The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XLII. An Emblem. (Book 42)

A Wall in Rome had this picture. A man painted naked with a whip in one hand, and four leaves of a book in the other, and in every leaf a word written. In the first, Plango, I mourn; Is the second, Dico, I tell; In the third, volo, I will; and in the fourth facio, I do. Such a one in the true repentant. He is naked, because he would have his most secret sins laid open to God: He is whipped, because his sins do sting him∣self: His book is his repentance: His four words are his actions: In the first he mourns, in the second he confesses, in the third he resolves, and in the fourth, he performs his resolution. Plango, I mourn, there is sight of sin and sorrow; Dico, I tell, there is con∣trition for sin and confession; Volo, I will, there is amending resolution: Facio, I do, there is performing satisfaction.