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 LVIII
Uaine hope doth oft a man allure,
A needlesse bondage to endure.
Who so to bondage will himselfe submit,
A needlesse bondage to endure.
And yet hath libertie to liue at will,
Is like a Lyon when he doth permit
A simple man with threed to hold him still.
Some are such fooles, that while in court they sit,
And waste their time and all their riches spill:
Yet will they stay, although they do not need,
And not escape whē they may break the threed.
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