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 XLIIII.
When warres and troubles most molest,
The wicked persons prosper best.
To fish for Eeles, they say that haue the skill,
The wicked persons prosper best.
Best be the troubled waters and the muddie:
So they that take delight in doing ill,
To trouble first the state is all their studie;
Then can they best compasse their wicked will,
And get most profit when the times be bloudy.
Iustice in force, peaceable times and quiet
Fits not their fishing, nor can serue their diet.
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