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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Mutuum auxilium.
To R. Cotton Esquier.
The blynde, did beare the lame vppon his backe,
The burthen, did directe the bearors waies:
With mutuall helpe, they seru'd eche others lacke,
And euery one, their frendly league did praise:
The lame lente eies, the blynde did lend his feete,
And so they safe, did passe both feelde, and streete.
The burthen, did directe the bearors waies:
With mutuall helpe, they seru'd eche others lacke,
And euery one, their frendly league did praise:
The lame lente eies, the blynde did lend his feete,
And so they safe, did passe both feelde, and streete.
Some lande aboundes, yet hathe the same her wante,
Some yeeldes her lacke, and wantes the others store:
No man so ritche, but is in some thinge scante,
The greate estate, must not dispise the pore:
Hee workes, and toyles, and makes his showlders beare,
The ritche agayne, giues foode, and clothes, to weare.
Some yeeldes her lacke, and wantes the others store:
No man so ritche, but is in some thinge scante,
The greate estate, must not dispise the pore:
Hee workes, and toyles, and makes his showlders beare,
The ritche agayne, giues foode, and clothes, to weare.
So without poore, the ritche are like the lame:
And without ritche, the poore are like the blynde:
Let ritche lend eies, the poore his legges wil frame,
Thus shoulde yt bee. For so the Lorde assign'd,
Whoe at the firste, for mutuall frendship sake,
Not all gaue one, but did this difference make.
And without ritche, the poore are like the blynde:
Let ritche lend eies, the poore his legges wil frame,
Thus shoulde yt bee. For so the Lorde assign'd,
Whoe at the firste, for mutuall frendship sake,
Not all gaue one, but did this difference make.
Whereby, with trade, and intercourse, in space,
And borrowinge heare, and lendinge there agayne:
Such loue, such truthe, such kyndnes, shoulde take place,
That frendshipp, with societie should raigne:
The prouerbe saieth, one man is deemed none,
And life, is deathe, where men doo liue alone.
Non est diues opum, diues: nec pauper inopsque
And borrowinge heare, and lendinge there agayne:
Such loue, such truthe, such kyndnes, shoulde take place,
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The prouerbe saieth, one man is deemed none,
And life, is deathe, where men doo liue alone.
Infelix: alio nec magis alter eget.
Diues eget gemmit; Cereali munere pauper.
Sed cùm egcant ambo, pauper egens minus est.
Ausonius in Epig.
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