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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Fides non apparentium.
To Barthram Calthorpe Esquier.
The fissherman, doth caste his nettes in sea,
In hope at lengthe, an happie hale to haue,
And is content, longe time to pause, and staie,
Thoughe, nothinge elles hee see, besides the waue:
Yet, onelie trust for thinges vnseene dothe serue,
Which feedes him ofte, till he doth almoste sterue.
In hope at lengthe, an happie hale to haue,
And is content, longe time to pause, and staie,
Thoughe, nothinge elles hee see, besides the waue:
Yet, onelie trust for thinges vnseene dothe serue,
Which feedes him ofte, till he doth almoste sterue.
If fisshermen, haue then suche constant hope,
For hidden thinges, and such as doe decaie,
Let Christians then, the eies of faithe houlde ope,
And thinke not longe, for that which lastes for aie,
And on Gods worde, theire hope to anchor faste,
Whereof eache iote, shalbee fulfil'de at laste.
Non boue mactato cœlestia numina gaudent,
For hidden thinges, and such as doe decaie,
Let Christians then, the eies of faithe houlde ope,
And thinke not longe, for that which lastes for aie,
And on Gods worde, theire hope to anchor faste,
Whereof eache iote, shalbee fulfil'de at laste.
Sed, quæ præstanda est & sine teste, fide.
Ouid. Epist. 18.
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