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 XCIII.
He that would loade a happie life,
For vertue let him chuse his wife.
Some do not care how nor with whō they linke,
For vertue let him chuse his wife.
If fading beauty please their wanton eye:
Others so they be fingring of the chinke,
Care not how soone their hand be in the pie;
But a wise man doth warily forethinke,
That both those courses run too farre awrie:
That this nor that, is neither here nor there,
The chiefest choice is chusing by the eare.
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