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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>We more should thrive, and erre the seldomer,<lb/>
                                If we were like this honest Carpenter,<lb/>
                                Whose Emblem, in reproofe of those, is made,<lb/>
                                That love to meddle, farther then their Trade.<lb/>
                                But, most are now exceeding cunning growne<lb/>
                                In ev'ry mans affaires, except their owne:<lb/>
                                Yea, Coblers thinke themselves not onely able,<lb/>
                                To censure; but, to mend Apelles Table.<lb/>
                                Great-Men, sometime, will gravely undertake<lb/>
                                To teach, how Broomes and Morter, we should make.<lb/>
                                Their Indiscretions, Peasants imitate,<lb/>
                                And boldly meddle with affaires of State.<lb/>
                                Some Houswives teach their Teachers how to pray,<lb/>
                                Some Clarks, have shew'd themselves, as wise as they;<lb/>
                                And in their Callings, as discreet have bin,<lb/>
                                As if they taught their Grandames how to spinne :<lb/>
                                And, if these Customes, last a few more Ages,<lb/>
                                All Countries will be nothing els, but Stages<lb/>
                                Of evill-acted, and mistaken parts;<lb/>
                                Or, Gallemaufries, of imperfect Arts.<lb/>
                                But, I my selfe (you'l say) have medlings made,<lb/>
                                In things, that are improper to my Trade.<lb/>
                                No; for, the MVSES are in all things free;<lb/>
                                Fit subject of their Verse, all Creatures be;<lb/>
                                And, there is nothing nam'd so meane, or great,<lb/>
                                Whereof they have not Liberty to treat.<lb/>
                                Both Earth and Heav'n, are open unto these;<lb/>
                                And (when to take more libertie they please)<lb/>
                                They Worlds, and things, create, which never were;<lb/>
                                And, when they list, they play, and meddle, there.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 114
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem115
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A builder holding his tools: a ruler, a square and a plumb-line (comparison between poetry and architecture)
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac150
MOTTO_LA <p>TRACTANT FABRILIA FABRI.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11Q712
; 25I144
; 31AA2513(+933)
; 31B6211
; 31D14
; 41D221(HAT)
; 47G311
; 47G6(PLUMB-LINE)
; 47G6(RULER)
; 48C11(+0)
; 48C901
; 49D511(RULER)
; 49D5112
; 86(TRACTANT FABRILIA FABRI)
MOTTO_EN <p>When each man keepes unto his Trade,<lb/>
                                Then, all things better will be made.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic150.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem114
MOTTO_LA_NORM Tractant fabrilia fabri
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0