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 XXIIII.
All things out of order runne,
That are without decorum done.
A gold ring set on snout of filthy swine,
That are without decorum done.
Great weapons worne by infants yong & greene.
The Rogue to brag and boast him with the fine,
The foolish Asse that wise himselfe doth weene:
All these to order vtterly repine,
And euermore to disagree are seene.
To keepe decorum this good precept hold,
Giue draffe to swine, to men the rings of gold.
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