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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>A MASK, seen first in front, by children's eyes,<lb/>
                                        Strikes them with terror and with wild suprise:<lb/>
                                        But would'st restore to calm the urchin mind,<lb/>
                                        Avert the face, and let them see behind.<lb/>
                                        With men so less, how oft doth it appear,<lb/>
                                        The worst interpreter of things is Fear!<lb/>
                                        How oft the crowds of men and women grown,<lb/>
                                        Quailing like children at some form unknown-<lb/>
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                                        Or when some found unusual strikes their ear,<lb/>
                                        Fly, to meet ills far worse than those they fear!<lb/>
                                        And yet how frequent, would they but restrain<lb/>
                                        The sudden terror of their fever'd brain,<lb/>
                                        And calmer wait t'examine and to see<lb/>
                                        The how, or end of what the thing may be;<lb/>
                                        Puerile as that which fill'd the child with dread,<lb/>
                                        They'd find the fancied peril which they fled;<lb/>
                                        And scann'd with coolness, learn more probably,<lb/>
                                        That what in front is terrible to see,<lb/>
                                        Seen from behind provokes hilarity!</p>
                                   <p>Timiditas est corruptio judicii.<lb/>
                                        SENECA.<lb/>
                                        THE Imagination (says Seneca) appals us usually more than the thing itself; in like<lb/>
                                        manner as the mere whizzing sound of a sling frightens birds, and makes them take<lb/>
                                        wing, so are we alarmed more by the noise than by the act. As the forms of bodies<lb/>
                                        appear increades in size in misty weather, so are all things magnified to us by Fear: in<lb/>
                                        so much that many trough fear of coming into danger, fall, daily, into the most <lb/>
                                        extreme peril. Men have been known, in peril of shipwreck, to throw themselves<lb/>
                                        overboard trough fear of being drowned; drowning themselves, therefore, in order not<lb/>
                                        to be drowned, and dying to avoid death. What folly so great (says Seneca) as to<lb/>
                                        become troubled at approaching difficulties, to spare ourselves no anquish, but rahter<lb/>
                                        call an increase of sufferings to those that threaten?</p>
                                   <p>PERII, interii, occidi-quo curram? quo non curram?<lb/>
                                        Tene, tene- quem? quis? nescio-nihil video.<lb/>
                                        I'm lost, undone, I'm kill'd, oh whither shall I flee?<lb/>
                                        Whither shall I not flee?<lb/>
                                        Hold! hold! whom? what? who? I know not- I do nothing see.<lb/>
                                        The novelty of the danger is not unfrequently its chief and only terror.<lb/>
                                        AEQUAM memento rebus in arduis servare mentem.<lb/>
                                        IN peril, still preserve an unmov'd mind,<lb/>
                                        And oft no peril in the thing you'll find.</p>
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                                   <p>ADHIBE rationem difficultatiubus, possunt et dura molliri, et angusta laxari, et gravia<lb/>
                                        scitè ferentes minùs premere. -SENECA.<lb/>
                                        TERROR absentium rerum ipsâ novitate falsò augetur; consuetudo autem et ratio<lb/>
                                        efficit, ut ea, etiam quae horrenda sunt natura, terrendi vim amittant.-PLUTARCH in Mor.</p>
                                   <p>Mors larvae similis: temor hinc, nihil indè maligni.<lb/>
                                        I CORINTH. XXV. 54.<lb/>
                                        Death, where is thy Sting?<lb/>
                                        E'EN as the mask, in front seen, only, fills<lb/>
                                        The mind of children with a panic fear,<lb/>
                                        So Death by men is feared: yet least of ills,<lb/>
                                        Alike of both the terrors disappear<lb/>
                                        When seen by Reason's light on every side.<lb/>
                                        And why fear Death, ere we its nature know?<lb/>
                                        'Tis but a livid mask, which, seen behind,<lb/>
                                        Hath terrors none, but balm for every woem<lb/>
                                        Hope, peace, and comfort to the righteous mind;<lb/>
                                        Opening to realms more bright, the portals wide.</p>
                                   <p>PUERI larvas timent, ignem non timent; sic nos timemus mortem quae est larva,<lb/>
                                        contemptu digna, peccatum non timemus. -CHRYOSTOM, Hom. 5 ad Pop.<lb/>
                                        YEA, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death, I will fear no evil:<lb/>
                                        for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.-Psalm xxiii.4.<lb/>
                                        THE Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall i fear? The Lord is the strength<lb/>
                                        of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? -Ibid. xxvii. I.<lb/>
                                        Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? -Matthew viii. 26.<lb/>
                                        SIC nos in Luce timemus. -LUCRET. l.2.<lb/>
                                        PRECIOUS in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. -Psalm cxvi. 15.<lb/>
                                        FOR I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ:<lb/>
                                        which is far better. -Philippians i. 23.</p>
                                   <p>PRESENT fear begetteth Eternal security: Fear God, which is above all, and no<lb/>
                                        need to fear man at all. -S.AUGUST. super Psal.</p>
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                                   <p>NO glory could I shew, wer't not the night<lb/>
                                        In fable clouds did mantle up heavens light,<lb/>
                                        When starres are vail'd, and Phoeb' her hornes doth hide,<lb/>
                                        Laying her cresset and attire aside.<lb/>
                                        The more nights fogge doth maske the spangled spheare,<lb/>
                                        The more in darkenesse doth my Light appeare;<lb/>
                                        Nights foggy cold doth make my flame more strong,<lb/>
                                        And light's more glorious pitchy clouds among.<lb/>
                                        If you together contraries parallel,<lb/>
                                        By contrary opposition they excell.<lb/>
                                        Vertue compare with Vice; and you shall see,<lb/>
                                        This shew his glory, that his infamie.<lb/>
                                        FALIE'S Emblems.</p>
                              
PREV uiuc_83931c29eep_emblem008b
URL_WEBPAGE http://hdl.handle.net/10111/EmblemRegistry:E019340
PARENT uiuc_83931c29eep
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
MOTTO_EN_NORM Both Sides Should be Seen
NEXT uiuc_83931c29eep_emblem009b
SEQ 
IIHIM UIUC
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN Three youths, being able to look at the inside of the mask that is held by a hand in the sky, point at three other youths who run away, scared by the mask
SOURCE_FILE uiuc_83931c29eep.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE uiuc_83931c29eep_fac053
HIM UIUC
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25H21
; 25I5
; 31A2245(+933)
; 31A25552(+9281)
; 31A2712
; 31A2731(+62)
; 31D12(+76)
; 33B9
; 41D283
; 43C7222(+0)
; 43C726
; 51A8
; 51AA8
; 56D3(+4)
; 56DD1(+4)
; 86(INVERTE, ET AVERTES)
; 86(BOTH SIDES SHOULD BE SEEN)
MOTTO_EN <p>BOTH SIDES SHOULD BE SEEN</p>
                              
URL_IMAGE uiuc_83931c29eep_pic053.jpg
ID uiuc_83931c29eep_emblem009
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0