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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Auaritia.
Heare Tantalvs, as Poëttes doe deuine,
This guerdon hathe, for his offence in hell:
The pleasante fruite, dothe to his lippe decline,
A riuer faire vnto his chinne doth swell:
Yet, twixt these two, for foode the wretche dothe sterue,
For bothe doe flee, when they his neede shoulde serue.
This guerdon hathe, for his offence in hell:
The pleasante fruite, dothe to his lippe decline,
A riuer faire vnto his chinne doth swell:
Yet, twixt these two, for foode the wretche dothe sterue,
For bothe doe flee, when they his neede shoulde serue.
The couetons man, this fable reprehendes,
For chaunge his name, and Tantalvs hee is,
Hee dothe abounde, yet sterues and nothing spendes,
But keepes his goulde, as if it weare not his:
With slender fare, he doth his hunger feede,
And dare not touche his store, when hee doth neede.
Tantalus à labris sitiens fugientia captat
For chaunge his name, and Tantalvs hee is,
Hee dothe abounde, yet sterues and nothing spendes,
But keepes his goulde, as if it weare not his:
With slender fare, he doth his hunger feede,
And dare not touche his store, when hee doth neede.
Flumina, quid rides? mutato nomine de te
Fabula narratur, congestis vndique saccis
Indormis inhians: & tanquam parcere sacris
Congeris &c. ------
Horat. serm. 1. Sat. 1.
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