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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Fortissima minimis interdum cedunt.
The scarlet cloathe, dothe make the bull to feare.The culler white, the Olephant dothe shunne.
The crowinge cocke, the Lion quakes to heare.
The smoke of cloathe, dothe make the stagge to runne.
All which doe showe, wee no man shoulde dispise,
But thinke howe harme, the simplest maie deuise.
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