The Theater of Fine Devices containing an hundred morall Emblemes. First penned in french by Guillaume de la Perriere, and translated into English by Thomas Combe |
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EMBLEME VIII.
It were a foolish senslesse part,
With griefe and care to eate thy heart.
The wise Pythagoras hath euer taught,
With griefe and care to eate thy heart.
Man should not eat vp his owne proper heart,
Nor as a stranger to himselfe be brought
To waste his life with sorrow and with smart;
But so himselfe to temper still he ought,
That woes and cares may vanish from each part:
Sith nothing hinders more a mans wel-fare,
Then lingring sorrow, heauinesse and care.
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