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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Spes vana.
The eager haulke, with sodaine sighte of lureDoth stoope, in hope to haue her wished praye:
So, manie men do stoope to sightes vnsure:
And curteous speeche, dothe keepe them at the baye,
Let suche beware, lest frendlie lookes be like,
The lure, to which the soaring haulke did strike?
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