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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>If you, this Emblem, well have look'd upon,<lb/>
                                Although you cannot helpe it, yet, bemone<lb/>
                                The Worlds blacke Impudence; and, if you can,<lb/>
                                Continue (or become) an honest man.<lb/>
                                The poore, and petty Pilferers, yon see<lb/>
                                On Wheeles, on Gibbets, and the Gallow tree<lb/>
                                Trust up; when they, that farre more guilty are,<lb/>
                                Pearle, Silke, and costly Cloth of Tissue, weare.<lb/>
                                Good God! how many hath each Land of those,<lb/>
                                Who, neither limbe, nor life, nor credit lose<lb/>
                                (But, rather live befriended, and applauded)<lb/>
                                Yet, have of all their livelihoods defrauded<lb/>
                                The helplesse Widowes, in their great distresse?<lb/>
                                And, of their Portions, robd the Fatherlesse ?<lb/>
                                Yet, censur'd others Errours, as if none<lb/>
                                Had cause to say, that they amisse have done?<lb/>
                                How many, have assisted to condemne<lb/>
                                Poore soules, for what was never stolne by them?<lb/>
                                And, persecuted others, for that Sin,<lb/>
                                Which they themselves, had more transgressed in?<lb/>
                                How many worthlesse men, are great become,<lb/>
                                By that, which they have stolne, or cheated from<lb/>
                                Their Lords ? or (by some practices unjust)<lb/>
                                From those, by whom they had beene put in trust?<lb/>
                                How many Lawyers, wealthy men are growne,<lb/>
                                By taking Fees, for Causes overthrowne<lb/>
                                By their defaults? How many, without feare,<lb/>
                                Doe rob the King, and God, yet blamelesse are?<lb/>
                                God knowes how many! would I did so, too,<lb/>
                                So I had pow'r to make them better doe.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem132
SEQ 133
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem134
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A civil servant, wearing a gold chain, walks away from a treasure chest with a stolen bag of money; in the background a robbery takes place and criminals are hanging from the gallows
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac169
MOTTO_LA <p>FVRES PRIVATI IN NERVO PVBLICI IN AVRO.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25I1
; 31A2331
; 31A25222(+925)
; 31E2355
; 41D2661:25D13(GOLD)
; 41D267
; 42E3113
; 44D4
; 44G321(GALLOWS)
; 44G343
; 44G522
; 45C13(SWORD)
; 46A1632
; 59CC21(+4)
; 59CC221(+4)
; 86(FURES PRIVATI IN NERVO PUBLICI IN AURO)
MOTTO_EN <p>Poore-Theeves, in Halters, we behold,<lb/>
                                And, great-Theeves, in their Chaines of gold.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic169.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem133
MOTTO_LA_NORM Fures privati in nervo publici in auro
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0