A Crowned Scepter, here is fixt upright,

Betwixt foure Fowles, whose postures may declare,

They came from Coasts, or Climats opposite,

And, that, they diffring in their natures are.

In which, (as in some others, that we finde

Amongst these Emblems) little care I take

Precisely to unfold our Authors minde;

Or, on his meaning, Comments here to make.

It is the scope of my Intention, rather

From such perplext Inventions (which have nought,