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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Potentissimus affectus, amor.
The Lions grimme, behoulde, doe not resiste,
But yealde them selues, and Cupiddes chariot drawe,
And with one hande, he guydes them where he liste,
With th' other hande, he keepes them still in awe:
Theye couche, and drawe, and do the whippe abide,
And laie theire fierce and crewell mindes aside.
But yealde them selues, and Cupiddes chariot drawe,
And with one hande, he guydes them where he liste,
With th' other hande, he keepes them still in awe:
Theye couche, and drawe, and do the whippe abide,
And laie theire fierce and crewell mindes aside.
If Cupid then, bee of such mightie force,
That creatures fierce, and brutishe kinde he tames:
Oh mightie Iove, vouchsafe to showe remorse,
Helpe feeble man, and pittie tender dames:
Let Africke wilde, this tyrauntes force indure,
If not alas, howe can poore man bee sure.
Quem non mille feræ, quem non Stheneleius hostis,
That creatures fierce, and brutishe kinde he tames:
Oh mightie Iove, vouchsafe to showe remorse,
Helpe feeble man, and pittie tender dames:
Let Africke wilde, this tyrauntes force indure,
If not alas, howe can poore man bee sure.
Non potuit Iuno vincere, vincit amor.
Ouid. Epist. 9.
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