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 XXXV.
The way to pleasure is so plaine,
To tread the paths few can refraine.
A labyrinth is framed with such art,
To tread the paths few can refraine.
The outmost entrance is both plaine and wide:
But being entred, you shall finde each part,
With such odde crooked turnes on euery side,
And blind by-waies, you shall not for your heart
Come out againe without a perfect guide.
So to vaine pleasures it is ease to go,
But to returne againe it is not so.
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