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 LXIII.
It is a point of no small cunning,
To catch Occasion at her coming.
Behold Occasion drawne before your eies,
To catch Occasion at her coming.
As though she still were fleeting on her waies,
Which image so Lisippus did deuise,
With knife in hand to cut off long delayes.
Her locks before bids hold ere that she flies,
Her wings do shew she can abide no staies:
And by her bald she tels vs at the last,
There is no hold behind when she is past.
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