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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>There are a sort of people so severe,<lb/>
                                That, foolish, and injurious too, they are;<lb/>
                                And, if the world were to bee rul'd by these,<lb/>
                                Nor Soule, nor Bodie, ever should have ease.<lb/>
                                The Sixe dayes, (as their wisdomes understand)<lb/>
                                Are to bee spent in Labour, by command,<lb/>
                                With such a strictnesse, that they quite condemne<lb/>
                                All Recreations which are us'd in them.<lb/>
                                That, which is call'd the Sabbath, they confine<lb/>
                                To Prayers, and all Offices-divine,<lb/>
                                So wholly, that a little Recreation,<lb/>
                                That Day, is made a marke of Reprobation :<lb/>
                                And, (by this meanes) the reason is to seeke,<lb/>
                                When their poore Servants labour all the weeke,<lb/>
                                (Of which, they'l bate them nothing) how it tyes<lb/>
                                Them, to observe the sixe-fold Sacrifice<lb/>
                                By some injoyn'd; and gives them such due Rest,<lb/>
                                As God allowed, both to Man and Beast.<lb/>
                                Hee, gave the Woods, the Fields, and Meddowes, here,<lb/>
                                A time to rest, as well as times to beare.<lb/>
                                The Forrest-Beasts, and Heards, have howres for play,<lb/>
                                As well as time to graze, and hunt their prey:<lb/>
                                And, ev'ry Bird some leasure hath to sing,<lb/>
                                Or, in the Aire, to sport it on her wing.<lb/>
                                And, sure, to him, for whom all these were made,<lb/>
                                Lesse kindnesse was not meant, then these have had.<lb/>
                                The Flesh will faint, if pleasure none it knowes;<lb/>
                                The Man growes madd, that alway muzing goes.<lb/>
                                The Wisest men, will sometimes merry bee:<lb/>
                                And, this is that, this Emblem teacheth me.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
PREV embstma_1903_emblem175
CAPTION_ENApollo playing a lute, listening to a bird; in the background Apollo with the dead dragon Python and Apollo playing the flute in a pastoral scene
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem177
SEQ 176
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac230
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
MOTTO_LA <p>NON SEMPER ARCUM TENDIT.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 24A81
; 25H114
; 45C15(BOW AND ARROW)
; 47G52
; 48C7323
; 48C7522
; 49L8
; 51K31(+4)
; 54A46(+4)
; 54AA4(+4)
; 86(ΑΠΟΛΛΩ)
; 86(NON SEMPER ARCUM TENDIT)
; 92B342
; 92B38(BOW AND ARROW)
; 92B38(LUTE)
MOTTO_EN <p>Apollo shoots not ev'ry day,<lb/>
                                But, sometime on his Harpe doth play.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic230.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem176
MOTTO_LA_NORM Non semper arcum tendit
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0