<p>Though scarce at first apparent to the sight,<lb/> The words which on the tender bark we write;<lb/> Yet how distinct, 'ere long, the letters shew<lb/> In size increased, as with the rind they grow!<lb/> So by degrees, as on that lettered bark,<lb/> Doth Time expand to flame, Love's slightest spark:<lb/> So to the germ of Vice in early youth,<lb/> Time gives the increase with the body's growth;<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac042"/> And errors deem'd at first too slight to trace,<lb/> Spread to a depth no efforts can efface.<lb/> Froms small beginnings rise the fiercest strife;<lb/> Nor Love, nor Vice, at once leap into life:<lb/> The breeze at first so zephyr-like and warm,<lb/> Is but too oft the prelude of the storm.<lb/> That so it is; how many have to grieve!-<lb/> The mischief when full grown we can perceive;<lb/> But how it grew- we scarely can believe.</p> <p>AMOR neque nos statim, neque vehementer ab initio, quemadmodum ira, invadit;<lb/> neque facilè ingressus, decedit, quamvis alatus: sed sensim ingreditur ac molliter,<lb/> manetque diu in sensibus. - PLURTARCH.<lb/> LABITUR sensim furor in medullas,<lb/> Igne furtivo populante venas,<lb/> Non habet Iatam data plaga frontem,<lb/> Sed vorat tectas penitùs medullas.- SENEC. Hippol.<lb/> LONG-WAITING love doth entrance find<lb/> Into the slow-believing mind. - SYDNEY GODOLPHIN.<lb/> THERE is no argument of more antiquity and elegancy than is the matter of Love;<lb/> for it seems to be as old as the world, and to bear from the first time that man<lb/> and woman was: therefore in this, as in her finest metal, the freshest wits have in all<lb/> ages shown their best workmanship.- ROBERT WILMOT.</p> <p>WE are not worst at once-the course of evil<lb/> Begins so slowly, and from such slight source,<lb/> An infant's hand might stem its breach with clay;<lb/> But let the stream get deeper, and Philosophy-<lb/> Aye, and Religion too - shall strive in vain<lb/> To turn the headlong torrent. - Old Play.</p> <p>Tempus omnia revelat. <lb/> TERTULLIAN.<lb/> THERE is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be<lb/> known.- Matthew x.26.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac043"/> Tenera Pietatis principia.<lb/> By degrees, until Christ be formed in you.- Galatians iv. 19.</p> <p>Till we all come in the unity of the Faith, and of the Knowledge of the Son of<lb/> God into a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ,<lb/> - Ephesians iv.13.</p> <p>DESPAIR not that the writing on the tree,<lb/> So indistinct at first appear to thee:<lb/> Of one day's growth was Virtue never known;<lb/> The light of Grace spreads by degrees alone:<lb/> Until troughout illumin'd by its ray,<lb/> The Soul of Man made perfct in each way<lb/> By Faith and Works, is fitted to partake<lb/> The joys of Heav'n for his Redeemer's sake.</p> <p>ALTHOUGH the operations of Nature are hidden, we must acknowledge the hand of<lb/> a Power which acts in secret, as we acknowledge-a force which attracts heavy bodies<lb/> to the earth, or which carries light bodies upwards. - MARCUS AURELIUS.</p> <p>Medium Sol aureus orbem<lb/> Occupat, et radiis ingentibus omnia lustrat.</p> <p>THE pitchy darkness of the night<lb/> Is not immediate changed to Light:-<lb/> 'Ere morning shews his ruddy face,<lb/> First breaks the dawn with gentle pace;<lb/> And then, the Sun, the World's bright eye,<lb/> Rises and gradual mounts the sky;<lb/> Until at last his fullest ray,<lb/> Floods sea and earth with brightest day.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac044"/> <p>THIS little rift and chap workes all my woe,<lb/> Whilst thorow it fierce Boreas doth blow;<lb/> A crevice is a city gate to death,<lb/> Who still in ambush seekes to stop our breath:<lb/> A little chinke doth drowne the loaded barke,<lb/> A stately house is burned with a sparke:<lb/> And one disease doth this our health annoy,<lb/> One wound our life is able to destroy:<lb/> One sinne can Soule and Body overthrow<lb/> Into the hell, and darknesse that's below.<lb/> Doe not a danger which is meane despise,<lb/> From meanest causes greatest evils arise.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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