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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Cuncta complecti velle, stultum.
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Cuncta complecti velle, stultum.
ET TVTTO ABBRACCIO ETNVLLA STRINGO.
The little boyes, that striue with all theire mighte,
To catche the belles, or bubbles, as they fall:
In vaine they seeke, for why, they vanishe righte,
Yet still they striue, and are deluded all:
So, they that like all artes, that can bee thoughte,
Doe comprehende not anie, as they oughte.
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