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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Would you not laugh, and thinke it beastly fine,<lb/>
                                To see a durtie, and ill-favour'd Swine,<lb/>
                                Weare on her snout, a Diamond, or a Pearle,<lb/>
                                That might become the Ladie of an Earle ?<lb/>
                                And hold it head, as if it meant to show<lb/>
                                It were the Pigg of some well-nurtur'd Sow ?<lb/>
                                Perhaps, you thinke there be not any where<lb/>
                                Such Antickes, but in this our Emblem here.<lb/>
                                But, if you take these Charmes, and then goe forth<lb/>
                                Among some troupes, which passe for folkes of worth,<lb/>
                                You shall discover, quickly, if you please,<lb/>
                                A thousand sights, as mimicall as these.<lb/>
                                Here, you shall see a noble Title worne,<lb/>
                                (That had not mis-beseem'd one better borne)<lb/>
                                By him, whose vertues are of little price,<lb/>
                                And, whose estate, was gotten by his Vice.<lb/>
                                You shall behold another Mushrome, there,<lb/>
                                Walke with our Lords, as if hee were their Peere,<lb/>
                                That was well knowne, to be but tother day,<lb/>
                                No fit companion for such men as they;<lb/>
                                And, had no other meanes to climbe this height,<lb/>
                                But Gaming, or to play the Parasite.<lb/>
                                Yet (though he neither hath his Trade, nor Lands,<lb/>
                                Nor any honest In come, by his hands )<lb/>
                                Hee, oft consumes at once, in Games or Cheare,<lb/>
                                More than would keepe his Better all the yeare.<lb/>
                                Yea, many such as these, thou shouldst behold,<lb/>
                                Which would bee vext, if I describe them should:<lb/>
                                For, thus, unworthily, blind Fortune flings,<lb/>
                                To Crowes, and Geese, and Swine, her precious things.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem165
SEQ 166
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem167
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A sow, balancing a precious ring with which her nose is pierced; in the background a hurdy-gurdy player (?) and his children are begging
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac220
MOTTO_LA <p>INDIGNUM FORTUNA FOVET.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25I241
; 41D2664
; 46A151
; 46A1511
; 46A152
; 47I2262(+0)
; 48C72
; 54FF11
; 54F12
; 86(INDIGNUM FORTUNA FOVET)
MOTTO_EN <p>Her favours, Fortune, oft imparts,<lb/>
                                To those that are of no deserts.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic220.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem166
MOTTO_LA_NORM Indignum fortuna fovet
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0