Morrells Embleme.
In summo fœlicitas
Embleme.
By thys poesye Thomalin confirmeth that, which in hys former speach by
sondrye reasons he had proued. for being both hymselfe sequestred from
all ambition and also abhorring it in others of hys cote, he taketh occasion
to prayse the meane and lowly state, as that wherein is safetie without feare,
and quiet without danger, according to the saying of olde Philosophers, that
vertue dwelleth in the middest, being enuironed with two contrary vices:
whereto Morrell replieth with continuaunce of the same Philosophers opinion,
that albeit all bountye dwelleth in mediocritie, yet perfect felicitye dwelleth
in supremacie. for they say, and most true it is, that happinesse is placed
in the highest degree, so as if any thing be higher or better, then that streight
way ceaseth to be perfect happines. Much like to that, which once I heard
alleaged in defence of humilitye out of a great doctour, Suorum Christus
humillimus: which saying a gentle man in the company taking at the rebownd,
beate backe again with lyke saying of another Doctoure, as he sayde.
Suorum deus altissimus.
