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 Thirtieth Emblem Illustrated.

Since overmuch will overfill, Pour out enough; but do not spill.

IT is this Emblems meaning, to advance The love and practice, of true Temperance. For, by this Figure (which doth seem to fill, Until the liquor overflow, and spill) We are, as by example, taught to see How fruitless our Intemperancies be: Thus by the Rule of Contrarieties, Some Vertues, best are shown to vulgar eyes.

To see a nastie Drunkard, reel and spew, More moves to Soberness, than can the view

Of twenty civil men; and to behold One Prodigal, (that goodly lands hath sold) Stand torn and louzie, begging at the door, Would make Intemperance abhorred more, (And manly Soberness, much better, each) Than all that six Philosophers can preach: So, by the Vessels overflowing, here, True Moderation doth more prais'd appear, Than by the mean it self: And without sin, That's pictur'd, which to do, had wicked bit, For, though to vertuous ends; we do deny The Doing-ill, that Good may come thereby. From hence, let us be taught, that carefull heed Whereby we should both Mind and Body fee•• Let us, of our own selves, observe the size; How much we want, how little will suffize; And our own longings, rather leave unfill'd, Than suffer any portion to be spill'd:

For, what we marr, shall to account be laid And, what we wisely spend, shall be repaid