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 LXX.
Greedie gaping after gaine,
Will make a man take any paine.
The hope for gaine, and thirst for worldly goods
Will make a man take any paine.
Compels a man to venture rocks and seas:
Neither can waters deepe, nor raging floods,
Cause any kind of perils to displease:
Men scrape out goods out of the myrie muds,
For lucres sake, all labours seeme but ease:
And to prouide themselues of things they lack,
There be wil swim with burdens on their back.
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