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 L.
Malicious fooles worke most disgrace:
When they are set in highest place.
Who giues him wine a feauer doth possesse,
When they are set in highest place.
Augmenteth more the patients present griefe:
Wine causeth heate, the feauer doth no lesse,
Which needs must yeeld the sick but smal reliefe.
Eu'n so that Prince doth little skill professe,
That sets a foole aloft in office chiefe,
Whereas his malice he may best reueale,
And do most hurt vnto the common weale.
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