Lychnocausia Sive Moralia Facum Emblemata: Lights Morall Emblems: Authore Roberto Farlaeo Scoto-Britanno [i.e. by Robert Farley] |
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[Lights starre-like splendor doth allure this flye]
Lights starre-like splendor doth allure this flye,
Not knowing that she may be burnt thereby:
Thus whilst she kindled with a great desire
Of Light, loe how shee dies in flaming fire.
Not knowing that she may be burnt thereby:
Thus whilst she kindled with a great desire
Of Light, loe how shee dies in flaming fire.
Glory in purple robes is set on hie,
Envious to many, lovely to the eye:
But many times glory doth fooles undoe,
Whilst, without wit and reason, they it wooe:
It raiseth them that with the greater fall,
It may them overthrow and crush withall.
Whilst Icarus soares to Hyperions beames,
He headlong fals into th' Icarian streames;
And Pha'ton daring for to rule the day,
Was thunder-beate, and burnt with Phœbus ray.
We nearer to the Sunne more glorious are,
If of the scorching rayes we be aware.
Envious to many, lovely to the eye:
But many times glory doth fooles undoe,
Whilst, without wit and reason, they it wooe:
It raiseth them that with the greater fall,
It may them overthrow and crush withall.
Whilst Icarus soares to Hyperions beames,
He headlong fals into th' Icarian streames;
And Pha'ton daring for to rule the day,
Was thunder-beate, and burnt with Phœbus ray.
We nearer to the Sunne more glorious are,
If of the scorching rayes we be aware.
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