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 Thirty ninth Emblem Illustrated.

An Innocent no danger fears, How Great soever it appears.

WHen some did seek Arion to have drown'd; He, with a valiant heart, his Temples crown'd; And when to drench him in the Seas they meant, He plaid on his molodious Instrument; To shew, that Innocence disdained Fear, Though to be swallow'd in the Deeps it were. Nor did it perish: For, upon her Back A Dolphin took him, for his Musick's sake: To intimate that Vertue shall prevail With Bruitish Creatures, if with Men it fail.

Most vain is then their Hope, who dream they can Make wretched, or undo, an Honest-Man: For, he whom Vertuous Innocence adorns, Insults o're Cruelties; and Peril scorns. Yea, that, by which Men purpose to undo him, (In their despight) shall bring great Honours to him

Arion-like, the Malice of the World, Hath into Seas of Troubles often hurl'd Deserving Men, although no Cause they had, But that their Words & Works sweet Musick made Of all their outward Helps it hath bereft them Nor means, nor hopes of Comfort have been lef•• them, But such, as in the House of Mourning are, And what Good-Conscience can afford them there Yet, Dolphin-like, their Innocence hath rear'd Their Heads above those Dangers that appear'd God hath vouchsaf'd their harmless Cause to heed And ev'n in Thraldom, so their Hearts hath freed

That, whil'st they seem'd oppressed & forlorn The Joy'd, and Sung, and Laugh'd the World to scorn