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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Este procul læti, cernant mea funera tristes;
Non similis toto mæror in orbe fuit.
Bis septem natos peperi, bis pignora septem:
Me miseram! Diuûm sustulit ira mihi.
Non similis toto mæror in orbe fuit.
Bis septem natos peperi, bis pignora septem:
Me miseram! Diuûm sustulit ira mihi.
Dirigui demum lacrymis, & marmora manant.
Sic mihi mors dolorest; sic mihi vita, dolor.
Discite, mortales, quid sit turgescere fastu,
Et quid sit magnos posthabuisse Deos.
Sic mihi mors dolorest; sic mihi vita, dolor.
Discite, mortales, quid sit turgescere fastu,
Et quid sit magnos posthabuisse Deos.
Bapt. Gyraldus.
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