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Amorvm Emblemata

Figvris Aeneis Incisa Stvdio Othonis Vaeni Batavo-lvgdvnensis. Emblemes of Loue. With verses in Latin, English, and Italian

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Loues triall.

As gold is by the fyre and by the fournace tryde,
And thereby rightly known if it bee bad or good,
Hard fortune and destresse do make it vnderstood,
Where true loue doth remayn and fayned loue resyde.