The Theater of Fine Devices containing an hundred morall Emblemes. First penned in french by Guillaume de la Perriere, and translated into English by Thomas Combe |
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EMBLEME XXXIII.
Medale not with thy ouer-match.
Lest thou thereby most hurt do catch.
He that with razor thinks to cut the flint,
Lest thou thereby most hurt do catch.
Doth vndertake a foolish fruitlesse paine,
The tender edge making but little dint,
Is soone rebated with the rockie graine.
With mightie men twere better strife to stint,
Than an vnequall quarrell to maintaine:
Lest, as you see the razor with the stone,
The hurt fall all to you, and they haue none.
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