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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Dissidia inter æquales, pessima.
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Dissidia inter æquales, pessima.
The Swallowe swifte, dothe beare vnto her neste
The Grasshopper, that did no daunger feare,
For that shee thought, they lou'de togeather beste,
Bycause they both, obseru'de one time of yeare,
And bothe, did ioye theire iarringe notes to sounde,
And neare the house they bothe, theire dwellings founde.
The Grasshopper, that did no daunger feare,
For that shee thought, they lou'de togeather beste,
Bycause they both, obseru'de one time of yeare,
And bothe, did ioye theire iarringe notes to sounde,
And neare the house they bothe, theire dwellings founde.
Yet time, and tune, and neighbourhood forgotte,
For perfect frende, a tyrant shee became,
Which taxeth those, whome God dothe heare allotte
Like gifts of grace, to winne a lasting name,
Yet Enuie soe theire vertues doth deface,
It makes them foes, to them theie should imbrace.
Formicæ grata est formica, Cicada cicādæ
For perfect frende, a tyrant shee became,
Which taxeth those, whome God dothe heare allotte
Like gifts of grace, to winne a lasting name,
Yet Enuie soe theire vertues doth deface,
It makes them foes, to them theie should imbrace.
Et doctis doctus gaudet Apollo choris.
Nic. Reusnerus.
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