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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Alius peccat, alius plectitur.
The angrie dogge doth turne vnto the stone,When it is caste, and bytes the same for ire,
And not pursues, the same that hathe it throwne,
But with the same, fulfilleth his desire:
Euen so, theyr are that doe bothe fighte, and brall,
With guiltlesse men, when wrathe dothe them inflame,
And mortall foes, they deale not with at all,
But let them passe, to theire rebuke, and shame:
And in a rage, on innocentes do ronne,
And turne from them, that all the wronge haue donne.
Sic plerique sinunt veros elabier hostes,
Et quos nulla grauat noxia, dente petunt.
And. Alciat.
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