A choice of emblemes, and other devises For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: Wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: Bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment |
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Dona carere dolis Danaum, &c.
Sic titulo obsequij, quæ mittunt hostibus hostes
Munera, venturi præscia fata ferunt.
Dona carere dolis Danaum, &c.
Sic titulo obsequij, quæ mittunt hostibus hostes
Munera, venturi præscia fata ferunt.
Lacoon apud Virgilium lib. Æneid. 2. sic de equo. loquitur Troianis. Aleiar.
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