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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In desciscentes.
When that with milke, the goate had fil'd the pot,Shee brake the same, that all about it ranne.
Wherat, the maide her pacience quite forgot,
And in a rage, the brutishe beaste did banne?
Which toye, thoughe shorte, yet sharply reprehendes
Beginnings good, that haue vnhappie endes.
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