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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>When from the harmelesse Turtle, and the Snake,<lb/>
                                Their most commended properties wee take,<lb/>
                                (And, mixe them well) they make a composition,<lb/>
                                Which yeelds a temper of the best condition.<lb/>
                                Yet, wickednesse, or sorrow, doth abound,<lb/>
                                Where, any one of these, alone, is found:<lb/>
                                For, whensoe're the Serpents-braine we find,<lb/>
                                With which, there is no Dove like-meekenesse joyn'd,<lb/>
                                (Without all peradventure) thence proceedes,<lb/>
                                All harmefull fraud, and all injurious deedes.<lb/>
                                And, where such meekenesse as doth seeme to be<lb/>
                                In harmelesse Doves, divided you shall see<lb/>
                                From that discretion, and that policie,<lb/>
                                Which in the Serpents head, is thought to lie;<lb/>
                                They liable to ev'ry wrong become;<lb/>
                                And, to it selfe, make Vertue burthensome.<lb/>
                                But, where these two are ioyned, they procure<lb/>
                                A life so sweet, so rich, and so secure,<lb/>
                                That, all the pow'rs of Malice cannot shake<lb/>
                                Their out-workes, nor within them, terrors make.<lb/>
                                Vouchsafe thou oh my God! vouchsafe, in me,<lb/>
                                That these two Vertues may vnited be.<lb/>
                                Such Prudence give, as never will disdaine<lb/>
                                The Dove-like Innocencie, to retaine.<lb/>
                                That meekenesse, grant me, which aelighteth not,<lb/>
                                It selfe, with indiscretion, to besot:<lb/>
                                But, let these two, each other so defend,<lb/>
                                And, so, in me continue, till my end,<lb/>
                                That, simple-prudence, I may still possesse,<lb/>
                                Although the World shall count it foolishnesse.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem116
SEQ 117
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem118
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A caduceus with a dove on top; in the background "noli me tangere"
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac153
MOTTO_LA <p>PRUDENTE SIMPLICITATE.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11M41
; 25F39(DOVE)
; 25F42(+5253)
; 25H114
; 25I1
; 31AA233
; 31A2512(+933)
; 47I15(SPADE)
; 52A24(+4)
; 57A642(+4)
; 73E31
; 86(PRUDENTE SIMPLICITATE)
; 92B58(CADUCEUS)(+0)
MOTTO_EN <p>Man's life, no Temper, more doth blesse,<lb/>
                                Then Simple-prudent-harmelessenesse.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic153.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem117
MOTTO_LA_NORM Prudente simplicitate
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0