Emblemes and Epigrames Psal: Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me, Domine. [A.D. 1600, by Francis Thynne ... ]: Edited by F. J. Furnivall |
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| 48. | (48) Ensignes of the Clergye. |
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(48) Ensignes of the Clergye.
Thow doest demaund of me,why this right hand doth houlde
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in circle manifoulde;
And whye the guelye arme
in midst of Sheild is placed,
Of Asured cullour, whose bright shine
the firmament hath graced.
The blewishe Scuttchion doth present
the vawted Skye,
Deenotinge that the spirituall man
should love the things on hye.
The reddishe cullor doth declare
the modest shame
which in his countenance should dwell,
a vertuous life to frame.
The Ele prest with the hand,
doth teach him to refrayne
His lipps and tongue from vttring wordes
deceiptfull, false, or vayne.
This must the learned Clarke
allwaies record in mynde,
yf of Saluation, care he haue,
or comfort hope to finde;
ffor as the slipprye Ele
not prest, doth slide awaye,
So doth the slipprye tongue, the thoughts
of inward minde bewraye.
The white cullor of Ele
declares that all his deedes
Should be white, pure, and Innocent,
which from his hart proceedes.
Thus yf he frame his life,
imbraced still is hee
Of godd and of the world, to which
he shall example bee.
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