Diggons Embleme.
Inopem me copia fecit.
Embleme.
This is the saying of Narcissus in Ouid. For when the foolishe boye by
beholding hys face in the brooke, fell in loue with his owne likenesse: and
not hable to content him selfe with much looking thereon, he cryed out,
that plentye made him poore. meaning that much gazing had bereft him of
sence. But our Diggon vseth it to other purpose, as who that by tryall of
many wayes had founde the worst, and through greate plentye was fallen
into great penurie. This poesie I knowe, to haue bene much vsed of the
author, and to suche like effecte, as fyrste Narcissus spake it.
