The Ugly Spider (Emblem 37) | Amplified Edition

Behold how many Cobwebs doth invest
This ugly Spider1
 in her nasty Nest
Where Barricado’d She in Ambush lies
Domitian-like2
 to Murder Sportive Flies
Yet Such A Monstrous Spider once I Saw
That would with Ease, Flies, Wasps and Hornets draw
Most Cruelly into her Dusty Nest
Then Tyrant-Like She on their Blood would feast
Yet did I See A Slender Azure Fly
Make this blood Sucking Monster fall and die
So the most impious Tyrants in the World
Even in A moment to the Grave are Whorled
That King of Terrors3
 doth by Sentence Just
Grind even their very Skeletons to dust4
When he upon the pale Horse5
 doth appear
A Julianus6
 then begins to fear
Throwing his blood and Spirits in the Skies
Confessed yet died in his Apostasies
What by the Wars was Alexander’s gains
When guilt his Conscience, poison Stung his veins7
So he that hath three Kingdoms in his power8
What Comfort will they Yield that fatal hour
When as that Sea of Innocent blood9
 Shall Roar
To Heaven for vengeance, who can but implore
But why do I blame Spider’s Tyranny
Who forced by Hunger Kills a silly fly
When Man’s the greatest Beast of prey10
 of all
His house a Shamble is or Butcher’s Stall
In all those Books which I have Read11
 I find
There’s none but Man doth Kill and Eat his Kind12
The Antediluvian Patriarchs13
 happy were
That lived by what the Earth did freely bear
The Pithagorions14
 no blood would spill
The Banians15
 now no Animals do Kill
But Such as Murderers they do Esteem
And oft will buy those Creatures to Redeem16
But Stay my Pen write no more then is meet17
Least I forget Noah’s License, Peter’s Sheet18
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