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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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In eum qui truculentia suorum perierit.

Ad affinem suum, R. E. medicum insignem.
The Dolphin swifte, vpon the shore is throwne,
Thoughe he was bred, and fostered, in the flood:
If Neptvne shewe such wronge, vnto his owne,
Then, howe maie man in shippes haue hope of good:
The raging Sea, our countrie doth declare;
The Dolphin fishe, those that exiled are.
And thoughe this fishe, was mightie in the sea,
Without regarde, yet was hee caste on shore:
So famous men, that longe did beare the swaie,
Haue bene exil'd, and liu'd in habit pore:
This, Socrates: and Marcvs Tvllivs tri'de:
Demosthenes, and thousandes moe beside.
Fortuna nunquam sistit in eodem statu,
Semper mouetur, variat, & mutat vices,
Et summa in imum vertit, ac versa erigit.
Ausonius Epigr. 135.