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 XXV.
No toile can last without his rest,
In euery thing the meane is best.
The bow that's drawn with ouer hardy strength,
In euery thing the meane is best.
Is found more weake then it was felt before.
By which we learne, we hurt our selues at length,
The while we labour dayly more and more.
For sloth corrupts & duls our might & strength;
But too much toyling breeds a greater sore,
Consuming courage so beyond all measure,
It reaues the body of his chiefest treasure.
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