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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Est dea: quæ vacuo sublimis in aëre pendens
It nimbo succincta latus: sed candida palam:
Sed radiata comam: ac stridentibus insonat alis.
Hæc spes immodicas premit: hæc infesta superbis
Imminet: huic celsas hominum contundere mentes,
Successusque datum: & nimios turbare paratus.
Quam veteres Nemesim &c.
Miscet: & alternanostros vice temperat actus, &c.
It nimbo succincta latus: sed candida palam:
Sed radiata comam: ac stridentibus insonat alis.
Hæc spes immodicas premit: hæc infesta superbis
Imminet: huic celsas hominum contundere mentes,
Successusque datum: & nimios turbare paratus.
Quam veteres Nemesim &c.
& paulò pòst:
Improba vota domans: ac summis ima reuoluens
Miscet: & alternanostros vice temperat actus, &c.
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