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 XLIX.
The rich men sinne and feare no lawes,
When poore are punisht for light cause.
The Spider with her web of rare inuention,
When poore are punisht for light cause.
Lies close in waite to catch the silly flies;
But with the wasp she dares not moue contentiō,
Whose force the weakenesse of her web vnties.
So rich men now against all good intentiō,
Withstād good laws, whose weight on poore mē lies,
And like the wasp that rends the web in sunder,
They rule those laws that meaner mē are vnder
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