and, from a Beast ;<lb/>
                                Importing (when their parts were thus combin'd)<lb/>
                                The Vertues, both of Body, and of minde :<lb/>
                                And, Men are sayd on Gryphons backes to ride,<lb/>
                                When those mixt Vertues, them have dignify'd.<lb/>
                                The Stone (this Brute supporting) may expresse<lb/>
                                The firme abiding, and the solidnesse<lb/>
                                Of all true Vertues. That, long-winged Ball,<lb/>
                                Which doth appeare fast-linked therewithall,<lb/>
                                The gifts of changing Fortune, doe implye:<lb/>
                                And, all those things together, signifie,<lb/>
                                That, when by such-like Vertues Men are guided,<lb/>
                                Good Fortune cannot be from them divided.<lb/>
                                If this be true (as true I this believe)<lb/>
                                Why should wee murmure, why repine, or grieve,<lb/>
                                As if our Studies, or our honest paines,<lb/>
                                Deprived were of some deserved gaines?<lb/>
                                Why should we thinke the world hath done us wrong,<lb/>
                                Because wee are not register'd among<lb/>
                                Those thriving men, who purse up evr'y day,<lb/>
                                For twelve houres labour more then twelve months pay?<lb/>
                                If wee our paines rewarded cannot see,<lb/>
                                Wee count our Merits greater then they be.<lb/>
                                But if we bide content, our worth is more,<lb/>
                                And rich we are, though others think us poore.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A griffin on a board from which a winged globe is hanging; in the background Christ appears to Saul on the way to Damascus
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac141
MOTTO_LA <p>VIRTUTE DUCE COMITE FORTUNA.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25FF231
; 25H114
; 25I2
; 47G5432(+0)
; 49D48:25F3(+342)
; 73F2212
; 86(VIRTUTE DUCE COMITE FORTUNA)
MOTTO_EN <p>Good Fortune will with him abide,<lb/>
                                That hath true Vertue, for his guide.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic141.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem105
MOTTO_LA_NORM Virtute duce comite fortuna
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0