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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To George Brooke Esquier.
Though outwarde thinges, doe trimme, & braue, appeare,
And sightes at firste, doe aunswere thie desire,
Yet, inwarde partes, if that they shine not cleare,
Suspecte the same, and backe in time retire:
For inwardlie, such deadlie foes maie lurke,
As when wee trust, maie our destruction worke.
And sightes at firste, doe aunswere thie desire,
Yet, inwarde partes, if that they shine not cleare,
Suspecte the same, and backe in time retire:
For inwardlie, such deadlie foes maie lurke,
As when wee trust, maie our destruction worke.
Though bewtie rare, bee farre and neare renoumde,
Though Natures giftes, and fortunes doe excell:
Yet, if the minde, with heinous crimes abounde,
And nothing good with in the same doe dwell:
Regarde it not, but shonne the outward showe,
Vntill, thou doe the inwarde vertues knowe.
Virtus omnia in se habet, omnia adsunt bona, quem
Though Natures giftes, and fortunes doe excell:
Yet, if the minde, with heinous crimes abounde,
And nothing good with in the same doe dwell:
Regarde it not, but shonne the outward showe,
Vntill, thou doe the inwarde vertues knowe.
Pene'st virtus,
Plaut. in Amph.
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