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 LXVII.
Let fire or sword their choler wreake,
A constant heart can nothing breake.
Like to the Stith I count the constant hart:
A constant heart can nothing breake.
The Stith endures the heauie hammers beat,
And doth not shrinke nor yeeld in any part,
Though smiths lay on & thump it till they sweat.
Eu'n so should men in chances ouerthwart,
Whē paines increase & fortune seemes to threat,
Yet in their course with constant purpose run,
And still persist till they haue honour wonne.
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