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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Some write (but, on what grounds, I cannot tell)<lb/>
                                That they, who neere unto the Deserts dwell,<lb/>
                                Where Elephants are found, doe notice take,<lb/>
                                What trees they haunt, their sleeping-stocks to make;<lb/>
                                That, when they rest against an halfe-fawne stemme,<lb/>
                                It (falling) may betray those Beasts to them.<lb/>
                                Now, though the part Historicall, may erre,<lb/>
                                The Morall, which this Emblem doth inferre,<lb/>
                                Is overtrue; and, seemeth to imply,<lb/>
                                The World to bee so full of Treacherie,<lb/>
                                As, that, no corner of it, found can be,<lb/>
                                In which, from Falshoods Engines, wee are free.<lb/>
                                I have observ'd the Citie ; and, I finde<lb/>
                                The Citizens, are civill, grave and kinde;<lb/>
                                Yet, many are deluded by their showes,<lb/>
                                And, cheated, when they trust in them repose.<lb/>
                                I have been oft at Court ; where I have spent,<lb/>
                                Some idle time, to heare them Complement :<lb/>
                                But, I have seene in Courtiers, such deceit,<lb/>
                                That, for their Favours, I could never wait.<lb/>
                                I doe frequent the Church ; and, I have heard<lb/>
                                Gods judgements, by the Preachers, there, declar'd,<lb/>
                                Against mens falshoods; and, I gladly heare<lb/>
                                Their zealous Prayers, and good Counsells there;<lb/>
                                But, as I live, I finde some such as they,<lb/>
                                Will watch to doe a mischiefe, if they may.<lb/>
                                Nay, those poore sneaking Clownes, who seeke their living,<lb/>
                                As if they knew no manner of deceiving;<lb/>
                                Ev'n those, their witts, can (this way) so apply,<lb/>
                                That, they'l soone cousen, wiser men, than I.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem148
SEQ 149
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem150
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN An elephant is standing behind a tree, which is sawn by two men; in the backgroud an elephant is lying on the ground next to a falling tree
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac185
MOTTO_LA <p>NUSQUAM TUTA FIDES.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25F25(ELEPHANT)(+46)
; 25F25(ELEPHANT)(+621)
; 25G3(+21)
; 32B33(+3)
; 45C13(SWORD)
; 47C33(+8921)
; 47D8(SAW)
; 54A2:57A6141
; 54D6(+4)
; 86(NUSQUAM TUTA FIDES)
MOTTO_EN <p>Bee warie, wheresoe're, thou bee:<lb/>
                                For, from deceit, no place is free.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic185.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem149
MOTTO_LA_NORM Nusquam tuta fides
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0