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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>That, which wee call the Sea-horse, is a Creature,<lb/>
                                Whereby the Priests of Aegypt, wonted were,<lb/>
                                To typify an Ill-disposed nature ;<lb/>
                                And, such, as to their Parents, cruell are:<lb/>
                                Because, this Monster (as their Authors write)<lb/>
                                When strong he growes, becommeth so ingrate,<lb/>
                                That he pursues, with violent despight,<lb/>
                                His old and weakly Sire, which him begate.<lb/>
                                Contrariwise, the Storke, they figur'd, then,<lb/>
                                When they occasion had, to signifie<lb/>
                                The good condition, of those honest men,<lb/>
                                Who pleasure take, in workes of Piety :<lb/>
                                Because, the Storkes, not onely harmed none,<lb/>
                                But, holpe their aged Parents in their need;<lb/>
                                And, those offensive Serpents, prey'd upon,<lb/>
                                Which, in the Fennes of Aegypt, yearely, breed.<lb/>
                                The Royall-Crowne, therefore, supporting thus<lb/>
                                That pious Fowle, and overtopping, here,<lb/>
                                The wicked, and the fierce Hyppotamus,<lb/>
                                May serve to comfort, and to keep in feare.<lb/>
                                For, it informes, that, if we pious grow,<lb/>
                                And love our Princes (who those Parents bee,<lb/>
                                To whom all Subjects, filiall duties owe)<lb/>
                                The blessings of their Favours, we shall see.<lb/>
                                It shewes us, also, that, if we affect<lb/>
                                Vnrighteous-wayes, no Wit, or Strength of our,<lb/>
                                Nor any Vncouth-place, shall us protect<lb/>
                                From being reached, by the Sov'raigne-power.<lb/>
                                The way of Iustice, therefore, learne thou still,<lb/>
                                For love of Goodnesse, or for feare of Ill.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem120
SEQ 121
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem122
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A sea-horse, hippocamp, lying on the shore, next to a crowned sceptre with a stork on top who cuts a snake in half
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac157
MOTTO_LA <p>DISCITE IUSTITIAM.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25F(+36)
; 25F37(STORK)(+452):25F42
; 25F62(HIPPOCAMPUS)
; 25FF62
; 25H214
; 25I1
; 44B191
; 44B192
; 44G321(GALLOWS)
; 46C24
; 53B6(+4)
; 59C2(+4)
; 86(DISCITE IUSTITIAM)
MOTTO_EN <p>Bee Iust ; for, neither Sea nor Land,<lb/>
                                Shall hide thee from the Royall-hand.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic157.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem121
MOTTO_LA_NORM Discite iustitiam
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0