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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Though this bee but the picture of that Glasse,<lb/>
                                By which thou measur'st how thine houres doe passe.<lb/>
                                Yet, sleight it not; for, much 'twill profit thee,<lb/>
                                To ponder what the Morals of it bee.<lb/>
                                And, 'tis an Emblem, whence the Wise may learne,<lb/>
                                That, which their persons, neerely doth concerne.<lb/>
                                The brittle Glasse, serves fitly to expresse<lb/>
                                The Bodie's frailtie, and much crasinesse.<lb/>
                                Foure Pillars, which the glassie worke empale,<lb/>
                                Instruct thee, that the Vertues Cardinall,<lb/>
                                To guard the Manhood, should bee still employ'd,<lb/>
                                Lest else the feeble fabrick bee destroy'd.<lb/>
                                The Sand, still running forth, without delay,<lb/>
                                Doth shew, that Life-time, passeth fast away,<lb/>
                                And, makes no stop: yea, and the Motto too,<lb/>
                                (Lest thou forgetfull prove) informes thee so.<lb/>
                                By viewing this, Occasion, therefore, take,<lb/>
                                Of thy fast-flying Houres, more use to make;<lb/>
                                And, heedfull bee, to shunne their common crime,<lb/>
                                Who take much care to trifle out the time;<lb/>
                                As if it merited their utmost paine,<lb/>
                                To lose the gemme, which most they seeke to gaine.<lb/>
                                Time-past is lost already: Time-to-come,<lb/>
                                Belongs, as yet, thou knowst not unto whom.<lb/>
                                The present-houres are thine, and, onely those,<lb/>
                                Of which thou hast Commission to dispose;<lb/>
                                And, they from thee, doe flye away so fast,<lb/>
                                That, they are scarcely knowne, till they are past.<lb/>
                                Lord, give mee grace, to minde, and use Time so,<lb/>
                                That, I may doe thy worke, before I goe.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 154
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem155
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A flaming heart on top of an hourglass; in the background a battle scene with a king (Saul?) who kills himself with his own sword
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac208
MOTTO_LA <p>FESTINAT DECURRERE.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 23U22
; 25I2
; 31A22210:41B121
; 31E234631(+7)
; 45C41
; 52B41(+4):11M31
; 71H3222
; 86(FESTINAT DECURSERE)
MOTTO_EN <p>Pursue thy Workes, without delay,<lb/>
                                For, thy short houres runne fast away.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic208.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem154
MOTTO_LA_NORM Festinat decurrere
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0