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 XVI.
Search for strange monsters farre or wide,
None like the woman wants her guide.
Great monsters mentioned are in stories found,
None like the woman wants her guide.
As was Chymera of a shape most wondrous,
Girion, Pithon, Cerb'rus that hel-hound,
Hydra, Medusa, with their heads most hideous,
Satyres and Centaures; all these same were found
In bodies strange, deformed and prodigious:
Yet none more maruellous in stories read,
Then is a woman if she want a head.
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