Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select and choice emblems, divine and moral, ancient and modern curiously ingraven upon copper plates : with fifty delightful poems and lots for the more lively illustration of each emblem, whereby instruction and good counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation : to which is prefixed an incomparable poem, entituled Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of Kings, written by His late Majesty K. Charles the First, with his own hand, during his captivity in Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle or Wight, 1648 : with an emblem / collected by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, Remarks of London, and Admirable curiosities, &c.

THE Eighteenth Emblem Illustrated.

Above thy Knowledge do not rise. But with Sobriety be wise.

EXalt thou not thy self, though plac'd thou be, Upon the top of that old Olive-tree, From whence the nat'rall branches prun'd have bin, That, thou, the better, mightst be grafted in. Be not so over-wise, as to presume The Gara'ner, for thy goodness, did assume Thy small Crab Olive, to insert it there, Where, once, the sweetest-berries growing were. Nor let thy Pride those few old-boughts contemn Which, yet, remain upon their ancient Stem;

Because, thy new-incorporated Sprayes, Do more enjoy the Suns refreshing raies: But humbled rather and more awful be; Lest he that cut off them do break down thee.

Be wise, in what may to thy good belong; But, seek not Knowledge, to thy neighbours wrong: Be thankful for the Grace thou hast receiv'd, But, judge not those, who seem thereof bereav'd; Nor into those forbidden secrets peep. Which God-Almighty, to himself doth keep. Remember what our Father Adam found, When he for Knowledge, sought beyond his bound. For doubtless, ever since, both good and ill Are left with Knowledge, intermingled still; And (if we be not humble, meek, and wary) We are in daily danger to miscarry. Large proves the fruit which on the Earth doth lie; Winds break the twig, that's grafted over-high;

And he that will, beyond his bounds, be wise, Becomes a very Fool, before he dies.