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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Stultorum quantò status sublimior, tantò manifestior turpitudo.
Promoote the foole, his folly doth appeare,And is a shame to them, that make him clime:
Whose faultes, before coulde not bee seene so cleare,
For lowe estate did shadowe euery crime:
But set him vp, his folly soone is harde,
Then keepe him doune, let wise men bee prefer'de.
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