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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Whilst by the High-way-side, the Flint-stone lies,<lb/>
                                Drie, cold, and hardnesse, are the properties<lb/>
                                We then perceive: But, when we prove it nigher,<lb/>
                                We finde, that, Coldnesse doth inclose a Fire ;<lb/>
                                And, that, though Raine, nor cloudie-skie appeares,<lb/>
                                It will be (many times) bedew'd with teares.<lb/>
                                From hence, I mind, that many wronged are,<lb/>
                                By being judg'd, as they, at first, appeare;<lb/>
                                And, that, some should bee prais'd, whom wee despise,<lb/>
                                If inward-Grace, were seene with outward-Eyes.<lb/>
                                But, this is not that Morall (wee confesse)<lb/>
                                Which this our Emblem, seemeth to expresse:<lb/>
                                For (if the Motto speake the meaning right)<lb/>
                                It shewes, that, hard-afflictions first must smile<lb/>
                                Our hardned hearts, before it will bee seene,<lb/>
                                That any light of Grace, in them, hath beene.<lb/>
                                Before the Flint will send forth shining Rayes,<lb/>
                                It must bee strucken, by the Steele, (it sayes.)<lb/>
                                Another Morall, adde we may to this,<lb/>
                                (Which, to the Figure, sutes not much amisse.)<lb/>
                                The Steele, and Flint, may fitly represent<lb/>
                                Hard-hearted men, whose mindes will not relent:<lb/>
                                For, when in opposition, such become,<lb/>
                                The fire of Malice, flames and sparkles from<lb/>
                                Their threatning Eyes; which else, close hidden rests,<lb/>
                                Within the closets of their flintie brests:<lb/>
                                And, flame out-right it will not, (though it smokes)<lb/>
                                Till Strife breake passage, for it, by her strokes.<lb/>
                                If any of these Moralls may doe good,<lb/>
                                The purpose of my paines is understood.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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TIPE emblempictura
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A flint and steel striking sparks; in the background blacksmiths hammering at a  wheel and an artist drawing a statue (of Venus?)
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac177
MOTTO_LA <p>ANTE FERIT QUAM FLAMMA MICET.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25H114
; 31AA14
; 41A16
; 41B111
; 46C19
; 47B111(+12)
; 47B111(+57)
; 47D8(HAMMER)
; 48C149(+726)
; 48C24:92C4
; 48C5211(+121)
; 54A11(+4)
; 86(ANTE FERIT QUAM FLAMMA MICET)
MOTTO_EN <p>Untill the Steele, the Flint shall smite,<lb/>
                                It will afford nor Heat, nor Light.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic177.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem141
MOTTO_LA_NORM Ante ferit quam flamma micet
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0