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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Quàdij vocant, eundum.
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Quàdij vocant, eundum.
The trauaylinge man, vncertaine where to goe,
When diuers wayes before his face did lie,
Mercurius then, the perfect pathe did showe,
Which when he tooke, hee neuer went awrie,
But to his wishe, his iorneys ende did gaine
In happie howre, by his direction plaine.
When diuers wayes before his face did lie,
Mercurius then, the perfect pathe did showe,
Which when he tooke, hee neuer went awrie,
But to his wishe, his iorneys ende did gaine
In happie howre, by his direction plaine.
This trauailinge man: doth tell our wandringe state,
Before whose face, and eeke on euerye side,
Bypathes, and wayes, appeare amidd our gate,
That if the Lorde bee not our onlie guide:
We stumble, fall, and dailie goe astraye,
Then happie those, whome God doth shew the waye.
Before whose face, and eeke on euerye side,
Bypathes, and wayes, appeare amidd our gate,
That if the Lorde bee not our onlie guide:
We stumble, fall, and dailie goe astraye,
Then happie those, whome God doth shew the waye.
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