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 LXIX.
He that himselfe is void of wit,
In a wise man despiseth it.
Some say, the Camell will not stoope to drinke,
In a wise man despiseth it.
Till he hath first defil'd it with his feete.
So in our time rude people vse to thinke,
That perfect eloquence is most vnmeete:
In whose dull heads this reason will not sinke,
That eloquence should proue a thing so sweete;
Such is their folly, and their sense so blind,
They count this gift but of the basest kind.
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