Sacrorvm Emblematvm Centuria Una quae tam ad exemplum aptae expressaunt & ad aspectum pulchrae depingi possunt, quam quae aut a veteribus accepta, aut inventa ab alijs hactenus extant. In tres classes distributa [by Andrew Willet] |
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Emblema. 24. Sapientia humana stultitia coram Deo.
The same in English.
Two bookes bethinke one closed is,The other open lieth:
The vnskillful man cannot read this,
And that the learned trieth:
The learned can not read, for why,
The booke is clasped close,
Th'other can not himselfe apply,
To reade it doth him pose.
So when Gods word is set at naught,
And men doe it despise,
It profits not the man vntaught,
Nor yet him that is wise.
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