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 LI.
After youth in trauell spent,
Let age be with her home content.
The painfull Pilgrime in his later daies:
Let age be with her home content.
Without his leaning staffe that cannot stand,
Forsaking wife and children goes his waies,
To seeke old relicks in a new found land;
Accounting it worth most especiall praise,
To tell what iourneyes he hath tane in hand:
Whē he should cut those wings if he did well,
And like the Tortesse keepe him in his shell.
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