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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>It is by some supposed, that our Owles,<lb/>
                                By Day-time are, no perfect sighted Fowles ;<lb/>
                                And, that, the more you doe augment the light,<lb/>
                                The more you shall deprive them of their sight.<lb/>
                                Nor Candles, Torches, nor the Sunne at noone,<lb/>
                                Nor Spectacles, nor all of these in one<lb/>
                                Can make an Owlet in the day-time see,<lb/>
                                Though none, by night, hath better eyes than shee.<lb/>
                                This Emblem, therefore, sets their blindnesse forth,<lb/>
                                Who cannot see, when an apparant worth<lb/>
                                Illustrates vertuous Men; yet, seeme to spie<lb/>
                                Those faults, wherewith ill-willers them belie.<lb/>
                                The blindnesse, also, well it may declare,<lb/>
                                Of Heretikes, who Eagle-sighted are,<lb/>
                                In Sophistries, and in the cloudie-night,<lb/>
                                Of those darke Errors, which delude the sight ;<lb/>
                                Yet, cannot see the Rayes of Truth divine,<lb/>
                                Though, brighter than the Day light, shee doth shine.<lb/>
                                It, likewise, very fitly typifies,<lb/>
                                Those, in our dayes, who spie out mysteries,<lb/>
                                Beyond the Moone ; yet, cannot gaine the view<lb/>
                                Of that, which common Reason proveth true:<lb/>
                                And, therefore, onely, crie it (madly) downe,<lb/>
                                Because, by Reasons light, it may be knowne.<lb/>
                                These, when 'twas offred, first, the light refused;<lb/>
                                And, they have now the darknesse which they chused.<lb/>
                                Till, therefore, God shall offer Grace againe,<lb/>
                                Man strives to set up Lights, to these, in vaine:<lb/>
                                For, what are Lights to those, who blinded bee?<lb/>
                                Or, who so blinde, as they that will not see?<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 195
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem196
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN In spite of the bright sunlight, two torches, two candles and a pair of spectacles, the day-blind owl fails to see the mouse in front of him; in the background an owl tied to a post is attacked by other birds
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac249
MOTTO_LA <p>COECUS NIL LUCE IUVATUR.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 24A6
; 25F26(MOUSE)(+45)
; 25F3(+512)
; 25F34(+5245)
; 25F711
; 31A311
; 34E3
; 41B31(+1)
; 41B32(+1)
; 52AA552(+4)
; 57A72
; 47B1611(+12)
; 73A4241(+0)
; 86(COECUS NIL LUCE IUVATUR)
MOTTO_EN <p>Hee that is blind, will nothing see,<lb/>
                                What light soe're about him bee.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic249.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem195
MOTTO_LA_NORM Coecus nil luce iuvatur
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0