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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>When Ganymed, himselfe was purifying,<lb/>
                                Great Iupiter, his naked beauty spying,<lb/>
                                Sent forth his Aegle (from below to take him)<lb/>
                                A blest Inhabitant, in Heav'n to make him:<lb/>
                                And, there (as Poets feigned) he doth still,<lb/>
                                To Iove, and other God-heads, Nectar fill.<lb/>
                                Though this be but a Fable, of their feigning,<lb/>
                                The Morall is a Reall truth, pertayning<lb/>
                                To ev'ry one (which harbours a desire<lb/>
                                Above the Starry Circles, to aspire.)<lb/>
                                By Ganymed, the Soule is understood,<lb/>
                                That's washed in the Purifying flood<lb/>
                                Of sacred Baptisme (which doth make her seeme<lb/>
                                Both pure and beautifull, in God's esteeme.)<lb/>
                                The Aegle, meanes that Heav'nly Contemplation,<lb/>
                                Which, after Washings of Regeneration,<lb/>
                                Lifts up the Minde, from things that earthly bee,<lb/>
                                To view those Objects, which Faith's Eyes doe see.<lb/>
                                The Nectar, which is filled out, and given<lb/>
                                To all the blest Inhabitants of Heaven,<lb/>
                                Are those Delights, which ( Christ hath sayd) they have,<lb/>
                                When some Repentant soule beginnes to leave<lb/>
                                Her foulnesse; by renewing of her birth,<lb/>
                                And, slighting all the Pleasures of the Earth.<lb/>
                                I aske not, Lord, those Blessings to receive,<lb/>
                                Which any Man hath pow'r to take, or give;<lb/>
                                Nor, what this World affords; for, I contemne<lb/>
                                Her Favours; and have seene the best of them:<lb/>
                                Nay, Heav'n it selfe, will unsufficient bee,<lb/>
                                Vnlesse, Thou, also, give Thy selfe, to mee.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN Ganymede carried away by Jupiter's eagle (or Jupiter in the form of an eagle)
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac158
MOTTO_LA <p>NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11Q02
; 25F33(EAGLE)(+5246)
; 25F33(EAGLE)(+5262)
; 25H213
; 31A235
; 31D12(+89)
; 31D14(+89)
; 34B11(+95711)
; 41D271
; 58B3(+4)
; 86(ΓΑΝΥΜΗΔΗΣ)
; 86(NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO)
; 92BB121
MOTTO_EN <p>Take wing, my Soule, and mount up higher;<lb/>
                                For, Earth, fulfills not my Desire.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic158.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem122
MOTTO_LA_NORM Non est mortale quod opto
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0