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No. 3 of a series of 6 emblem prints engraved by William Marshall after "I.P.", with the first plate of the set dated 1650; the set identified by Daly and Silcox (see below) as the prints advertised in as "Six emblems, W. Marshall sculpt." in a 1662 broadside issued by London printseller Peter Stent.
Caption text continues: ... His matter's from the earth base slime and stinking / His rise is suddaine suddaine is his ending / His Luster is the the fire of him-selfe spending. [below] Alto [sic] me think's since thou art made a starr / Thy folly's more advanc'd more noted are / Who list to know may take thy elevation / And find th'art nought but blazing exhalation / Pride and Ignorance make thy fortunes sadder / The one bids thee clime t'other turns the Ladder. To Fooles dishonour tho they be exalted. Pro: 3.35.
Mounted as item 138 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Circular emblematic design showing a man observing a shooting star with a quadrant, with text in a banner above and below image.