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 LXXIII.
A traitor and a flattering friend,
Say that they neuer do intend.
The flatterers and traitors both be such,
Say that they neuer do intend.
That with their words their thoughts do not agree:
For till iust triall bring them to the tuch,
They seeme in shew most faithfull friends to bee:
But little will they do, professing much;
And inwardly from friendship they do flee;
Who when their heart behind they do conuay,
They beare in hand their tongue another way.
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