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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Gratiam referendam.
See heare the storke prouides with tender care,And bringeth meate, vnto her hatched broode:
They like againe, for her they doe prepare,
When shee is oulde, and can not get her foode:
Which teacheth bothe, the parente and the childe,
Theire duties heare, which eche to other owe:
First, fathers must be prouident, and milde,
Vnto theire fruicte, till they of age doe growe:
And children, muste with dutie still proceede,
To reuerence them, and helpe them if they neede.
Defessum fertur portare Ciconia patrem,
Hinc illa pietas sancta notatur aue.
Paradisus poëticus.
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