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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>This is a well-knowne Figure, signifying,<lb/>
                                A man, whose Vertues will abide the trying:<lb/>
                                For, by the nature of the Diamond stone,<lb/>
                                (Which, Violence, can no way worke upon)<lb/>
                                That Patience, and long-suffering is intended,<lb/>
                                Which will not bee with Injuries offended;<lb/>
                                Nor yeeld to any base dejectednesse,<lb/>
                                Although some bruising Pow'r, the same oppresse;<lb/>
                                Or, such hard streights, as theirs, that hamm'rings feele,<lb/>
                                Betwixt an Anvile, and a Sledge of Steele.<lb/>
                                None ever had a perfect Vertue, yet,<lb/>
                                But, that most Pretious-stone, which God hath set<lb/>
                                On his right hand, in beaming-Majestie,<lb/>
                                Vpon the Ring of blest ETERNITIE.<lb/>
                                And, this, is that impenitrable Stone,<lb/>
                                The Serpent could not leave impression on,<lb/>
                                (Nor signe of any Path-way ) by temptations,<lb/>
                                Or, by the pow'r of sly insinuations:<lb/>
                                Which wondrous Mysterie was of those five,<lb/>
                                Whose depth King Solomon could never dive.<lb/>
                                Good God! vouchsafe, ev'n for that Diamond -sake,<lb/>
                                That, I may of his pretiousnesse, partake,<lb/>
                                In all my Trialls, make mee alwayes able<lb/>
                                To bide them, with a minde impenitrable,<lb/>
                                How hard, or oft so'ere, those hamm'rings bee,<lb/>
                                Wherewith Affections must new fashion mee.<lb/>
                                And, as the common Diamonds polish'd are,<lb/>
                                By their owne dust; so, let my errours weare<lb/>
                                Each other out; And, when that I am pure,<lb/>
                                Give mee the Lustre, Lord, that will endure.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A hand from the clouds hitting a diamond on an anvil with a hammer; in the background: Judith with the head of Holofernes, her maid holding a sack
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac173
MOTTO_LA <p>VIRTUS INEXPUNGABILIS.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25D11(DIAMOND)
; 25H114
; 25I1
; 31A2512(+933)
; 31A2743
; 41A1911
; 47D8(ANVIL)
; 47D8(HAMMER)
; 47D8(TONGS)
; 53A22:57A6(+4)
; 54A4(+4)
; 71U4274(+0)
; 86(VIRTUS INEXPUGNABILIS)
MOTTO_EN <p>True Vertue, firme, will alwayes bide,<lb/>
                                By whatsoever suffrings tride.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic173.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem137
MOTTO_LA_NORM Virtus inexpungabilis
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0