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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Some, thinke this Emblem serveth to expresse<lb/>
                                No more, but onely Womens ficklenesse;<lb/>
                                And, they will most desire to have it so,<lb/>
                                Who, like those best, that most inconstant grow.<lb/>
                                Although my Fortunes were, in some things, bad,<lb/>
                                I never in my life, experience had<lb/>
                                Of an inconstant woman : Wherefore, then,<lb/>
                                Should I condemne the Females, more than men?<lb/>
                                I heare some talke, that Women fickle be:<lb/>
                                And so I thinke; and so I know are wee.<lb/>
                                And (being put together) say I dare,<lb/>
                                That, they and wee, in equall manner, share<lb/>
                                A giddinesse, and ficklenesse of minde,<lb/>
                                More wavering, than a Feather, or the Winde.<lb/>
                                The Woman, heere, is plac'd, to typifie<lb/>
                                A minde distracted with much levitie:<lb/>
                                Not, that the womans Wav'rings are the more;<lb/>
                                But, for this cause: Most Vices, heretofore,<lb/>
                                And Vertues too, our Ancestors did render,<lb/>
                                By words declined in the female-gender.<lb/>
                                The winged-Ball, (whose tottering Foundation,<lb/>
                                Augments the causes of our variation )<lb/>
                                Meanes, here, those uselesse, and vaine temp'rall things,<lb/>
                                That come and goe, with never-staying wings ;<lb/>
                                And, which (if thereupon our hearts we set)<lb/>
                                Make Men and Women, the Vertigo get.<lb/>
                                Hereafter, then, let neither Sexe accuse<lb/>
                                Each other; but, their best endeavours use,<lb/>
                                To cure this Maladie in one another,<lb/>
                                By living well, and lovingly together.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 173
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TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A lady holding a fan in one hand and a feather and mirror in the other is standing on a winged globe; in the background two men courting a woman (left) and three men playing a game(?) (right)
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac227
MOTTO_LA <p>VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25F38(OSTRICH)(+352)
; 25H132
; 25I18
; 25I41
; 31AA5111
; 31D15
; 33CC33(+0)
; 41D262
; 43C7141
; 46C24
; 49D48:25F3(+342)
; 51BB4(+4)
; 51K1(+4)
; 53AA21(+4)
; 86(VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER)
MOTTO_EN <p>No Emblem, can at full declare,<lb/>
                                How fickle, Minds-unconstant are.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic227.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem173
MOTTO_LA_NORM Varium et mutabile semper
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0