A choice of emblemes, and other devises For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: Wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: Bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment |
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Luxuriosorum opes.
On craggie rockes, and haughtie mountaines toppe,Vntimelie fruicte, one sower figtree growes:
Whereof, no good mankinde at all doth croppe,
But serues alone, the rauens, and the crowes:
So fooles, theire goodes vnto no goodnes vse,
But flatterers feede, or waste them on the stewes.
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