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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>When wee should use a Ruler, or a Square,<lb/>
                                Or such like Instruments, as usefull are,<lb/>
                                In forming other things; we prize not so<lb/>
                                The carving, or the colourable show<lb/>
                                (Which makes them beautifull in outward sight)<lb/>
                                As when, for Vsefulnesse, we finde them right.<lb/>
                                A warped Bowe, though strung with silken threads,<lb/>
                                And, crooked Arrowes, tipt with Golden heads,<lb/>
                                Delight not Archers ; tyet, such uselesse Toyes<lb/>
                                Be fit enough for Bunglers, and for Boyes.<lb/>
                                A skilfull Artist (in what Art soe're,<lb/>
                                He seekes, to make his ablenesse appeare)<lb/>
                                Will give large Prices, with much more content,<lb/>
                                To buy a plaine (if perfect) Instrument ;<lb/>
                                Then, take for nothing (or, for thankes alone)<lb/>
                                An uselesse Toole, though, gay to looke upon.<lb/>
                                From whence, observe; that, if there must be sought,<lb/>
                                When meere Mechanick-workes are to be wrought,<lb/>
                                Such Instruments, as rather have esteeme<lb/>
                                For their true-being, then for what they seeme.<lb/>
                                Much more, should all those Rules be such, whereby<lb/>
                                Wee goe about, our selves to rectify;<lb/>
                                And, build up, what in Body, or in minde,<lb/>
                                We may defective, or impaired finde.<lb/>
                                Else, peradventure, that we thinke to mend,<lb/>
                                More faulty may become, at later end.<lb/>
                                But, hence, I chiefly learne, to take a care,<lb/>
                                My Life, and Actions, rather be sincere,<lb/>
                                Then seeming such: And, yet, Ile thinke no shame,<lb/>
                                To seeme, to be as honest, as I am.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A square in front of a landscape with four archers aiming for a bird on a high pole; one arrow flies at the bird
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac166
MOTTO_LA <p>NON QUAM FORMOSA SED QUAM RECTA.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25H13
; 25I1
; 31D14(+74)
; 43C4211
; 46C24
; 46C2831
; 49D5112
; 86(NON QUAM FORMOSA SED QUAM RECTA)
MOTTO_EN <p>Faire-shewes, we should not so much heed,<lb/>
                                As the Vprightnesse of the Deed.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic166.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem130
MOTTO_LA_NORM Non quam formosa sed quam recta
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0