A choice of emblemes, and other devises For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: Wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: Bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment |
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Pulchritudo vincit.
To the fairest.
When creatures firste weare form'd, they had by natures lawes,The bulles, their hornes: the horses, hooses: the lions, teeth, and pawes.
To hares, shee swiftenes gaue: to fishes, finnes assign'de:
To birdes, their winges: so no defence was lefte for woman kinde.
But, to supplie that wante, shee gaue her suche a face:
Which makes the boulde, the fierce, the swifte, to stoope, and pleade for grace.
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