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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Mediocribus vtere partis.
Whome fortune heare allottes a meane estate,
Yet giues enowghe, eache wante for to suffise:
That wauering wighte, that hopes for better fate,
And not content, his cawlinge doth despise,
Maie vainlie clime, but likelie still to fall,
And liue at lengthe, with losse of maine, and all.
Yet giues enowghe, eache wante for to suffise:
That wauering wighte, that hopes for better fate,
And not content, his cawlinge doth despise,
Maie vainlie clime, but likelie still to fall,
And liue at lengthe, with losse of maine, and all.
And he that poastes, to make awaie his landes,
And credittes all, that wandringe heades reporte:
Maye Tagus seeke, and Ganges goulden sandes,
Yet come at lengthe, with emptie purse to courte:
Let suche behoulde, the greedie dogge to moane,
By brooke deceau'd, with shaddow of his boane.
Non minor est virtus, quàm quærere parta tueri,
And credittes all, that wandringe heades reporte:
Maye Tagus seeke, and Ganges goulden sandes,
Yet come at lengthe, with emptie purse to courte:
Let suche behoulde, the greedie dogge to moane,
By brooke deceau'd, with shaddow of his boane.
Casus inest illic, hîc erit artis opus.
Ouid. lib. 2. Art.
Seruiet æternùm, quia paruo nesciat vti.
Cui non conueniet sua res, vt calceus olim,
Si pede maior erit, subuertet: si minor, vrget.
Lætus sorte tua viues, sapienter Aristi.
Horatius 1. Epist. 10.
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