Here is today's emblem and distich by Gabriel Rollenhagen, Book 2:9, with an English rendering by George Wither. Here are Wither's comments on the visual symbols of the emblem: For, as to draw a Circle, with our hand, We cause the brazen Compasses to stand With one foot firmely fixed one the ground; And move the other in a Constant-round: Right so, when we shall purpose to proceed In any just, and profitable deed, We first, should by a constant-resolution, Stand firme, to what we put in…