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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Remedium tempestiuum sit.
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A choice of emblemes, and other devises | ||
Remedium tempestiuum sit.
Throvghe rased wall, a serpente backwarde slydes,And yet, before her poisoned head appeare,
The prudent man, for safetie that prouides,
Doth strike at firste, in dowte of further feare:
So all men shoulde, when they to daunger dreede,
With all their force, preuent the same with speede.
A choice of emblemes, and other devises | ||