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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Desidiam abiiciendam.
Vse labour still, and leaue thie slouthfull seate,
Flee Idlenesse, which beggers state dothe giue:
With sweate of browe, see that thou get thy meate,
If thou be borne, with labouring hande to liue:
And get, to eate. and eate, to liue with praise:
Liue not to eate, to liue with wanton ease.
Flee Idlenesse, which beggers state dothe giue:
With sweate of browe, see that thou get thy meate,
If thou be borne, with labouring hande to liue:
And get, to eate. and eate, to liue with praise:
Liue not to eate, to liue with wanton ease.
By Dracoes lawes, the idle men shoulde die,
The Florentines, made banishement theire paine:
In Corinthe, those that idlie they did see,
Weare warn'de at firste, the seconde time were slaine:
And eke Sainct Paule, the slothfull thus doth threate,
Whoe laboreth not, denie him for to eate.
Quæritur Ægistus quare sit factus adulter:
The Florentines, made banishement theire paine:
In Corinthe, those that idlie they did see,
Weare warn'de at firste, the seconde time were slaine:
And eke Sainct Paule, the slothfull thus doth threate,
Whoe laboreth not, denie him for to eate.
In promptu caussa est, desidiosus erat.
Ouid. 1. Remed. Amoris.
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