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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Dum viuo, prosum.
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Dum viuo, prosum.
An aged tree, whose sappe is almoste spente,Yet yeeldes her boughes, to warme vs in the coulde:
And while it growes, her offalles still be lente,
But being falne, it turneth into moulde,
And doth no good: soe ere to graue wee fall,
Wee maie do good, but after none at all.
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