<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/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac054"/> 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> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac055"/> <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> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac056"/> <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>

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