<p>T'is true, a wither'd-branch I am, and seeme<lb/> To some, as voyd of Hopes, as of esteeme;<lb/> For, in their judgements, I appeare to be<lb/> A saplesse Bough, quite broken from the Tree,<lb/> (Ev'n such as that, in this our Emblem, here)<lb/> And, yet, I neither feele Despaire, nor Feare ;<lb/> For, I have seene (e're now) a little Spray,<lb/> (Rent from her Stemme ) lye trodden by the way,<lb/> Three moneths together; which, when Spring drew on,<lb/> To take an unexpected Root begun;<lb/> (Yea, grew to bee a Tree) and, growing, stood,<lb/> When those great Groves, were fell'd for firing-wood,<lb/> Which once had high esteeme; and sprung unhurt,<lb/> While that poore Branch, lay sleighted in the durt.<lb/> Nay, I have seene such twiggs, afford them shade,<lb/> By whom they were the meanest shrippings made,<lb/> Of all the Wood ; And, you may live to see,<lb/> (For ought yet knowne) some such event in mee.<lb/> And, what if all who know mee, see me dead,<lb/> Before those hopes begin to spring and spread?<lb/> Have therefore they that hate me, cause to boast,<lb/> As if mine expectations I had lost?<lb/> No sure: For, I, who by Faith's eyes have seene,<lb/> Old Aarons wither'd Rod grow fresh and greene;<lb/> And also viewed (by the selfe-same Eyes )<lb/> Him, whom that Rod, most rightly typifies,<lb/> Fall by a shamefull Death, and rise, in spight<lb/> Of Death, and Shame, unto the glorioust height.<lb/> Ev'n I, beleeve my Hope shall bee possest,<lb/> And, therefore, (ev'n in Death ) in Hope I'le rest.<lb/> </p>

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A hand from the clouds holding Aaron's rod; in the background: Christ on the cross which grows from the loins of man (Jesse) lying on a tomb, Moses receiving the tables of the law, and Moses puttin the rods in the Tabernacle(?)

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<p>When Hopes, quite frustrate were become,<lb/> The Wither'd-branch did freshly bloome.</p>

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