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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Written to the like effecte, vppon Uideo, & taceo.
Her Maiesties poësie, at the great Lotterie in London, begon m. d. lxviii. and ended m. d. lxix.
I see, and houlde my peace: a Princelie Poësie righte,For euerie faulte, shoulde not prouoke, a Prince, or man of mighte.
For if that Iove shoulde shoote, so ofte as men offende,
The Poëttes saie, his thunderboltes shoulde soone bee at an ende.
Then happie wee that haue, a Princesse so inclin'de.
That when as iustice drawes hir sworde, hath mercie in her minde,
And to declare the same, howe prone shee is to saue:
Her Maiestie did make her choice, this Poësie for to haue.
Sed piger ad pœnas princeps, ad prœmia velox:
Cuique dolet, quoties cogitur esse ferox.
Ouid. 1. Pont. 3.
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