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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>If this nigh-wasted Candle, you shall view,<lb/>
                                And, heed it well, it may enlighten you<lb/>
                                To looke with more compassion, on their paines,<lb/>
                                Who rob themselves, to multiply your gaines.<lb/>
                                The Taper burnes, to give another light,<lb/>
                                Ev'n till it selfe, it hath consumed quite;<lb/>
                                And, all the profit, which it thence doth winne,<lb/>
                                Is to be snufft, by ev'ry Commer-in.<lb/>
                                This is the Lot of some, whom I have knowne,<lb/>
                                Who, freely, all their life-time, have bestowne<lb/>
                                In such industrious labour, as appeares,<lb/>
                                To further others profits, more then theirs;<lb/>
                                And, all their Patrimonies, well nigh spent,<lb/>
                                The ruining of others, to prevent.<lb/>
                                The wit, the strength, and all the pow'r they had,<lb/>
                                (Which might, by probability, have made<lb/>
                                Good meanes to raise them, in this world, as high,<lb/>
                                As most, who climbe to wealthy dignity)<lb/>
                                Ev'n these, they have bestow'd, to better them,<lb/>
                                Who their indeavours, for their paines, contemne.<lb/>
                                These are those Lamps, whose flames, from time to time,<lb/>
                                Have through each Age, and through-our ev'ry Clime,<lb/>
                                To one another, that true Light convey'd,<lb/>
                                Which Ignorance, had, els, long since betray'd<lb/>
                                To utter darknesse. These, despightfull Pride<lb/>
                                Oft snuffs; and, oft, to put them out, hath try'd.<lb/>
                                But, from the brightnesse of such Lights, as they,<lb/>
                                We got our Light of knowledge, at this day.<lb/>
                                To them, God make us kinder; and to Him,<lb/>
                                More thankfull, that we gain'd such light by them.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem130
SEQ 131
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem132
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A burning candle; in the background Marcus Curtius leaps with his horse into a chasm with lethal fumes
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac167
MOTTO_LA <p>ALIIS INSERVIENDO CONSUMOR.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25C14
; 25H13
; 25I1
; 41B31(+1)
; 41B313
; 46C13185
; 46C24
; 57A65(+4)
; 61E(ROME)(+0)
; 86(ALIIS INSERVIENDO CONSUMOR)
; 98B(CURTIUS, M.)68
MOTTO_EN <p>My Substance, and my Light, are spent,<lb/>
                                In seeking other mens content.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic167.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem131
MOTTO_LA_NORM Aliis inserviendo consumor
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0