<p>Some Folkes there are, (and many men suppose,<lb/> That I my selfe, may passe for one of those)<lb/> Who many likely Businesses intend,<lb/> Yet, bring but very few, unto an end.<lb/> Which folly to prevent, this Emblem, here,<lb/> Did in a luckie houre, perhaps, appeare.<lb/> For, as to draw a Circle, with our hand,<lb/> We cause the brazen Compasses to stand<lb/> With one foot firmely fixed one the ground;<lb/> And move the other in a Constant-round :<lb/> Right so, when we shall purpose to proceed<lb/> In any just, and profitable deed,<lb/> We first, should by a constant-resolution,<lb/> Stand firme, to what we put in execution:<lb/> And, then, with perseverance, labour out<lb/> Those workings, which we are employ'd about.<lb/> For, we with constant-liking, must elect<lb/> Those Businesses, we purpose to effect:<lb/> Or els, our time, our labour, and our cost,<lb/> Will, oft, be much in vaine, or wholly lost.<lb/> With constant-labour, we must follow, too,<lb/> Those things, which we resolved are to do;<lb/> Or, els, our hopes will never be effected,<lb/> How warily soe're we have projected.<lb/> Long Iourneys I abhorre; yet, otherwhile<lb/> I meane a Furlong, and performe a Mile.<lb/> I greatly feare Long-labours to begin;<lb/> Yet, some I finish, when I'me entred in:<lb/> And, if in Labour, I more constant grow,<lb/> How I improve, hereafter, you shall know.<lb/> </p>

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A hand from the clouds draws a circle on a large stone with a pair of compasses; astronomers measuring and calculating, in the background

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<p>LABORE ET CONSTANTIA.</p>

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<p>Good Hopes, we best accomplish may,<lb/> By lab'ring in a constant-Way.</p>

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