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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>An Emblem's meaning, here, I thought to conster;<lb/>
                                And, this doth rather fashion out a Monster,<lb/>
                                Then forme an Hieroglyphicke : but, I had<lb/>
                                These Figures (as you see them) ready made<lb/>
                                By others; and, I meane to morallize<lb/>
                                Their Fancies; not to mend what they devise.<lb/>
                                Yet, peradventure, with some vulgar praise,<lb/>
                                This Picture (though I like it not) displayes<lb/>
                                The Morall, which the Motto doth imply;<lb/>
                                And, thus, it may be sayd to signifie.<lb/>
                                He, that hath many Faculties, or Friends,<lb/>
                                To keepe him safe (or to acquire his ends)<lb/>
                                And, fits them so; and, keepes them so together,<lb/>
                                That, still, as readily, they ayd each other,<lb/>
                                As if so many Hands, they had been made;<lb/>
                                And, in One-body, usefull being had:<lb/>
                                That man, by their Assistance, may, at length,<lb/>
                                Attaine to an unconquerable strength ;<lb/>
                                And, crowne his honest Hopes, with whatsoever<lb/>
                                He seekes for, by a warranted Endeavour.<lb/>
                                Or, else, it might be sayd; that, when we may<lb/>
                                Make our Affections, and, our Sense, obay<lb/>
                                The will of Reason, (and, so well agree,<lb/>
                                That, we may finde them, still, at peace to be)<lb/>
                                They'l guard us, like so many Armed-hands ;<lb/>
                                And, safely keepe us, whatsoere withstands.<lb/>
                                If others thinke this Figure, here, inferres<lb/>
                                A better sense; let those Interpreters<lb/>
                                Vnriddle it; and, preach it where they please:<lb/>
                                Their Meanings may be good, and so are these.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 145
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
seems to suggest that Wither did not make the connection with the Geryon imagery.
ANNOT Wither's text: "I had these Figures (as you see them) ready made by others; and, I meane to morallize their fancies; not to mend what they devise ... If others thinke this Figure, here, inferres a better sense; let those Interpreters unriddle it; and, preach it where they please"
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A king (Geryon) with six arms; his right hands hold a sword, a hammer and an axe, a sword and a sceptre, his left hands hold a morning star and arrows; in the background a lame man carried by a blind man, about to cross a brook
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac181
MOTTO_LA <p>CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25H114
; 25H213
; 25I2
; 31A41112
; 31A442(+44)
; 31A2711
; 31A2733
; 31A415
; 31A4153
; 33A610
; 46C1271
; 44B191
; 45C12(HAMMER)
; 45C12(MORNING STAR)
; 45C13(DAGGER)(+0)
; 45C13(SWORD)
; 45C15(ARROW)
; 46C1111
; 54E11
; 54E31(+4)
; 86(CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS)
; 95A(GERYON)71
MOTTO_EN <p>Where many-Forces joyned are,<lb/>
                                Vnconquerable-pow'r, is there</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic181.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem145
MOTTO_LA_NORM Concordia insuperabilis
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0