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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Jn quatuor anni tempora.
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Jn quatuor anni tempora.
By swallowes note, the Springe wee vnderstande,The Cuckowe comes, ere Sommer doth beginne:
The vinefinche showes, that haruest is at hande:
The Chaffinche singes, when winter commeth in:
Which times they keepe, that man therebie maie knowe,
Howe Seasons chaunge, and tymes do come and goe.
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