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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Prudentes vino abstinent.
Loe here the vine dothe claspe, to prudent Pallas tree,
The league is nought, for virgines wise, doe Bacchus frendship flee.
The league is nought, for virgines wise, doe Bacchus frendship flee.
Alciat.
Quid me vexatis rami? Sum Palladis arbor,Auferte hinc botros, virgo fugit Bromium.
Englished so.
Why vexe yee mee yee boughes? since I am Pallas tree:Remoue awaie your clusters hence, the virgin wine doth flee.
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